Leveling floor with existing epoxy?

[Larrymer]

Hi, when I bought my house and didn't notice that there's a spot near the entrance that's a little low, so water pools there and can run into the garage from the driveway when snow piles up. Currently there's an epoxy coat on it which likely wasn't done right in the prep stages or the slab isn't great because it cracks under my floor jacks and sometimes pulls concrete up with it when it happens.

Anyway, I want to know if there's something I can use over top the epoxy to fill in the low spots as I'm thinking I'll just use tiles over the floor once it's level. I haven't measured how low the spot is but I'd estimate around 1/2" deep and maybe a foot or two in diameter. What products do you guys recommend? I'm hoping to avoid removing the epoxy and going down to the slab to fix it and maybe put some sort of leveling epoxy over the existing stuff with maybe a little prep to that area.

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

Larry:
Any repair that does not go back to the slab is a bad repair.
We have a repair material that is ridiculously strong but has to get back to concrete.

 

[Larrymer]

Not what I wanted to hear but it's what I expected. Removing epoxy doesn't look trivial, unfortunately.

What's the material you speak of?

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

Low spots are best pre-filled with this:
http://www.legacyindustrial.net/products/concrete-repair/hd-110-epoxy-concrete-patch.html

 

[Armorpoxy]

We would recommend our Epoxy Mortar Liquids which you mix with sand (to save shipping on sand from us). Make sure to get to bare concrete...

https://store.armorpoxy.com/mm5/mer...&Product_Code=AI-110LIQUID&Category_Code=FREP

 

[Armorpoxy]

We also have two, easy to follow bulletins which we wrote that review options for repairing crappy/corroded floors, and another one that talks all about repairs of floors, how to do it, what materials we recommend (some of them not what we carry), and what you can expect from a coating to 'fix' a floor (very little).

Please email us directly at [email protected] to request.

 

[SunsetsAndFriends]

Hi, when I bought my house and didn't notice that there's a spot near the entrance that's a little low, so water pools there and can run into the garage from the driveway when snow piles up. Currently there's an epoxy coat on it which likely wasn't done right in the prep stages or the slab isn't great because it cracks under my floor jacks and sometimes pulls concrete up with it when it happens.

Anyway, I want to know if there's something I can use over top the epoxy to fill in the low spots as I'm thinking I'll just use tiles over the floor once it's level. I haven't measured how low the spot is but I'd estimate around 1/2" deep and maybe a foot or two in diameter. What products do you guys recommend? I'm hoping to avoid removing the epoxy and going down to the slab to fix it and maybe put some sort of leveling epoxy over the existing stuff with maybe a little prep to that area.

Larry - when you decide where your project is going, leave a few pics of your progress. I'm sure others would like to see how you do it and might have some tips for you along the way. Good luck.

 

[Larrymer]

Took a couple pictures yesterday to show the damage I was trying to describe. Not showing where the floor isn't level, it's hard to notice but it's right by the door so you can see a bit of a gap when the door is closed on one side. Yep, wife's car is leaking oil.

Edit: Pics removed since they didn't work. See later post.

 

[Larrymer]

Sorry for the giant pictures, looks like this forum doesn't use TIMG to rescale pictures from imgur. You can see the checkerboard cracking (not sure what this is from, the squares too too small to be from tiles over top I think, so it's something underneath) and the cracked out portions from the floor jack.

 

[Larrymer]

Edit: More picture fails...

 

[Larrymer]

Never have I had so many problems linking pictures on any message board. I just attached them.

 

[Hornman]

Yup, someone applied floor epoxy over vinyl tile (not all tiles are 12" x 12"). You can probably use a long handle floor scraper and pop those tiles off the floor fully intact.

 

[Larrymer]

This is what makes me want to do RaceDeck tiles instead of redoing the whole surface.

 

[Armorpoxy]

This is exactly why we sell the tiles, for projects like these that customers don't want to do tons and tons of work on getting the floor ready for a new coating.