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Anyone ever painted a interior concrete floor

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fairyfly · 15/09/2004 20:39

Any tips, was it a disaster, can it look nice, was it hard work, did you sand it? Really must get rid of my carpet, Help! TIA

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jampot · 15/09/2004 20:41

FF - our garage floor is concrete and a friends company supplied the paint which is also some kind of sealant - it looks nice for a garage floor but not sure I'd want it in my house. Wouldn't recommend sanding it as it must surely throw up a lot of dust.

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fairyfly · 15/09/2004 20:45

Could you tell me what the paint is called Jampot, not sure how you make it smooth if you can't sand it, thanks

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essbee · 15/09/2004 20:57

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fairyfly · 15/09/2004 21:00

Jus priced it and even laminate is too much, esp seeing i rent. Need a quick fix.

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jampot · 15/09/2004 21:02

We had our floor screeded with a self levelling compound. Don't know the name of the paint i'm afraid as his company makes it. Usually its used for commercial premises like garages, showrooms etc. If you paint a concrete floor with an element of damp the paint will lift too and it will look crap so its worth getting someone with a damp meter round. As essbee said some floor coverings are pretty good although laminate has to be laid on boards otherwise it looks shite.

jampot · 15/09/2004 21:03

oooh what about "painting" tiles on - natural stone effect which looks lovely. I'm sure paint can be had from B&Q etc or building supplies. and get your landlord to check the damp

jampot · 15/09/2004 21:04

oooh what about "painting" tiles on - natural stone effect which looks lovely. I'm sure paint can be had from B&Q etc or building supplies. and get your landlord to check the damp

essbee · 15/09/2004 21:07

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fairyfly · 15/09/2004 21:10

Thanks jp painting tiles on? will have to look for an example, sounds like hard work to look good

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fairyfly · 15/09/2004 21:11

I have my rugs, they are lovely, just need the pishy carpet out of the house, its just grey muck

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jampot · 15/09/2004 21:11

FF i think you probably daub a couple of different shades on with a rag for that "random" effect and when its dry, paint on the grout lines. Maybe you could borrow a line marking machine from the local council

jampot · 15/09/2004 21:12

i think I saw it on changing rooms or one of those "house doing up shows"

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fairyfly · 15/09/2004 21:20

Like that black and white chess floor that the woman burst into tears at, will be a miracle if i can make this look good

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debra64 · 15/09/2004 21:39

I did once and regretted it. It looked awful when it got scratched - but then I had a dog to scratch it with its claws!

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fairyfly · 15/09/2004 21:41

Oooo debra how, what did it involve? how did you make it smooth etc

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KatieMac · 15/09/2004 22:22

If you use thin masking tape and sponge several colours over the top (then remove) you should get limestone/granite/marble looking tiles with 'grey' grout. You can get floor paint for concrete in B&Q/Homebase etc

fairydust · 15/09/2004 23:00

wilko's sell there own make -then there's international that do one as well

susanmt · 16/09/2004 07:22

We painted our kitchen floor with International Garage floor paint cos when we moved in it was covered in a ghastly carpet that I vaxed 4 times and it was still coming out black!

The floor was a bit rough but with rugs it was OK. We were totally broke having just spent every penny on the house. \it lasted for 3 years, but was a bit hard on knees of trousers when dd1 was crawling!

fio2 · 16/09/2004 07:26

there was someone in a magazine who had painted the floor like a whitewashed grey and then painted italic words all over it, looked lovely. You would have to be quite artistic though I would have thought

SofiaAmes · 16/09/2004 21:55

fairyfly, there are stains for concrete that can look really good. They tend to be in the brown, rusts, tans. I think they might possibly sell them at B&Q. In my house in la, the guest house had a concrete floor with awful carpet and i didn't want to spend much money on it. I stained the concrete floor with a blue water based stain (applied on my hands and knees with a sponge) and then polyurethaned over that so it wouldn't wash away. It looked great! I had a series of tenants with dogs and it did get a little scratched, but it still looks good 8 years later. You can use area rugs for accent and to cover up and not so perfect bits.

iota · 20/09/2004 20:31

forwest/fairy fly - I think I have misled you on essbee's thread - we have concrete floors all covered up by carpet or vinyl downstairs and chipboard covered up by carpet or laminate floor upstairs

No concrete painting for us

NomDePlume · 20/09/2004 20:36

We painted ur garage floor with the same stuff, but it was expensive I think. It'd prob cost just as much to find a bargain decent 'roll end' piece of lino, look and feel a damn sight better too.

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