painting a garage floor

avfc1874

hi i want to paint my garage floor, i'll need about 10 litres and at 60 euro a 5 litre i don't want to make a balls of it. my plan was sweep floor , hoover floor. wash floor. sweep then hoover again. then paint. if anyone has any advice or has done this before i'd be glad of any help.. thanks

monkeynuz

I think there is a primer/sealer you can get to keep the dust down on the concrete and help the paint adhere better

I did mine, used 6 coats od PVA then 4 coats of floor paint. It still looks good as new.

You may not want to go to the extent I did but you should definitely do a few coats of PVA first to seal it otherwise the paint will come away.

Give it a good hard sweep between each coat of PVA to work loose any bits of dust etc and a good hoover and mop before the next coat.

Oh, don't scrimp on the quality of the paint. The first 2 coats I did were cheap crap and the last 2 were diamond coat or something like that. 3 times the price but there really was no comparison.

I think I have pictures somewhere of the different stages. I can post them up if you want

You can spray or paint on the PVA, I painted with a roller

slimjimmc

And make sure no kids or pets are around to trot all over it before the paint dries. They're divils for doing that.

avfc1874

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I did mine, used 6 coats od PVA then 4 coats of floor paint. It still looks good as new.

You may not want to go to the extent I did but you should definitely do a few coats of PVA first to seal it otherwise the paint will come away.

Give it a good hard sweep between each coat of PVA to work loose any bits of dust etc and a good hoover and mop before the next coat.

Oh, don't scrimp on the quality of the paint. The first 2 coats I did were cheap crap and the last 2 were diamond coat or something like that. 3 times the price but there really was no comparison.

I think I have pictures somewhere of the different stages. I can post them up if you want

You can spray or paint on the PVA, I painted with a roller

yea post them up so i'll have an idea what to expect. thanks

ian87

I did this recently as a favour. I swept the floor thoroughly, then washed it with a solvent. Painted on with normal floor paint. 2 coats was plenty. Going great 5 months later with a forklift driving over it from 8 to 6 all day.

eiei0

What sort of paint did you use ???

ian87 wrote: »

I did this recently as a favour. I swept the floor thoroughly, then washed it with a solvent. Painted on with normal floor paint. 2 coats was plenty. Going great 5 months later with a forklift driving over it from 8 to 6 all day.

Richard tea

Lidl do a plastic floor paint from time to time. 5L for 19.99
I have used it and found it good.

http://www.lidl.ie/cps/rde/xchg/SID-EC167137-C724E824/lidl_ri_ie/hs.xsl/index_28924.htm

First one shows after its all swept and washed out, second shows the start of the PVA, last one shows the final result