Often, garage floors are very dusty and these are spaces that need to be cleaned very regularly. If you’re looking for a durable and easy-to-clean flooring, know that garage floor paint is among the best solutions. Follow our expert’s advice to carefully choose the paint according to the specific needs of a garage.
A garage floor is exposed to many things. It must support the weight of numerous objects such as one or more automobiles, it receives a lot of foot traffic, and it is often exposed to many aggressions such as stains from various products. As a result, it’s logical that an unsuitable, delicate, or poor-quality paint is likely not to last in the long term. Take the time to select the best possible garage floor paint before starting this work.
The 3 types of garage floor paints recommended:
Epoxy paint
Thanks to its hardening component, epoxy paint proves to be very solid once applied. It provides a resistant floor that is very easy to dust and clean while still ensuring good coverage of the floor that smooths out imperfections. It is the perfect paint for a cement floor.
Polyurethane paint
Polyurethane paints, which are very resistant and have excellent durability, are specifically made to cover floors and particularly high-traffic areas. They are excellent resins for a garage floor and are more or less non-slip depending on the varieties. These paints give a beautiful glossy (mirror-like) effect and can be applied to wooden floors after dusting and sanding.
Alkyd-urethane paint
Like epoxy and polyurethane paints, alkyd paint is very resistant and therefore particularly suitable for floor application. It also has the advantage of having all the properties of water-based and oil-based paints. Indeed, it has little odor, it dries very quickly (less than an hour), it is low in toxicity, and it can be cleaned with water. It can be found in many colors and applied to all types of floors.
While choosing the type of paint is important, you also need to inform yourself about its application on a garage floor to achieve a well-done garage floor. It is indeed recommended to sand, sand blast, and strip the floor if it is already painted. Then take the time to thoroughly clean the room, remove dust, and finally apply masking tape at the bottom of the walls to clearly define the area to be painted. Once the garage floor is prepared, the paint application is then carried out starting from the side opposite to the room’s exit, beginning with the corners and edges using painting tools adapted to the shapes of your garage. With a roller, then work on the largest surface by painting parallel strips. Once the entire floor is covered, you need to wait according to the drying indication written on your paint can, then apply the second coat before waiting several days before driving your car on the paint.
If you have a project to repaint your garage floor but don’t want to do this task alone, you can also call on flooring professionals who will take care of painting your garage in an optimal and durable way.
