Pealing Concrete Floor Paint

Pealing concrete floor paint is often a homeowner's efforts to dress up the garage or basement with the wrong type of floor paint. Unfortunately it more often than not does not work out well. Although a dirty and stained concrete is usually the standard for home garages and basements, the eyesore of blisters, pealing, and chipping of a painted concrete floor is often the result of the homeowner's failure to do it right and not using the right paint. A new method in technology in floor painting solves the problem of painting concrete floors.  

Concrete epoxy paint is the best way to prevent pealing concrete floor paint. It is weather resistant to rain, snow, oil, and heavy traffic. This resistance is due to the epoxy coatings, which come in two parts.

When the two parts are mixed a catalyzing process changes these two parts from a liquid to a permanent solid when dry. Epoxy paint is superior because regular paint is either a water or a solvent based paint that when the water or the solvent evaporate in the drying process the resulting paint will dissolve when water or a solvent comes in contact with it again.

Because concrete floors such as garages and basements are subject to water and solvents from automobile traffic the paint will soften and peal leaving a nasty looking mess that looks worse than the raw concrete before being painted.

Even if the paint does not peal it is susceptible to blistering and chipping. However, water and most solvents have no effect on epoxy painted surfaces. These epoxy painted surfaces have been successfully used in heavy industrial plants for many years. Contaminates such as mold and mildew, will not penetrate the epoxy painted surface and can be easily washed away.

Preparation is the most important part when applying epoxy paint. The floor must be thoroughly clean of all dust, dirt, and oils so the epoxy will penetrate the pours of the concrete and hold firmly.  Applying epoxy paint to new concrete is not recommended until it has cured for approximately six months.