Recent content by ynned

It did have a few years of pretty heavy use.

FWIW, my last Dewalt started that ****, and after a short time it would slip regardless of where the clutch was set. It got so bad it was pretty much useless. It was getting pretty well used anyway, and was gonna need batteries soon, so I just replaced it. I don’t know what model, but 1/2 inch...

Just lay down a few 2x6 or 8 to make tiny 1 1/2 inch steps. Even an English car should be able to climb that.

I like the stuff. Way easier to work with while placing, and provides plenty of strength for floors (unless you're using real heavy eguipment). The only thing I didn't like about it is it made little fuzz bunnies for quite a few years after it was placed (1993). It did eventually wear in...

Excellent idea with the vermiculite.

Also I was disappointed years ago using fiber reinforcement on my garage floor because the fibers tend to wear off the surface somehow and create little dust bunny bits of fuzz constantly.

My county codes require 5/8" fire rated drywall on the adjacent wall in an attached garage.

Tubs should be set in a bed of mortar, which makes them much stiffer and more solid.

Poke through those searches I posted. Also search placing concrete over rubblized concrete. All I'm suggesting is scaling down proven technology to your size. Heck, your floor doesn't really need to be rubblized. Just crack it real well and overlay it. Try searching placing concrete over crack...

I'll try one more time. If concrete (or any other surface) is unstable enough to warrant fixing, the surface should be removed and the unstable base removed. If stable base can't be found within a reasonable depth, then something must be placed, usally that's imported stone, and the larger the...

Damn, man, don't be ridiculous. Of course we don't use tiny tools to do big jobs, but for little jobs like the OP needs we do. It will be a pita to do, and the machine will jump all over and be hard to control and loud and obnoxious, but it will work. I wouldn't have suggested it if I hadn't...

Nah, that's not necessary. I didn't do any of the Interstate jobs which called for it, but I bid one on I-90 for PennDOT which called for eight inch plus or minus a little, and in Ohio they used a big square shaped roller towed behind a tractor. I stopped and looked at the results once, and they...

Since that's the case, I'd go back to my first suggestion (crack and seat). Definitely the quickest and cheapest solution. I really wouldn't remove the existing if you don't need the height. Removing it just exposes whatever **** made it fail in the first place. Crack and seat leaves the...

I had to come over and look at those pictures on a bigger screen. That definitely looks like bricks in that wide slot. Maybe somebody tried to shove them in there to fix it? Regardless, that floor in its entirety doesn't look that bad to me. I mean, it looks reasonably flat and the cracks are...

That's an awfully wide crack. Is it brick pavement underneath? Sure looks like it. I'd take a sledge hammer and break open a couple places to see if there actually is an underlayment problem (voids, mud, slop, etc). It really looks to me like someone placed concrete over some kind of brick or...