Thread: why paint the shed floor? Pros/ cons/ comments for concrete

Funny that I stumbled across this thread tonight.

I bought 10 lts the other day. I want with clear.

My shed floor is not Extremely Ordinary. The guy that owned the house before us did it. I think he arranged a working bee & put on a BBQ & a couple of slabs. Thats pretty normal right across this great country of ours, but most people get the work done before the BBQ & a couple of slabs. The cement is a bit powdery, I have quite a few pot holes & you can get sea sick just walking from the front door to the back wall.

I have seen clear floors done, & I recon they look great. The bloke in the paint shop recons if I paint the pot holes & let them dry, Then fill them with the paint, then Bobsyashirtliftingcuz.

My shed is 6m x 6m, (20' x 20'), & he recons I will get 2 coats from a 10lt can. ($139)

Looking forward to doing this.


Steve

Originally Posted by Arch Stanton

I want to paint my shed floor when I get one. I was talking to a mate at work who used to build sheds for a living. He told me that it costs a fortune, more than $1,500 for the good paint and the cheaper stuff was about $800. I found this hard to believe but he rang up his mate who sells the stuff and he said the same thing and said if you don't use the right gear your mad.
I haven't followed up on this since the shed is about 3 months away and the floor a little further.
I'm not going to pay $1,500 for floor paint and I still find it hard to believe that I need to.

It depends what you are going to do in the shed as it sounds like your mate is talking about the industrial grade stuff that you drive vehicles over.
For wood working you don't need high end paint.
I put two decent coats on my 45 m^2 shed with premium concrete paint for $140 and still had some left over for touchups.
At this rate, for $1500 you could paint a shed area of 450 m^2

Carpet layers always have plenty of second hand carpet they need to dump, they will give it to you for free. Sometimes friends renovating have it aswell. It can be in very good condition if swmbo has decided to redecorate.

Had carpeted sheds for 25+ years. Wouldn't have anything else. Warm and soft when your under the car in winter, nuts don't roll too far away, oil spills get soaked up then you just change the dirty patch as you need to.

I have no trouble rolling my 150 kg table saw around on it.

2c.

After a life time of crappy sheds, garages and carports, I finally had a decent garage/shed built 1½ years ago. 6.5m by 4.1m internal floor.

10L of Staseal allowed three coats plus we have enough to do another coat, this came pre-coloured to a grey that appears to be a standard grey.

Cost was around $110.

The place is a dream to clean, virtually no problem in sucking up sawdust, dust, dry dirt and stuff like that. The downside is the ability to scrape heavy stuff and leave marks, or in the case of a very heavy bench placed when the sealant was really a bit soft, leave marks.

I will be going over with another coat when the warmer weather comes, probably around October or November.

Makes finding anything dropped a breeze. Arc welding I do outside, oxy inside (generally) and that isn't an issue, but arc would be with the constant stream of hot bits falling to the floor.

Working on a gear box one day and answered the phone, 20 minutes later, gearbox oil pooling on the floor. Used some absorbent stuff to get most of it up, then a rag, then an oil cleaning product in a rag. You cannot see where it was covered, first place this has happened for me.

As our floor was new concrete, two weeks old, we didn't do the acid etch bit, this was advice given by the Greek concreter. I think he was reasonably right, but next time I would do the etch, but there won't be a next time, this is it, it'll see me out.

Mick.