anyone know a good product to clean glue or some kind of adhesive off the floor. looks like the previous owner put down something that they used an adhesive with and I need to get it up to redo my floor in there.
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Purple Power by Castrol, it is a heavy duty degreaser. It may work. You can get it at Wal-Mart. You can also try brake cleen, that may loosen it up enough to get it with a scraper.
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After taking EVERYTHING out of the garage (which took forever) this is how it looked.
Then I pressure washed it about 9840354807 times. There was lots of acid etching and degreasing too. My floors were thoroughly soaked in grease and oil.
I sanded the floors for about 8 hours with 26 grit sanding discs. It was a huge mess and my body was killing me by the time I was done.
I sealed all the cracks in the floor with a special epoxy designed just for it. This stuff is a stick mess and a bitch to lay down, but the result it worth it. It's so hard that the concrete will fail before the epoxy does.
This is what powderized oil-soaked concrete looks like.
This is after you sand over the chipped areas you've repaired. You have to do this to get a flat finish on the floor.
This is what the floors looked like before I painted them.
This is the finished product after three layers of base coat, paint chips, and two layers of clear coat. My floors rule now. Absolutely nothing will stick to them and all it takes to clean stuff up is a towel. Everything just wipes right off. I spent about $1000 and probably three weeks total (spread out) working on this, but it was TOTALLY worth it. They are the best feature of my garage.
I also had all the drywall repaired by some professionals (because I suck at it), then textured, then I painted it. Including the ceiling.
Now I have lots of big industrial shelves, 48' of high-output flourescent light bulbs, my huge compressor, powdercoating oven, my 3 meter-wide bench, and all kinds of crap in my garage. It is FULL!!!
Paul.
Then I pressure washed it about 9840354807 times. There was lots of acid etching and degreasing too. My floors were thoroughly soaked in grease and oil.
I sanded the floors for about 8 hours with 26 grit sanding discs. It was a huge mess and my body was killing me by the time I was done.
I sealed all the cracks in the floor with a special epoxy designed just for it. This stuff is a stick mess and a bitch to lay down, but the result it worth it. It's so hard that the concrete will fail before the epoxy does.
This is what powderized oil-soaked concrete looks like.
This is after you sand over the chipped areas you've repaired. You have to do this to get a flat finish on the floor.
This is what the floors looked like before I painted them.
This is the finished product after three layers of base coat, paint chips, and two layers of clear coat. My floors rule now. Absolutely nothing will stick to them and all it takes to clean stuff up is a towel. Everything just wipes right off. I spent about $1000 and probably three weeks total (spread out) working on this, but it was TOTALLY worth it. They are the best feature of my garage.
I also had all the drywall repaired by some professionals (because I suck at it), then textured, then I painted it. Including the ceiling.
Now I have lots of big industrial shelves, 48' of high-output flourescent light bulbs, my huge compressor, powdercoating oven, my 3 meter-wide bench, and all kinds of crap in my garage. It is FULL!!!
Paul.
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Love the floor Paul! Mine looks just like yours. Except mine needs to be washed pretty bad. But that's gotta wait till after the snow leaves.
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looks great. :thumb:
Thanks guys. I'm not the best mechanic, best handyman, or best of really anything - but one thing I do have going for me is attention to detail. I really sweat the details on pretty much every project. Maybe that's what it always takes me so damn long to finish anything. :hammer:
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Paul said:
Absolutely nothing wrong with that. They pound that into your head in the Navy (Attention to detail)
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damn it man. that is alot of work you did there. I cleaned mine but didnt fill any of the joints or cracks and such. I will post some pics of mine when i get a chance. I am happy with it just hope I did everything right. guess we will see when the cobra goes back on it next week.
