DIY garage floor

When the walls of the garage are erected, the question arises, what will be the floor in it? Of course, the most durable and practical floor is a concrete. After the walls are plastered, we make the floor with our own hands. Plaster walls preferably before the floors are made. This will fill the floor above the place where the plaster ends and achieve perfectly even corners. Before laying the concrete mixture, it is necessary to prepare the surface. The basis for the future sex will be a sandwich of clay and gravel-sand mixture (GPS). First, a layer of clay is laid on the ground and thoroughly trim. It will serve as an obstacle to penetration of underground waters, if any next to the constructed structure. GPS is spilled out onto a layer of clay and is also thoroughly trimmed. As a tamping, you can take a massive wooden beam, nail a smaller bar to it and using it like pens evenly trample the surface. After such a tamping, you do not need to wait for the shrinkage of the soil and waste time. Further on a layer of gravel it is imperative to lay a layer of roofing material. This is thorough waterproofing, which will not allow moisture contained in the soil naturally to penetrate the layer of concrete and destroy it. Having prepared a concrete solution of sand, cement and crushed stone in a ratio of 4: 1: 2 we spread a thin layer, approximately 10 cm. Align with any flat rail. Wooden or metal. Homemade “Rule” should have two handles for ease of work. Its length is selected 20 cm less than the width of the aligned surface. This is necessary so that it can be made by transverse reciprocating movements, thereby sitting the solution in place. Further, in order to achieve the monolithic of the future sex and the prevention of its cracking from deformation and time, we will heal the traffic grid in this first layer. Cell size, on average, 50*50mm. You can a little more, you can a little less. The grid is cut into pieces and fastened with each other with an ordinary soft knitting wire. Without waiting for the solution complete dry, we immediately lay the next layer of concrete on top of the mesh. The surface is equalized more carefully. For perfect alignment, we use the mounting corner. We lay it along the walls on both sides. We set in level. On these corners we pull the rule and waln down the corners in concrete. Start styling from the far wall and advance to the exit. If the number of employees does not allow you to finish all the work on one day, then you can concrete in plots. In this case, the edge of the laid concrete is supported by a wooden bar. Use fiberboard. They are cut into even stripes. The length and thickness of the bands should respectively be equal to the length of the working area and the thickness of the laid second layer. The sheet set on the rib is propped up with ordinary brick so that it does not budge in the process of shrinkage of the solution. The next day, work continues on a new site, and the sheet remains in concrete. It can also serve as a buffer, with natural deformation of concrete areas under the influence of temperatures. Floor thickness must be selected depending on what load will be on it. As you dry, it is advisable to moisten concrete with water. Will dry longer, but the quality will be higher.