Another year flying by, gave up smoking in Jan to become a fitness freak have to work on this 5.30 a...
Another year flying by, gave up smoking in Jan to become a fitness freak have to work on this 5.30 am gym lark though.
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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.
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A really helpful review - I've just been looking at the floor paints in B&Q, luckily I didn't buy. But now with your help I'll definetly treat/seal the bare concrete. Thanks for being my labrat and testing it out!
Tadders 26.10.2005 11:17
Sounds like a lot of hassle! At least you were painting your garage floor, so you were able to ventilate the area. You could knock yourself out with fumes otherwise! x
belfin 25.10.2005 19:57
sounds like a lot of effort involved - we had to seal off our garage roof this summer with special paint and that took ages to do too. I applaud your work considering the result wasn't as good as you hoped. Belinda
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
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