Hello to all,
My garage floor is pitted from years of road salt. Some of the craters are 3/8″ deep. What’s the best way to repair this. I was thinking of mixing several bags of concrete and just skim coating it over the floor? I’ve read I may have to acid etch the floor to get the new concrete to bond. Any suggestions? Also, here in the northeast the salt is a major winter problem. Any suggestions on keeping the floor from pitting again? Thanks!
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you could have told him to wash the floor throughly to get rid of the residual salt...
patch / skim the the pitts with CC vynal patch...
then paint it with 'poxy floor paint...
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You could wash the floor throughly to get rid of the residual salt...
patch / skim the the pitts with CC vynal patch...
then paint it with 'poxy floor paint...
Thanks razzman, I've been researching vinyl cc products, there's a ton on the market. Some I've called say the product is tricky to work with. Any suggestions? I know I'll water down the floor prior to the application though.
I'm waiting for that storehouse of data myself.
There is always the archives.
just ask him if he is just watering down the floor ot thoroghly washing and rinseing...
and ask him for some detailed information ao or about which vynal patching material he is considering...
try to find out how big the pits are and how large the spalled areas are..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
he's yur customer..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
one team, one fight
jiust trying to help...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
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Now-now gentlemen--lets not have any bloodshed---vinyl patch doesn't stick to blood---" I reject your reality and substitute my own"
Adam Savage---Mythbusters
you wanna handle the light work...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
After a good power wash (or equivalent), we use vineger (cheapest you can find in the bargan store) to get rid of any left-over salt and as a mild etch. I just buy patching cement (20# tub of dry-mix, add water) and smooth it into the holes and cracks. Painting is optional, saw the painters using a 2-part concrete paint last fall that they said that was the way to go. I kinda like the looks of those texture coating kits (comes with a primer you paint on and a texture coat you trowel on), but they're a little expensive.
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
Try Abatron's product, Abo-Crete (http://www.abatron.com). You can resurface the whole floor with it, and wind up with a new surface that's unaffected by just about anything that hits it.
Road salt -- yuck! I remember when our family lived in the north when I was a kid. A new car would show surface rust after one winter. If a car lasted four years, it was a rusted-through "ghost ship." Lot of vehicles running around back then with plywood floors.