I live full time in Montana and have a long driveway that I plow during the winter months. We park the plow truck in the garage when not using it and over the years the plow has chipped a lot of holes in the concrete floor.
I would like to deal with this before it gets much worse, but from what I’ve read concrete patching is time-consuming and doesn’t always work that well. I suppose I could hire someone to come out and patch it for me, but that would probably be expensive. I’m fairly good at most straight-forward DIY jobs.
Has anyone successfully patched a badly chipped garage floor before using one of the standard patching products that has vinyl in it? How hard was it and what did you learn after you were done?
Proper prepping is the key to successful patching of concrete. Thin patches don’t work well, you’ll have to chisel or drill down until you are filling steep sided hole.
Best if you can make the hole convex – wider at the bottom than at the top.
Have you looked into epoxy fillers?
My garage floor was pretty rough , not smooth at al when I bought my house
I power washed it and when dry, troweled a mixture of polyester(fiberglass) resin and glass bubbles purchased at my local marine store
Then I sanded with a floor sander and finished with a liberal coat of grey epoxy concrete paint.
Epoxy fill would have been better especially if the fill mixture was considerably thicker, but I have had zero problems since I did this 5 years ago and my garage floor is so much nicer to see and to walk on in socks
The plumbers had to dig a hole through our concrete garage floor during our sewer pipe disaster. I got someone to come out to patch it. He did it when he was in the neighborhood, and it only cost $100, and he did a great job.
That was a job way too big for an epoxy filler though.