How To Repair A Crumbling Garage Floor

Trowel a patch kit onto the surface.

How to repair a crumbling garage floor.

If the floor only has what is called spalling. Vacuum up loose material. Next decide on what the future might bring and how to avoid that. It cures pretty quickly.

Thoroughly clean the area to be repaired removing any crumbling concrete. The cleaner the concrete the better the resurfacer will stick. So the first thing to do to prepare the concrete is to clean. For a garage the damage depth is most probably less than inches for spalling and inches for pitting.

For large areas use a floor buffer with a grinding attachment. Fix the pitted areas fix the deteriorated areas and then paint the entire garage floor with an epoxy paint. Remove all of the crumbling concrete by hand and then use a floor scraper to loosen any pieces that might be partially stuck but not completely crumbled. In this video we show you step by step process when we patched a few broken and chipped concrete slabs this product work great on repairing broken edges cor.

Use a wire brush or a grinder or an acid substitute to prepare the concrete. You mix it up. Glue weather strip to the floor exactly where the garage door rests. If you know salt is going to continue to be an issue the obvious thing once repaired with concrete patch found in home stores follow all the directions is what to use as a layer between the future salt exposure and the concrete.

Very easy to do. Final thoughts on garage floor crack repair beyond that it s just a matter of mixing the product you choose together applying it into the crack smoothing it out and letting it dry or cure as the case may be. This will provide for the new cement pour to attach to the old floor effectively making them act as one. Vacuum the area after you are done to completely clean it and prep it for repair.

Step 2 create a slurry mixture by combining pure cement with water in a bucket. It s a two part mix. More times than not it ll be less than that. Saturate the surface then mix the necessary amount of cement all ideally with a power driven mechanical mixer for one.

Start with a thorough sweeping. First remove all the crumbling concrete and have a look at what you ve got.