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Client: Warehouse Owner (Confidentiality agreed)
Size of Floor Area: 3800 m²
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[title style=”bold” text=”Warehouse floor paint – Step 1: Floor after basic preparation”]
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Product Suggested: Regal Clean ‘N Etch
After suitably preparing the floor – Regal recommends Clean N Etch to make concrete more porous (especially new concrete) so that the paint has a surface to stick to.
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[title style=”bold” text=”Warehouse floor paint – Step 2: Floor painted with 2 pack epoxy primer”]
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Two-Pack Epoxy Metal Primer (First Coat)
Product Chosen: Two pack epoxy primer
This is usually a red or pinky colour to contrast with the topcoat. Epoxy primer is thinner in viscosity to the topcoat, so that it is able to soak down into the concrete, penetrate the concrete. The base coat is anchored in the concrete, not just sitting on the surface. Epoxy primer dries with aa flat (matt) and porous finish – if you could at a cross-section of the dried primer under a microscope, it would look like peaks and trough. This is purposefully designed so that the dried surface-area will readily accept a topcoat, to lock into those peaks and troughs, giving good intercoat adhesion.
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[title style=”bold” text=”Warehouse floor paint – Step 3: Preparing the Epoxy Topcoat”]
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Paint Mixer Drill Attachment
Two Pack Epoxy Floor Paint (Top Coat)
Product Chosen: Two pack Epoxy Floor Paint (Top Coat), Paint Mixer
You need to use epoxy top coat with an epoxy primer because they are both made on the same resin system (the coats cross-link well, giving good intercoat adhesion). An epoxy topcoat floor paint is an extremely hard-wearing product, suitable for heavy industrial use (eg where stacker trucks are in use). It is important to mix carefully with a suitable paint mixer and to allow the epoxy paint to have the recommended induction period (sweating time) after mixing and prior to use.
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[title style=”bold” text=”Warehouse floor paint – Step 4: Rolling on of paint”]
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Nylon Bonded Roller Refills
Spiked Shoes 30mm Spikes
Steel Roller Frames
Products used: Spiked shoes, paint roller refills and steel roller frames
The paint is poured directly onto the floor and a roller is used to spread the coating, rather than using a tray. When painting floors, rollers trays are unnecessary – they are time consuming and you may find it starts to dry in the tray, creating flakes of dry paint which you then mix with the wet paint from the can. You only really need to use spiked shoes if you need to access areas by walking over the wet paint. On such large area, we would recommend rolling the paint onto the floor in approx. 3x3m sections – roller in one direction and then re-roller having rotated your position by 180degrees (this will help to alleviate roller marks).
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Due to the age of the building, the floor had undulations. Therefore, 2 coats of the topcoat were used. The completed job – paint is still wet in parts.
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Completed job. The quickdry enamel (ford tractor blue) can be seen on the metalwork. Masonry on the walls.
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Close-up of the floor.
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