Pouring Your Own Concrete Garage Floor

If a thicker floor is desired excavate below skirt board bottom by any slab thickness greater than 4.

Pouring your own concrete garage floor. Start on one side and screed off the top of your forms and the middle pad using a magnesium screed. If your garage floor is going to see constant traffic from heavy vehicles it is recommended that you pour your floor at least six to eight inches thick. Good concrete slabs in garages will hold up to all of the weight they need to bear through hot and cold weather and for many long years with little if any evidence of cracks. Push the float across the surface to the back of the pour with the back of the float tilted up slightly.

Then pull the float back across the surface with the float flat on the surface. Your floor must also be treated and sealed properly so that heavy loads like large trucks do not cause the concrete to crack. The reason people hold off their fancy garage floor projects isn t because of some concrete spalling or pitting. Contact your local building department to see whether a permit is required and how close to the lot.

It s because the idea of repairing it on your own seems intimidating. Set and level one side. Place the frame on the floor. Once you have a section poured out this is what you do.

This is what you ll use to screed from in the middle of. Prior to pouring a nominal 4 3 1 2 actual completed thick concrete slab in building finished graded compacted fill top will be even with skirt board bottom. The truth is repairing your garage floor isn t very difficult and you only need some guidance and a good quality concrete resurfacer to do the trick. A bull float is used to smooth the concrete and settle the aggregate below the surface.

Cut a 2x12 to length or splice it with a cleat for one side of the concrete forms and nail it. Build a frame for your garage floor. Using a sawing motion works o k. Even out the garage floor by removing any debris and evening out any irregularities in the surface using a trowel or.

Project step by step 16 prepare the site. Pouring a concrete slab and getting it level is very important. How to pour concrete 9 how to build your own garage daniel woodell in this video i show you how to pour and prep the slab for the floor of the garage. Your frame will keep in the cement fix and delimit the area of your floor.

Mag float your edges if you set the top of your forms to grade mag the concrete smooth even with the top of your. Slabs that develop cracks are probably the biggest headache and the folks who pour such slabs are prone to say things like concrete is always going to crack don t believe it. Stake and brace the side form. Kind of ride it on the back edge and pull the concrete down using small 6 to 8 inch strokes.