jkrswld
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Howdy folks - I used the drylock concrete paint on my old garage floor and just recently on my "new" one. I had very good luck at the old house - 2 gallons covered my 24x24 garage, 1990's slab that had no real stains or issues. I did have a little hot tire pick up here and there, but I didn't worry much about it. I wanted a cleaner garage but not a showroom and fully accepted I'd have to touch it up when I was painting.
My cleaning process that time was slightly less aggressive than this time around on my smaller 22x20ish. No real oil stains, just some paint over spray and rust lines from shovels/snowblowers since the 70s.
This slab was a very cracked up monolithic pour as you can see. Fixing up the cracks is not in the budget, but I just wanted a cleaner looking floor that wouldn't constantly create dust. I swept and swept and swept, then threw some degreaser/water down to let soak a bit, and then started hitting with the powerwasher (cheap electric one from home depot). I was relatively pleased with what I had so I hit the fans for a couple days and went to work painting.
I used a brush for the wall edges and the cracks, then went to a cheaper 1/2" nap roller. Nothing special, in fact I think I grabbed the cheapest. The floor had some roughness in one of the stalls, I'm thinking from the 50 years of salt etc from our Wisconsin winters.
I did two coats, and used up all my 2 gallons I believe. I could definitely see the difference in shine where the floor had been rougher and soaked the paint up. I again expect to need to touchup here and there, or just leave it - but, so far so good. Been parking on it for about 2 months - so we'll see after the winter
Oh - and I've been stripping/painting cabinets (will make new thread) and soon to also do the same to some steel benches - so plenty of rust/spray/etc mess for me to test the cleanup factor on.
My cleaning process that time was slightly less aggressive than this time around on my smaller 22x20ish. No real oil stains, just some paint over spray and rust lines from shovels/snowblowers since the 70s.
This slab was a very cracked up monolithic pour as you can see. Fixing up the cracks is not in the budget, but I just wanted a cleaner looking floor that wouldn't constantly create dust. I swept and swept and swept, then threw some degreaser/water down to let soak a bit, and then started hitting with the powerwasher (cheap electric one from home depot). I was relatively pleased with what I had so I hit the fans for a couple days and went to work painting.
I used a brush for the wall edges and the cracks, then went to a cheaper 1/2" nap roller. Nothing special, in fact I think I grabbed the cheapest. The floor had some roughness in one of the stalls, I'm thinking from the 50 years of salt etc from our Wisconsin winters.
I did two coats, and used up all my 2 gallons I believe. I could definitely see the difference in shine where the floor had been rougher and soaked the paint up. I again expect to need to touchup here and there, or just leave it - but, so far so good. Been parking on it for about 2 months - so we'll see after the winter
Oh - and I've been stripping/painting cabinets (will make new thread) and soon to also do the same to some steel benches - so plenty of rust/spray/etc mess for me to test the cleanup factor on.
