... I recently bought B&Q's floor paint for may garage.
I live in a New Build house with a bare concrete floor in the garage. Dust was being blown about through the gaps in the garage door so I thought the paint would seal it up and ultimately keep the car clean.
I went to B&Q and had a look ... Read review
Advantages: Easy to Apply Disadvantages: Not very durable
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I went to B&Q and had a look at the ranges. Something in my mind said that £30 a tin for a named brand was to expensive so I chose the B&Q version which I think was £19.99 a 2.5 litre tin. Also purchased a gloss mini roller for speed.
The paint comes in various colours, red, green, blue and battleship grey, grey being my choice.
On reading the tin it says it applies easily to concrete and stone floors with no ... ...the garage and brushed off the dirt and began to paint. It probably took about 2 hours to complete 1 covering. It should take about a day to dry but mine was more like 2 days. After the initial day it was still very tacky and there was no way you could walk on it.
Once finally dry I could see some patches and little bits that I had not covered well so decided to repeat the process for a better long lasting finish. That I did and waited ... more
Floor paint is supposed to be for floors. I recently bought B&Q's floor paint for may garage. I live in a New Build house with a bare concrete floor in the garage. Dust was being blown about through the gaps in the garage door so I thought the paint would seal it up and ultimately keep the car clean.
I went to B&Q and had a look at the ranges. Something in my mind said that £30 a tin for a named brand was to expensive so I chose the B&Q version which I think was £19.99 a 2.5 litre tin. Also purchased a gloss mini roller for speed.
The paint comes in various colours, red, green, blue and battleship grey, grey being my choice.
On reading the tin it says it applies easily to concrete and stone floors with no previous treatment.
So I cleared out the garage and brushed off the dirt and began to paint. It probably took about 2 hours to complete 1 covering. It should take about a day to dry but mine was more like 2 days. After the initial day it was still very tacky and there was no way you could walk on it.
Once finally dry I could see some patches and little bits that I had not covered well so decided to repeat the process for a better long lasting finish. That I did and waited another 2 days for it to dry. One thing you need to ensure is to have the floor your painting well ventilated. The paint has a serious odour behind it which can get a little over powering.
When you have finished painting don't bother to try and clean the roller or brush. The paint is very thick and near impossible to get off, not really worth the effort.
I must say the end result looked great. I left it to settle for another few days and then began moving my garage junk back on to the floor.
What the tin instructions does not tell you is that you cant put anything on top of it at any time. On moving my things around I found that in a number of places the paint just didn't stick properly. There are scrape marks a plenty where I have only walked.
I also decided to put my car in one night which also managed to remove the paint from the floor.
I am guessing that if you want a proper adhesion here then you do really need to pre treat the floor and seal off the dry concrete first. It would have been useful if the tine had said that. This paint isn't cheap and whilst it still looks OK it could have been better. It does the job I wanted it for but not as described.
Perhaps it would have been worth going for the branded paint after all or one of the epoxy industrial paints but I am sure the cost would have been a lot higher, your looking at £90 for 5 litres.
Advantages: High quality finsih and durability Disadvantages: A bit costly.
I reviewed garage paint before and as I suggested then perhaps it would be an idea to try the branded paint rather than B&Q's own.
So this time I have taken my own advice and purchased a tin of International's Garage floorpaint.
Generally this stuff is expensive, more so if you go for the branded stuff. International is no exception at £24.99 for a 2.5 liter tin. I don't know about you folks but I reckon that's very expensive. If you upsize to the 5 liter tin then your looking at the best part of £40 for a tin?..ouch.
The 2.5 liter tin is claimed to cover an area of 30 m2 which I guess is quite a large surface area. Well it would be if you only had to do one coat. Coverage wise, since I have already painted my floor I only needed one coat. That has left me with about ¾ of a tin left for next time.
As a guide, I have a single ...
Advantages: easy to clean, looks good, can be cheaper than carpeting, great if you have children or pets running in and out Disadvantages: difficult to put together
are doing it? You can't stand it on the stuff you have just done becasue it distorts it - so think about that before you start!
Measured the room- and it was big- it isn't an illusion..for the first time I began to have doubts about how much this was going to take to do.
Worked out that we would need 13 packs which include 2.21 square metres.
Went off to B+Q and got 13 packs, some underlay membrane and some skirting edges where the edges would show. I was going to get it for all the way round, but my dad persuaded me that it would be daft to buy it for all the way round , especially where it would never be seen, and at £4.98 per peice (2.2 meters long) he had a good point.
HOW MUCH WAS THE COST?
Each pack of FLOORMASTER LAMINATED FLOORING (of 2.21 square metres ) was £9.98. This price may vary depending upon the shade ...
ginger59 14.03.2004
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Advantages: Colour range, Application Disadvantages: Not as cheap as 'own brands'
on flooring). We had previously decorated 3 other rooms in the house and had used a variety of different paints (B&Q Fresh in the Bedroom, B&Q Colours in the spare room and Dulux Hints in the lounge) so thought that we would be able to make an informed decision on the type of paint to use in the bathroom.
On arriving at the DIY shop we realised that it couldn?t be much easier really, choosing suitable paint and left with 4 different tester pots of handily named ?Kitchen and Bathroom Paint?. When we got home we eagerly opened the testers and began slapping paint around (well in neat little squares actually). It soon became clear that we were down to a choice between a Crown and Dulux paint. The Crown paint comes in a tube (as a tester) with a spongey thing on the end, whereas the Dulux comes in a small tub with a brush attached to the lid ...
