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Thread ID: 77850	2007-03-25 04:34:00	Painting outside concrete	Strommer (42)	PC World Chat

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535709	2007-03-25 20:36:00	Thanks for feedback. If I go ahead with painting I will use the non slip additive. I doubt if there is a damp course barrier. We have a driveway and (another patio) area that has had colour added to the concrete when it was poured, so the idea is that the older patio area will have a matching colour by painting. Today I will ask at paint shops and see if I can get honest answers. Presently I think that if I do not paint the concrete, then the I can put the saved $$ towards a new hard drive :lol:. And when and if we sell the house, the concrete can be painted just before putting it on the market. :p	Strommer (42)
535710	2007-03-25 21:27:00	Have you thought about using a good concrete cleaner that will clean all the gunk off? Follow up with a water blasting and you should have a good surface for sometime to come.	Bryan (147)
535711	2007-03-25 23:19:00	About 5 years ago I bought the cheapest fencing paint I could from Resene. I believe its mostly the run off from productions runs of various paints - is mucky brown and intended for farmers etc for fencing barns etc. I used it on concrete (my garage). It has worked perfectly. Almost nonslip - dirt cheap - wears reasonably well and is so cheap that it can be reapplied any time at low cost - I am going to get another tin soon. The only slight snag I found is that if a car is left on it for a long period of time then it can tend to lift some of the paint off when it is moved. It is also popular with those despicable characters who offer repainting roofs to pensioners at grossly inflated prices. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
535712	2007-03-26 02:16:00	Have you thought of out door carpet?	Cicero (40)
535713	2007-03-26 02:56:00	Have you thought of out door carpet? :lol: :waughh: :illogical :lol:	Strommer (42)
535714	2007-03-26 05:51:00	:lol: :waughh: :illogical :lol: CMP put it outside there rooms in Tory St Wellington,.lasted about 5 years. So laugh if you must. Polyprop is not affected by wet.	Cicero (40)
535715	2007-03-26 06:44:00	Cicero, it is a BBQ area and would look very tacky with carpet. It just is not appropriate.	Strommer (42)
535716	2007-03-26 07:30:00	Cicero, it is a BBQ area and would look very tacky with carpet. It just is not appropriate. Oh all right then,use something else.	Cicero (40)
535717	2007-03-27 03:59:00	For an interesting exercise, consider painting inside the concrete. :horrified	R2x1 (4628)
535718	2007-03-27 04:56:00	Steve, you can stain concrete. Resene has a product that I used many years ago (inside on a polished concrete floor as it happens), but it ain't cheap. To open the surface of the concrete, for good bond, waterblast (to remove dirt, old paint, etc,) then acid etch. Glass beads are pretty good as a slip resistant additive, though any antislip additive will wear and require fairly regular top-ups when you do your fairly regular maintenance re-coat. Goddy makes a good point about vapour transmission from the ground. However, if the edges of the path are completely exposed, it should not be able to build enough pressure to blow the paint off the surface, given a path of small width/surface area. Expect any cracking to be reflected through the surface of the paint. You could chase and seal cracks, but you're then getting in to an area of technical know how, expense and work that probably makes the project less attractive. Finally, you say the path is imprinted, why not re-coat with a cementitious oxide coating, then seal with a tinted sealer with slip resistant beads added. That's what would normally be done with printed concrete. Just to add, be careful of two pack epoxy costings, they're often too brittle for the task, especially when the base could be unstable, though those designed for industrial or commercial floors may do the job well enough, they'll come at a cost.	Murray P (44)
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