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bak
Citizen
Username: Bak
Post Number: 410
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 1:15 pm: |     |
With good intentions, I painted our stone basement floor with that regular gray floor paint--turns out that the stone had been sealed with polyurethane or some other substance.
Now my wife wants my head on a platter because the floor paint is lifting up in small pieces and finding its way into everything.
Can I apint over it, or is there a substance I can apply that will lift this floor paint up easily? Thanks! |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1951
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 2:29 pm: | |
The irony is that when you lift the gray paint, whatever you use will probably also lift the poly coating & you'll have to repaint with the gray. 
Sorry- don't mean to make light of it. You can probably use Peel Away, but I would defer to the folks who usually have good suggestions on this type of stuff (Berkley, Tjohn, Roccon). |
tjohn
Citizen
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2043
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 8:10 pm: | |
I can't help much. I have painted part of my basement floor using an epoxy floor paint from Riccardi and it has worked really well. I would imagine that if you roughed up the existing surface, this epoxy paint would stick and not flake off. |
Richard O'Connor
Citizen
Username: Roconn
Post Number: 71
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 2:44 pm: | |
My feeling would be one of the TWO PART epoxy type floor paints usually used for high traffic floors like garages .... There was a recent article in the Handyman magazine ... about a two part floor that had additional 'flecks' you sprinkled on that they felt was good in many floor situations. .. I'll try to find a link to the article ... here it is .. http://www.rd.com/familyhandyman/article.do?siteId=1111&categoryId=6002&contentI d=230
Hope this helps
It will bond and stick where the plain latex floor paint did not.
PREP THOUGH will be the time consumer as there are NO GOOD SHORTCUTS to the prep on a two part expoxy type flooring ....
Richard (ROC)
--Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.--
--AIM: ROConn |
bak
Citizen
Username: Bak
Post Number: 411
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 9:49 am: | |
Because it's such a large surface area, I was considering using my power washer and wet-vac in tandem to see what I could lift up.
Thank you all for your advice! |
Richard O'Connor
Citizen
Username: Roconn
Post Number: 96
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 10:22 am: | |
Gas Power Washer? (wait till you can vent the basement while using it) cause otherwise you could end up dead. 
But that sounds like a good idea in theory ... although its definately a two person project
Richard (ROC)
--Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.--
--AIM: ROConn |
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