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spuddevans:
Looking real nice :thumbup: :clap: :thumbup: :clap: :thumbup:
Tim
Rob.Wilson:
way way way too clean looking , mumble mutter :)
Rob
Swarfing:
don't worry it wont stay like that long anyway
ChriX:
You were right in that it didn't stay like that for long - after giving the paint 24 hours or so I went in and just touched a part of it with my finger to see how tacky it was, and the paint stuck to my finger and lifted revealing bare concrete underneath! What a disaster.
Originally I sealed the floor with a unibond/water solution but what seems to have happened is that this mix didn't adhere to the floor very well at all because its the unibond-concrete adhesion which is failing rather than the paint-unibond. I notice that in the places where the unibond had already come off the floor (due to scratches/gouges whatever) the paint has stuck fine.
I have therefore spent ages scraping off all the loose stuff and vacuuming well ready for another coat - hoping for a better result this time. :scratch:
Sorry about how the photos are so rubbish now - I need a wide angle lens! It was much easier when there were no walls or stuff in the way.
Bluechip:
ChriX
If it helps, the first coat of floor paint is often put down thinned ...
I found this out years ago doing a garage floor.
I'd put about 1/3rd down straight from the can, then a mate came up and said it will lift .. :palm:
Did the rest thinned about 3 parts paint to 1 part white spirit. It is somewhat patchy so 2nd undiluted coat needed.
About 2 yrs later the first stuff had largely come off but the thinned 2-coat area was still intact when I sold the place some 4-5 years later .
Look on the tin, when I was told and decided to read the wretched instructions it actually says so on the label. :bang: :bang:
Dave BC
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