- 1. cleaning an aged garage floor for painting (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Munn <Robert.Munn@peregrine.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:59:42 -0700
- I recently bought a 40 year old house with a well-worn garage floor. The garage was used by the owner of the house as her shop for basket-making, and was occasionally used by her son for car repairs.
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- 2. Re: cleaning an aged garage floor for painting (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:55:10 -0500
- I seem to have taken up residence as the local concrete expert.... ( could be cause I own a concrete business... hmmm ) I have not read the instructions for painting a floor... and would submit to t
- /html/shop-talk/2003-09/msg00060.html (11,262 bytes)
- 3. Re: cleaning an aged garage floor for painting (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Hammatt" <gsteve@hammatt.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:05:14 -0700
- What are the options for a 'natural' concrete finish for garage floors? I've seen some floors that appear polished, some that are near black in color, etc. Thanks Steve Hammatt Mount Vernon WA USA t
- /html/shop-talk/2003-09/msg00061.html (12,474 bytes)
- 4. Re: cleaning an aged garage floor for painting (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:36:00 -0500
- The Burnished finish your referring to is normally done when they initially finish the concrete.... the process of burning in a finish is simply bringing the cream of the concrete to the surface and
- /html/shop-talk/2003-09/msg00062.html (9,417 bytes)
- 5. Re: cleaning an aged garage floor for painting (score: 1)
- Author: Ray Bahr <rbahr@cisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:24:08 -0400
- Hi All, I went through this ~ 3 years ago when I painted my garage floor (17 years old at the time). I did several things: I scrubbed the heck out of the floor with a good industrial cleaner design f
- /html/shop-talk/2003-09/msg00063.html (8,311 bytes)
- 6. RE: cleaning an aged garage floor for painting (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry list account" <list@marketvalue.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:55:36 -0600
- Mr. Concrete Expert, (maybe you could start a newspaper column???) Here's a question I haven't seen before. I did some patching and leveling of some old concrete. The area is now 'sound' and is fairl
- /html/shop-talk/2003-09/msg00064.html (9,028 bytes)
- 7. Re: cleaning an aged garage floor for painting (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 04:32:46 -0500
- There are iron oxide dyes that permanently stain concrete but it has to be applied in the mix design prior to pouring... afterwards there are a number of color stains that topically treat concrete an
- /html/shop-talk/2003-09/msg00065.html (8,751 bytes)
- 8. Re: cleaning an aged garage floor for painting (score: 1)
- Author: Ray Bahr <rbahr@cisco.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:25:55 -0700
- Rust, oil, brake fluid, various cleaners have no affect on the paint. I do use jack stands - but I took some fairly thin sheet steel and created a base for the stands and welded it all together - thi
- /html/shop-talk/2003-09/msg00067.html (9,661 bytes)
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