Garage floor: When is a renovation due?

When looking at the often stained and unsightly floor of their own old garage, many garage owners ask themselves: when is it actually time to carry out a floor renovation?

In fact, the garage floor is exposed to particularly heavy loads day after day. Oil, salt, ice, water, etc. attack the floor. This is why old garage floors in particular look worn after a few years. But when is a garage floor (only) unsightly and when should it definitely be renovated?

The following questions will help you to assess the extent of possible damage:

• Is the garage floor heavily soiled – e.g. with oil or rust stains?
• Is the dirt only superficial or has it changed the structure of the garage floor?
• Are there cracks in the garage floor, is it sanding or crumbling?
• Are there any unevennesses, holes or bulges in the garage floor?

What do you do with heavily soiled areas of the garage floor?

Caution is also required here. Stains caused by road salt or oil should be removed in good time. If you wait too long, the contaminants may attack the structure of the floor surface and cause damage. But the ZAPF experts can also remedy these defects without any problems during a floor renovation.

How can you prevent damage to the garage floor?

To keep your garage floor in good condition for as long as possible, the following points should be observed:

• Prevent traces of oil (e.g. from leaking car engines) or puddles on the garage floor surface. It is best to remove oil stains immediately. Soak up the oil with suitable special agents (tip: if nothing else is available, cat litter works as an emergency solution) and dispose of as hazardous waste.
• Sweep road salt, grit and stones out of the garage regularly.
• Remove water or, in winter, ice and snow from the garage. If the garage is already too damp, it helps to ventilate it regularly.

The concrete of the driveway threshold is exposed to particular stress (due to being driven over). This is why frost, ice and salt gnaw away at the concrete surface, which can lead to spalling and holes over time. But even this damage can be repaired quickly and easily by our refurbishment experts!

But not only garage floors are renovated!

Of course, ZAPF not only renovates garage floors of prefabricated concrete garages – the ZAPF experts take care of every garage problem and every type of garage (whether brick-built or prefabricated concrete garage)! You can find an insight into the extensive detailed options for renovating the interior of a garage at www.garagenmodernisierung.de/renovierung/innenraumrenovierung.html. An overview of ZAPF’s full range of garage renovation and garage modernization services can be found at www.garagenmodernisierung.de/garagen-renovierung.html.