What's the intended use of the shop? Heavy traffic? Forklift? If you are looking for durable and something that will out last the rest of the building, then an overlay called tru from rapidset would be my choice.
If you are building in the snowy parts of the country where you get the white stuff and ice you might want to invest in a drain and put it in the middle of the slab and slope everything into that drain. That way you'll never have to worry about the melting snow or water getting into the...
You can use all the rebar in the world and still have cracks in your concrete. Imo there's no such thing as crack-free concrete floor. It's just matter of when and how bad the cracking will be. Nobody can guarantee a concrete slab that doesn't crack. eventually at some point every slab gets...
If you go through it with a 150grit sanding screen you are able to take down some of that hand troweling trace and it opens up the pours for your densifier/sealer. I use koromineral lithium and obtego R400, great chemical resistance and the obtego gives a nice finish too.
Just out of curiosity was the concrete mixed with dark pigments at the concrete factory or were dark grey dry shake (looks like it could be Basf mastertop in French grey) used to get the desired color? The Basf master cure is clear once dried.
What you have there is a pretty nicely power troweled slab. The reason it looks so patchy right now is that with the mastercure applied you get all the chalk from the concrete rising through the pours sticking on the surface causing the white patching on the surface. What I would do is that I...
Cool garage and totally sick looking truck. Any more info about the truck? Are running bags for the suspension? Wheel specs and info? What kinda bed ar you going to use? Any more pics? :beer: