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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: HL117 on April 10, 2013, 10:55:06 PM
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Was out today sweeping the garage floor setting up for a project and thought, would be nice to have a white floor to help with cave like darkness.
Has anyone had experience with painting or sealing a concrete garage floor white and getting good results, meaning you got the desired effect and endurance you were looking for.
HL
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It's not cheap but the oil based floor epoxies work well (water based ones are cheaper but are not as durable or hard). I work in a hangar all the time with an epoxy floor and it is very nice. The only thing I don't like about the one I work one, is that is has a speckled finish (they sprinkle little black flakes on before it dries) it looks pretty but it makes it a PITA to find small washers and nuts when I drop them, for a working floor a single plain color is better IMO.
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Surface prep determines if the "paint" comes off the very next day or years later.
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Just make sure it's not a smooth polished finish. looks fantastic, but glossy garage floors and slippery liquid stuff don't blend well. How do I know this you ask?? Textured floor was the second version of a finished garage floor.
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I hear carpet is popular among the aging metrosecksual BMW crowd.
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If your not going to properly contribute to thread rpm you should not post :old:
But saying that a morocco style carpet with a hint of beige sounds outstanding in said garage :)
Paint the walls white that will improve it :old:
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If your not going to properly contribute to thread rpm you should not post :old:
But saying that a morocco style carpet with a hint of beige sounds outstanding in said garage :)
Paint the walls white that will improve it :old:
bah! That Earl grey has rattled your brain. Neon blue I tell you! :neener:
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Seems like I remember Rustolium had a product just for that.
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Use to work at Sherwin WIlliams years ago, they have an excellent line of industrial paints...2part epoxys and such. We use to sell them to Willow Grove NAS maintence dept to paint the hanger floors...They needed something that would hold up to oils, jet fuel etc etc.....If i remember right the product was called TileClad Epoxy, but that may have changed.....Go to the local SW store and talk to a sales person, Im sure they can get you something that will work well for you.....Just know that the industrial stuff is kept in the back, you wont see it on the floor. Normally a good scrubbing with Muratic acid/water solution, will clean and prep the concrete for your paint, but double check with the SW Rep. Good luck :aok
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Found a forum where they are talking about garage floor coatings....its older (2009) but might be a good starting point to get ideas
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34174
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If your not going to properly contribute to thread rpm you should not post :old:
But saying that a morocco style carpet with a hint of beige sounds outstanding in said garage :)
I was just trying to give the man the full spectrum of what was out there in garage floor coverings from past OC experience on the subject. :old:
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biege or neon blue, which one? :banana:
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Personally, I'd go with grey epoxy. Long lasting, easy to keep clean and very durable. Luckily, my MB doesn't leak oil so I'm still using the original brush finished concrete finish. But I'd like to upgrade to grey epoxy someday. Agree with skipping the glitter. It may help hide dirt, but it hides nuts, screws and washers as well.
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Personally, I'd go with grey epoxy. Long lasting, easy to keep clean and very durable. Luckily, my MB doesn't leak oil so I'm still using the original brush finished concrete finish. But I'd like to upgrade to grey epoxy someday. Agree with skipping the glitter. It may help hide dirt, but it hides nuts, screws and washers as well.
Again, he asked about white and you are spewing crap about grey. Shuttup!
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Again, he asked about white and you are spewing crap about grey. Shuttup!
Dude, why so hostile? Chillax. Just offering him an option.
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Good stuff to know.
I have been trying to decide what to do about the floor in the brew-house (basement).
It is usually covered in water while we are brewing, so slipping is an issue.
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Good stuff to know.
I have been trying to decide what to do about the floor in the brew-house (basement).
It is usually covered in water while we are brewing, so slipping is an issue.
Cover it in sand.....or sawdust. Sawdust surface is good for sopping up blood during impromptue operations but it makes it hard to find any little slivers of wood that you drop :old:
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A very light dusting of sand provides a ton of grip. A cup of sand per 10' x 10' area is sufficient.
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Cover it in sand.....or sawdust. Sawdust surface is good for sopping up blood during impromptue operations but it makes it hard to find any little slivers of wood that you drop :old:
I have a trough that leads to my sump pump. After a brewing session, I spray the floor down and squeegee everything towards the pump.
Sawdust would clog that after time. Cleaning the sump is something that gets done as rarely as possibly and performed by the loser of the coin toss :t
A very light dusting of sand provides a ton of grip. A cup of sand per 10' x 10' area is sufficient.
On top of the epoxy paint as it is curing, I assume?
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Yeppers.
It'll tear up the squeegee though since it is so abrasive. A fine sand will do less damage but provides less traction but can also be stirred into the paint for the most even coverage.
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I'll take the traction and sanitary qualities over being able to use the squeegee.
I will be looking to get a license here, at some point :x
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rpm is awesome :)
Glitter on the floor reminds me of my youth :)
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I'll take the traction and sanitary qualities over being able to use the squeegee.
I will be looking to get a license here, at some point :x
Von, it's a silica that you add to the coating and you usually only add it to the top coat! Yes it will tear a squeegee up over time but a good push broom should work almost as well.
I did this in the laundry room,I only used concrete paint that was grey BTW and added the silica to the final coat.
YMMV.
:salute
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Ty for the replies, seems like there are alot of products available, will check SW and some others..........I like the sand/silca idea for traction, been on some hangar floors with the smooth coatings and know they can be hazardous when combined with liquids.
Now if I couls just get an AH logo big enough to put in the middle of it all :D
HL
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I hear carpet is popular among the aging metrosecksual BMW crowd.
Seconded on the carpet just in case you happen to come across a wounded doe to keep in there.
(Who still remembers where that came from?)
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a little late into this thread, but I'd recommend giving a thought to a different option...
my garage floor was a few years old when I bought our house in 2003... like 26 years old. Well, I painted it, and did all of the recommended prep to the concrete like they say: thorough cleaning, acid etch, 3 coats of paint.... and it looked great. Should have, I spent a couple hundred $$ on the good paint.
Looked great..... for about 2 years, then it started to come up.
everywhere.
So I went with something that solved that problem, and has been awesome to live with:
garage floor tiles.
they're heavy duty plastic, thick (over 1/4"), and snap together. I bought enough that I had about a dozen of each color left over in case I damaged one somehow, but after 6+ years I haven't hurt one yet. MUCH more comfortable to lay on when you're working under a car, especially in winter.
I got mine from costco, but there are several companies that sell them.
I love my floor, and for the money, I don't think you can beat it.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/9130/garage002lv8.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/6360/garage001xq9.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/4994/garage003ev9.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/1193/garage004pc4.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/1327/garage005kx4.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/8269/garage006pj4.jpg)
:salute
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Reaper90, nice garage. I don't usually say this much, but I love u man! :O
Any chance I can use your garage for when my car needs repair?
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Can i be your Butler?
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Reaper90, nice garage.
Thanks, man!
I don't usually say this much, but I love u man! :O
:O Now I'm starting to wonder about what I said last night on 200, I had had a few to drink! :uhoh :bolt:
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I hear carpet is popular among the aging metrosecksual BMW crowd.
:rofl
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I hear carpet is popular among the aging metrosecksual BMW crowd.
Ripsnorts probably still getting his walker up to speed.
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a little late into this thread, but I'd recommend giving a thought to a different option...
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If your garage would have a lift it would be pretty close to perfection there.
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He is not wrong :old:
+1
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a little late into this thread, but I'd recommend giving a thought to a different option...
my garage floor was a few years old when I bought our house in 2003... like 26 years old. Well, I painted it, and did all of the recommended prep to the concrete like they say: thorough cleaning, acid etch, 3 coats of paint.... and it looked great. Should have, I spent a couple hundred $$ on the good paint.
Looked great..... for about 2 years, then it started to come up.
everywhere.
So I went with something that solved that problem, and has been awesome to live with:
garage floor tiles.
they're heavy duty plastic, thick (over 1/4"), and snap together. I bought enough that I had about a dozen of each color left over in case I damaged one somehow, but after 6+ years I haven't hurt one yet. MUCH more comfortable to lay on when you're working under a car, especially in winter.
I got mine from costco, but there are several companies that sell them.
I love my floor, and for the money, I don't think you can beat it.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/9130/garage002lv8.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/6360/garage001xq9.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/4994/garage003ev9.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/1193/garage004pc4.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/1327/garage005kx4.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img123/8269/garage006pj4.jpg)
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I have an industrial painting company. Oil field/refining steel painting mostly. I don't like to coat concrete, there are so many things that can go wrong.
Those tiles in your post are awesome for concrete surfaces, specially a garage floor. However, I tried to install them in a car-hauler trailer I have, and there is to much movement. They buckle with the temperature difference.