Re: where to buy garage floor paint
 

What suggestions do you want? You already did it.

Water diffuses through concrete, so most floor paints will eventually bubble. Ucoatit and good products like that will take a really really long time before that happens.

Water based = not as hard = not as durable, plain and simple.

Once you think you've cleaned it enough, do it once more. If you do a bad prep job and it starts to peel, you have 5x the work just to get back to where you are now.

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i jsut raelly wanted to know why hte water based was bad. so wat if i put a water proofer ---- on the cement first let that dry adn then rollon the paint.

im going to guess that it wount like the water proofing stuff.lol.

rite now the only way i can do it is water based becasue of price. mom left me behind on rent 3 months and other bills yeehaw

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I work at Lowe's. Dont Paint it stain it, It will last alot longer.

Re: where to buy garage floor paint
 

if your on a budget, defintely stain it.

coatings are not cheap for a reason.

dont go cheap, if its not a garage floor you definetly dont need to coat it.

just go with the stain as mentioned before.

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hahaha word i work at S.W. def stain it , cause it will last longer. although 2 part epoxies work well. The big thing to do is to acid etch the floor so that the stain penetrates really well. Make sure you get a producst that is resistant to HOT TIRE PICK UP cause that ---- will own you especialy if you try to cut corners and get something cause it was cheap.

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I used Rustoleum "professional" oil based epoxy and it turned out ok. I thought it was going to settle better than it did and hide the roller marks, but it didn't. The chips were a big failure and I wish I wouldn't have used them. Most didn't stick and the ones that did aren't actually sunk into the epoxy enough to blend in smoothly.

I used acid and some etching ---- to clean the floor. I also used filler to fill all the cracks and holes. Take your time, mask ---- off and it should turn out good. My floor has been soaked in diesel fuel for days at a time and that ---- doesn't even phase it. :6

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www.Epoxy-coat.com


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Clean it the best you can, then clean it again.
If you are somewhere that fumes are not a concern use a diluted mixture of muratic acid and water. Put it on strong enough that it etches the concrete, it eats best when put onto a dry surface. Don't let it dry up while on the crete, rinse the ---- out of it when done. The run off will kill plants, so if it is going into your yard or neighbors let the water run for a bit to dilute the run off even more.

Next get some TSP (trisodium phosphate) It should be in the paint section, dilute it with hot water and stir it till it's dissolved. Use a fairly stiff brush on a broom handle and scrub the ---- out of the floor with the mixture, once again not letting it dry with the solution on the surface.

Then rinse, rinse, rinse.

This is probably your best bet for getting it clean, I have probably painted a few thousand concrete swimming pools this way.

The water based stuff doesn't get anywhere near as hard as the epoxy does. Also once the epoxy is set about the only thing that will make it come off is a grinder.
Anything that will remove normal paint will mess the water based stuff up.

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I haven't read the posts above me, but I can tell you this: You don't want cheap garage floor paint. If you can buy it at a Home Depot or Lowes you probably don't want it. In a garage you have brake cleaner, gas, oil, etc flying around. When I built my motor in my gf's dad's garage I sprayed brake cleaner down the bores to clean out the dust specks. When it landed on the floor it peeled up the paint. And it wasn't cheap ---- either. He said he wasn't worried about it, he's done it before, and he found some stuff in Grainger or on the internet or something that's a thick chemical resistant epoxy. It isn't cheap, but it's supposed to stand up to oil, grease, rust stains, etc. And rubber won't leave black marks on it too. I'm just saying don't go cheap because it's a pain in the ass to lay down and you might as well do it right the first time.

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Home Depot actually does sell an oil based epoxy. I haven't had mine for very long, but it's holding up pretty good so far. I've spilled fuel all over it and left it for days and it cleaned right up with a pressure washer.