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Can you fill saw cuts? βœ…πŸ€” #garagefloors #torginolfloors #sawcuts #floormakeover #epoxyfloor

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The Idaho Painter

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This DIY project details the process of preparing, filling, grinding, and coating concrete floors to create a seamless, monolithic surface. It specifically addresses how to correctly fill control joints (saw cuts) and cracks using a polyurea filler and emphasizes the difference between control joints and expansion joints for proper application.

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we had saw cuts and we had cracks in this floor. We filled on the saw cuts and the cracks and we filled them with sand in a polyurea, you know, filler. So, we used fortification from Citadel. Now, the question is, is it wrong or is it right or okay to fill a saw cut? >> That's the time and there's so much misinformation out there. That control joint that is put in the concrete when it's curing is designed to control when the concrete's shrinking and the cracking. And if you look down in that control joint, usually you see that's where your crack is. We can't see it here cuz you did a great job filling it. Control joints, absolutely once that window of the concrete curing, depending on how thick it is, is over, they can be filled, grinded, shaved flush, whatever system you're using, and then they can be coated over the top. It's expansion joints, cold pores, joints of that nature, maybe it's a structural support beam that you wouldn't want to fill before a coating system. Those ones should be honored, but your control joints, which are in almost every garage, can certainly be fixed and sealed so you have that monolithic seamless surface. >> There you go, seamless floor. Yes, you can do it. Tony, thanks a lot.

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