Alpiners,
I just got moved into my new house, and am now setting up my dream
garage.
Like in the last house I had "with smaller garage", I put down an exoxy
paint floor.
I like the painted floor because of the inherant oil leaks that the
alpine
has, and all the mechanical work that I do.
the advantages are as follows.
Easy to sweep out the smooth floor, and if it looks clean it IS clean.
Wipe up oil with a cloth and some simple green as a degreaser.
Water drips dont stain.
Looks sharp.
Hides nasty looking stains beneath.
Smooth surface is great for creapers.
I just finished the floor last night, and I have to say it looks great,
but
was a lot more trouble than the last one. The last house was new, and
so it didnt have years of crud and oil on it. The new house is 30 years
old, and even in areas that looked clean, had small patches of oil on it
that you couldnt see, but cant paint over. 30 minutes after the paint
was
rolled on, fisheyes developed. The cure was to quickly rub the paint
into the oily concrete, then put down another coat. This dispersed the
oil
into solution in the paint, and the fisheyes were halted.
A ton of prep, acid etch, and sweep, sweep, sweep yielded acceptable
results, but noithing like that of how it worked with new concrete.
I used a new product this time called carboline.
It is a two part paint+hardener, that cures in about 4 to 6 hours.
The paint comes in a gallon container and the hardener comes in a pint
container.
Each gallon coats about 250 square feet per coat.
Cost was about $40 per gallon.
6 Hours minimum between coats "paint in your socks for second coat".
24 hours to walk on the paint, 96 hours till you can put a car on it.
The stuff was labled VOC exempt, which would lead me to believe this
is some NASTY stuff on the body.
I bought a $29 dollar activated carbon respirator to cope.
Used it too.
I want to thank Eric and his advice on painting and respirators on
saving
massive brain cells on this one.
Anyhow, thought some of you might be interested in what I did, how and
why.
Cheers,
Jarrid Gross
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