Recent content by woody611

The good concrete on the left is the driveway. The expansion joint is the gap between the driveway slab and the garage slab on the right. The cracked are is directly inline with the left side tires on the wife's vehicle, although similar less severe cracking is occurring along most of the garage...

With it getting colder here in Iowa, would it make sense to do this repair in the spring to get a proper cure? Is there a product that could be installed as a temporary repair to keep it from getting worse as things freeze/thaw?

What color will the repaired area be with the crack filler product? The same as the aggregate used to fill the space? Does anything need to be drilled/screwed into the existing slab?

This is my first time asking for help here. I have a problem where my garage slab meets the expansion joint of the driveway slab. How can I repair this? I had planned on filling the expansion joint and crack with Sika flex before this started to fragment. The floor is 4 years old. It is...

I have a similar situation with a "garage under garage". I am planning on going the traditional 2x4 framing with bat insulation on the walls. Unfortunately for me I didn't do enough research prior to building and snow melt from the main upper garage will drip between the panels. I had a...

I recently built a house in iowa with an attached garage that has precast hollow core panels as the floor. This allowed me to build a second lower garage for my workshop. Our concrete contractor worked with the precast company to properly engineer the system. It sounds like you are well on your...

Greetings Board Members. So far I have been very impressed with the openness and professional level responses/suggestions/ideas and tips given in this forum. I have a 1000 sqft attached garage for car/boat storage and normal garage stuff. This garage has a pre cast concrete floor so there is...