How to paint my problem garage floor ?

[thedoc46]

Bought my home 4yrs ago from new & I went to Lowes and asked what paint did I need to buy to paint my garage floor. They sold me a few tins of garage paint, and something else (i think it was an acid type product) to etch the floor as a pre-requesite.

So anyway, took the day off, scrubbed the new floor with their etching product. Washed it off as per instructions & painted the floor again as per instructions. Left the cars / bikes out for an ENTIRE WEEK !!!!! first time i drove into the garage with wet tires, it pulled right up.... I wasn't very impressed as you can image. I went straight back to Lowes, who looked at what i'd purchased and said, really apologize, but we sold you the wrong product. The guy was new in that dept, please accept our apologies.... Here's your money back..

However at the time, being that it was such a job to empty everything out and leave everything outside for a week, i just accepted the refund and that this was a garage and the floor was not going to be perfect until the day i shelled out for the garage tiles. This was 4yrs ago. so no going back to Lowes now !

Here's a pic of how it looks today, and its really getting on my nerves being so bitty and ugly. I want to make the floor nice and ready to once again tackle the project !... However i have the old paint that i imagine would somehow need removing? Maybe I'm wrong but surely you can't just paint over what's there ? otherwise it'll just pull up again right?

Really looking for advice or tips on what to do here.

Here's a pic of the said garage.

I live in a very hot / humid climate, (SW Florida) so plastic tiles, supposedly are not ideal as they shrink in our climate (so i was told) I'd like just to re-paint if possible, but worried about the underlaying problem of the old paint.

 

[MagicMarker]

Looks like you'll need to grind it all down to get a good base for new product.

 

[CJ7VFR]

There are two schools of thought here.

One is, if you intend to use the garage to do actual work on vehicles, bikes, lawn equipment and other things that a garage is used for, like oily stuff dripping on it, burn marks from torches and welders, gouges from hard items hitting the floor, then just leave it alone. It does not actually look that bad. It looks better than 90 percent of the garage floors I have seen.

Second is, if you are going to use the garage more as a place to just park your vehicles and store your bikes, and you don't really intend to do much hard work in there, and you want the floor to look nicer, you will have to remove ALL the old paint, as you will not have a solid foundation to apply anything new to the floor with the current paint on it. Anything new you add on top of what is there now will just peel up again, and you will have wasted even more of your time on this.

You have to decide what you actually want to use your garage for, and then figure out the best way to get the floor to look the way you want.

My garage floor is bare concrete. I didn't want to put any paint or anything else on it because I knew there would be hot sparks from grinding and welding stuff flying all over it and putting burn marks on it. My old Jeep leaks oil and there is a constant oil stain where I park it that is easily cleaned up with Castrol Super Clean. I constantly drop and move heavy metal things around the floor and put small chips and marks in the concrete.

There are even spots on the floor where I got overspray on it from things I put on pieces of cardboard to spray paint.

But I don't mind that, because my garage is not a place where I just park my vehicles and need a nice looking floor. It is a place that gets worked in hard, and it shows it!

Good luck with whatever you do. In the end, you will have the floor you want and need for your purposes, and you will love it no matter what!

Jim

 

[thedoc46]

Simply put, I love spending time in my garage. I find myself sweeping it almost daily to keep it nice and clean and free from any grit that somehow manages to find its way in there. I do all my own maintenance and upgrades on my cars and bikes. And love cleaning my cars / bikes in my garage. I'm basically always tinkering in there.

Definitely not happy with the way the floor is now.

Sanding down seems like a heck of a job to carry out. What tool would be my best bet for the quickest path to success? Is that my only option ?

My other option would be garage tile, but i'd rather the smooth surface so i can sweep away the dust easily, rather than it get caught in all the crevasses of each tile join.

 

[hh76]

Go to the flooring section.

Tons of info on this. Grind it, coat with decent epoxy, or similar.

 

[05r50]

There are two schools of thought here.

One is, if you intend to use the garage to do actual work on vehicles, bikes, lawn equipment and other things that a garage is used for, like oily stuff dripping on it, burn marks from torches and welders, gouges from hard items hitting the floor, then just leave it alone. It does not actually look that bad. It looks better than 90 percent of the garage floors I have seen.

Second is, if you are going to use the garage more as a place to just park your vehicles and store your bikes, and you don't really intend to do much hard work in there, and you want the floor to look nicer, you will have to remove ALL the old paint, as you will not have a solid foundation to apply anything new to the floor with the current paint on it. Anything new you add on top of what is there now will just peel up again, and you will have wasted even more of your time on this.

You have to decide what you actually want to use your garage for, and then figure out the best way to get the floor to look the way you want.

My garage floor is bare concrete. I didn't want to put any paint or anything else on it because I knew there would be hot sparks from grinding and welding stuff flying all over it and putting burn marks on it. My old Jeep leaks oil and there is a constant oil stain where I park it that is easily cleaned up with Castrol Super Clean. I constantly drop and move heavy metal things around the floor and put small chips and marks in the concrete.

There are even spots on the floor where I got overspray on it from things I put on pieces of cardboard to spray paint.

But I don't mind that, because my garage is not a place where I just park my vehicles and need a nice looking floor. It is a place that gets worked in hard, and it shows it!

Good luck with whatever you do. In the end, you will have the floor you want and need for your purposes, and you will love it no matter what!

Jim

^ This.

 

[rburke65]

You can paint over it again or grind it all off and apply an epoxy ..... maybe from one of the floor coating sponsors here on The Garage Journal.

 

[Deej-79]

I like your DRZ

 

[sledneck32!]

Shot blasting. You can hire me cause were slow right now. Your paint is only as good as your prep.

www.randhpaintingmn.com


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[jgorm]

I painted my last garage, then it looked like **** from moving heavy tools, pounding, grinding, welding, etc. I moved, and my current garage will not get any treatment. If you want to paint it, you should rent one of those big concrete grinders that looks like floor buffers, and grind everything off. Maybe think about polishing the concrete instead of painting it again. It can look really nice and you will be halfway there. The next tip is that you need a 2 part epoxy paint. Anything else is a gimmick. A kitchen type vinyl floor might work for you. I suspect you could just add that over your current paint.

 

[G19Tony]

Racedeck.

 

[03fan]

I like your DRZ

It's an 09' Kawi 250 KLX sf. Only reason I know is because I have one of them.