Once Upon A Time....About Garage Flooring

This last spring Adam walked out of his house to begin the task of cleaning the garage in preparation for the coming summer. As he cleaned out the leaves that had blown in through the broken door and the various in sundry clutter that had plagued the space over the fall and winter he began to think and an idea formed. He had decided to replace the cracked and pock marked concrete garage flooring.

Adam began by breaking up the old garage flooring, although there were easier ways to complete this task, he enjoyed the labor aspect and immense sense of pride that came with long hours spent working on a project. He began to do this with a large sledge hammer, breaking the garage floor into first large pieces and then breaking those pieces into smaller pieces. Adam wore a mask to do this so as to not inhale the dust from concrete garage flooring. When he had completed this job, Adam spread the nearly powder fine concrete pieces of what had been garage floor into the gravel driveway.

And Then What Happened?

Next, he spread a large amount of straw on the ground to cover it and to act as a deterrent to the grass that may try to grow up through the new garage flooring. After the straw had been spread, Adam next took two inch by six inch board and made a frame around the outer edges of the space to prevent the wet concrete from spreading further than was desired.

After this task, Adam then started mixing the concrete in a wheel barrow. Due to his prior experience in concrete and construction, he knew that he should mix three gallons of water to one fifty pound bag of concrete mix. He used a hoe to stir the mixture and a shovel to make sure that all of the powder had been mixed with the water.

When it was mixed to the desired consistency, he began to pour the concrete onto the space inside the frame; again using a hoe to level the mixture and to make sure it spread evenly. Adam repeated this process until the entire frame was evenly filled. After the new garage floor had partially dried, he used a broom to give the garage flooring the "brushed" look that was functional as well as cosmetic. He finished up by letting it dry and keeping animals and people off of the new floor until it had completely dried.