New home Garage floor crack
- Thread starter Calisun
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Yes, the epoxy coating will cover it up nicely. The company will even patch up the concrete crack before apply the coating.
Does your garage have the scored lines like the pic below?
My previous home's garage is just a big flat continues surface without any scored lines and it display many hairline cracks. My new home and many of new home here in Irvine have scored line in the garage floor to divert the hairline crack away from the main surface.
Yes, mine has scored lines. Thank you so much for the inputs. The info makes me fell better.
. Builder says they are by nature . Should we insist the builder fix it ? and how to fix it. I'd like to hear TI member's opinion. Thx.Yeh, it's normal.
That's just the nature of the concrete. Due to various factors during curing and settling, there always will be hairline cracks. And due to the post-tension cable method used in your concrete slab, the integrity of your concrete foundation is still sound despite of hairline cracks.
I remember a nice quote from NYT: "There's two types of concrete, the one about to crack and the one already cracked."
Edit: Found NYT's original quote here, I was close.
That's just the nature of the concrete. Due to various factors during curing and settling, there always will be hairline cracks. And due to the post-tension cable method used in your concrete slab, the integrity of your concrete foundation is still sound despite of hairline cracks.
I remember a nice quote from NYT: "There's two types of concrete, the one about to crack and the one already cracked."
Edit: Found NYT's original quote here, I was close.
NYT said:
Calisun said:
Yes, the epoxy coating will cover it up nicely. The company will even patch up the concrete crack before apply the coating.
Does your garage have the scored lines like the pic below?
My previous home's garage is just a big flat continues surface without any scored lines and it display many hairline cracks. My new home and many of new home here in Irvine have scored line in the garage floor to divert the hairline crack away from the main surface.
lnc said:Calisun said:
Yes, the epoxy coating will cover it up nicely. The company will even patch up the concrete crack before apply the coating.
Does your garage have the scored lines like the pic below?
My previous home's garage is just a big flat continues surface without any scored lines and it display many hairline cracks. My new home and many of new home here in Irvine have scored line in the garage floor to divert the hairline crack away from the main surface.
Yes, mine has scored lines. Thank you so much for the inputs. The info makes me fell better.
Calisun,
I am not sure what material the builder used but it was significantly darker than rest of the cement. The patch work was so sloppy that after it was finished, the hairline crack became much more noticeable (a thick jaggered line measuring an inch wide as opposed to a hairline crack which was barely seen before). Epoxy went on fine. No problem there. In retrospect, I would not have the builder fix it in the first place.
I am not sure what material the builder used but it was significantly darker than rest of the cement. The patch work was so sloppy that after it was finished, the hairline crack became much more noticeable (a thick jaggered line measuring an inch wide as opposed to a hairline crack which was barely seen before). Epoxy went on fine. No problem there. In retrospect, I would not have the builder fix it in the first place.