Garage Floor Paint - Whats the best one?
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Hi chaps... need to paint my unsealed concrete garage floor. Can anyone recommend a good paint?
Was thinking of this stuff but happy to get some pointers on a better product if there is one?
http://www.screwfix.com/p/leyland-trade-heavy-duty...
Was thinking of this stuff but happy to get some pointers on a better product if there is one?
http://www.screwfix.com/p/leyland-trade-heavy-duty...
I used ordinary garage floor paint (don't remember the brand, but it wasn't cheap). It was fine as long as you don't drive on it. Or park on it for too long. Or anything else you might expect to do in a garage, really. I suspect a proper epoxy paint as recommended below is really the only long term solution.
This is actually helpful as it will stop a lot of my time being wasted.
something like this? https://www.resincoat.co.uk/en/66-high-build-epoxy...
something like this? https://www.resincoat.co.uk/en/66-high-build-epoxy...
I have a workshop where I (sometimes) earn my living - so the floor paint is really critical. (that sounds like an advert). I normally repaint every year, around August time (quiet), and normally by Christmas, the floor is showing a load of wear and bare concrete patches..
Last year I painted it in the cheapest 2 part epoxy I could find. When it came, I was really disappointed. £6 or so a square meter, and the paint looked about the same viscosity as water. But after preping the floor with acid,and washing it several times, on it went anyway.
Heading towards the next August painting, the floor is in the best condition it's ever been. There are virtually no bare patches, and any oily patches are easy to clean up, and everything is fine. Even though EP was much more expensive than normal floor paint, it's really done the job. Another coat this year, and I reckon I can miss 2018.
It will still come off when you damage the floor underneath, so shoving engines and gearboxes around is always going to be bad for it, but otherwise it's fine.
Oh, and get a nice light nautral colour, so you can see things you drop. I went for light grey.
Last year I painted it in the cheapest 2 part epoxy I could find. When it came, I was really disappointed. £6 or so a square meter, and the paint looked about the same viscosity as water. But after preping the floor with acid,and washing it several times, on it went anyway.
Heading towards the next August painting, the floor is in the best condition it's ever been. There are virtually no bare patches, and any oily patches are easy to clean up, and everything is fine. Even though EP was much more expensive than normal floor paint, it's really done the job. Another coat this year, and I reckon I can miss 2018.
It will still come off when you damage the floor underneath, so shoving engines and gearboxes around is always going to be bad for it, but otherwise it's fine.
Oh, and get a nice light nautral colour, so you can see things you drop. I went for light grey.
There's a properly thick coating of decent epoxy with a bit of glass microbead on our workshop floor, concrete scoured beforehand to take, and it's been there about 12 years now and there's not a mark on it that doesn't come off with a mop, even taking motorhomes, tractors and machinery in and out.
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