Painting the garage

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Hey all moving in to a new build in 5 weeks so want to get the garage sorted while there is nothing in it so i want to paint the floors and walls etc and sort some shelving out etc

Obviously as I have just bought the place my budget is somewhere skirting around naff all and not a lot so can maybe scrape a few hundred to get it started.

whats the best stuff to paint the floor with and what about the walls ceiling ? also where is a good place to source shelving from ?


anything else i may need ?

[cuneus]

Epoxy floor paint

but be careful - how old is the concrete (I assume)?

[Trustmeimadoctor]

erm id imagine the foundations were laid about 10 months ago but the house isnt quite finished yet so there wont have been much activity on it on that time

[LeighW]

I'm just doing the same job on my completed self build. I've bought some new white kitchen units from ebay - 1000mm + 300mm base units for floor, 1000mm wall unit, all with doors, £187 delivered. I've already got some worktop left over to use. Should look nice and tidy, and cost very little. Walls & ceiling, just regular white emulsion (watered down sealing coat first). As for the floor, I'm putting down rubber tiles. I've had painted floors before, and if you park your car with wet tyres, they have a habit of pulling up the paint when you drive out again after it's dried. Garage floor tiles again will be from ebay, around the £100 mark.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

any links to the tiles on ebay ?

i never thought about cheap carcases tbh

[LeighW]

Looking at this sort of thing:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

I got the idea for the kitchen units from this forum. Supposed to be delivered tomorrow, hopefully fit this weekend.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

hmm but they are foam and as it says you will get wear groves where you drive in and out maybe need something a bit harder could maybe use them around the edge though

[TallMark]

I've just done this myself, and very happy with the results. Will post pics when I get some spare time. Also, see reply to other thread recently: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Trustmeimadoctor]

just been looking at the rust-oleum epoxyshield garage coating seems to be very good and has everything you need in the kit and seems to be around £60

[Skyedriver]

Floor:-
Second hand carpet tiles - e_bay is your friend (for once). Warmer than paint, won't pull off onto wet tyres and stops any damp rising due to the bitumen backing

[rovermorris999]

And burn beautifully

[cuneus]

OK epoxy paint does not pull off with wet tyres IMHO

[Stu R]

Epoxy paint works very well. I've done a mates garage with it an 2 years down the line it looks good as new despite being quite heavily used.

Personally I just used a couple of pots on non slip garage floor paint from Screwfix, it's been fine for about 5 years now. I've got most of the garage Dynotiled but it's lethal for bikes with wet tyres hence leaving a bit of exposed paint for them.

For the walls use Sandtex masonry paint. Assuming the rafters are boarded out you should have no problems with dust.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Yes garage has no exposed rafters as master bedroom is above