Reasons Why You Should Paint Your Garage Floor
Prevent dust
Most of the dusty powder you find in your garage collects on your cars and storage items. An epoxy paint acts like a topical sealer which will seal up the concrete floor to make it a dust-free surface.
Dust can get transferred into every room in your house and acts as a grinder on polished floors. It also gets into woollen carpets and causes tremendous damage to the structure and strength of the fibres!
Porous Concrete
Unsealed concrete acts like a sponge by soaking up the vast majority of liquid spilt onto it. When water is spilt onto concrete floors, a damp patch is caused for at least a day or two. As the water rises to the surface it evaporates and so, your floor dries. However, if oil is spilt onto an unsealed cement substrate, it will soak into the substrate.
Once the oil is within the substrate, it will also rise to the surface and unlike the water, it will not evaporate. The floor is now ‘contaminated’. When you apply a garage paint over a contaminated substrate, the floor begins to ‘sweat’, the oil from within the substrate rises. The paint then de-laminates. The importance of sealing your garage floor with the correct epoxy garage primer and floor paint helps to combat and prevent damage to your floors. You should seal the floor as quickly as possible!
Prevention of an acid/ chemical attack
Chemical attack to the floor can cause serious damage to the structure of the concrete and will certainly cause weakness and degradation to the surface. This makes it dusty, unstable, unsafe and at the very least, extremely difficult to keep clean.
Sealing the floor helps to prevent this. However, it is important to make sure that the floor is properly prepared. It needs to be sound, the correct primer applied and top coated with a garage paint that is specifically designed to resist the chemicals being used.
More Hygienic
To seal a concrete garage floor can make your cleaning routine 100 times faster and much easier. Forget all the hard scrubbing. A much easier, simple mopping or wiping of the garage floor is mostly all that is required. A sealed floor will help prevent bacteria and the spread of contamination. The additional use of an Anti Bacterial Coating enables many people to safely store food in the garage.
Slip resistance / health and safety
Untreated garage floors can become very slippery for many reasons, especially when wet. Whether it is just very smooth in the first place, to spillages such as grease, as well as the transfer of water and snow from tyres, etc.
Using an anti slip floor paint will give you a safe, clean surface upon which to stand and work safely.
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Polycote’s Automotive Industry Expertise
Our technical experts establish exactly what your issues are and the maximum amount of downtime you can allow to complete any work.
Only then will we advise on the best preparation and primer, right through to the best Garage Floor Paint option to meet YOUR specific needs.
Since 1991, Polycote have laid millions of square metres of Flortex Professional in all types of vehicle garage, workshops, showrooms, factories, and production facilities throughout the UK.
We know exactly what is needed to give you a dust free, hard-wearing and long lasting solution. We will ensure you get the correct coverage rates for your floors. You might need advice about brush applying the paint or want to know what paint to use on stone, wood, or steel.
From a single inspection pit right through to a full garage or workshop installation. Polycote can help determine if it’s a single pack floor paint, a self levelling screed, or a gloss finish, whether you need one or two coats, or a water based floor paint. We can help!
Specifications such as non-toxic, non-taint, totally impervious, slip-resistant, and easy-to-clean are obviously paramount to our consideration and obviously is the paint in stock and ready for delivery.
No matter whether it’s a tough heavy duty chemical resistant coating, a new floor screed or a high build, waterproof floor or wall coating for an inspection pit you will achieve the excellent results you want.
With next day delivery available and with an unparalleled range of products together with thorough on-site experience and technical expertise.
Polycote can truly offer a single source and long term solution.