My wife wants to change the color of our covered patio, but not having painted concrete outdoors I thought I would ask a few questions. First, they sell (at Lowes) both oil based and water based concrete paint. I already know the considerations for using oil vs water on walls indoors, but are there any other considerations outdoors on concrete? I don’t know whether the original paint is oil or water…….
Thanks for any advice,
Frank
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acid-stain.com
Have you considered epoxy? Just wondering as I am painting my garage floor which is sealed concrete and the sealer has to come off b-4 using epoxy according to the labels. Not really interested in soing that.
john
John
Wouldnt the epoxy be slick outside on a patio? I dont know but when I see epoxied garages I'm always impressed by how easy they are to sweep up because they are smooth as glass.
I guess you could add some silica to it to get a rough surface.
Doug
I have Sherwin Williams Crete Shield. (Heard about it from Gary Sullivan) Have not installed it yet but read the "Structions" and it has a non-skid component you can use if you so desire. ( I am gonna use it myself) But it does have a lot of prep requirements.
KD
non-skid component
I figured there must be such an animal.
Doug
Sherwin here sells a jar of very sharply cut silica under the name "Shark Grip" - and its made for adding traction, like to epoxy. That gives enough grip to keep a car coming in from the rain from ending up in the kitchen."Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think -- there are no little things" - Bruce Barton
My folks had epoxy on the floors of the garages on their last house, had something thrown down for traction, no clue of it was SW though...
either way the stuff had virtually zero affect, the cars never had a problem stopping but I can't tell you how many times I fell on my asz.
stuff looks pretty and all, but in my mind a garage floor doesn't have to look pretty...
Hell I havent seen my garage floor in two years!
Correct. You definitely would want to add silica or some other product to make it "unslick".