Tanking A Garage Floor

You can protect your garage floor from oil stains and update the entire space s appearance with just a couple of coats of epoxy paint.
Tanking a garage floor. Tanking the floor is a great solution that is cheap and will prevent any dampness from. While the second coat of paint is drying on the wall and ceiling prepare the floor. So we got the cleaner etcher and i spent a saturday cleaning one bay of the garage. To really qualify as tanking all the below ground walls and floors have to be coated or lined.
To find out more about this method of damp proofing read our guide to tanking a garage. An existing concrete garage floor slab can be used as a base for your new living area however a membrane dpm damp proof membrane will need to be installed to stop water rising up through the slab. Be sure to allow the proper times for light foot and vehicle traffic 1 and 3 days respectively. Hubby and i thought that having stained concrete floors in the garage would look really cool.
Here we tank a concrete floor that has no physical damp proof course. It might hide some of the imperfections in the floor cover some of the stains etc. Scrub it with a cleaning solution removing any dirt or oil that is on the floor of your garage. Tanking slurry is a specially formulated mixture designed to stop water ingress and ensure that your belongings are protected against damp.
More information about garage floors can be seen here. Tanking is a general building term for coating or lining walls underground to seal them against water hence the idea of forming a complete tank. Dpms come in solid or liquid form the latter being a better solution for garage conversion. We strongly recommend that you tank the cellar floor once you have fully tanked all of the walls.
It is important to tank the floors of the cellar as well as the walls. All you need is a weekend to get started. Clean the garage floor. You should still apply two coats horizontally and then vertically lapping over the fillet joint.
The same method is followed when tanking a floor. Finishing an existing garage floor with a new epoxy coating is a great way to refresh your diy workspace while also making the floor much easier to keep clean in the long run.