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This floor has more cracks in it than a Plumbers Convention

30+ year old concrete is not much fun, probably never had any sealer on it and soaks up materials like a sponge - even with sealer/primer :mad:

Just repairing the cracks took a week longer. Bad thing is - I'm sure they'll come back eventually. If I were really going to stay in this house the floor would need to be repoured.

But another coat of paint - move everything - finish painting the other part of the floor, but I have to wait and order more paint...getting closer to working on cars :eek::rolleyes:

faustmb

What did you use for paint? I used the Rustoleum 2 part epoxy in my basement and garage and it works well for the price. It seems to be pretty resistant to most everything, but I probably should have spent more time prepping the garage floor. It was a 20 year old unsealed floor, no cracks buts lots of stains.

I need to put some good lighting in, I have almost nothing in there now.

Looking good. It's much nicer working in a clean and bright space...

Matt

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faustmb wrote:

What did you use for paint? I used the Rustoleum 2 part epoxy in my basement and garage and it works well for the price. It seems to be pretty resistant to most everything, but I probably should have spent more time prepping the garage floor. It was a 20 year old unsealed floor, no cracks buts lots of stains.

I need to put some good lighting in, I have almost nothing in there now.

Looking good. It's much nicer working in a clean and bright space...

Matt

Hi Matt,

I used the 2 part epoxy, Sherwin Williams, in my smaller 2 car "garage" that's part of the house but too small to park anything but a Jet in

.

For this area I am trying a 1 part garage floor epoxy from Ace Hardware.

Its about 2/3rd the cost of the 2 part epoxy systems

This is a "problem" area in that

A lot of cracks and divots
A lot of old stains, paint spills
Going to get a lot of paint overspray
And I'll still be rolling floor jacks and my Snap-On mid-rise lift around so it's going to get knicked up.

I figure this material will be cheaper and easier (1 part, no mixing) to touch up in the future

I kept fighting myself on whether or not to take the time and money to do this knowing it won't hold up. But in the end it will be easier to hose out and keep clean when the floors painted.

Plus the pictures before I start spraying will be priceless - it'll never look this good again!

Hudson308

Looks good, Dan. My floor is at least as bad as yours was. You've given me hope that doing something about it is better than simply rolling around on the cracks.

DaveFury

Great looking shop/paint booth, Dan. I am jealous!

46HudsonPU

Looking very good Dan!

Contrary to what you say - At your pace, you'll probably be driving one of those cars by Summer - Can't wait to see photos of Rambo's head hanging out of the window, catching some breeze!

BTW - The saying is 'Slow as molasses in January', isn't it? LOL!

RL Chilton

Looks good, though, Dan. All the hard work will pay off when you have it completed and you won't even remember all the "headaches" it took to get it done. The "forget-hormone" will take it's toll, I assure you.

Can't wait till we can add our new addition onto our shop. I can't even start to finish my current "shop" until I can get everything out of there so that I can work on the building. It's hell when your shop is also your storage room . . . it just doesn't work well, that way.

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RL Chilton wrote:

Looks good, though, Dan. All the hard work will pay off when you have it completed and you won't even remember all the "headaches" it took to get it done. The "forget-hormone" will take it's toll, I assure you.

Can't wait till we can add our new addition onto our shop. I can't even start to finish my current "shop" until I can get everything out of there so that I can work on the building. It's hell when your shop is also your storage room . . . it just doesn't work well, that way.

LOL - ain't that the truth!

If you look in the pictures you can see everything shoved to one side

I pushed what I could outside last Summer, this whole "remodel" has been moving the 50 Super and Toolboxes, carts etc...around so I can work on the spot they were sitting!

bent metal

Wow, now that's clean! You could do out patient surgeries for people on the side, for extra money. lol Just kidding, those wall lights and the white walls are going to be awesome for blocking and fitting the panels on the side of your car. Very nice.

Tom Drew

I've painted many concrete floors and the two most important things I have learned are:

1) If there is any significant amount of moisture coming up through the slab due to lack of a vapor barrier, NO type of paint will adhere for the long haul.

2) If you do not properly acid etch the surface before coating, you will also experience adhesion problems, regardless of the coating type.

Of course it's almost impossible to work with a slab that is continually passing moisture up thru it. The only remedy I have ever see that works (besides tearing out the old slab and replacing it) is to lay down a proper vapor barrier and pour a new slab over the old. You would only want to go this route if you're sure the slab is solid and stable and the only problem with it is the moisture issue.

Tom

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