Shop Floor Paint Over Old Paint

[Mickey_D]

I am moving the shop at the end of the month and the new location has a really bad looking floor. When I leased it I knew that it was dirty, but it turns out after pressure washing it is most of the dirt is actually an old black paint job that looks bad and will be hard to keep clean much less find anything that I drop. I don't have the budget to do a full on professional epoxy job (and doubt that it would survive the 27K pound fork carrying 10K pound machines crabbing around a corner) and am wondering if using some "epoxy fortified" oil based garage floor paint from Lowes is worth even trying. I know I will have to do a lot of touch up work after the move, will it stand up to day to day use? The epoxy job in the current space is not holding up nearly as well as I had hoped, and not being able to "fix" the skate and forklift tracks and other scrapes and marks has been a major irritant.

 

[SD39]

I'm in a similar situation. I've tried to re-coat old shop floors with little success. I wasn't all that creative in my process, the most I tried was a muriatic acid scrub to remove all the old paint. They got repainted after that and five years later the floor looks like it has cancer and about 3/8 of the paint remains in patches while the rest is now oil stained concrete. Hopefully you'll have better luck and I was just horrible at applying the floor paint.

 

[tncatadjuster]

You get what you pay for, like most things in life. If you can't afford a floor, I understand, but there is no way to "paint a floor" and have it work for industrial conditions.
Good luck, PPG Porter has a good floor paint called Glyptex or something like that.