Concrete block repair4/17/2024 It only took us about 1 and 1/2 hours to get it all done.ĭad and I rolling and painting, getting to the finish line.Īnd here is it all done. One of us would take a paint brush and go back and dab paint into all the crevices and then use the roller over it to get rid of the brush marks and give it all a uniform stucco look from the roller.ĭad working away. Me cutting in along the bottom of the wall and in the corner. The roller was textured and made sort of a stucco effect when rolled. With concrete blocks and cracks, we did have to work the brushes too to get the paint into all the crevices and cracks. Rolling on the thick paint made a difference and this paint covers well. She wanted to help, so I gave her some paint clothes.ĭad started cutting in with a brush by the garage, Beth started rolling, and I cut in on the far right corner of the wall. My friend, Beth, was still in town and we all 3 worked on the project. I may go back and do another coat later, since I do have plenty of paint and another coat won’t hurt. I ended up buying way too much and could have bought 2 or 3 gallons and been fine. They can mix up either gallons or this 5 gallon paint bucket. I decided to go darker than my house color and chose Carbon. The roller was sold along side the paint. I also bought a special roller that was textured plastic type material to roll on the paint and it worked really well. The texture is sort of like pudding, very thick, so it fills in the cracks really well. They also have a 2x and 10x paint in Restore. This one is 4 times thicker than regular paint. I bought a 5 gallon bucket of Rustoleum Restore for Concrete and Decks. It’s still wet in this photo, but once it dried, it was pretty smooth and ready to paint. We would paint it when I returned, last week. We let it dry really well for a week and I left for the beach. I got down in that far right corner and began filling from the bottom up.ĭad then took a big brush he had and smoothed out the concrete patch. We moved down the crack, filling each one and smoothing it out.ĭad sat in a chair and kept going. Setting that top block back into place as best we can. Little by little we added concrete in the cracks and filled them all up. It has shifted so that it’s not level along the top anymore, but I’m just going to live with that. It won’t be a perfect thing, but it will be better than it is now.ĭad filled in all the cracks at the top and anchored the block back in place. Then, we mixed up the concrete mix for patching. We did a little more scraping on the wall after the pressure washing to get the last bit of flakes off. My handyman dad and I decided to patch the cracks with ready mix concrete and go from there. With the shifting of the wall, a large crack developed on the right side. Not a pretty sight.Īfter pressure washing it was at least better with the flaky paint gone and the mildew too. Most of the chipped paint and mildew came off with the pressure washing.Ĭlose up of the Before wall. It was peeling and flaky and mildewed in places. Last major project on the outside of my house.įirst, I began by pressure washing the wall. I talked to Rustoleum a couple of years ago about a new product they have out called Restore and they sent me a gift card to buy it with, so I’m just getting to this project now. I don’t want to overspend on this house and need to do what I can to spruce up without spending a bundle. In my mind, making it look better is a good solution for now. Some of you mentioned adding faux stone to the wall to make it prettier and yes, that is a great idea, but I don’t want to add any extra weight on it, since it’s leaning already. It’s nowhere near straight, but again I want to save it and not start over if I can help it. It’s definitely leaning towards the driveway and over time has shifted. It’s not a great looking wall and never will be, but I did not want to start over and tear it down. But, that wall was still mocking me, saying….make me pretty too! We tackled the inside of the house and then I started on the outside, by adding the new front porch, stone retaining wall, and landscaping. That ugly block retaining wall at the end of my driveway has been an eyesore since day one. That’s been my nemesis in this house ever since I bought it.
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