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I'm planning on tarting up my garage and want to paint the floor, however, I used to own an old car that, over the time I owned it dropped oil and power steering fluid on the floor from time to time. What do I need to do to seal the areas where the oil patches are before painting? I might use a foam or plastic tile system, but even if I do I'll want to paint the floor to seal it and keep the dust down.
Cheers.
Wait till summer , floor will be too cold to paint now .
I'm planning to paint the floor in my new garage soon, but as it's a brand new floor it's a little different. The info I've found so far suggests using an acid solution to help the surface key and clean up. I've ended up with a desolv it patio cleaner from screwfix which apparently has the right stuff in it.
Definitely interesting in other ideas though!
I've got a foam tile system (very cheap in Halfords at the mo) and in my opinion there would be no point in painting the floor first. Just wack them down, they've only been up a couple of times when its flooded and there is no mildew or mould underneath despite generally being a bit damp since they went down about six months ago.
Worth painting as it really stops the dust
Seal the concrete with watered down PVA, about 4:1 water to PVA is about right
This stuff is brilliant.
I also used there sealer before painting.
[url= https://www.promain.co.uk/product/tor-tread-sp-id360 ]Tor floor paint[/url]
I did mine with PVA, mixed as above. Seemed to work well, but I didn't have loads of oil to deal with
Just done my new garage floor. As it was an extension to the existing garage which was full acid etching wasn't an option as I couldn't flush it out through the full garage. So had to mechanically prep the floor, wire brushing was hard work but removed the laitance. Swept and hovered (or rather Henryed) then applied a mist coat of paint watered down with about 15% white spirt to allow it to penetrate and seal the concrete. Followed with two more coats of paint. Only been down about 10 days so can't comment on durability. This is the paint I used.....
http://www.bradite.com/protective/floor-paints/floor-paint
Went on well and used 5 litres to do 3 coats on 16sqm as above.