Garage Floor

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Zed Five

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Not realy a Zed topic, but i've been recently renovating a house that I bought back in November. It's got a huge (by my standards) 4/5 car garage which is one gigantic room.

The time has come to start work on the garage now, including repainting the floor (which is currently green). I only want to paint it once this decade, so what colour?

Options: Green / Grey / Red / Blue.

My car is grey and Mrs Zed has a silver golf, so I reckon that blue would look pretty cool (and the blue is similar to that of the BMW badge).

Any opinions / experience of good/bad garage paints/colours?

any photos of blue garge floors? :poke:

Thanks.
 
Check this out... a choice of colours too.

http://www.floorpaintexpress.co.uk/garacoat-garage-floor-paint.html

Thinking of getting the grey myself :thumbsup:
 
Excellent, thanks. That's the type of blue that i've seen too.

Unfortunately at thet price i'm looking at around £300! to pain it (grrr!)

:cry:
 
Unfortunately, it does not last. My cars have worn all the paint away where the wheels rest. It just pulls it off the concrete :(

Going to tile it now.
 
pvr said:
Unfortunately, it does not last. My cars have worn all the paint away where the wheels rest. It just pulls it off the concrete :(

Going to tile it now.
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That's got me thinking... ...lino? it would be nice an warm. Might be difficult to keep clean though. The guy who had the house kept cars in the garage and the paint is largely intact, so maybe it really is down to better paint.
 
Wondermike said:
Paint is OK but what about supplementing it with some vinyl tiles where the tires would go?
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You are right, puting tiles under the wheels is the way to go.
My cars tyres used to stick to the floor and lift the paint when moved off and drive me mad.
What I did was to have 12" square plates of 3mm aluminium cut and powder coated.
I then scored the back face before bonding to the floor with epoxy in the places where where the cars wheels sit.
This has now lasted for years, vinyl tiles may not ultimately last as long, but would be cheaper and easier.
 
99p rubber car mats from asda or similar secured by top edge with an aluminium carpet plate has sorted it out for me
 
If there is a damp proof membrane under the concrete floor the paint should stick
 
My floor paint ALWAYS lifts - I'd not bother if I was starting fresh again. Mine was cleaned/prepped, then sealed with concrete sealer, then painted - but it still lifts.

Next time I'll be going for cheap lino - will be cheaper than painting going by prices of cheap lino on ebay, etc. Would love to tile it properly but too much £££ for me to handle.
 
I went for compressed foam mats off eBay. Pics to follow on my thread below...

http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=29832&hilit=Garage+floor
 
Have tried the stuff you get in D-I-Y stores, by International I think (?), but like others have said it suffers from “lifting” when you have tyres resting on it for any period.
So decided to try 2-part Epoxy. I cannot remember which brand but it was bloomin’ expensive! However the bonus was they mixed any colour you wanted.
Being still a bit paranoid I also put some large rubber mats (sold on eBay) to make sure the paint did not lift or flake off.
Now 2-years later it is still intact.
Note: Apologies that the car shown is our TT not the Z4 :oops:
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Having gone for rust red before I'd say avoid, as it's not a very pleasant colour. I never had any trouble with paint lifting however and when using this garage I often left one of my cars in there for weeks at a time. Moved house since then so no idea how it's holding up but for two years it was flake free.

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Blue sounds good, but I'll be going the tile route next time I reckon.
 
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