Dust in garage

Arddon

I have a garage with concrete floor, single leaf block walls & kingspan roof. The garage serves it's purpose, but there is a lot of dust in the garage, so anything in it ends up covered.

Any suggestions as to how I can keep the dust down, economic ways preferably?

I was wondering if I painted the floor & walls, if so what kind etc

Joe Doe

'garage floor paint' is probably the one, might contain some plastic/resin/arcylic base to cover small gaps etc, hardwearing grey thick stuff...
Would blast out the dust first with standard garden power blower vac job....
Walls may need plastered too....

mloc123

I have the same problem my current cheap plan is...

Paint the floor with garage paint and I am going to baton the walls and put up 3mm hardboard (finished in white).
It is cheaper than plaster board and won't need painting.

jack of all

I don't think 3mm hardboard on battens is a great idea, after a short time (one damp winter) the hardboard will be all over the place (think of the inside of an old caravan or mobile home). Far better to just clean down the blockwork- brush to remove loose dust, vacuum the lot and paint with 2 or 3 coats of emulsion (Fleetwood do large 17.5 litre buckets at a good price). Fix 12 or 19mm shuttering grade ply over workbench to allow palcing of tool racks, hanging rails for tool etc. Relatively inexpensive, less work and reversible.

sky6

jack of all wrote: »

I don't think 3mm hardboard on battens is a great idea, after a short time (one damp winter) the hardboard will be all over the place (think of the inside of an old caravan or mobile home). Far better to just clean down the blockwork- brush to remove loose dust, vacuum the lot and paint with 2 or 3 coats of emulsion (Fleetwood do large 17.5 litre buckets at a good price). Fix 12 or 19mm shuttering grade ply over workbench to allow palcing of tool racks, hanging rails for tool etc. Relatively inexpensive, less work and reversible.

This is the way to go al-right.

Hard Board won't work and all you'll do is create a nesting area for Spiders and Vermin.

What I did is as follows

- Cleared everything out so you just have a shell
- power hose the lot to wash out the settled dust on the floor and walls
- fill in any cracks
- once dry, walls get 2 coats of pva solution and floors get 5 coats. Important, once dry, in between each coat, attack the floor with a stiff yard brush to lift any loose bits
- next a few coats of floor paint. This is the one thing you do not want to buy on the cheap.

Seriously, the best floor paints are not cheap, but if you follow what I said above, the floor will take a hammering for years, but after a sweep or mop will look good as new.

I had the same problem with dust but since I did that, and painted the walls, there is little dust after several years

BTW use a sprayer to put the pva on the walls and they drink it up otherwise but use a roller to put it on the floor and don't be shy of soaking the floor with it

I think I posted years ago about when I was doing mine. Have a search and you should find pics etc