VikingTrad3r
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Hi there. Im a car enthusiast up in calgary canada. Im 40 with 3 kids on a fairly tight budget. ill do as much as my reno myself as i can. im also not looking at keeping the house for too long, maybe two more years before we move to our "forever home" out in the country outside the city.
- its a detached garage. where i live i can put up wood walls, probably plywood.
- natural gas heat
- 220 power
- internet and cable is run out in conduit.
- i have an empty conduit that i always planned on running a water line out inside of. id have to heat trace it though so not sure if that would work.
- floor. i have a 3.75-4" slab, not sure about the psi.
- the slab is scored and it did not crack.
- not sure how much rebar is in the floor.
- slab has a central drain in it. I wish i hadnt done this. If u put a marble on the floor, it rolls to the centre drain. so nothing is ever level.
- the slab was poured in 2003 and has no cracks.
- i have rebuilt a corvette and had lakes of ****** fluid on the floor (yeah dammed up good so as to avoid the drain haha). I mopped up all these fluids. but my understanding is that concrete will absorb it?? even after its been wiped up?
- for this reason i have kind of ruled out any paint or epoxy. the prep work would be tedious and i would need to hire a pro for this?
- i actually have a couple jugs of muriatic acid that at one time i was going to dilute it and etch the surface. but when i read about the hydrocarbons soaking into the concrete, that changed my mind on the point of etching a perfectly solid floor if the exposed aggregate will still have oils in it.
- that lead me to these pvc vinyl rolls.
- started researching them and i see a brand called g-floor makes a "small coin" style in 0.95 thickness.
- the ONLY downside i can think for going this route is that pvc is not super hard. I assume if i use jackstands they will cookie cutter out patterns in the pvc.
So, that is my current plan, and i will just cut some plywood squares for the base of the jackstands. i plan on using my max jax lift anyway so it will not be too much of an inconvenience.
I spend most of my time on corvetteforum in the c4 section.
Name is the same over there if any of you are members there.
Do any of you have ideas/comments/experiences to pass on for my intended purpose?
Merry Christmas to all!
Regards, VikingTrad3r in Calgary Canada.
- its a detached garage. where i live i can put up wood walls, probably plywood.
- natural gas heat
- 220 power
- internet and cable is run out in conduit.
- i have an empty conduit that i always planned on running a water line out inside of. id have to heat trace it though so not sure if that would work.
- floor. i have a 3.75-4" slab, not sure about the psi.
- the slab is scored and it did not crack.
- not sure how much rebar is in the floor.
- slab has a central drain in it. I wish i hadnt done this. If u put a marble on the floor, it rolls to the centre drain. so nothing is ever level.
- the slab was poured in 2003 and has no cracks.
- i have rebuilt a corvette and had lakes of ****** fluid on the floor (yeah dammed up good so as to avoid the drain haha). I mopped up all these fluids. but my understanding is that concrete will absorb it?? even after its been wiped up?
- for this reason i have kind of ruled out any paint or epoxy. the prep work would be tedious and i would need to hire a pro for this?
- i actually have a couple jugs of muriatic acid that at one time i was going to dilute it and etch the surface. but when i read about the hydrocarbons soaking into the concrete, that changed my mind on the point of etching a perfectly solid floor if the exposed aggregate will still have oils in it.
- that lead me to these pvc vinyl rolls.
- started researching them and i see a brand called g-floor makes a "small coin" style in 0.95 thickness.
- the ONLY downside i can think for going this route is that pvc is not super hard. I assume if i use jackstands they will cookie cutter out patterns in the pvc.
So, that is my current plan, and i will just cut some plywood squares for the base of the jackstands. i plan on using my max jax lift anyway so it will not be too much of an inconvenience.
I spend most of my time on corvetteforum in the c4 section.
Name is the same over there if any of you are members there.
Do any of you have ideas/comments/experiences to pass on for my intended purpose?
Merry Christmas to all!
Regards, VikingTrad3r in Calgary Canada.
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