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.
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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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....
after a lot of cleaning...
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!!
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:
@ 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:
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
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:
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:
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
In the attic there is quite some space for storage:
While on the left side of the wall I have a Peg Wall with some tools
Outside the Garage a little insulated cabinet where an air compressor is stored
And last not least a picture of my two E36 nicely stored when the walls were painted in white
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:
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