Finally got some of my basement water issues corrected! Between some gutter rework and a proper drain/sump setup I am dry despite the torrential rain these past few days. The sump pump was running a few times an hour the last few days. I normally would have been down there with the Shop Vac cleaning up the water on a week like this!
So - onto my next question/phase. Since I have already gone through the effort to relocate all of my equipment off of the floor, I am thinking about the floor itself. It is about 224 sq ft of concrete but it is very uneven. There are high and low spots all over. There isn't a specific directional slope, just a sloppy pour I think. Over an 8' span it drops about 1.5" in some areas. This makes moving stuff around difficult, not to mention you can forget trying to build something on the floor it's so out of wack.
I'm looking for ideas and suggestions on what to do to flatten it out. I have been looking at self-leveling compound, but am concerned about the size and amount of product I'd need to use, and whether I could work fast enough to do a decent job. Also not sure if I could leave the leveling compound as the final floor and it hold up to use without another flooring product on top. I wasn't specifically looking to add a flooring on top of the concrete.
Any ideas? I'm spending like a drunken sailor on some other big house maintenance projects so the budget is not too big to make the floor flat, but it'd be nice to do while it's empty/clear.
So - onto my next question/phase. Since I have already gone through the effort to relocate all of my equipment off of the floor, I am thinking about the floor itself. It is about 224 sq ft of concrete but it is very uneven. There are high and low spots all over. There isn't a specific directional slope, just a sloppy pour I think. Over an 8' span it drops about 1.5" in some areas. This makes moving stuff around difficult, not to mention you can forget trying to build something on the floor it's so out of wack.
I'm looking for ideas and suggestions on what to do to flatten it out. I have been looking at self-leveling compound, but am concerned about the size and amount of product I'd need to use, and whether I could work fast enough to do a decent job. Also not sure if I could leave the leveling compound as the final floor and it hold up to use without another flooring product on top. I wasn't specifically looking to add a flooring on top of the concrete.
Any ideas? I'm spending like a drunken sailor on some other big house maintenance projects so the budget is not too big to make the floor flat, but it'd be nice to do while it's empty/clear.