Painting the garage floor

[Andrew McKay]

About 10 years ago in a different (new) house I used some special
concrete paint bought at Wickes to paint my garage floor - a nice blue
colour (well the Tories were in power, weren't they?).

Anyway, having moved and been in the new house for 8 years now I'm
thinking of painting another garage floor. I'm looking at the paint
available from ScrewFix:

http://tinyurl.com/h5kb

I recall when I did the previous garage floor that I had to apply
something prior to the actual paint, to neutralise the acid in the
concrete or something like that. But I can't remember the details of
what that prep stuff was!

Anyone able to help? Floor is now over 8 years old so presumably has
naturally lost its ability to react.

Andrew

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[Bob Minchin]

About 10 years ago in a different (new) house I used some special
concrete paint bought at Wickes to paint my garage floor - a nice blue
colour (well the Tories were in power, weren't they?).

Anyway, having moved and been in the new house for 8 years now I'm
thinking of painting another garage floor. I'm looking at the paint
available from ScrewFix:

http://tinyurl.com/h5kb

I recall when I did the previous garage floor that I had to apply
something prior to the actual paint, to neutralise the acid in the
concrete or something like that. But I can't remember the details of
what that prep stuff was!

Anyone able to help? Floor is now over 8 years old so presumably has
naturally lost its ability to react.

Andrew

Do you need a handyman service? Check out our
web site at http://www.handymac.co.uk

You concrete will be fine by now. Sweep/vacuum it to get rid of as much
dust as poss andthe put a thinned first coat of the screwfix paint (10%
white spirit) will soak in and bold into the surface. one ortwo more coats
will give you a pretty durable surface. if you are planning to give the
floor heavy use/abuse, consider a 2 part epoxy paint. Lots more expensive
but will last better.

Regards

Bob

 

[Andrew McKay]

I recently painted a warehouse floor with polyurethane paint from
http://www.kpaints.co.uk/floor.html It came in a big plastic tub
(20L) with a "Screwfix Big Stuff" sticker on the side but was a lot
cheaper than Screwfix . Very helpful company as well.

The remains of the paint was used on the milkfloat chassis.

Thanks for that - I'll take a look later as I'm just about to get busy
on something else.

Andrew

Do you need a handyman service? Check out our
web site at http://www.handymac.co.uk

 

[Andy Hall]

Thanks for that - I'll take a look later as I'm just about to get busy
on something else.

Andrew

Another one that you might like to look at is the 2 part epoxy paint
that Max Bone's company, Decorating Direct sells.

I used this to very good effect on my garage floor.


..andy

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[parish]

Can you give an exact URL for that? I went to

Forget it; you used the epoxy, I was looking for the polyurethane.