You can purchase concrete leveling compounds at home improvement retailers to level out the floor.
Looking to level my porch floor with cement.
Now if you really want to raise the level in terms of the design of your concrete front porch or any concrete surface you can use a circular saw with an abrasive blade and then just score it in any kind of design that you would like.
In fact if you re planning to install new flooring over the slab then you shouldn t.
After contacting her i was confident with choosing the same paint she used.
My plan was to paint this to look like wood planks much in the same way i did the painted shiplap wall in my bedroom.
Wood is still one of the preferred flooring materials for a porch despite their inherent need for maintenance when exposed to the elements.
Read more about how to transform an old tired cracked concrete patio.
Placing the compound on top of the existing concrete will allow you to make repairs to the low points that may cause problems.
Level a concrete floor you don t have to live with an irregular or uneven concrete floor.
The floor below is a travertine paver sand set floor.
Travertine is a real stone and makes a beautiful porch floor.
I shared the whole before of our exterior as well as our plans to improve it early in the season.
Additional wood porch flooring options.
Place one precast concrete deck footing directly under the point where the porch was the lowest.
While this list isn t exhaustive these are just soome of the wooden porch flooring options for you to take a closer look at.
Concrete stain is great choice to dress up existing concrete floor.
One day on instagram i saw another blogger s video showing how well her painted concrete porch floor had held up after two years.
This is a very pretty old world looking floor.
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A simple pattern works very very well.
Measure from the bottom of the horizontal support beam to the inside bottom of the 4 by 4 receiving.
Build a wooden frame around the edges of the concrete slab that protrudes 2 or 3 inches above the current level.
If you ve been following along for a while then you might remember that we ve been working on projects to fix up the exterior of our house since the spring.
And you d be surprised how much it can change the look of the concrete.
The border is in a darker color.
Place a leveling layer of sand on the surface to cover any depressions and tamp it down so that it will settle once the concrete is poured.
So far we have worked.
The floor below is a stained concrete floor with scored lines.
Step 5 pour the concrete over the old floor and spread it over the surface with a rake.