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workshop floor paint

Posted by sean savage on November 11, 2007, 6:29 pm
Sean Savage

Closing down for the week between xmas and new year and have decided to paint the workshop floor now. does anyone know of any good suppliers of the paint??

thanks
sean

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by Dave Harney on November 11, 2007, 6:46 pm, in reply to "workshop floor paint"
Dave Harney

Hi Sean,
Company we use are called C Brewers and Sons ltd, though nearest branch to you I could find are in Derbyshire which is 70 miles from you

C Brewers and Sons Ltd
21 Derby Trading Estate
Stores Road
Derby
Derbyshire
DE21 4BD

Tel: 01332 290708
Fax: 01332 290709

Opening Hours:
Mon - Fri 7.30 am - 5.00 pm
Saturday 8.00 am -12.00 pm
Regards
Dave

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by Steve Norman on November 11, 2007, 9:26 pm, in reply to "workshop floor paint"

Hi Sean,
I have painted a test sample from reactive resins & are painting our floor December with it.

Regards
Steve

Link: reactive resins

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by NIGEL BENNETT on November 12, 2007, 1:56 pm, in reply to "Re: workshop floor paint"
Nigel Bennett

Hi Sean & Steve we used a similar Rust Oleum product and was told for preparation ,(just remove all loose material ,wash floor with their cleaner ).Cost about £ 500.00 for 1000 square feet,three years later most of it gone !
My advice is remove all previous coatings and then acid etch the floor.
We applied the coating with 18 " floor rollers coating has about 45 minutes working time once the activator is added.
Looked really good for about 6 months then one tiny lifted add then it started lift all over the workshop.We called the rep out and he said the exiting coating wasn't "adhered to the sub base " and the epoxy was pulling that off .
They have since amended their preparation instructions .fat lot of good it did us !

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by Steve Norman on November 12, 2007, 9:14 pm, in reply to "Re: workshop floor paint"
Steve Norman - Administrator

Hi Nigel,
Interesting, I noticed that the first coat has a different resin for bonding than the top coat.
I assume you could see some paint which has been down in other premises for a while?

I am painting my existing workshop, before I try it on the new one

Regards
Steve

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by Nigel Bennett on November 12, 2007, 9:42 pm, in reply to "Re: workshop floor paint"

Here's some pictures.

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by Nigel Bennett on November 12, 2007, 10:11 pm, in reply to "Re: workshop floor paint"

Try again.

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by Steve Norman on November 12, 2007, 10:42 pm, in reply to "Re: workshop floor paint"
Steve Norman - Administrator

Wow, that's pretty useless isn't it!!

Now I'm getting worried!

Regards
STeve

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by Nigel Bennett on November 13, 2007, 7:55 am, in reply to "Re: workshop floor paint"
Nigel Bennett

Hi Steve this is four years later,but your system has a primer ? Our didn't and as i said there was an exiting coating/paint already on the floor .We hired a floor grinder and went over the hole floor me and my wife spent an whole weekend on .we are still upset that it never performed .The mot center i use just use cheap trade floor paint and re-paint ever year,i think thats the route i will take this year.

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by Steve Norman on November 13, 2007, 11:23 am, in reply to "Re: workshop floor paint"
Steve Norman - Administrator

Hi Nigel,
You can paint with a primer first, but the first coat has a resin which makes it adhere, while the second coat seals it.

Regards
Steve

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by Tony gould on November 15, 2007, 10:45 am, in reply to "Re: workshop floor paint"
Tony Gould

We have tried various paints over the many years we been in buissness,nothing survives long,we used to keep painting over the bare patches,to try and stop water getting under which is the main problem with lifting.
In the end we pretty much gave up as fed up with patches of wet paint all over the place.
Best i have seen is a tiled workshop but very expensive
Regards
Tony

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by John Kennard on November 21, 2007, 11:51 am, in reply to "Re: workshop floor paint"

Hi just come back from the MechanEx show at Sandown Park and saw the ultimate in garage floors. 5mm hard wearing vynal floor tiles apparantly you can drive forklift trucks over them spill oil, petrol, and acid on them and they will not be affected.

The other advantage is warm floors which helps fatigue standing on cold floors all day, never ever have to paint again. They are so simple to lay the only tool you need is a rubber mallet and a jig saw or hand saw no gluing. Just make sure your floors don't have pot holes in them. Now there I am sounding like a sales man, I am convinced we will be laying a few square meters of this over this Christmas period.
John Kennard.

http://www.pafsystem.com/pages/flooring.htm

Link: paf tektiles

Re: workshop floor paint

Posted by NIGEL BENNETT on November 21, 2007, 1:43 pm, in reply to "Re: workshop floor paint"
Nigel Bennett

See post workshop trader/sales area.

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