New Garage Floor Question

[Petvan]

Hi All,

New member though I’ve lurked a lot. I’m about to throw some money at my 20x20 garage and am thinking about going the tile route. However, my garage has a row of cinder blocks around the perimeter which make up the first foot Of the wall. These blocks are older, exposed and cracked, and generally unsightly.

I would like to cover them for both sealing and aesthetic reasons and assume this is right path even though I’d tile the floor.

Is there a particular product that I can resurface these blocks with? That holds up to being vertical? Is skim coating the blocks the right way to go or should I Just crack seal and paint?

Any ideas very welcome.

Pete

 

[Shea]

Can you post some pics?

 

[Petvan]

Seems like I can't add an image, short post count being new here.

 

[Petvan]

Here is my pic - I have this single cinder block base around the full perimeter of the garage and its old and rather chipped in places. Garage is a tad full right now so a broader pic isn't doable.

Thanks,

 

[Garage Flooring]

I would treat as two different sufrfaces and understand if you see significant movement, enough to crack concrete, a coating will go with it. I would go with an epoxy system.

 

[Petvan]

I would treat as two different sufrfaces and understand if you see significant movement, enough to crack concrete, a coating will go with it. I would go with an epoxy system.

Thanks.. By going with epoxy do you mean everywhere or just surface coating the wall cement?

I'm not sure I'm up for days of work grinding and cleaning my garage, and have a fridge and some other items what would be tricky to re located for longer than a day which is why i'm leaning toward tiles.

Having someone do this professionally has come in the 6k CAD for a 20x20 garage which is a tad pricey for me. Assuming tiles are half that and DIY epoxy a bit lower still unless I get lazy on the prep and mess it up ;-)

P

 

[Garage Flooring]

Thanks.. By going with epoxy do you mean everywhere or just surface coating the wall cement?

I'm not sure I'm up for days of work grinding and cleaning my garage, and have a fridge and some other items what would be tricky to re located for longer than a day which is why i'm leaning toward tiles.

Having someone do this professionally has come in the 6k CAD for a 20x20 garage which is a tad pricey for me. Assuming tiles are half that and DIY epoxy a bit lower still unless I get lazy on the prep and mess it up ;-)

P

You could do epoxy vertically for sure. We do have tiles as well but you will need a different solution for the vertical