Painting the garage floor

Jul 16, 2003 3 Replies
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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:



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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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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

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

Andrew

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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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