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Started a massive clean out of my own place at Home and decided now to spray the floor with garage paint. Anyone ever do this here? What's involved? And is it a costly job for an unneeded thing just for me to make the place look nice ha :p , just sprayed the floor last week with "pcv"? "pvc"? Glue type stuff to seal the concrete of dust.
pm daveg on here he has it done. Also you'll need some kind of grit like sand maybe on the floor to give it less of a slippy effect when done. Lash up some pics i have a serious case of shed envy so love a good one :)Quote:
Originally Posted by murphykidd
You did the first step right with the PVA to seal. You need a proper floor paint which is generally grey or red from most suppliers. You can get different colours but that's more expensive. A decent hardware/builders providers will supply it. You need to put down a few coats with the first ideally thinned. Just use a roller with a handle and a tray.
If your floor is power floated and it gets any sort of traffic the paint will eventually lift.
I'll throw up a pic or 2 man no problem :) .. No it's not power floated at all so I was thinking Id prob have to spray it like the PVA.? Is the floor paint dear? Nothing fancy like just a plain grey or red like u said .
It's a hard one to spray, it's not like an emulsion paint. It goes on very quick with a roller.
http://www.goodwins.ie/p-20386-everbuild-grey-floor-paint-5-litre.aspx
Sweet :) thanks man I'll see what I can get and give it a shot
Hi Andy, if I may a quick question as you seem knowledgeable on the matter...Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy
I have built the Garage and completed it last June. The floor has been power floated as I wished for it to be able to take some abuse like tools falling or jacking up a car without the fear of making holes in the concrete. My wish was to paint the floor with epoxy paint. The builder told me I had to wait for more or less a year to allow the concrete to dry and only than give it few coats of epoxy. If I had painted the floor anytime previous to the concrete being dry, the paint could have lifted. From what I am reading it seams it would lift none the less with all traffic from cars ? :surprised: :sad: :crying: Is that the case ? If it was it would mean I just have to leave it as is! Cheers
Leave it alone Harry you will drive your self mad. As soon as you start moving cars in and out it will eventually lift. The power floated surface is too smooth for the paint to adhere for car traffic. If you really want to paint you could scabble it, basically making it rough again but it's a lot of work. Just keep it clean and as is.
My garage is 40 square meters, power floated floor, left alone for a few years, painted in Summer '13.
I was told by the very knowledgeable chap in the paint shop that all floor paint has sealer properties in it and as a result the floor does not need that first 'sealing' stage that you already completed.
There are two main types of floor paint, safety and regular. The safety paint has the gritted effect, regular paint is 'slippy' when wet!
There are loads of colours available; black, red, grey, green and blue from what I could see and I chose blue.
My garage floor is painted about a 2years. It has little 'traffic', as in, I just drive the car in and reverse out every once in a while. Theres no turning of wheels/tyres.
The paint has recently started to flake in certain areas.
But I'd much prefer to have it done and give it a freshen every 2yrs than not have it done. The garage is much easier to keep clean.
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Where is the car? :D
I'll be doing the same to my own garage over the next week or two. I'll be spraying the walls with emulsion as one of them is pebble dashed and then painting the floor with tile red floor paint.
What I've noticed from painting the floor in work is to obviously let it dry for as long as possible but also do it when the weather is decent I.e not cold or damp.
I should have painted the walls when doing mine.
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There is loads of options for doing this be the floor power floated or not. I think the first stop for anyone doing this should be to go to a industrial paint supplier who deals with the public. In Galway there is a place called B&C paints (they will courier in Ireland) there is one in cork Harry it's called dermot Crowley coatings and then there is candicoatings in Dubland. You can get advice off these guys foc and get industrial quality product. You can get 2 pack floor paints which will last a very very long time. Look for brands like tikkurila, selemix a lot of the household paints are just oil based cellulose based and won't be chemical resistant and won't last at all.
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Richard, have you contact details for candicoatings in Dublin as Google brings up some Las Vegas Hookers :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lucifer
Hey man I'll see if I can find a link tomorrow. No bother on the mobile apparatus atm.
I painted my floor with the epoxy stuff. two coats. lets make this a show us your shed thread!
day one....
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after a lot of cleaning...
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fully insulated with with 50mm cold room panels.
made a bit of a bench and got all my lights in, also put in a stove for the cold winter nights!!
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http://www.paintshop.ie/Floor-Paint.aspx Based in Cork
http://www.aicpaints.ie/ Based in Dublin
http://www.candipaints.com/contact.htm Based in Dublin
I think any of the above would be able to supply decent epoxy paints.
I'd go for Tikkurila if it was me. Depending on paint mixed any ral color BS colour could probably be mixed.
Thanks a milllion for that info Rich :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucifer
@ John: I believe it to be a very good idea to show our Garages! :wink:
I shall add some pics of mine so…
This is the way the house was when I bought it in August 2013:
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As the work started we decided to knock down the wall at the end and build a Garage which would have had the dimensions of 5 meters width x 5.5 meters length
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The builder wished to go down half a meter if not more to do a good solid base but we discovered there were rocks underneath. So as all was good the bed was prepared to have some cement poured in:
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The floor was than Power floated to get all air off the cement and make it a nice and hard floor you can work on. Once it was dried the walls were mounted:
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Next was the roof and illumination so 4 500W fluorescent lights on the ceiling, and 3 500W fluorescent lights on the right wall, 3 500W fluorescent lights on the left wall for those Detailing nights
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In the attic there is quite some space for storage:
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While on the left side of the wall I have a Peg Wall with some tools
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Outside the Garage a little insulated cabinet where an air compressor is stored
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And last not least a picture of my two E36 nicely stored when the walls were painted in white
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Now I will wait for the good weather to come along and do a nice resistant epoxy grey floor finish with a black / blue or red stripe 30 cm high between the floor and the walls. Unfortunately there is a little bit of tyres turning involved as the parking is not straight driving in.
I hope that won't do the paint any harm or else I will have to think of another long term solution as I don't see myself painting the floor every two three years :smiling: :wink: