Case Study: Painting a Large Victorian Warehouse
Client: Warehouse Owner (Confidentiality agreed)
Size of Floor Area: 3800 m²
Warehouse floor paint – Step 1:
Floor after basic preparation
Product Suggested: Regal Clean ‘N Etch
After suitably preparing the floor – Regal recommends Clean N Etch to make concrete more porous (especially new concrete) so that the paint has a surface to stick to.
Clean n Etch
£27.00 ex. VAT£32.40 incl. VAT
Warehouse floor paint – Step 2:
Floor painted with 2 pack epoxy primer
Product Chosen:Â Two pack epoxy primer
This is usually a red or pinky colour to contrast with the topcoat. Epoxy primer is thinner in viscosity to the topcoat, so that it is able to soak down into the concrete, penetrate the concrete. The base coat is anchored in the concrete, not just sitting on the surface. Epoxy primer dries with aa flat (matt) and porous finish – if you could at a cross-section of the dried primer under a microscope, it would look like peaks and trough. This is purposefully designed so that the dried surface-area will readily accept a topcoat, to lock into those peaks and troughs, giving good intercoat adhesion.
Two-Pack Epoxy Floor Sealer (First Coat)
£47.00–£125.50 ex. VAT£56.40–£150.60 incl. VAT
Warehouse floor paint – Step 3:
Preparing the Epoxy Topcoat
Product Chosen:Â Two pack Epoxy Floor Paint (Top Coat)
Regal TWO PACK EPOXY FLOOR SEALER (UNDERCOAT COAT) is designed to soak into bare concrete and provide a penetration coat to anchor all subsequent coats down into the floor.
Two Pack Epoxy Floor Paint (Top Coat)
£55.50–£164.50 ex. VAT£66.60–£197.40 incl. VAT
Warehouse floor paint – Step 4:
Rolling on of paint
Product Chosen:Â Two pack Epoxy Floor Paint (Top Coat)
Regal TWO PACK EPOXY FLOOR SEALER (UNDERCOAT COAT) is designed to soak into bare concrete and provide a penetration coat to anchor all subsequent coats down into the floor.
Steel Roller Frames
£10.30–£16.90 ex. VAT£12.36–£20.28 incl. VAT
Nylon Bonded Roller Refills
£7.65–£14.95 ex. VAT£9.18–£17.94 incl. VAT
Products used:Â Spiked shoes, paint roller refills and steel roller frames
The paint is poured directly onto the floor and a roller is used to spread the coating, rather than using a tray. When painting floors, rollers trays are unnecessary – they are time consuming and you may find it starts to dry in the tray, creating flakes of dry paint which you then mix with the wet paint from the can. You only really need to use spiked shoes if you need to access areas by walking over the wet paint. On such large area, we would recommend rolling the paint onto the floor in approx. 3x3m sections – roller in one direction and then re-roller having rotated your position by 180degrees (this will help to alleviate roller marks).
Warehouse floor paint – Step 5:
The finished job – drying and close up
Due to the age of the building, the floor had undulations. Therefore, 2 coats of the topcoat were used. The completed job – paint is still wet in parts.
Completed job. The quickdry enamel (ford tractor blue) can be seen on the metalwork. Masonry on the walls.
Close-up of the floor.