Protecting floor against NY winter

[Bigbrew]

Good afternoon I hope everyone here is doing well under the current circumstances. My garage floor is only about two years old and I'm getting some pitting. I live in Upstate New York so I'm guessing some of this is being caused by the salt. What's a good cost effective coating to use to protect it (28x28)?

 

[shaeff]

Looks more like air bubbles that were close to the surface and collapsed to me. Sharp edges aren't usually from salt etching. I could be wrong.

 

[ConCretin]

Actually it looks like someone dropped some kind of mortar on the floor. That's not pitting. Scrape it off and carry on. Unless it's an optical illusion?

 

[Bigbrew]

Actually it looks like someone dropped some kind of mortar on the floor. That's not pitting. Scrape it off and carry on. Unless it's an optical illusion?

Definitely a hole in the floor.

 

[ConCretin]

Definitely a hole in the floor.

Well alrighty then. Must be my aging vision. Well in that case, I'd say it's what referred to as a 'pop out'. These occur when reactive pieces of aggregate such as chert expand and pop out under freeze thaw conditions.

This varies regionally depending on aggregate sources. It's a relatively easy fix although the problem might continue to occur until all the suspect aggregate on the surface is gone.

If you are in a region without freeze/thaw conditions, I don't have a clue. Maybe someone else can help. lol

 

[Bigbrew]

Well alrighty then. Must be my aging vision. Well in that case, I'd say it's what referred to as a 'pop out'. These occur when reactive pieces of aggregate such as chert expand and pop out under freeze thaw conditions.

This varies regionally depending on aggregate sources. It's a relatively easy fix although the problem might continue to occur until all the suspect aggregate on the surface is gone.

If you are in a region without freeze/thaw conditions, I don't have a clue. Maybe someone else can help. lol

Upstate New York. It's still snowing here

 

[Garage Flooring]

Might be worth a read on the 4500 / 8510 thread that is up right now. You can seal it, coat it etc. It just depends on the needs.

 

[JOE.G]

I don't have anything to add that is helpful but I don't want LLWillysfan feeling like he is the only one not seeing the hole lol.

 

[Bighead38]

My sister lives outside Albany. When she bought her house the whole garage floor was pitted like that. 50+ years of uncoated concrete with salt and water exposure. It wasn’t pretty. I filled in all the holes and cracks. Pretty much skim coated the whole floor lol. Anyway I put down whatever garage epoxy was available at Home Depot at the time. 10* years later and it still looks decent. The coating is starting to wear in some spots but it’s not to bad.

 

[like2wheel]

I don't have anything to add that is helpful but I don't want LLWillysfan feeling like he is the only one not seeing the hole lol.

Yeah, I had the same problem, but try looking at the 2nd pic first. Then I got it.

 

[ConCretin]

I don't have anything to add that is helpful but I don't want LLWillysfan feeling like he is the only one not seeing the hole lol.

Yeah, I had the same problem, but try looking at the 2nd pic first. Then I got it.

It's like the damn blue dress/gold dress thing. i still can't see holes.

I think I also need to revise my previous comments regarding the cause. Pop-outs usually occur on exposed concrete and the OP's floor on the interior. I'm not sure I've offered anything of value at all other than discovering I need to see my eye doctor.

 

[Armorpoxy]

Hi for good economical protection, use either the Ghostshield 5590/8510 system or our SPGX Polyurea one part coating. These will give excellent protection for you.