Question:
I've been thinking of painting my garage floor with the two part epoxy paint
system.
I have no good reason to do this other than it would spruce it up a bit and
cover up/in some of the cracks.
The floor is plain/straight cement, 45 years old. I'd haver to clean off
some of the old oil stains but that's about it.
I read on the can that it states up to 7 days drying/curing time before
vehicular traffic can be applied.
I can probably squeeze 5 days but probably not 7. Do you think this would
be a problem? Wondering if after 5 days I could put down some wood sheets
which I could drive over until the 7-8 days are up. Also as I want to do
this probably in a week or two here in NY where it still goes down to
freezing at night and mid 50's during the day, I think the temp might
lengthen the curing time so it might not be an ideal time to do it.
can anyone help me please?
Answer:
I painted a a garage floor in PA with Rustoleum Eboxy Gray. It did a
great job and 5 years later is looks great. The only thing is that it is
slick when wet. But the floor looks great and tires do not peel it.
When I bought a home in FL - I tried some paint from Lowes called Hot
Trax because I wanted a rougher finish and I was being cheap. I pressure
washed the floor - even etched it with muriatic acid. Guess what? The
floor flakes and peels. It looks like crap.
Now - I wish I used Rustoleum Epoxy in FL.
I would like to have a "do over" but I guess I would have to pressure
wash all of this paint off before I can use the Epoxy.
My advice - don't go cheap like I did in FL. Clean the concrete really
well - and then use Epoxy. It costs 2 - 3 times as much but it works.
