Garage Floor Repair Options?

[superman22x]

Hi all, I'm relatively new here. Been browsing a while, but finally I am making a post.

A friend and I just moved into a house that has a great garage. Just under 700sqft if I remember right. It seems the front half of the garage, where the cars park and drip salt and crud off them is pretty rough. Is this something that could be leveled? We are only renting this for 2 years at this point, so investing much wouldn't be worthwhile for us.

I did want to get racedeck or something similar for the garage, but I'm afraid this might be too rough for that type of flooring to cover. What's your thoughts on this? I figure racedeck, I can just pick up and move to my next place after I am done renting this one.

Thanks!

 

[James-W]

I am not sure that floor can be repaired in an inexpensive and practical way. Ripping it out and replacing the concrete may be the least costly way to do it.

Having said that, I was watching a home improvement show several months ago (possibly a year or so) where the basement floor was really bad, much like what you have in the pictures. What they did is to clean the whole floor and remove any loose material, then pour out this self leveling really thick stuff until it covered the whole floor. It was a colored liquid and it took a few days for it to really get hard enough to walk on. They just left it that way and it was fine for them, but if you were to do this with your concrete floor and you wanted it more fancy, I am pretty sure you could put epoxy on top of that stuff with flakes and make the floor really nice. As far as cost to do this, I have no idea, probably as much as, if not more than, ripping out the concrete and pouring a new floor.

 

[Armorpoxy]

This floor will be very difficult to repair. It has significant damage.

Skim coats and other feather type products are very thin and because there isn't 'much material' on the floor can fail, taking a coating up with it.

Suggest interlocking floor tiles like our SupraTile www.supratile.com or similar and just be done with it.

 

[Garage Flooring]

This floor will be very difficult to repair. It has significant damage.

Skim coats and other feather type products are very thin and because there isn't 'much material' on the floor can fail, taking a coating up with it.

Suggest interlocking floor tiles like our SupraTile www.supratile.com or similar and just be done with it.

Hello my friend. Just noticed this post. Good to see you on the forum. I'd lean the tile direction myself, but honestly some of the damage looks to severe. Given that its a rental, I'd grab a cheap patch kit (with permission from the owner of course) and try and get some of the low points taken out first.


What do you think?

 

[superman22x]

Excellent. Thanks for the advice. I wasn't sure if the tiles would do well with the pitting. Do you have any recommendations of patch kits?

We were also thinking of just tiling the back half of the garage and just keeping the bikes and such parked in the bad spots.

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[James-W]

I agree with you in that the tiles will not work all that well because the floor is too pitted and uneven. In my opinion it will take some sort of self leveling material in order to make the floor reasonably flat so that you can use floor tiles.

 

[Armorpoxy]

Agree, if it's really bad a quick skim with a pay cementious type skim coat or self leveler can work. We like Ardex and CMP brands.

 

[Garage Flooring]

Quikrete makes one that will work. Not my favorite. But your not coating this and you don't own it. Head to the home center and see what they have.

 

[superman22x]

Alright, sounds good. I'll run it past the landlord and see what we can do.
Thanks!

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[djjsr]

Rapid Set has 2 products that will fix that. One of them is self leveling. They're available at Home Depot (check their website and watch the video). I used one of them last year and it's holding up well so far.

 

[superman22x]

Hmm, at $30/bag, and the coverage is about 20 sqft, it might be more than is worth for a rental house. Unless the landlord was interested in picking up the tab.
Seems to be about the average price for all the self leveling concrete.
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[LegacyIndustrial]

Good info here: http://allgaragefloors.com/repair-pitted-and-spalled-concrete/