"aemeijers" wrote in message
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benick wrote:
"aemeijers" wrote in message
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Clot wrote:
Dave wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm in a cold climate - eastern Canada.
The apron (for lack of a better term) of my 30 year-old concrete
garage floor is starting to chip rather badly. You can see the nature
of the chipping he
http://myplace.route2.pe.ca/dave.gal...age/garage.jpg
Any ideas on how best to not only stop the decay, but how it might be
returned to its original condition?
Moving on a tangent, why do you garage the car? I(snip)
Because I detest digging the car out of snow cover, and even when it
isn't snowing, scraping the frost off the windows?
My attached garage is not heated, other than what leaks out from the
imperfect house walls, and the hot engine block and other moving parts
that the car brings in from the cold. It freezes in there, but seldom
freezes hard. You are correct that thermal cycling promotes rust, but I
put that under the chapter heading of an acceptable tradeoff.
Now if I could just find a cost-effective way to make the driveway
shovel itself when it snows.
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aem sends...
Well for starters , stop putting salt on it...I don't get the need for a
completely clear and dry driveway in the winter..A paved drive will melt
off by itself in a few days unless it is below zero....In my gravel drive
I always pack down the first snow of the season by driving over it with
the plow truck and only plow after I have a good base...NO SALT and I
only sand if it gets icy like after freezing rain or sleet , ect....ALOT
less damage to the drive and lawn....I put studded snows on SWMBO's car
anyway for my peace of mind while she is commuting and I drive a 4X4...If
you live in snow country you should run snowtires and lay off the
salt....IMHO...
I don't put salt on my driveway. I do, however, drive on the public roads,
and they put plenty (sometimes way too much) salt on those. Entire lower
side of car and suspension ends up covered with an ice-snow-salt slurry,
and when it isn't cold enough to keep all that crud frozen, it drips on
the garage floor.
If I had a barn, I'd keep an old beater 4x4 in it for the 3-4 weeks a year
the roads are really bad, but since that is not an option, I make do with
a snow blower for my steeply sloped asphalt driveway, and paying attention
to what I am doing when out driving. Driving on the snowpack is not an
option with a sloped driveway and an automatic transmission. DAMHIKT. And
yes, if I can expose even a third of the asphalt surface, half a day of
sunlight will burn the drive clear if it isn't below 10 degrees or so.
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aem sends...
I was refering to the garage apron in the OP pic with the stop putting salt
on it comment...That damage was caused by salting it alot.....My garage
floor hasn't got any pits YET from salt dripping off the cars but it is only
3 years old...Sloped drives are a PITA but studded snowtires help ALOT...I
put studded snows on my wifes '06 Elantra with auto tranny and toss a couple
of tubes of sand in the trunk and she goes everywhere I would with my 4X4
truck here in the hills of Maine....I don't know how many times I thought I
was gonna have to pull her out into the road and warmed the truck up , got
the chain out , only to have her buzz out of the garage and out to the road
on her way to work 40 miles away and back home again in a snowstorm...LOL...