Garage floor - to screed or not to screed?

[miked1]

Hello everyone

This is my 1st posting of what could be many to this excellent group as I embark on my own extension project with individual professionals!!

I will have a garage (6m x 5.5m) attached to the side of the house that will have an internal door to a living room towards the rear.

Question is basically should I do anything in ADDITION to the concrete oversite? It'll be C25 mix but what I'm concerned about is the level of dust from such a floor and the fact that we'll go from the garage straight into a living room quite a lot. Would adding anything to the surface help reduce the dust and still be practible given it'll store a car and be used as workshop?

Many thanks all
Mike

 

[toasty]

paint the floor with either a sealer or an expoxy paint. That's what I've done and it makes one hell of a difference.

Concrete on it's own is a bit dusty.

 

[JoshRogan]

Hi ya Mike

Yep, this a very useful forum and people very helpful on it - welcome!

Regarding your garage floor, I was thinking along similar with my garage flooring - I saw once in a horsey magazine that you can by rubber/latex flooring mix that can be poured on. I think they use it for something comfortable for horses rather than solid concrete messing up their shoes, but it struck me that something similar would be useful in garage.

Anyway, hopefully someone else will be able to answer on the screed front.

C.

 

[JoshRogan]

Ahh well done toasty, epoxy paint sounds like a reasonable idea (though a rubber floor still appeals to me!)

c.

 

[Static]

Are you going for a suspended floor or ground bearing slab?

 

[miked1]

It'll be a 175mm slab..

 

[Static]

Screed isnt necessary but helps to give you a more resiliant surface that can be laid to falls to allow water to run out of the garage

 

[miked1]

Thank you all for the help!
I'll probably not screed (as hopefully no water in there!!)
But I'll keep my eyes open for a rubber coating