I have just redecorated my garage...............just a lick of paint and a 
tidy up ....but the floor is letting it down.
it has been painted in the past......is flaking off by the door where the 
rain has hit it and penetrated a good few times over the years.
The are some holes that need filling here and there in the floor nothing 
more than 10mm deep just general wear and tear.

I would like to paint the floor again...........any general advice/ pointers 
please please. What paint ....filler ....application ideas ???
I could end up with a rather plush looking garage:)..sad isn't it !

thanks


Barry



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bs wrote:

> I have just redecorated my garage...............just a lick of paint
> and a tidy up ....but the floor is letting it down.
> it has been painted in the past......is flaking off by the door where
> the rain has hit it and penetrated a good few times over the years.
> The are some holes that need filling here and there in the floor
> nothing more than 10mm deep just general wear and tear.
>
> I would like to paint the floor again...........any general advice/
> pointers please please. What paint ....filler ....application ideas
> ???
> I could end up with a rather plush looking garage:)..sad isn't it !


Have never actually painted a floor myself so have no personel
recomendations
had a quick look about found lots of sites about painting a garage floor
but they all seem to start on a concrete base I can find none that start
with a painted floor .I would be tempted to remove the old paint in its
entirety first.

http://www.google.com/custom?q=painting%20garage%20floor&client=pub-9434277007696996&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A1%3B&hl=en

or (if that breaks).

 http://tinyurl.com/dd57s

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"bs"  wrote in message 
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>I have just redecorated my garage...............just a lick of paint and a 
>tidy up ....but the floor is letting it down.
> it has been painted in the past......is flaking off by the door where the 
> rain has hit it and penetrated a good few times over the years.
> The are some holes that need filling here and there in the floor nothing 
> more than 10mm deep just general wear and tear.
>
> I would like to paint the floor again...........any general advice/ 
> pointers please please. What paint ....filler ....application ideas ???
> I could end up with a rather plush looking garage:)..sad isn't it !


In my experience, I have found sealing the concrete floor first with the 
floor paint manufacturers concrete sealer (International Paints in my last 
case) greatly improves the paint adherence to the floor and when it does 
chip off you don't get lost of dust from the underlying concrete.

If  I was doing it again (and could get my garage empty enough to do it 
again) I would do what my mate did, seal floor and pour on a two part epoxy 
mix paint that had "grit" in it and spread in a 2-3mm layer. Worked out 
about 150 in materials but in over 5 years still looks good, cleans easily, 
still grippy and no damage despite his garage being a workshop.