How To Fix Cracked Cement Floor

Prepare the cracked area for patching.

How to fix cracked cement floor.

Choose your concrete repair product. First use a small hammer and chisel in combination to knock away any. To use the concrete filler cut the nozzle off the bottle and slowly fill the cracks image 1. Add water to the resurfacer mix to get the consistency of pancake batter for the concrete crack filler.

Run a bead of epoxy concrete repair compound along the crack. Snip about 1 8 in 0 32 cm off of the tip then run a continuous bead of compound along the crack. Instead use a concrete. Then after another 10 minutes use the concrete rubbing stone or the palm sander to smoothen the repair material even.

This will help hold the patch in place. Check the cracks in a few minutes to see whether the filler has settled. Concrete surfaces cannot be repaired with concrete. With a cold chisel and large hammer undercut the edges of the crack.

Pour concrete resurfacing mixture into the crack and smooth it out with a rubber floor squeegee. If grease oil or dirt remains. Load a cartridge of liquid concrete repair compound into the cradle of a caulk gun. Sweep away any loose debris then vacuum the crack.

If you don t want to use a diamond grinder. Directions with a wire brush clean the crack. Make another pass with the caulk gun if the first bead didn t fill the entire crack. If you re using mixed concrete patch mix according to the manufacturer s direction and then trowel the patch into the crack image 2.

Then fill the remainder of the groove and smooth it over. Choose your concrete repair product.