Question about painted floors

[HOTRODPRIMER]

Looking at all the great photo's of shop floors do any of you guys that have the painted floors actually cut,weld and grind?

If so,how well does the paint hold up? HRP

 

[68Malibu383]

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[Augus7us]

I don't think anyone is actually using "paint", I'm guessing you're looking at epoxy photos.

If so, I am in the process of doing it and I will have a forging/welding/torching/plasma/etc area that will not have epoxy on it. That area will have dye and either no top coat or something thin that I can easily reapply.

In my research fire and stuff like weld spatter isn't good for epoxy. While I don't think it will destroy it, I think it would create a lot of pock marks and eventually start to look like ****. Given the cost of this stuff, that wasn't in the cards for me.

As far as cutting and grinding, I'm not sure I understand what you mean. If you talking cutting metal or grinding on it, I doubt those sparks would do much. I grind a lot of metal and most sparks are out by the time they hit my floor.

That's my thoughts on it. I posted a thread about this a couple months ago, if I get a chance I will try to find it for you.

-Clint

 

[m29C]

I have an epoxy floor and will say that grinding sparks don't seem to bother it. Cutting torch is another story hot slag is bad as it will burn into the epoxy. with that said a nice smooth bare concrete floor can be damaged by hot slag as well. My new shop floor is going to be epoxy painted but not with the highest end epoxy My choice is an industrial
epoxy Devoe Devran 224 as a base primer with Devthane 379 as a top coating. I will not put flakes in it or anything fancy that way when it does get damaged and it will with use I can touch up the damaged areas when they bother me.

 

[node105]

I'd suggest while grinder sparks may not leave visible scarring on the floor, run your hand over it and maybe feel the effect. Grinder spark spray will etch into glass, e.g nearby car windows; you can see it from the right angle, and certainly feel it

 

[Armorpoxy]

Unfortuntely no resin type epoxy or similar floor can handle welding 'slag' and such, it will create burn marks so if you are welding, use welding mat or sheet metal under that area to protect the floor.

Welding sparks are not an issue unless done very close to the floor, they won't affect our floors.