[s-cars] NAC: Garage floor

[Ivan Demkovitch]

Good advices!
 
Where do I even get this Concresive 1001 LPL ?
 
Also, I have a problem with garage entry. Concrete chipped badly. Is there any way to fix that permanently? Or at least for 5 years or so?

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Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:04:50 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC: Garage floor


Hi,
It all comes down to prep work just like painting a car.
 
When you place concrete, it forms a film on the top basically sealing the concrete.  You want to remove this.
 
The best way to make any paint stick to concrete is to create what they call a profile on the surface you are applying the epoxy to. In creating a profile, you are roughing up the surface you are going to paint. Sanding concrete won't work well and is time comsuming.   Profiling the concrete creates small ridges in the concrete, increasing the surface tension area to be coated.  
 
I would get a small chipping gun, get a small gad, that looks like a meat tenderizer, and run this over the whole are of the floor.  This will give you a great profile for surface tension for the epoxy.
 
By the way, this is how we do the concrete floors in the power plants for the Power Utility I work for.  These floors get a lot more abuse than your garage ever would.  All comes down to prep.  I will let some else advise you on the epoxy to use, because the stuff we use is over 300 dollars a gallon.
 
As for cracks, use Concresive 1001 LPL.  This works great on cracks.  Just mix up as much as you want, two parts, like in a paper cup or a grout bag.  Just pour or squeeze it into the cracks.  Of course, it will fill up any void you have under the concrete, so you could use quite a bit if you have a large void under the crack.  You could also coat your entire floor with this stuff, but it would cost you your right arm.  We sometimes use it to line clay pipe, if fluid seeps through,  It seals the inside of the pipe.
 
There are also come concrete crack injection systems on the market you could try.
 
Greg W.