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    Painted Patio Disaster - Help required

    curses. I'm getting my chemicals mixed up. I meant a Polyurethane based floor paint such as: http://www.screwfix.com/prods/86567/Paint/Floor-Paints/Leyland-Heavy-Duty-Floor-Paint-2-5Ltr-Frigate-Grey Not much choice of color though. I've got it on my garage floor. Great stuff. practically...
  2. Tigercubrider

    Calculating lighting for garage

    Paint the garage white if you can. bank holiday coming up. I painted my brick coloured garage white 20 years ago then painted the floor. it makes so much difference I would certainly have a panel just over the work area
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    Shed concrete floor

    Hi guys newbee here I moved into a property a year ago that in the garden had a 10 by 20ft concrete base which just had a garage removed from it as it was aspestos. Anyway a build a shed ontop and painted the floor with floor paint. I wish I had done my research as now the paint is all coming...
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    Self Levelled Garage Floor - not very hard

    My garage floor is an old concrete scree which is very uneven and with nobbly ridges and bumps. I wanted to level it so... I used Setcrete Universal Floor Levelling compound in 20kg bags. I used the official Setcrete High Performance Acrylic primer with it. I primed thoroughly and left it...
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    solid or self-draining interlocking tiles for garage, and how to prepare the floor?

    Just got the garage painted and I'm thinking of laying interlocking tiles on the floor. I have bare concrete floor atm, not sure how levelled it is but it's not very smooth - some dents and sticking out concrete too. Is the solid tiles better or the self draining type? I think the self -...
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    Floating floor in garage conversion - how to construct

    We are covering our garage and have painted a liquid DPM. We then plan on adding 50mm of celotex to the floor, with some timber supports in places around doors and where gym equipment will be as we've read this is suggested. We can't seem to find any specific details though on how we construct...
  7. JP_

    Garage floor - Dusty

    garage floor paint? Have used in the past, it works. Just pour and brush with a soft broom.
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    First time doing a garage floor (to be driven on)

    OK I've done quite a bit of tiling in kitchen and bathrooms. But I'm finding that however neatly I prep & paint my garage floor, it never lasts long before I spill some brake fluid on it or something. I've got a week off coming up so thinking of tiling it. But I have a few questions.... This...
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    laying vinyl over a mastic floor

    Hi everyone I intend laying vinyl over a mastic floor in my kitchen(mastic residue left from old vinyl tiles) and would like to know the following. Can I prepare the floor with garage floor paint to prevent the mastic bleeding through to the vinyl. Is there any other type of sealer I...
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    HELP!? Keeping A 1970's Single Garage Dry?

    Hi All! First time post but have been a long time reader of the forum. I bought my first property in 2020 which is a 1970's maisonette which includes a single garage which is one of the middle garages in a row of 4. Last winter and whenever there is heavy rainfall the garage becomes damp as...
  11. Tigercubrider

    Garage Floor Sealing

    My attached Garage is dry apart from a small amount of water on very wet days seeping under the door. all it has is Garage Floor Paint. I continued the paint up a couple of bricks as skirting. Another mate’s garage is detatched and we painted a liquid dpm, followed by a membrane that went up the...
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    Concrete floor paint...

    Hey guys, Sorry if this has been done to death, but i've had a search around and not really come up with the answer i want. I've got a fresh slab that will soon be covered, and i want to paint it. It's for my garage/workshop, where i will be dragging heavy tools, car jacks etc over it...
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    Fitting out a garage extension as a utility room, is this feasible?

    I moved into a new place recently, 80's property, where the garage has been extended, firstly back out into the garden, and then subsequently sideways around the back of the house. The second extension has the garage pedestrian door and the original house back door opening into it. A new door...
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    Green mould on garage ceiling

    A recent un-noticed & temporary water leak across concrete garage floor has eventually resulted in white plasterboard ceiling becoming almost totally covered in green mould. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to clean the mould off, prevent it from re-generating (ie. kill it off), and...
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    Insulating garage roof

    I was away for the weekend (garage was empty as I took the car) and came back to find condensation all over the ceiling and on the floor (floor has been painted in floor paint by the way so doesn't just soak down into the concrete). Is that normal? Would moisture from the car have remained...
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    Understairs cupboard floor - need DPM?

    Hi, I'm trying to make use of the space under my stairs by turning it into a cupboard. I've made a whole in the plasterboard big enough to crawl inside and now I'm in I've found a few things that raise some questions. The stairs are open on one side and join an internal wall that has...
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    Garage Doors Wooden Threshold Treatment

    My niece has recently had replacement double garage doors fitted. This included a preservative wood stain on both doors. As the floor was subject to minor flooding a timber strip was fitted to the concrete floor, which the two doors butt up to when closed. (about 2" x 1" x 10 feet) Her problem...
  18. Tigercubrider

    Garage floor painting / damp

    I have an attached garage, and used Floor Paint which has begun to flake a bit but the original floor was prone to dust anyway. It's still good after 20 odd years of working on motorbikes with kickstarts apart from a few problem areas that were there before the paint. We converted a mate's...
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    WIll this Purdy brush set be suitable for all my needs???

    Don't use synthetic brushes for oil-based paints. Don't waste Purdy brushes on a garage floor.
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    new garage

    Hi All, im building a new garage in the back corner of the property,had full planning and tree report done have the garage position were i wanted it to be. plot were its going digger getting stuck in first concrete poured bricked up to floor height floor slab...
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