It s a good idea to wear rubber gloves when handling concrete fillers mixers and resurfacers.
Can you fix a cracked concrete driveway.
It covers cracks up to 1 2 inch wide.
First use a small hammer and chisel in combination to knock away any cracked crumbling or loose concrete.
A mixing paddle chucked in a drill makes preparing the patching material easy.
Paint the area to be.
Be sure to clean out the cracks out as well removing any dirt or loose concrete so the patching material will adhere to the concrete.
Wear safety glasses to protect your eyes.
Sand mix or concrete resurfacer which do not contain gravel may be used if the area to be repaired is not large or deep.
Dampen the area around the crack and then trowel on the mix.
Brush the area with plain water to dampen it.
Pour enough dry concrete mix into a 5 gallon bucket to repair any cracks and patch damaged areas.
Fill the crack with patching mix also know as vinyl concrete patching mix is made from vinyl portland cement and sand.
Then rinse the area.
Cracks can usually be filled and repaired if the rest of the driveway is in good shape and it was installed properly in the first place.
Repair large driveway cracks and potholes by removing stones dirt grit dust and crumbled concrete from the area to be patched.
Next mix up enough quikrete concrete resurfacerwith water in a five gallon bucket to fill the cracks.