Prep for rigid tile...

[imgn tht]

I'm beginning my plans for a free-flow rigid tile floor in my roughly 400sq ft detached garage.

I currently have full roll out mats that are covering a hodge podge floor of store bought diy epoxy that later had several divots in the floor covered by self leveling concrete and left in raw concrete finish (in prep for the mats).

My fear is that when I put down the new free flow tiles, I'm going to see too much of the ugly floor underneath. I do have 16 tiles on order currently to play with color scheme, so I should be able to get a better sense of what I will see soon.

Would it be a bad idea to grind down the existing paint? Assuming if I grind it down, I'd need to do some sort of top coat to keep continual dust down? Or would you just leave it alone and do a new top coat (just learned of Rustoleum Re-coat primer). I'm leaning towards this with maybe a top coat in a color that best matches my tile choice.

 

[Garage Flooring]

I'm beginning my plans for a free-flow rigid tile floor in my roughly 400sq ft detached garage.

I currently have full roll out mats that are covering a hodge podge floor of store bought diy epoxy that later had several divots in the floor covered by self leveling concrete and left in raw concrete finish (in prep for the mats).

My fear is that when I put down the new free flow tiles, I'm going to see too much of the ugly floor underneath. I do have 16 tiles on order currently to play with color scheme, so I should be able to get a better sense of what I will see soon.

Would it be a bad idea to grind down the existing paint? Assuming if I grind it down, I'd need to do some sort of top coat to keep continual dust down? Or would you just leave it alone and do a new top coat (just learned of Rustoleum Re-coat primer). I'm leaning towards this with maybe a top coat in a color that best matches my tile choice.

You will see through the tiles if you try. Looking from the outside in, you typically don't.

We had a situation on our facility where the carpet had been glued down and we were in to much of a rush to grind off the adhesive. We used landscape fabric and it did the trick, but I would not do that if I was going to have constant saw dust, oil leaks etc.