Replacing Cracked Garage Floor

Garage floor crack repair is probably easier than you think.

Replacing cracked garage floor.

Scotty demonstrates how to patch a hole in a cement garage floor. Raise the garage remove the old floor for a detached car garage floor replacement the first thing we may need to do is raise your garage so we can remove the old floor. This pitting appears to be from an oil leak. But we called.

If yours is older than that it may be time to seriously consider a garage floor replacement. Garage floor surfaces should provide approximately 20 25 years of use. When a garage floor is first poured the concrete begins to harden contractors say cure and when this process takes place the concrete shrinks a little. As oil seeps in and then allows the cement to.

Pour concrete for the new floor. Replacing a cracked and sinking garage floor on an old garage. Using a diamond blade on your circular saw cut a 1 2 in deep groove along each side of the crack. A 20 foot square of freshly poured concrete will shrink about a 1 8 of an inch.

If you plan to cover the garage floor with finished flooring then an epoxy product that fills minor pits and cracks and provides a very hard surface is an option too. This is for those cases where the structure itself is sound but just that floor needs replacing. Truthfully i should have knocked down the whole thing and rebuilt a new structure. Significant cracks cracks larger than should be ground out with a masonry wheel and filled with concrete filler.

Put in place a vapor barrier. Set up a drain for the garage. A garage floor replacement may be needed simply due to its age. We have owned our home since it was constructed in 1984.

The garage floor is now stained and cracked. Fill in the area with gravel 3 4 and compact it. Chip out the cracked portion with a maul and cold chisel. We were going to paint it with a product advertised for use on garage floors.

Don t throw the baby out with the bathwater they say. Wear an n 95 respirator and turn on a fan to blow the concrete dust out of the garage.