I'm new here and I've been enjoying this forum a lot! I'm having trouble trying to figure out what to do with my garage floor so I thought I'd ask the experts.
There are two "catches" to my situation: (1) we have a fridge and a few other big items in the garage that I can't keep outside while I'm doing this, so I'd like to do the floor one half at a time -- which seems reasonable because there's a 1" divider right down the middle, so protecting the other side doesn't seem like it will be difficult. Also, (2) the middle of the floor is full of pits from road salt -- I'm talking like a 14'x12' area -- we're in northern Ohio where the winters are rough and this 1957 cement slab has had nothing done to it in 51 years (aside from one application of vinyl crack filler on some of its larger cracks).
I need to know what I can do to make a nice floor here, and how I can do it. I painted my basement floor two years ago with the Quikrete 2-part epoxy and it came out great, and I'd like to do an epoxy on the garage floor, too. Lowe's had a special on the Rust-Oleum Garage Floor EpoxyShield on Labor Day Weekend (something like $44 a kit) so I went ahead and bought two kits. I also went on mail order and bought two packs of the anti-skid additive, an extra bottle of degreaser, and two EpoxyShield Concrete Patch and Repair kits, because I need to fix the pitted areas before laying down epoxy.
However, the Concrete Patch kits are TINY and they say they only fill a crack 14' long by 1/2" wide and 1/2" deep. Even though most of the pits are much more shallow than that, my area is 14'x12' so a rough estimate tells me I'd need 288 of these kits to fill it!
I've attached some pics to this post to show the condition of the floor. (The white things on top are leaves that blew in from the birch tree outside.) I put the Rust-Oleum box on the ground for scale -- most of the pits are about 1/4 to 1/2" diameter and maybe 1/10"-1/3" deep.
Please help me out! I'd love to post an "after" pic of how this baby looks once its all done, but I have no idea what to do at this point!
There are two "catches" to my situation: (1) we have a fridge and a few other big items in the garage that I can't keep outside while I'm doing this, so I'd like to do the floor one half at a time -- which seems reasonable because there's a 1" divider right down the middle, so protecting the other side doesn't seem like it will be difficult. Also, (2) the middle of the floor is full of pits from road salt -- I'm talking like a 14'x12' area -- we're in northern Ohio where the winters are rough and this 1957 cement slab has had nothing done to it in 51 years (aside from one application of vinyl crack filler on some of its larger cracks).
I need to know what I can do to make a nice floor here, and how I can do it. I painted my basement floor two years ago with the Quikrete 2-part epoxy and it came out great, and I'd like to do an epoxy on the garage floor, too. Lowe's had a special on the Rust-Oleum Garage Floor EpoxyShield on Labor Day Weekend (something like $44 a kit) so I went ahead and bought two kits. I also went on mail order and bought two packs of the anti-skid additive, an extra bottle of degreaser, and two EpoxyShield Concrete Patch and Repair kits, because I need to fix the pitted areas before laying down epoxy.
However, the Concrete Patch kits are TINY and they say they only fill a crack 14' long by 1/2" wide and 1/2" deep. Even though most of the pits are much more shallow than that, my area is 14'x12' so a rough estimate tells me I'd need 288 of these kits to fill it!
I've attached some pics to this post to show the condition of the floor. (The white things on top are leaves that blew in from the birch tree outside.) I put the Rust-Oleum box on the ground for scale -- most of the pits are about 1/4 to 1/2" diameter and maybe 1/10"-1/3" deep.
Please help me out! I'd love to post an "after" pic of how this baby looks once its all done, but I have no idea what to do at this point!
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