Advice on resurfacing floor

[rjc03001]

Hi, I am looking for advice on the best resurfacing product to use for my garage floor in my house which is about 700 square feet. The floor sees light use as I use it to store my two cars. I attached some pictures of the floor. The floor itself is sound, however it is spalling, dusting and pitting in most of the area (the house is 60 years old), and there is old paint on approximately 50% of the floor. Initially I planned on removing the paint, pressure washing, etching with muriatic acid and patching and repairing the spots that needed it. I was then going to use Quickrete resurfacer which I already bought, but I am now having second thoughts and would like to get a second opinion here. I was also thinking about buying Epoxy Shield Professional kits. Since it is residential and does not see heavy industrial traffic, I would like to keep this job less than $500.

The worst area is the one with the oil bottle in, used for a scale factor. I will use polymer modified repair product to fill these in.

I am also a bit concerned about moisture in the floor, how much is acceptable?

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

Wow that is a seriously porous floor. Moisture may have contributed to the break-down over time. I would seriously consider one of the tile guys on the forum after smoothing some of the worst spots out with a resurfacer. We have a good patch/resurfacer link: http://www.legacyindustrial.net/products/concrete-repair/hd-110-epoxy-concrete-patch.html

 

[rjc03001]

OK thanks, I will look into that patch product. After using this patch, would Quickrete resurfacer be sufficient to use for those of you who had experience with it? After leveling I will then look into some tiles.

 

[yoadrian]

I always believe in making the prep a very important part of starting this process. A good start might be to get a dustless blasting company in. They can quickly strip the floor of the paint and also all the soft porous parts of the floor. The soft spots could continue to result in problems for anything you apply to the surface. Here is a company I used in Las Vegas in stripping our driveway with problems as well. www.renewecoblasting.com If you find a company like this they could probably give some good advice once seeing your floor.

 

[wrenchhead1]

Try to take the floor down as far as possible and then pour over the top with high psi and fiber.

 

[Armorpoxy]

Hi,
This floor is in rough shape and with a $500 budgets best to spend a lot of that on prep and repair.

We would suggest renting a grinder and getting the floor smoothed out, repair it with patch like Quickrete or similar, and then to keep cost down seal it with something like our SPGX which runs about 40 cents per sq foot.