Hello All.
I bought a new build house in Marlborough about 2 years ago. Since moving in the garage has been home to kids bikes and boxes as well as anything else not needed in the house. Now my finances are looking in better shape, I had better start to prepare for "Retro Riding" again. Thankfully, the garage is a double with two up and over doors. The internal walls were just breeze block which I painted using Screwfix Masionary paint (on special offer at the moment). I used a roller, but it will need a coat or two more to stop the white looking grey. This has stopped quite a lot of the dust that was sitting on top of everything in the garage.
I researched all different types of flooring. I had a bad experience with standard floor paint a few years ago, when i painted the garage floor in my old house. As soon as I put my car on it, it tore all the paint up. I vowed never to use this again. I spoke to people about interlocking tiles, and found them to be very expensive. I enquired about ceramic tiles and decided against it. My cheapest and best 'old school' method was to use some 2 pack epoxy paint from Regal paints (made in England). www.regalpaints.co.uk/epoxy-floor-paint.html. It wasn’t cheap at about £100 for the paint alone and perhaps another £50 for rollers brushes etc, but I was assured that once this stuff is down, it’s down. The technical assistance offered by John and Matt at Regal Paints is excellent and they have guided me through the buying, prep and painting phases. Thanks chaps!
As my garage is a dumping ground, I decided to attack a side at a time. Thanks to my lovely wife for helping me to move everything from one side to the other!!
It will have to stay like this for two weeks at least - more on this later. But my wife will have to use her turbo trainer in the confined space - Sorry dear. I will have to have a clear out at some point very soon. Anyone want two metal Ahrend low level units with Tambour doors? Offers on a postcard please.
I started preparing the floor by sweeping it free of loose dust, stones, leaves etc. This was hard work and a mask is advised. It was very dusty, in fact half a bin bag full of dust was swept up. I used my wife’s Dyson on the rest and ended up killing it. Any advice on how to repair it? Anyway - One swept garage ready for paint.
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I started painting at 20:00 (don’t ask me why). The first coat is a 2 pack epoxy undercoat. I opted for light grey, but it went on purple?? Once the two parts of the pack are mixed a chemical reaction begins and within 1 hour, the paint is hard. I had to work fast, but with a belly full of curry, this wasn’t easy!! I painted a small are of skirting board up the walls firstly to give me something to mop against in the future. Then a 9" roller was used to roll the paint onto the floor.
Surgeons tools:
I didn’t wear any gloves and to my horror the paint wouldn’t come off my hands. Gloves are advised!! I used petrol to clean it all off and will be buying some gloves for the remaining coats today. As I was so panicked about my hands last night, no photos of the finished article, but this morning it looks like:
I have to let this dry for 24 hours (until 20:00 tonight) and then will apply the first of two top coats. The top coat is more workable as the pot life is about 5 hours compared to the 1 hour I got with the primer (undercoat). However, the top coat needs 5 full days to harden completely. After this time, a second coat of top coat will be applied and i will have to wait a further 5 days prior to moving my stuff onto it. The tools are rendered useless after the paint dries, so I had to buy a few roller bodies, cheapy paint brushes and plastic trays.
Then I will move onto the other side - oh deep joy!!
Thanks for reading, updates soon.
I bought a new build house in Marlborough about 2 years ago. Since moving in the garage has been home to kids bikes and boxes as well as anything else not needed in the house. Now my finances are looking in better shape, I had better start to prepare for "Retro Riding" again. Thankfully, the garage is a double with two up and over doors. The internal walls were just breeze block which I painted using Screwfix Masionary paint (on special offer at the moment). I used a roller, but it will need a coat or two more to stop the white looking grey. This has stopped quite a lot of the dust that was sitting on top of everything in the garage.
I researched all different types of flooring. I had a bad experience with standard floor paint a few years ago, when i painted the garage floor in my old house. As soon as I put my car on it, it tore all the paint up. I vowed never to use this again. I spoke to people about interlocking tiles, and found them to be very expensive. I enquired about ceramic tiles and decided against it. My cheapest and best 'old school' method was to use some 2 pack epoxy paint from Regal paints (made in England). www.regalpaints.co.uk/epoxy-floor-paint.html. It wasn’t cheap at about £100 for the paint alone and perhaps another £50 for rollers brushes etc, but I was assured that once this stuff is down, it’s down. The technical assistance offered by John and Matt at Regal Paints is excellent and they have guided me through the buying, prep and painting phases. Thanks chaps!
As my garage is a dumping ground, I decided to attack a side at a time. Thanks to my lovely wife for helping me to move everything from one side to the other!!
It will have to stay like this for two weeks at least - more on this later. But my wife will have to use her turbo trainer in the confined space - Sorry dear. I will have to have a clear out at some point very soon. Anyone want two metal Ahrend low level units with Tambour doors? Offers on a postcard please.
I started preparing the floor by sweeping it free of loose dust, stones, leaves etc. This was hard work and a mask is advised. It was very dusty, in fact half a bin bag full of dust was swept up. I used my wife’s Dyson on the rest and ended up killing it. Any advice on how to repair it? Anyway - One swept garage ready for paint.
.I started painting at 20:00 (don’t ask me why). The first coat is a 2 pack epoxy undercoat. I opted for light grey, but it went on purple?? Once the two parts of the pack are mixed a chemical reaction begins and within 1 hour, the paint is hard. I had to work fast, but with a belly full of curry, this wasn’t easy!! I painted a small are of skirting board up the walls firstly to give me something to mop against in the future. Then a 9" roller was used to roll the paint onto the floor.
Surgeons tools:
I didn’t wear any gloves and to my horror the paint wouldn’t come off my hands. Gloves are advised!! I used petrol to clean it all off and will be buying some gloves for the remaining coats today. As I was so panicked about my hands last night, no photos of the finished article, but this morning it looks like:
I have to let this dry for 24 hours (until 20:00 tonight) and then will apply the first of two top coats. The top coat is more workable as the pot life is about 5 hours compared to the 1 hour I got with the primer (undercoat). However, the top coat needs 5 full days to harden completely. After this time, a second coat of top coat will be applied and i will have to wait a further 5 days prior to moving my stuff onto it. The tools are rendered useless after the paint dries, so I had to buy a few roller bodies, cheapy paint brushes and plastic trays.
Then I will move onto the other side - oh deep joy!!
Thanks for reading, updates soon.
