Garage floor advise

[crankedup]

I mentioned earlier about using car dollies to move my car to the side once inside my garage. As my garage floor is concrete with hundreds of small ripples across it I think I need to spread some sort of permanent material on the floor so that it makes it smooth, like the race track pit garage floors. Any suggestions what I could use please.

[ohopkins]

self leveling compound.

www.diyonline.com/servlet/GIB_BaseT/diylib_article.html?session.docid=856

[crankedup]

Great stuff, thanks mate, looks like a visit to the builders yard for me.

[ncs]

Thats the kiddie - but try to get the latex based one rather than water based.

It will give you a lovely smooth finish & its very strong.

Nick

[martin350]

srewfixdirect have this £18.99 2m coverage.as you are just laying a thin screed you may have to tile on top of this as it will probably crack when the weight the car is applied.another option would be 12mm marine ply screwed to the floor after screeding

>> Edited by martin350 on Tuesday 24th January 19:42

[crankedup]

Latex?? is that the stuff those blokes wear when they ride those race bikes

Seriously thanks for the advise, its a big job and I need to get it right.

[B17NNS]

If your using a self levelling compound soak the floor first with a coat of water and PVA. This helps the SLC adhere to the subfloor and prevents it drying out to quickly (and cracking as a result).

Also, try not to lay it too wet as it will become powdery when dry.

[mrmaggit]

Sorry to disappoint you but general self-levelling compound is NOT A WEARING SURFACE!

You will need to cover it with something that is. There have been released recently some thin-bed floor screeds that are wearing surfaces, such as Febscreed, but please don't just use normal floor leveller. Adding SBR (styrene butadiene rubber) increases the wearing properties, but, given that you are proposing to load a car onto dollies, which will have a high point load, I'd suggest you look at either a complete floor screed ot tiling.

[WANSTEAD]

I had exactly the same problem, I’ve just finished resurfacing the floor and I’m very happy with the result. I had planned to use a self levelling compound, but the products strong enough for garage use are a crazy price. In the end I used a basic 3:1 screed mix but added a product called Ronafix to give strength and workability.
More info here:

www.ronacrete.co.uk/Uploads/Files/rlds101%20ronafix%20for%20flooring.pdf

[mrmaggit]

Thanks for the corroboration. Ronafix is an SBR additive.

[WANSTEAD]

Sorry, if I had read through the thread properly I should have realised I was just repeating mrmaggit advice.

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Always trust PH'ers to come up trumps

[mrmaggit]

WANSTEAD said:

Sorry, if I had read through the thread properly I should have realised I was just repeating mrmaggit advice.

No worries, young sir.

[GavinPearson]

Try something similar to this product available in the USA.

www.ucoatit.com/mainprod.html

[islander]

Any thin layer, cement based, screed with high point loads applied such as dolly wheels are very likely to break up. Latex, SBR's self levelling compounds are all likely to have problems!

The car manufacturing industry uses a 2 part non solvented epoxy screed to give a smooth flat surface.

The system required will depend on the profile on top of the slab.

If you want any help send me an E Mail.

[plug]

You could try one of these.


www.expresstools.co.uk/ishop/692/shopscr3127.html