Painting laminate flooring?

[kingofthehill]

Evening all.....

Seriously considering doing this but want to try and get pros and cons from people with experience of this before committing....

There's a couple of old threads on here that came up but not much detail in them and I'd imagine that there's more choice of products to accomplish this now.

It's old laminated flooring that pre-dates click together planks. No bevelling around the edges so with glued joints the whole floor is pretty much seamless with no gaps and no texture. Surface of the floor is horrid fake woodgrain print in a vommit orange colour. I'm thinking have a stab at painting it as worst thing that can happen is I have to replace it (no biggy but just want a quick room makeover if possible).

Interested to hear your comments. What to avoid? How to prepare? Best products to use? I am more time sensitive than cost sensitive (hence why I don't want to be pulling skirting off and replacing if I can help it) and looking for most durable finish. It's a bedroom, no shoes worn in the house and no furniture dragging around in this room. Just needs a quick hoover now and again, mopping not required.

Thanks

 

[sparkwright]

Are you intending a wood effect finish, or a plain, solid opaque finish?

 

[Tigercubrider]

All I can say is to use floor paint. Don’t use anything else.
At work we use a water based paint on most of our (concrete) floors but also wooden ones.
Harder work areas have acrylic
CooVar brand

 

[kingofthehill]

Are you intending a wood effect finish, or a plain, solid opaque finish?

Plain solid block colour.

 

[kingofthehill]

CooVar brand

Thank you, I'll go and check that out.

 

[foxhole]

Don’t waste your money , rip it out .

 

[DiyNutJob]

Don’t waste your money , rip it out .

I used varnish (aka transparent floor paint). They are fine.

 

[kingofthehill]

On laminate?

 

[DiyNutJob]

On laminate?

Why not? that water proofs it.

 

[kingofthehill]

So it was done to seal the gaps between the boards rather than change the appearance?

 

[DiyNutJob]

A clear coat increases the shine as on cars. Water proofing benefits cleaning.