Garage floor paint

Hotflashjr

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Western MA
I bought the Rustoleum garage floor paint kit for the floor of my garage. I think the next week or two will be my last chance to apply it before the weather gets too cold. Anyone have any experience with on these kits? I have already washed the floor with a concrete cleaner. Anyone try this at the low end of the temperature range before?
 
That is one of those things where paying attention to the manufacturers specifications or instructions is paramount to performance. So is substrate(existing concrete)preparation. Being close on the temperature, it should not be too difficult to heat the area and have that slab up to a warmer temperature 24hrs before application and or maintain the temperature, or so one would think. I'd not want to take chances with these kinds of materials, if it fails it will just delaminate off the concrete.
 
I have not used this exact kit, but I have used a stain/sealer from Sherwin Williams. The most crucial part of its process was acid washing the floor to give it a light texture so the sealer would stick. A slick finished concrete floor wouldn't let it adhere.

Installing the system in cooler weather should be fine as long as a) it doesn't freeze at night or b) extreme temperature differences between night and day allow the concrete to sweat. Like mentioned before, follow the manufacturer steps exactly.
 
if the garage is part of the house I would set a space heater in the garage for a day or two to warm up the floor and help keep it dry. small cost to help insure a good job
 
I"ve used it...I put it on in warm weather. I put it on 13 years ago and it looks new and I"m not gentle on the floor. It does get slippery when wet. You could add sand or something but the trade off is sweeping...mine sweeps easily.
Tough stuff.
 
(quoted from post at 05:37:15 10/08/13) I bought the Rustoleum garage floor paint kit for the floor of my garage. I think the next week or two will be my last chance to apply it before the weather gets too cold. Anyone have any experience with on these kits? I have already washed the floor with a concrete cleaner. Anyone try this at the low end of the temperature range before?
used it three years ago and everything the other guys have said is true. Epoxy paint is tough as nails but it's very fussy about surface contamination. The garage floor I put it on was 40 years old and pitted from salt drippage off of the cars. Added to that was oil under where the car engines were.

Here's how I did it, this was in the middle of the summer. First I scrubbed it with a degreaser, then came the 4000 PSI hot water power washer with a rotary nozzle. I kept the nozzle a couple inches from the floor and I took lots of time. Took me at least two hours to do a 20X30 floor. Then I degreased and flushed again. Then I used a cement patching product to trowel over the pits and pocs in the floor. The next day I washed it with the acid to etch the old cement. After that it was sit and wait for it to dry and that might be several days. The instructions tell you to tape a sheet of plastic down in one spot. Next morning you pull up the plastic. If it's damp on the underside the floor is too wet.

The paint I put down popped up in a couple of very small places (maybe 2 square inches each a couple of days after it dried. The floor must have been too damp in those two places. One person told me the paint will come off where the car tires sit but that hasn't happened to me. If you do use the glitter a hand held grass seeder might do a more even job than throwing them out by hand. Read the instructions. Good luck and let us know how it turned out. Remember-CLEAN AND DRY! When you use epoxy you should not scrimp on the preparation. Jim
 
I used a similar water base brand of 2 part epoxy and it worked great

Put it on a new cement floor before the grease salt and other stuff got on it

Sandes the floor with a cement sander for 3 or 4 hours. Then shop vac all the dust

Kept the temp in the upper 60s or higher as they say it won't cure properly when close or below the mid 50s

Easy to put down and drys quickly

No hot tire pickup and hold up well when I scrape the floor with the loader bucket

Best thing I did was get it down before I used the new floor

Oil won't penetrate it and its nice to hose and squeegee the floor - drys fast and no dust or grit after. Oil spills just wipe up
 
Thanks everyone. The garage is below the house and insulated so it stays warm but our night temps are getting down into the low 40's. I don't want to take the time to prep to get a night of 30's which I think would be too cold. I may just degrease this fall and do it next spring. I was hoping to get it done before winter so I could keep the plow tractor in there but I don't want the salt on the floor first,
 
I used the Rustoleum epoxy floor paint in January in Illinois. It was an attached, unheated garage. I scrubbed the floor with Simple Green then rinsed. Then I used the acid prep that came with the kit. I let it dry for two days. I had two electric heaters running, and two high speed fans blowing downwards.

I shut the fans off but kept the heaters running while I was painting, and left them on for several days afterwards.
I used a different brand of clear. Don't recall the brand name or how long I waited before applying it.

That project was for a customer. The floor gets a lot of traffic. In January it will be 3 (or was it 4) years since I painted the floor. It still looks great.

I wouldn't be afraid to paint a floor this fall in MA as long as you can keep it up to temp with some electric heaters.
 
I knew a man who had to have a slick painted floor. It was winter, he slipped, fell and had to have spinal surgery. Back hasn't been right.

Sister put large cermanic tile on her concrete floor. Looks sharp.

All the paints will create a nice smell. May want to keep windows open.
 

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