Reviews Dutch Boy Porch and Floor for Basement

Topic Options #192331 - 01/01/10 01:07 PM Basement Floor Paint? So, nosotros finally got the French drain installed (interior, full perimeter), I'thousand almost washed painting the walls with Drylock (incredible stuff) and now nosotros're nigh to pick the floor paint. I need to paint a 55'x26' basement floor, information technology's never been painted, no hydrostatic pressure, stable humidity (thank you to the French drain, which works actually well!) It seems like there'southward a huge variability in toll out at that place for cement floor paints - some are $50 for a 250 foursquare human foot "garage floor" kit and some are $29 a gallon for "floor pigment." Similarly, there seems to exist a huge range of thought on floor prep, ranging from clean it and dry it to etch information technology with acrid and apply a needle gun to scale it. A co-worker really liked the Rustoleum 1-part epoxy, information technology certainly seems like a good cost for what you get. Whatsoever thoughts? Top #192356 - 01/01/ten 04:xl PM Re: Basement Floor Paint? [Re: MartinFocazio] Veteran Registered: 11/01/08 Posts: 1530 Loc: DFW, Texas You might consider using a truck bed liner product. Professionally applied they are amazingly resilient, but phenomenally expensive. Purchase and apply the product DIY, and the cost is not besides bad. I accept had this washed in several customers' homes to dandy issue. Not-slip, chemical resistant, and can exist washed down (assuming you lot take a drain in the basement). In my next habitation, the kids' rooms volition accept wall to wall and flooring to ceiling truck bed liner with a center floor bleed. That way I can wash them and their messes at the same time. _________________________ I practice the things that I must, and really regret, are unfortunately necessary. RIP OBG Height #192357 - 01/01/x 04:45 PM Re: Basement Floor Paint? [Re: Desperado] Geezer in Chief Geezer Registered: 08/26/06 Posts: 7683 Loc: southern Cal Yous might cheque out Consumers Reports. They do paints, but I am non sure they accept tested concrete paints. Unfortunately, I do not have the issue in which they last tested outside pains. FWIW, I remember grayness is a lovely color - merely exactly the shade I would apply to my basement. _________________________ Geezer in Primary Elevation #192360 - 01/01/10 05:15 PM Re: Basement Flooring Pigment? [Re: hikermor] Quondam Hand Registered: 03/03/09 Posts: 745 Loc: NC Kickoff exercise a test to see if at that place is moisture coming through the physical floor. Duct Tape a foursquare pes piece of plastic downwardly on the floor in a random spot. Allow it sit for at to the lowest degree 24 hours. If the underside of the plastic is wet, don't waste your money on paint, it will never stick. Peak #192367 - 01/01/x 06:fifty PM Re: Basement Floor Pigment? [Re: JBMat] Journeyman Registered: 09/fifteen/07 Posts: 81 Loc: SoCal I'd recommend a two pace procedure. First use the Drylock as a "primer." So utilise a good epoxy based pigment to cover. You will need to check to brand certain the ii are uniform though. The idea is the Drylock will accept care of any water vapor coming through the slab and the epoxy pigment protects the Drylock from wear. Any basement will accept some humidity coming up through the slab from the soil. The question is how much. JBMat's suggestion is a good one to indicate how much is actually coming trough. Although I would advise a good inverted 5-gall saucepan over the plastic with a sand bag on top. If you accept too much vapor tape won't stick to anything. _________________________ �Always remember the 6 P�s� (Prior Preparation Prevents [censored] Poor Performance) Height #192378 - 01/01/10 08:08 PM Re: Basement Floor Paint? [Re: stevenpd] Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/21/03 Posts: 2177 Loc: Bucks Canton PA Thank you for the pointers on the floor dampness testing - there's NO water vapor coming up at all - the french drain was strictly for surface water accumulation outside the foundation, nosotros never did have an issue - and still don't - with the slab existence wet in whatsoever way. I did a bunch more research and this stuff: http://www.rustoleum.com/Product.asp?frm_product_id=57&SBL=i Seems to be but what I need. Top #192390 - 01/01/10 xi:36 PM Re: Basement Flooring Paint? [Re: MartinFocazio] Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/01/07 Posts: 2432 Simple acrylic/latex high durability "floor paint" tin can last for years if wear is limited to human foot traffic. And worn through in high traffic areas it is cheap and easy to lay down another coat. Information technology runs less than $30 a gallon. It can fail wholesale if atmospheric condition are poor, the most common failure mode being moisture coming upwards through a slab, simply whatsoever coating can neglect. Interestingly acrylic floor paint breaths a scrap so it tolerates a fleck of moisture. Much more than epoxy or urethane. The deviation is that flooring paint is cheap and if information technology fails in spots it can be pressure done, chemically stripped or sanded off pretty easily and another approach tried. Urethane and epoxy coatings are keen but they are quite expensive, they are preparation dependent and you lot need to follow the directions to the letter and develop a technique. Some are very time disquisitional during awarding. They are as well every bit as dependent on the solidity of the substrate as other materials and if they fail in spots they are a existent PITA to remove so you can right any bug. Acme #192391 - 01/01/10 11:52 PM Re: Basement Floor Pigment? [Re: Art_in_FL] Pooh-Bah Registered: 02/03/07 Posts: 1853 Loc: MINNESOTA skilful timing--i simply finished a "delinquent" project.what started as merely moving those trash cans of bird seed from under the steps turned into one where i ripped off the old carpet from them and repainted the steps,the floor beams around them and started on the floor. i just used Dutch Boy Porch and Floor paint and information technology seems similar good stuff with lots of that filler they put in to thicken it upwardly. a glaze on everything and a second on the treads with the not skid grit added.i did a patch at the bottom on the steps on the flooring with the grit and without it over by the floor bleed and wash tubs. this is a working basement and not a family unit room and then every part volition non exist done. epoxy pigment--years agone on a summertime job i worked for a identify that put that stuff downwardly on factory floors.you lot have to work fast as it sets upwards and it really stinks.nosotros worked on weekends when these places were shut down.i also painted the sub floor,nether the duck boards,in the hot tub room at my cabin and once again heavy fumes.i had all the windows open and fans running. Meridian #192394 - 01/02/10 12:11 AM Re: Basement Floor Paint? [Re: CANOEDOGS] Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/01/07 Posts: 2432 Looks good to me CANOEDOGS. Runaway projects are a constant problem. I start doing some small thing and the projection grows to ballsy, often Biblical, proportions. And often, in the end, the original task gets missed. Top #192396 - 01/02/ten 12:43 AM Re: Basement Floor Paint? [Re: Art_in_FL] Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/21/03 Posts: 2177 Loc: Bucks County PA Looks skilful to me CANOEDOGS. Delinquent projects are a constant trouble. I start doing some small matter and the project grows to epic, often Biblical, proportions. And often, in the end, the original task gets missed. Please. The basement project is at a level of "epic" at present. ten years ago, we moved in, with assurances that the basement "never flooded." So, I prepare to work nights and weekends, and I built out the basement over the summer - prissy finished (sheetrock) walls, paint, carpet - the works. Our second Wintertime in the house comes, and when there's snow and ice, turns out that the basement does not "flood" only water does arrive via heavy external pressure level on the block foundation. Wife says we demand french drain. I remember it'due south an anomaly, rent some commercial dehumidifiers and all is well...until next winter... And then, the pattern is established - wintertime=wet basement. I end up tearing out EVERYTHING - to the bare walls - so they can come and do a total perimeter drain. Everything has to exist moved iv' off the walls. Well, that means I need to movement the water tank so they tin work (which was in a strange/bad spot anyway), and well, while I'm at information technology, I'll motion the softener and neutralizer, and oh, those need to have the electric hookups moved, and while I'm at it, since I have to do all that plumbing anyway, I'll motility the washer and dryer 3 feet to the correct, which means I'll need to extend the drain lines and supply lines and movement the 220 line, which actually should be re-routed, so I pull it all the way from the breaker box OVER There and while I have the breaker box open, well, it seems that there's a few things that should be re-bundled in in that location, and I should add some other branch to the generator console...then the drain is all done, and now all the walls need to be painted with drylock (did that all the last calendar week) and now that the walls are painted, we like how bright information technology is we want information technology brighter then then I have to install some more lighting, but then information technology seems that the wood stove might be better if we turned it 90 degrees.... and then it goes. 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