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Falling leaves trowled into surface

oldiemotors

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When they were trowling my slab leaves were falling and the helicopters trowled them into the surface. I have chipped out close to 100 of them and now am wondering which type concrete patch I should use to fill these. Some are at least 1/8 inch deep.

Is there something i can just pour into the depression?
 
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toplessHO

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nope

do this and it will work
I had the "Storm of the Century"(they really named it that)come in the morning we poured my garage addition slab.
Every leaf from 3 counties ended up in slab. Guys picked them out as best they could but couldnt keep up. Pine needles where the worst.Heres what I did and its still good.
First pressure wash with a good pressure washer.Next acid wash with mild solution. I also rented a power sander but thats optional.
I was able to get alot of the leaves to pop out with the 0* pressure washer nozzle,
some had to be chipped out. I bought a 2 gallon kit of DOT epoxy used for repairing bridges from Lambert products.I think spec is 10,000PSI fully cured.
I used a 50/50 mix of it and DRY clean builders sand.Mix in the cone type drinking cups
and when ready to apply snip the end off and pour the defect full . Its key to over fill
and let it attach to surrounding flat area. Do not trowel,let it stand as a mound.Only mix a cup full as it sets quickly.
Let those areas cure for 24hrs then use a cup type grinding wheel made for concrete on a 4.5 inch side grinder. My old Black and Decker Industrial grade one would get so hot I had to wear 2 pairs of gloves to hold it,but its still going strong 30 yrs later.
I painted my slab but the paint has since worn off,repaired areas showing like battle scars but I have yet to have even one pop out ,rolling items weighing several thousand pounds on steel casters over it.
 

toplessHO

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heres a couple pics
you can see the grey paint stuck to a little of one imprint but surrounding concrete is again bare.
 

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Jinks

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I had the "Storm of the Century"(they really named it that)come in the morning we poured my garage addition slab.

That storm cost me an aluminum patio enclosure & gave me the opportunity to replace it with wood. I've always been thankful for that storm......:thumbup: You do realize that was *last* century, don't you? We have a little over 84 years to have another with that name..........:D

To the OP, just have your wife paint the impressions like leaves & call it decoration...........:dunno:
 

toplessHO

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I'd leaf it! Ha.

Might make it worse messing with it.

yea my neighbor said the same
"why you worried about it,its just a garage..."
I said theres nothing worse than trying to roll a loaded engine hoist and hitting
a hole in slab. No thanks,I spent the time repairing it correctly and am so glad I did.

Yea I lost two very large pine trees to that same storm.
 
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