Floor Coverings

I wouldn't know about using car paint but I have painted more factory floors, fab shops and workshops than I can count.

Current place was done with standard grey workshop paint applied thinly by a tight northerner. That's lasted less than two years before its gone through.

Painted some factory floirs with similar stuff and that has lifted in similar times.

The only stuff I have seen that looks good years later is two part paint with a activator like varnish mixed in. Gives a smooth glossy look and is much tougher. I expect that's with getting for a home garage as your only going to need one large tin and it will hold up to anything.

If you want to go a bit nicer (and you may not) I bought a job lot of ex-office carpet tiles from eBay and put them on my garage floor, it makes for a fairly nice place to work on cars, when you ruin a carpet tile with fluid or fire (!) you can take it up and replace it

carpet suppliers sell of large of cuts of lino cushion floor . easy to clean warm and good to the eye , i bought a large of cut for £40

enough to do 3 camper van floors

When I built my garage the concrete was ruff and uneven so I skimmed it with cement and painted it but if the car tyres were wet and you leave the car for a couple of days when you moved it the paint would flake off
Secondly if you dragged a gearbox out from under the car it would damage the cement
The only option was plastic floor tiles
Easy to clean if you drop a hammer on the floor it don't damage the cement

What adhesive is required for the plastic floor tiles, and how much are they? My new garage is 40'x12' and I'm looking for a cheap(ish) floor covering, other than old carpet.

Recent photos from a project you can see the floor still looks OK despite my garage being a very busy place

You can see my floor tiles here



I got them from ebay something like this : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Carpet-Tiles/162775437166 £5 for 10 files. or this : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Approx-200-used-blue-carpet-tiles/192373808522

They are taped with double sided carpet tape and haven't moved (unless I've pulled one up to replace it).

That's not quite right.
By sealing the concrete you stop giving any extra layer (the paint/epoxy) anything to bind on to.

Epoxy paint is a good all round solution.

Preparation is key,

Just painted my garage in a 2 pk epoxy paint.

'normal concrete paint' as in the cheaper stuff you can get from B&Q? Maybe.

Not really worth the effort of painting a floor with anything but epoxy really unless you don't mind going over it again each year. Once you seal that concrete, grinding is the only way to remove it. Decide on your top finish then go from there.