I thought I pass along the results of painting my garage floor.
I bought "BEHR" slate gray concrete paint and primer at "Home Depot" for my new garage. I etch it just like the directions said. Primed it and it took 4 days to dry (the directions said it would take 24 hours). I painted one bay of my garage. It checked badly where the shadows fell on the paint. The paint said to use between 50 and 90 deg. It was in the 60s my putting a thermometer on the concrete showed 55.
I waited a month and did the second bay. This time I got in a hurry and painted over the primer after 3 day and it was tacky still in a couple places. IT looked fine except where it was tacky - it checked there worse than before.
Waited another week and gave it another coat to cover the checking. Waited two week and pulled my stang into the garage. It looked good in there.
Primed my third bay and waited a week to paint. Painted last night, glad I am done. While I was working in the garage last nite I dropped a drill bit and it chipped the paint in the first bay (I was ticked that it was this fragile).
This morning I pull my stang out of the garage (it was in for 4 days without moving). The paint came up where my tires had been. REAL TICKED now.
Just thought I would let ya'll know my experiences. I think I will call POR-15 folks since they make a concrete paint that is supposed to be much more durable and be able to with stand the weight of a car.
John L. Anschutz
Allen, TX
68 Diamond Blue Coupe - 302
68 Acapulco Blue Coupe - I6 - 200
http://www.dallas.net/~jjmsansc/parts/Stangs.jpg
I bought "BEHR" slate gray concrete paint and primer at "Home Depot" for my new garage. I etch it just like the directions said. Primed it and it took 4 days to dry (the directions said it would take 24 hours). I painted one bay of my garage. It checked badly where the shadows fell on the paint. The paint said to use between 50 and 90 deg. It was in the 60s my putting a thermometer on the concrete showed 55.
I waited a month and did the second bay. This time I got in a hurry and painted over the primer after 3 day and it was tacky still in a couple places. IT looked fine except where it was tacky - it checked there worse than before.
Waited another week and gave it another coat to cover the checking. Waited two week and pulled my stang into the garage. It looked good in there.
Primed my third bay and waited a week to paint. Painted last night, glad I am done. While I was working in the garage last nite I dropped a drill bit and it chipped the paint in the first bay (I was ticked that it was this fragile).
This morning I pull my stang out of the garage (it was in for 4 days without moving). The paint came up where my tires had been. REAL TICKED now.
Just thought I would let ya'll know my experiences. I think I will call POR-15 folks since they make a concrete paint that is supposed to be much more durable and be able to with stand the weight of a car.
John L. Anschutz
Allen, TX
68 Diamond Blue Coupe - 302
68 Acapulco Blue Coupe - I6 - 200
http://www.dallas.net/~jjmsansc/parts/Stangs.jpg