Seal garage concrete floor

  • Erstellt am 2016-04-12 00:00:58

kernm23

2016-04-12 00:00:58
  • #1
I have had 2 precast concrete garages for a week. I might want to seal the floor to make it more resistant to dirt. Would you recommend sealing? Which sealing would you recommend? What do you think about [Kaliwasserglas]?
 

Bieber0815

2016-07-11 22:13:17
  • #2
We have a precast concrete garage from the company Rekers. I want to seal the floor. What I have learned is that such a sealing should be resistant to
- oil, diesel, gasoline
- (weak) acids and alkalis
- plasticizers (from car tires)
Furthermore, the coating should be vapor permeable (against rising moisture).

The means of choice are apparently two-component coating systems based on epoxy resin. These are sold as "2K garage seal," "2K floor sealing," or "2K coating" (generally: aqueous two-component epoxy resin sealing) in the trade. The following structure is usually recommended:
- primer
- 1 to 2 coats
- topcoat (sealing)

Optionally, quartz sand or glass beads can be incorporated into the top layer as an anti-slip additive. It is also optional to sprinkle colored chips into the top coat (the surface is thus not uniformly gray but black/white or colorful speckled).

Besides epoxy resin dispersions, there are those based on acrylic (less common?) and single-component floor paints/concrete paints (simpler, cheaper). I do not know the former or could not find any useful information, while the latter usually lack the aforementioned resistances.

Potassium water glass seems rather unsuitable for floors (or differently: secondary to the aforementioned solutions).

Questions to the group:
- Have you had any experience with specific products from the hardware store?
- How many layers did you apply?
- Did you use anti-slip additives?
 

One00

2016-07-11 23:58:39
  • #3
Search function "Epoxy resin"
 

Bieber0815

2016-07-12 06:57:11
  • #4
- Here, , you report about your basement floor, but without the dirty details (The rest of the thread is about the living area ...) - Here, , the question was already asked, without a conclusive answer. It’s not as if I hadn’t already searched ...
 

One00

2016-07-12 11:36:28
  • #5
Due to the stress from car tires and especially the small stones in the tread, I would rather choose a thick coating instead of a paint in the garage. Of course, that costs significantly more, but it is also much more resistant. The application is quite simple, I described that in the other thread, provided that you observe the safety regulations. I'll send you a DM with the info about what exactly I ordered.
 

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