Michigan City Indiana Concrete Garage Floors – Salt

Michigan City sits on the Lake Michigan shore. Washington Park has a public beach a short drive from a lot of garages in town. So cars come home with lake sand in the treads all summer. Then those same tires bring road salt home through the cold months. Concrete Garage Floors in Michigan City hold whatever the tires drop. The grit and the salt stay on the slab until someone sweeps them up.

After people notice the floor looking rough under the car, they call us. We have pulled up mats and found a ridge of sand along the slab. But we have also seen a white crust where the meltwater dried. The surface paste wears thin in the tire paths. Because the sand sits under the tires and grinds that paste, those paths go first. When the paste is gone, small pits show up and the stone starts to show. Sweeping removes the loose grit. The pits stay in the top of the slab.

Concrete Garage Floors in Michigan City After the Surface Starts to Pit

So we see the top come off in flakes where salt sits on a damp slab. That shows up often near the door where the car drips. For example, the pits show up in the tire tracks first. Patch work can fill a small spot if the rest of the slab is sound. When the pits run the length of the bay, a skim coat will not hold. We see the loose paste break out around the patch.

That is when a new pour comes up. We tear out the bad slab and haul it off. Then we set a new floor at the right height for the door and the apron. Concrete Garage Floors in Michigan City that have lost their paste usually need that full replacement. Concrete removal and a full concrete replacement cover a bay in this shape. The sand and salt have been grinding that surface for a long time. We also look at the service walk outside the door, since the same tires cross it. If that walk is breaking up, we can take care of it on the same visit.

Tear-Out and a New Pour for Concrete Garage Floors in Michigan City

We have torn out garage slabs where the tire paths had dropped into a shallow trough. Sand had packed the control joints. But salt crust lined the edges too. So we cut the old slab into pieces and lift them out. After that we check the base before we set forms. Because a garage door needs clearance, we measure that height before the pour. Then we place the concrete and strike it off. We cut joints where the slab should crack on its own. Concrete Garage Floors in Michigan City get this same sequence whether the bay holds one car or two.

For example, owners have asked us about a coating before we look at the slab. Epoxy can seal a sound floor and make salt easier to sweep. We pour the new slab first. After it has cured, we can talk about epoxy. We also do colored concrete if you want the bay to match a stain you already like. That replacement is part of our concrete garage floors work. After the pits run in the tire paths, we schedule Concrete Garage Floors in Michigan City as a replacement.

We are a family owned company, and we have been pouring slabs since 2006. We write each quote out line by line. But we do not inflate the price of material to make a few extra dollars. The crew measures the bay and the door clearance before we price the tear-out. Our photo gallery shows finished floors from jobs like these. Details on the company are on our About Us page. We source the mix ourselves so we know what is in the truck.