Any commercial or industrial building that you rent out, you'll find that it comes with a bare concrete floor. What should you do to the floor? Should you just leave it be and bring in your equipment? Or should you paint or coat it in some way? If you decide on some kind of treatment, epoxy painted concrete is a great idea?
Now there are a number of reasons why you would want to coat your concrete floors with something. When that's done, it will look better, anything that spills won't stain the floor or be impossible to remove, it will prevent the concrete from getting moist the way it tends to do in humid weather, and it can be great for chemical resistance. A drab and untreated concrete floor can be a pretty sad-looking thing.
Of course, using epoxy paint for concrete doesn't always work out well. Sometimes, the application isn't done as well as it should be. And the coating begins to come off. If that happens, it can really bring work at your place to a standstill as workers go about repairing the coating. Basically, if you possibly can think of a way you can do without the coating, that wouldn't be a bad idea.
It's hard to say why a coating of toxic paint for concrete should fail. But there are a number of possible reasons why this might happen. It's possible that the concrete isn't adequately prepared. If there's oil on the surface or even dirt, that could make it hard for the proxy to stick. Sometimes, the concrete that is laid down in the area just lets off too much water vapor. Constant pressure from water vapor under the surface can cause it to become unstuck. Sometimes, while the epoxy paint stick well to the concrete, the concrete doesn't stick well to the base. The concrete itself begins to come off.
The best kind of concrete surface to coat with epoxy paint is the kind you see on the every sidewalk in a clean neighborhood. It's been out there in the sun for ages and it weather-cured. There's never been any paint or oil or anything on it. If the floor you have has already been used for some kind of industrial purpose, it's possible people have spilled things there, that there is oiliness involved and so on. Surface preparation should be the thing that you worry about the most.
You could probably take care of most problems by calling someone in to shot blast the floor. And then, you could water blast the floor. With this, you should probably take your every kind of problem.
Epoxy paint for concrete sells at about $500 a gallon on average. But there are varieties that sell for a mere $50, too. The paint usually contains 50% solvents and 50% epoxy. Modern paint contains no solvent it's all. These happen to be the most expensive kind.
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So now that you know more about epoxy paint for concrete, here is more information on using epoxy as a floor coating.
Epoxy floor coatings can be found in garages across the country. These coatings provide enduring protection to cement floors with a shiny finish that is easily recognizable. The floor paint is readily associated with garages and the occasional porch. From time to time epoxy floor coatings can be found in basements, like the basement in my home.
When my husband and I moved into our new home, we knew that we would be challenged with removing odors left behind by the previous owner's pets. The person who sold the home to us was an avid cat lover and dog enthusiast and her home reflected that. She kept her four cats and two large dogs close to her at all times and they were equal partners in the house.
After she moved out, there were tell-tale signs that animals took residence in the home. Once we got rid of the fur and the fleas, we were faced with removing the odor. This was no easy task. We tried a number of products that had great results upstairs, but the basement was still filled with pet odor. My husband chose to apply a couple epoxy floor coatings on the basement floor to address the problem.
The epoxy floor coatings did the trick, but at a price. The industrial-strength product is extremely strong and very effective and that is reflected in its chemical odor. The smell left behind by the animals was completely engulfed by the smell of the epoxy floor coating but the latter odor was a welcomed change.
We had to stay in a hotel while the fumes worked their way through the home, but after a relaxing weekend away, we came back to a practically odor-free home. The epoxy floor coating also addressed some moisture problems in the basement, covering mold and mildew accumulated before the wall was repaired. This professional-grade paint took care of two significant odor problems at once.
The basement floors are now clean, shiny and odor-free. The colors of the epoxy floor coatings are limited and none would be on my top ten list of ideal floor finishes, but after all is said and done, I am very happy with the results. The floors are easy to maintain and the odd color can be covered with a nice, thick carpet.
We have no plans to keep any pets in the home right now, but we may in the future. Now that the place is clean and odor-free, I feel as if we have a brand new house that may need a couple pets to really make it a home.
We hope that this information was helpful to you and that you'll be able to make good choices when it comes to using epoxy paint for concrete.