Tidying up garage floor on the cheap

[sofaman]

Hi,

Our garage floor is concrete, presumably set in separate pieces as has always been split into three bits that have moved apart over time. ~10mm gap between the pieces and one is ~10mm higher than the others. Seems stable though - been like this for > 10 years.

I'd like to remedy slow time and on the cheap. Was thinking of filling the gaps and then laying floor tiles.

Should I even bother to fill the gaps if using interlocking eva foam tiles? Tiles seem to be typically 600mm x 600mm x 11mm - and am thinking the 10mm step-up will be too much for them?

Screeding/floor levelling compound (?) would give a flat floor throughout (which I'm not overly bothered about) and mean I need to get everything out, plus rehang the up-and-over door.

Can that stuff be used by a complete amateur to smooth out the height difference over a smaller patch (ramp up to the higher bit over e.g. 500mm)?

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• sofaman
• 29 Jul 2020

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• sofaman
• 29 Jul 2020

Thanks,
Steve

 

[foxhole]

Floor levelling compound used as you describe should be fine .

 

[sofaman]

Thanks - I'll give that a go on a small patch. Shouldn't be too much of a disaster if it goes pear shaped as will be covered anyhow.