Painting a Garage Floor- Our Experience
Found a great article online today about the different options for finishing or painting a garage floor. A few years ago we dragged everything out of our garage and went to town using one of those discount garage floor painting kits you can get at your big box home improvement warehouse. The picture looked amazing-- clean, smooth, it even had sparkles. We don't have too many pictures from the project, but we thought it turned out pretty well.
It has held up until this year. Living in Wisconsin, we happen to get a fair amount of the white stuff in winter. After about three years of chaos in the garage, we were able to clean it out enough to park our van in there this year. So, we're rediscovering how wet a garage gets in the winter. Mud, ice, snow, grime, salt, etc., we have it all. All melting into a sludge on our floor in the garage. The floor is slowly deteriorating. Admittedly, the painting job could have been better to start with, but honestly, I'm missing the clean lines of plain old concrete.
Unless you have a showroom, you really don't need a painted floor. Empty it out, clean it, and put a good concrete sealer down and you have a floor for the ages. Go for the fancy paint and other products, especially in a wintry climate, and you can have a soggy mess.
