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Our new garage is coming along and the roof went on yesterday. Now the floor can dry out and my thoughts are moving towards painting the floor before any oil etc is spilt on it. Was thinking of an epoxy coating, as we intend to stay here for a long time! Can any of the learned RR folks offer any help / opinions / shared experiences please? Thanks, Duncan  |
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slater
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Tile it.
Failing that cheapest floorpaint you can find and put up with having to do it regularly.
No floor paint will be any better than cheap single part stuff. Been there done that with all kinds of fancy epoxy and primers and all that. None of it is any better than cheap stuff.
Proper industrial resin floor as used in factories etc is good but not really diyable I don't think.
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Nice looking garage!
I just went with a concrete sealer on my floor. I try to be quick with cleaning up any oil and other liquids. I use brake cleaner and paper for that.
/David
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jonomisfit
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Mines painted and I keep having to re do it.
I've changed to a polyurethane paint this time and it's definitely holding up much better than the Leyland paint I used last time.
The key is prep. You need to power wash the raw concrete hard and get rid of as much powder from the surface, then use a proper penetrating sealer and allow to cure before the paint.
Mine was originally painted already when I bought the house, but its clear it wasn't sealed first. When the paint lifts its not because it's failed, but its the sub surface pulling away. With proper prep and sealant that shouldn't happen... as much at least...
That said, no paint will really survive chipping from dropped things, so there will always be maintenance needed.
If money wasn't a deciding factor for me, then I'd likely get an industrial epoxy floor screed done.
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I'm in the same boat as yourself.
I built a garage some years ago and powerfloated the floor when constructing the garage so it was super smooth.
I then put garage floor paint directly to it and it lasted really well.
Where I live now I also had a very smooth floor although it was built maybe 60 years ago.
I decided that it should have some sort of primer as it had been driven on for many years so I did a 10 to 1 pva.
Painted with garage floor paint and within weeks everytime it had a drip of oil, petrol or even antifreeze it was bubbling.
I've now built a new garage and again had the floor power floated and I'm debating which way to go.
I've bought some everest floor sealer this time and was going to go down the floor paint route but we were discussing epoxy flooring paint last night down the pub so I'm now considering this myself.
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I used everest polyurethane paint, and their concrete sealant.
Going by the horrific chemical and solvent stench from the sealant, and it's "feel" it is very different stuff to watered down PVA.
Its seemed to have penetrated better than I've had with pva
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nigxl
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I used everest polyurethane paint, and their concrete sealant. Going by the horrific chemical and solvent stench from the sealant, and it's "feel" it is very different stuff to watered down PVA. Its seemed to have penetrated better than I've had with pva That's good to know |
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Thanks everyone for their input. I am erring towards sealer and then an epoxy coating at the moment. It's likely to be expensive whatever we do due to the floor area. It is 12m x 9m, so a useful size and tall enough to get the old VW LT MotorHaus inside. Also never had a pit before, which is most exciting!
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Now with the insulated roof sheets on.......  |
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After trying many different brands of paint in my old purpose built workshop which never stayed attached to the concrete no matter what I primed it with I ended up having to scrabble the floor and had a new latex floor covered by vinyl floor square tiles, went for the slightly thicker heavy duty one's mainly because it was a end of line discount, although I did have two different colours as not enough of one!!
Proved to be a far better environment without the cloud's of concrete dust in the air (and not settling on the cars paintwork!!), I did have a thin piece of plywood that I would put under any area where welding or grinding was taking place though, just to help protect it from the hot sparks. In the new garage I opted straight for the vinyl tiles
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