Beautify Your Garage, Basement, Or Backyard With Concrete Floor Paint
One of the easiest -- and least expensive -- ways to transform the appearance of any backyard patio, or indoor basement or garage area is by giving it a fresh coat of paint. However, painting a concrete floor can be a challenge, as regular paint formulations (designed for other types of surfaces) may not do the job. For this special environment you need CONCRETE floor paint. In this brief article I'd like to describe for you some of these concrete floor paint products, for your shopping convenience --
One reason why you may want to paint your garage floor is to provide resistance to oil and grease stains. And Hot-Trax, the makers of Hot-Trax concrete and garage door floor paint, have a product that will do just that. List priced at just under $60 for a one-gallon canon, this concrete floor paint can be used on any concrete surface -- interior or exterior. It is a water-based paint, yet when dry is resistant to water -- as well as grease, gasoline and oil. It dries for light foot traffic in about two hours and will be dry enough to drive on in about 72 hours maximum.
Another good concrete floor paint product comes to us from Drylok. They make a good-quality, latex-based paint for concrete surfaces. Priced at just under $50 per gallon, this concrete floor paint is nonflammable, provides a non-slip flat finish -- and each can of this concrete floor paint will cover up to 500 square feet.
Don't forget that you can use concrete floor paint on many other types of concrete surfaces: masonry steps, front porches, driveway pads -- and many other services as well. And some concrete floor paint products also provide additional types of protection -- such as RustSeal -- from KBS Coatings. This is a brand of concrete floor paint which can also be applied to metal surfaces -- and when you do so, it will chemically bond to the metal and provide a permanent seal to prevent rust from spreading. Price? It usually retails around $37 per gallon -- very reasonable, as one quart alone will cover approximately 100 square feet.
Finally, if you have a really big concrete floor painting project ahead of you, then you should check out this special offering -- from Valspar. You can purchase, for just over $140, a set of four, 1-gallon cans of their Quikrete Basement and Concrete Floor Paint. That's right -- a set of four cans. This paint dries to a low gloss, satin finish as a low-odor, latex enamel concrete floor paint that effectively resists scuffing, stains and other marks. With 4 gallons, you'll be able to paint the largest garage or basement, and have plenty left over for those other concrete painting projects. Highly recommended!
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