Dusting concrete garage floor

cyclonebri1

phill99 wrote: »

You may struggle with just 2 x 500ml. It would have been more prodent to get a 5 litre tob from screwfix!

Yeah I missed the amount bit. a litre x 4 is marginal, trouble is any later applications are baulked by the first.

However it will be much better than before, if not, do it again.;);)

DUTR

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Yeah I missed the amount bit. a litre x 4 is marginal, trouble is any later applications are baulked by the first.

However it will be much better than before, if not, do it again.;)

Yes I think it's already better, the 500ml were only £1.47 each and broom £3, I would have to have primed the floor as I have whether I went for mats or painted it.

wallbash

Sorry to bring this up, but I have tried twice to 'paint' the garage floor.

I have failed miserably. May look good to begin with but a garage floor has to cope with hot wheels and thats tough.

Total cost under £20.

I spent 5 times that ......and failed.

DUTR

wallbash wrote: »

Sorry to bring this up, but I have tried twice to 'paint' the garage floor.

I have failed miserably. May look good to begin with but a garage floor has to cope with hot wheels and thats tough.


I spent 5 times that ......and failed.

To be fair the builder had suggested PVA also, even if you were going to paint the floor, you have to prime it 1st, what 'shocked' me was the speed at which the floor absorbed the PVA mixture, from another article the ratio was 1:4 and 1 litre covers 10-12m^2, so as my garage is 25m^2 I thought 2 litres should do it, it covered about a 8m^2 before it was sucked up, and the 1-2hrs drying time was much reduced, so after the 2nd application, I noticed the liquid was not being absorbed so readily and I left that for a few hours, there is a change in colour of the concrete.
So yes take on board what the posters above have suggested, as it's low cost quick and relatively easy to do.
If I were doing it again, I would use a larger bucket so that most of the floor is covered with solution as it's easier to brush in.

I guess the floor was absorbing your paint , so perhaps 3 or 4 coats would be required which is what put me off the paint route, especially at £20+ a tub, it was starting to approach floor covering price but with much more outage time.

wallbash

I guess the floor was absorbing your paint ,

If it was only that simple.
As I said , I spent a lot more , Floor was cleaned and primed, left for 24 hours and then a garage 2 part paint was applied , left for 48 hours.

It lasted less than a year.

cyclonebri1

wallbash wrote: »

If it was only that simple.
As I said , I spent a lot more , Floor was cleaned and primed, left for 24 hours and then a garage 2 part paint was applied , left for 48 hours.

It lasted less than a year.

I can share that experience, I too had similar and I used a quality 2 pack paint also.
I wanted it like you see in the pits at formula 1. I had low slung track cars at the time and had built in concrete ramps when I built the garage so wanted it finished of properly.
Even though these cars were only about 650kg it just didn't last, only saving grace in my case was that I had a mate who sold for a well known paint manufacturer, so lets call the paint, ahem, trade samples;);)

DUTR

wallbash wrote: »

If it was only that simple.
As I said , I spent a lot more , Floor was cleaned and primed, left for 24 hours and then a garage 2 part paint was applied , left for 48 hours.

It lasted less than a year.

I just saw some PVA at the pound shop 500ml, so could have saved a little more (but that would have been spent in petrol) , just been out and nice to get in the car and no visible powder footprints on the mats :cool:

cyclonebri1

DUTR wrote: »

I just saw some PVA at the pound shop 500ml, so could have saved a little more (but that would have been spent in petrol) , just been out and nice to get in the car and no visible powder footprints on the mats :cool:

Then you have a result in real :money:terms:T

Without going all technical I used to work in an industry that used vast amounts of pva adhesives, they are very complex.
Even the types used for building purposes can vary greatly.
I just wanted to say that for what you wanted poundland or similar is adequate, but for anything more demanding you need to get the specific adhesive for the purpose in hand.;);)