When I moved into my house 4 years ago the first thing I did was paint the
floor. To get the 15 years of oil drips off the concrete I used TSP cleaner
(mix up a bucket, and sprinkle extra cleaner on the bad spots). Rinse it
well and check for any remaining oily spots... I had to touch a few up a
second time.
After that I etched the floor with acid and hosed it out and squeegeed the
floor to get it to dry faster.
Sherwin Williams TileClad two part epoxy makes an excellent coating. After
4 years the only problems I've had are having old rusty gas leave yellowish
stains (British cars do leak gas too!) and dropping a hammer/brake drum on
the floor will remove the paint (and the concrete below :-). Other than
that, no problems.
I rolled the paint onto the floor. One hint... wear old sneakers! Also
make sure you have good ventilation.... the epoxy fumes are fun!
ymmv
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. John Lye [SMTP:rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 6:02 AM
> To: SGHT@aol.com; shop-talk@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Painting floors
>
>
> At 12:44 AM 1/5/99 EST, SGHT@aol.com wrote:
> >Have any of you had success cleaning and painting a cement floor after
> >years of heavy use? If so, what did you use to clean and what kind of
> paint
> >did you use?
>
> I'm also curious about this issue - I'd really like to clean up the
> bays, and generally make the place brighter and easier to keep clean,
> but there is many years of grease and oil soaked into the floor.
> There's a water problem in one section that may make painting impossible,
> however.
>
> thanks,
>
> John Lye
> rjl6n@Virginia.edu
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