latexing garage floor

Discussion in 'General Flooring Chat' started by veraflooring, Jul 16, 2013.

  1. veraflooring

    veraflooring Active Member

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    ive got to give a price on screeding a garage, its just on normal concrete with old red painted, its gotta be strong enough to drive a car on, any suggestions on the latex to use?

    thanks
     
    veraflooring, Jul 16, 2013
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  2. merit

    merit Well-Known Member

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    Watco do a screed for garage floors, very strong apparently
     
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  3. dannyboy

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    Is it an oil based paint or a polyurethane ?
     
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  4. veraflooring

    veraflooring Active Member

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    god knows, its not normal paint anways, looks about 20 years old
     
    veraflooring, Jul 16, 2013
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  5. merit

    merit Well-Known Member

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    Best to shot blast, scrabble the paint off first.
     
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  6. Spacey

    Spacey Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Yes paint Defo needs to be removed but Latex is a Big No !
    I'd recommend Stop Gap 800 wear coat screed
     
    Spacey, Jul 16, 2013
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  7. Jambo

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    As the guys have already said, you've got to get rid of the paint first. I did my own garage floor about 5-6 years ago with Ardex NA then Polysafe standard on top and it takes the weight of my Impreza without any hassle. In fairness though, if you're doing this as a job for someone you'd be better doing as Spacey advised as use Stop Gap 800 as it recommended for the purpose.
     
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  8. Pistonbroke

    Pistonbroke Well-Known Member

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    I think the biggest problem with screeding a garage floor is to check it's got a D.P.M. A lot of garages haven't !!

    Phil
     
    Pistonbroke, Jul 17, 2013
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  9. dannyboy

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    Stopgap exterior 850. Good stuff !
     
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  10. Matt

    Matt Well-Known Member Staff Member

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    Cars like impreza's are very light when it comes to loading. They have a wide tyre so spread the weight. You can drive one over your hand (yes it will hurt but wont crush your bones and please note that i dont recommend you try this)

    The issue will be when you try and jack the car up with a trolley jack. Have you tried this? hows the NA got on?
     
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