Painting Your Garage Floor

If your garage floor is stained with oil grease and rust you can easily give it new life with a coat of concrete floor paint.

Painting your garage floor. One advantage in painting a garage floor is it looks a heck of a lot better. You get a thick hard glossy surface that lasts. When selecting paint for your garage floor make sure to choose an epoxy paint created especially for garage floors. All you need is a weekend to get started.

Cut in along the edges of your garage with a brush and then use a roller with a medium nap to apply the rest of the paint. Use a garage floor epoxy to protect your floors from stains and hot tire pickup. And it s easier to keep clean. Try adding new colors and textures.

And it s easier to keep clean. Let the first coat dry thoroughly about 24 hours. Be sure to allow the proper times for light foot and vehicle traffic 1 and 3 days respectively. But you have to prepare any surface you re painting particularly a garage floor that has oil spots all over it and probably has never really been cleaned very well.

Mix the paint well and apply a thin even first coat. Finishing an existing garage floor with a new epoxy coating is a great way to refresh your diy workspace while also making the floor much easier to keep clean in the long run. Concrete floor paints are available in both oil based alkyd and water based latex forms both formulated to resist stains and dry to a satin non slip finish.