Morris Minor Owners Club

Can anyone recommend paint for garage floor, needs to be hard wearing i suppose.

Has anyone tried these epoxy resin paints?

Yes, epoxy paint is very good.

Has anyone tried these epoxy resin paints?

Yes, excellent wear and easy to keep clean...but, slippery as ice when wet, so I mixed in some Sandtex paint for the area I work in.

Would you recommend epoxy paint for coating concrete that has started to scabble under a carport?

When I first had my concrete garage built I painted the floor with proper floor paint from a diy store.
Looked great but quickly came off on area where car wheels wer parked.

A friend worked for a company who made / sold industrial paints etc.
He gave me a load of line painting cans that had faulty lablels, surface rust, dents etc so couldn't be sold.The oriignal use for the line paint was marking out areas on tarmac for parking spaces etc.
I jokingly sprayed the garage floor to use them up and 20 years later most of it is still in place despite me not preparing or even sweeping up first.

If epoxy floor paint is anything like the line paint then I'd definatley recomment that.

Paul Humphries

Seen the pro's doing it on the floors of big industrial sheds, and they used an 2 pack resin job.

Just about to finally put the concrete floor in new garage and have been looking at the pro's & cons of paint.
For it - easy to apply (you need to do it on a dust free as possible surface which is never easy with concrete) - Looks really neat - easy to clean.
Against - cost!

I'll probably go for the cheapy option (nothing new there huh ) which will be to concrete all but leave the top inch, paint it with PVA and do a very strong screed with waterproofer and cement colouring then trowel polish as it sets.
Only trouble i can see there is that it will no doubt not be impervious to oil stains, but i can live with that for the saving on the cost of paint

I having my new garage put up this week, so I want to get it right as it probably be the only time it will be empty.

I have heard that with the cheaper paint that the tires peel the paint away if the car has been standing for a while

my normal scenereo would be got out and buy the cheapest option available,
be happy that I have saved money, find out its then rubbish, then go out and buy the proper stuff.

Another great floor surface for the car area in a garage is laminate flooring. You can sometimes buy damaged packs for a song. Warmer to lie on, and easy to clean.

To prevent Epoxy floor paint from lifting, prime concrete with sealer, or even a coat of Sandtex.

Ooo I like the laminate idea, but then again some nice deep pile carper would be comfy.

We had a good dust free floor in the garage when we moved in, and it had never had cars in so no oil problems. Sealed it painted it with International stuff, then left it a couple of weeks before parking on it.

Has peeled a bit from gaffer tape, but not from tyres !

Ooo - and it's the garage/shed's birthday at the end of the month too

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Spag I absolutley love the little woodburner!! what a fantastic idea!

On Sat morning, I made an air feed for the stove, to make warm up time faster and reduce smoke from cold.

Used a bit of 8mm steel tube, cut 2" off the end at 45 degrees then rotated and welded it back on to make an L, then stuffed a gas tap on it and jubilee clipped (or perhaps the correct grammer is 'I jubbbly clupped' ) it into an old bit of airline.

Poke into ash box, pointing up through grate. Connect to compressor and add air at about 20 psi. Just a small air bleed seems to work wonders !

Open the taps when the fire is going well, and it sounds like a jet engine and glows scarily - probably about to explode. Does get a v.v. complete burn of the wood though !!!

What it really needs its a turbo though ..... http://www.gas-turbines.com/nt6/index.html

Anyone who feels the need to mechanically aspirate their woodburner gets my vote