Experience Harvey Chichester is a well published principal of Durall Industrial Flooring, a company with more than 40 years experience in developing special flow-coatings for industrial and residential floors. Automotive and shopping centers, breweries, food processing plants, manufacturing plants, airplane hangars, car washes, kennels, warehouses, printing plants, residential basements, pool decks, and condominiums are among some of the facilities in which he has installed floors. http://www.concrete-floor-coatings.com
During that time, his team of chemists has produced continual improvements to over 500 products, including the acclaimed Dura Seal and Dura Poxy lines of epoxy floor coatings. He has managed installations in all 50 states, 5 Canadian provinces, and 7 countries.
Organizations Durall Industrial Flooring
Publications Aricles appear in over 3500 locations on the web.
Education/Credentials MBA Marketing, BSB Finance minor Management, BA Economics minor Sociology, 7 years working beside Bench chemists at Durall Industrial Flooring.
Past/Present Clients Iowa Beef, Pillsbury, General Mills, Banta Printing, 3M, Control Data, UFE, Land O Lakes, Thousands of residential garages, warehouses, machine shops, and automotive centers
Question Our garage is on the lowest level of home, along with three bedrooms, all of which share a common concrete floor. There is a very visible and high (about one inch) crack that starts at the front edge of the garage floor, right by the garage door, and extends in a fairly straight line through the back of the garage and through the floors of two bedrooms, pretty much all the way to the far end of the house. The height of the crack is the worst in the garage. But I think I can feel the crack through the carpet in the farthest bedroom.
I believe the crack was caused by moisture in the clay under the garage floor. The rain gutter downspout emptied on to the grass right behind the house for many years before we bought the house. I have since installed a drain hose to the driveway to get the water away from the back wall of the garage.
Is there anything we can do to level out this floor, short of removing it and starting again?
Fortunately, The house support pilings were poured separately and don't appear to be affected.
Thanks.
Lynn 8-)
Answer Dear Lynn,
Your crack may be from concrete shrinkage. If so just filling it and coating the floor with a colored epoxy seal may make it disappear. If the crack resulted from the two sides of the floor settling then even if you fix the crack the filled area will be like the peak of a house sloping each direction. If settling is the issue the best you can expect without replacing the floor is to fill a seal the floor. This will make it easy to clean and will keep any thing from coming through your floor, like gases etc.
If you go to http:\\www.concrete-floor-coatings.com you can get a free cost analysis which will have step by step instructions and a profile of everything you will need to fill the cracks and seal the floor.
