How To Fix Cracked Cement Floor

Prepare the cracked area for patching.

How to fix cracked cement floor.

Pour concrete resurfacing mixture into the crack and smooth it out with a rubber floor squeegee. Concrete surfaces cannot be repaired with concrete. Choose your concrete repair product. Then fill the remainder of the groove and smooth it over.

Snip about 1 8 in 0 32 cm off of the tip then run a continuous bead of compound along the crack. With a small paintbrush coat the crack. Run a bead of epoxy concrete repair compound along the crack. If grease oil or dirt remains.

Scrape off most of the excess repair material after about 10 minutes using the putty knife. Instead use a concrete. Feather the edges to get the best appearance. Then after another 10 minutes use the concrete rubbing stone or the palm sander to smoothen the repair material even.

Check the cracks in a few minutes to see whether the filler has settled. If you re using mixed concrete patch mix according to the manufacturer s direction and then trowel the patch into the crack image 2. Add water to the resurfacer mix to get the consistency of pancake batter for the concrete crack filler. Choose your concrete repair product.

First use a small hammer and chisel in combination to knock away any. Make another pass with the caulk gun if the first bead didn t fill the entire crack. Load a cartridge of liquid concrete repair compound into the cradle of a caulk gun. To use the concrete filler cut the nozzle off the bottle and slowly fill the cracks image 1.

This will help hold the patch in place. Directions with a wire brush clean the crack.