The project is stalled now because of a cabinet shortage. I need to coat the area around the garage doors, and also one 12 foot wide area where all my yard tools are hanging. In home architecture you can either hide things completely or call attention to them and make them part of the statement, so why not do that in my garage? Orange for EMT, black for the greywater downfall from my 2nd floor laundry room, etc. I figured out a visual trick to distract from the remaining blemishes though: I'm going to paint all of the exposed EMT, AC, water, and LPG lines different colors. I'd still prefer to have done the smooth cement coating. It did a very good job of filling things in, but its still not GJ-OCD perfect. I applied a polymer compound over every crack, then used Coronado Texcrete filler from Ben Moore, tinted to the darkest grey they could manage. I prepared the walls by going over them vigorously with a wide push broom, followed by hitting them with an air hose. ![]() With all the money spent, and me personally exhausted from moving all that crap, I decided I'd had enough of working on the garage and didn't want to spend my days smoothing out that block, so I went for the easy fix. All the step cracks in the walls have closed up. My slab is completely level now and no voids. All the cracks were ground to a uniform 1/2 inch width and filled with a polymer caulk/sealer. I had to completely empty all three bays, about a hundred holes were drilled in the slab, and a binary expanding chemical was added underneath. I decided to spend the extra cash and do the entire garage. I had a foundation inspection done which determined that major repairs were needed to that bay due to settling. While I was contemplating what method to use to smooth out these walls I found that the floor in one of the three bays had developed a 3 point star crack, with one leg of the star leading to the outside corner, and a stair step crack appeared in the wall above that and leading out of the corner. I'm sorry I didn't report back on this, Dude. Now I have to plan my cabinet installs around all of them). ![]() I could put some of the seams behind the EMT for my many garage outlets (my electrician did a home run for every single outlet, instead of one home run for a single outlet and lateral runs for adjoining outlets. Did you notice the transition strips in the pic? It reminds me of the interior on a double-wide trailer. ![]() On closer inspection I don't think that DPI panel would work for me. An L shaped counter top could be installed in less than the time it took to sell it, and the customer couldn't tell where the panels were seamed. It was easy to install and seaming it required a tube of the resin in liquid form. I once attended a trade show for remodeling contractors where I saw an incredible product, a panelized resin sold in standard sheet sizes like plywood, and it was available in these beautiful colors that looked like marble and granite.
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