Step on a Crack...Break Your Mother's Back

Park your mother's car on crack in a garage and make an even bigger crack that needs to be fixed...? Okay, I know this is not part of the childhood rhyme-it doesn't even sound pretty-but that's the case today. Deal with it.

It seems, after over 23 years of parking my mom's car in the garage, the concrete floor finally started to shift and crack. While that doesn't sound so great for the garage it does give me something to do today!

Tools used: Bosehammer?, which works like a jackhammer to break up the concrete that needs to be fixed. Stone chisel and mallet-doesn't work as well as the power hammer but it does work. Concrete and trowel, old school tools.

So I approach this crack, which resembles the San Andreas fault line, with my baby jackhammer and go to work. Although it probably shook 40 percent of my brain cells out of my head, the power chisel did the job. Psh, That crack didn't stand a chance. Boss told me to knock on the floor in order to check which part of the concrete needed to be broken up. The sound's were either hollow-like (if broken) or solid (if-well, solid). After this interesting tidbit of advice Bossman left me to knock on the garage floor alone. Now I can't know for sure, but I bet I looked like the sharpest nail in the toolbox to people who were passing by.

Knock Knock.

Who's there?

No one. You're knocking on a concrete floor, idiot.

After using the chisel and mallet to hammer out the small stuff that was left behind, I swept the debris away and was ready to fill in the huge rift I now created in the garage. It made me think of that saying: "Sometimes things get worse before they get better" (or something like that). Well, in this case the big crevasse now ahead of me, looked much worse than the crack. So, it was time to make it better.

Water, concrete, mix, fill, repeat. After this concrete mix dries, a vinyl concrete will be spread over it for a stronger hold. Viola! Crack is filled. 

In conclusion, children, Step on a crack and break your mother's back. Fix the crack using a chisel, mallet, concrete and trowel...Don't forget to knock. Got it?

Good.