so i finally got around to fixing my garage floor. i'm only doing half this year and i'll do the other half in the spring. my house was built in the early 70's and not taken very good care of because they either didn't know or were too cheap to do it right.
the water issues around the house (now fixed) cause the floor to drop in the front and side. the front dropped the most where the cement step pad is now. it was a good 6 inch drop under the step based off measurements i did. instead of fixing the floor the right way who ever owned the house before me just had that slap poured to "fix" the floor. the side of the garage dropped 2.5 inches.
when we first moved in.
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here i build a main base of 3 inches so i didn't have to use as much of my stuff to level the floor. then i built up the transition again to use less of the stuff we use on floors. notice the crack.
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in the front of the floor by the door there was a lot of cracks and salt damage.
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all the salt damage filled, the floor ground smooth and crack control joints cut. the big stuff i filled with an epoxy (rhino linings 2300) we have that i mixed with sand. the cracks were filled with a product called concrete restore (another rhino product) its a rapid cure epoxy mixed with sand.
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with the front and the side leveled with 12 50lb bags of sand and 30 gallons of 2300 epoxy everything was ground smooth.
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with everything cleaned the coat was rolled out and then charcoal gray chips broadcast into the wet base.
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with the base dry the clear coat was rolled out. i mixed a few different colors to get a medium gray step to make it stand out from the floor a little better.
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