Painting Garage Floors

Good for more than just coloring your concrete epoxy paint can make the surface easier to.

Painting garage floors. First priming and then painting the surface area. Painting a garage floor essentially involves the same steps as painting any other interior surface in your house. However since it is a floor you definitely have to plan an exit strategy so you don t trap yourself in the middle of a whole lot of wet paint.

Oil and grease stains will interfere with the paint s ability to bond with the concrete and will also bleed through the finish. There are basically two types of paint that you can use on your garage floors latex acrylic paint or an epoxy paint. But you have to prepare any surface you re painting particularly a garage floor that has oil spots all over it and probably has never really been cleaned very well.

And it s easier to keep clean. You ll need a 2 part epoxy kit with concrete etch and surface flakes degreaser floor patch floor scraper and squeegee plastic spackle knife painter s tape a 1 2 nap roller a 5 gallon bucket clay cat litter and a carbon filter paint odor mask. Painting a concrete garage floor may however require more detailed preparation than most indoor painting since it is very important to clean the concrete thoroughly and repair any damage before you paint.