How to Resurface Concrete for Beginners Part 2 $660 DIY Driveway repair / restoration project

in today's video we're going to be resurfacing and rejuvenating this old driveway for less than 660 dollars in materials and doing it ourselves and showing you guys how to do the exact same thing we don't have to demolish and remove the old surface in fact we leave that in place this saves us a ton of cost and demolition excavation and preparation work so let's get going [Music] of these results or hate them the point is to understand the process so that you guys can create your own masterpiece now for today's project we're using a product called floco this is a polymer modified concrete resurfacer it can go from a feather edge meaning micro thin all the way up to a half inch in thickness but the important thing is this is designed to bond with your existing concrete driveway meaning that you can leave it in place without the hassle or expense of removing it well that was a full batch a 40 pound bag of floats what you just poured out now flow coat would typically be gray but for today's project we added a color just to give it a unique look if you decide to add color into your project you must first mix it into the water and thoroughly stir it up don't mix it into the flow coat because it won't distribute through the thicker material evenly once your coloring is thoroughly mixed into the water then you can add flocal here's a tip to make your life easier first add three quarts of water into the bucket then add your material and then add your last half a quart of water when you're mixing your flour coat precision with your water is key to get consistency over the entire project don't go by feel measure out your water quantity now before we ever put any flow coat down we've got to properly prepare that surface and that means we've got to patch it repair it and clean it and that's in part one of our three-part series make sure you check that video out before you go any further now flow coat sets up relatively fast so make sure you section off a larger area into a smaller bite-sized chunk anywhere from 100 to 150 square feet at a time control joints must be maintained the easiest way to do that is either with a foam insert or weather stripping it's essential that you pre-wet the existing surface before the flows down to get the best possible adhesion now would you get out of my way now flow coat is mixed up in small batches using a five gallon pail and a hand mixer you don't use a cement mixer with this product but it's a continual process meaning you go from one batch to the next batch to the next batch with no break in between so it's good to have a few extra hands when you're tackling a bigger project so i tried the milwaukee cordless drill and for mixing this and the problem i ran into is that drill actually has almost too much torque for the control that i had on it i was i was having it like this and i was just kind of fighting it it was not going all over and the milwaukee mud mixer is awesome because it has the right amount of torque and i have that extra handle to really give me that stable control to move it and be very precise with my mixing now once you're finished resurfacing your driveway you can walk on it in 24 hours and drive on it in 72. now that we've covered a few of the dues on a project let's cover a few of those things you think maybe you could get away with but you better not first off never mix in different batches in the same area they just don't go together one batch is started to set up you can't top coat that with the second one and think that it'll blend together in fact what'll happen is it'll ripple on you number two don't overwork flowcoat it's easy to think that the more you work it the better the results you're going to get but the exact opposite is true once you pour it in place you squeegee it off leave it if you have any imperfections you can hit them with the broom but if you overwork it you could lose the entire batch number three follow the mixing instructions precisely it's easy to get flow coat too wet or too dry it'll look okay in the bucket but it won't look so hot in the finished result number four when you divide a section up make sure that you broom that section evenly if you have uneven brood marks it'll show up when you're finished result so now that you've got your flow coat successfully installed in the next video we're going to show you how to create a custom look with bare bones materials so make sure you subscribe because that one's coming next

Channel: Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Views: 1,070,838

Keywords: diy, driveway, concrete, driveway repair, concrete repair, resurfacing, concrete resurfacing, concrete crack repair, diy driveway, how to repair concrete, how to, how to resurface concrete, quikcrete, diy concrete, how to patch concrete, sakrete, diy concrete driveway, driveway design, driveway ideas, resurfacing concrete, concrete driveway, concrete slab, concrete driveway DIY, concrete driveway resurfacing, driveway resurfacing, concrete for beginners, repairing concrete

Id: rF3n42KVeT8

Length: 4min 38sec (278 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 20 2017