Concrete floors often pose a challenge for homeowners looking to remodel. It's hard to paint, sometimes there are cracks in the floor, and it can be difficult to clean.
Slapping a fresh coat of paint on your floor is only one step when you're restoring your floor, but it's the final and most important one. You can't just use any paint.
Basement concrete floor paint is made to withstand heavy traffic, adhere to concrete well, and look nice. Here are ten of the best concrete paint options for your remodeling needs.
Basement Concrete Floor Paint
Before you decide on concrete floor paint, you need to decide what type of paint you need for the job.
Latex paints are water-based and resist oil and grease. Latex acrylic paints, conversely, are chemical-based and more elastic.
Two-part epoxy paints are a heavy-duty resin that offers maximum resistance to vehicle traffic, which makes them great for driveways and garages.
One-part epoxy paints are latex acrylic paints with a bit of epoxy resin mixed in. They're something in-between with more resistance than latex but less durable than two-part epoxy.
1. Rust-Oleum Epoxyshield Garage Floor Coating
Epoxyshield Garage Floor Coating promises to brighten your garage with a clean, glossy showroom-quality floor. It applies in one easy coat and protects against gasoline, antifreeze, and other paint-damaging vehicular hazards.
Even though it's marketed as being best suitable for garages, it's strictly for indoor use only and can be applied in basements as well. Since it's a highly resistant concrete floor paint, it'll work perfectly for resisting water damage in your basement as well as being long-lasting.
2. KILZ 1-Part Epoxy Acrylic Concrete & Garage Floor Paint
KILZ Concrete & Garage Floor Paint is a single-component water-based epoxy. It's a high-performance formula that resists scuffing, fading, peeling, and blistering.
You can apply this paint indoors and outdoors on concrete, masonry, stone, and brick.
3. UGL Drylok Concrete Floor Paint
DRYLOK Latex Concrete Floor Paint is an all-in-one paint and primer that was made to protect your interior and exterior floors. It's useful in the home, commercial, and industrial spaces.
DRYLOK Floor Paint is non-flammable, non-slip, and Green Wise certified. It's available in five-mixed colors including white, two shades of grey, red, and beige.
4. Supercoat Epoxy Floor Covering
Supercoat Liquid Flooring is an epoxy garage floor coating with a clear glaze coat. It rolls like paint and is an ideal coating to provide texture to a floor.
Supercoat boasts WET Chemistry (Waterborne Epoxy Technology) that allows moisture vapor from beneath the concrete to pass through it. That way, moisture issues in your basement won't affect the coating.
5. Epoxy-Seal Concrete and Garage Floor Paint
SEAL-KRETE Epoxy-Seal Floor Paint is a ready-to-use acrylic-epoxy blend. It dries down to a durable satin finish that resists damage.
It's recommended for both interior and exterior use, such as shop floors, driveways, pool decks, and porches. Slap it on whatever surface you need to be covered.
The 1-gallon option is available in slate gray and armor gray, while the 5-gallon only offers slate gray.
6. Behr Premium Granite Grip
Behr Premium's Granite Grip offers a multi-speckled finish for concrete surfaces. As opposed to the sleek and glossy finishes of other paints, you'll transform your weathered concrete surfaces into a decorative granite look.
Available in multiple shades of gray and copper, you can use this paint both inside and outside of your home.
7. Behr Premium Decorative Concrete Dye
In the same family as the Granite Grip, the Behr Premium Decorative Concrete Dye offers a water-based acid-free finish in 36 dye colors. The finish resembles marble or glazed stone, and the different color options allow you to customize to your liking.
8. Tracsafe Anti-Slip Sealer
Tracsafe Anti-Slip Sealer offers foot traction and slip-resistant safety. This is a great option for concrete steps leading into your basement.
Use it alone to enhance your floor or top another paint job with it.
9. Daich RollerRock Concrete Coating
RollerRock is a rollable stone coating as opposed to traditional concrete paint. You can use just a roller and a brush to improve your home surfaces with a real stone finish.
It's impact-resistant, provides freeze and thaw protection, and resists mold and mildew. RollerRock is also available in fifteen unique colors.
10. INSL-X Sure Step Acrylic Coating Paint
INSL-X Acrylic Coating Paint is ideal for stairs, walkways, patios, and more. It's not only fast-drying, but it has an easy application that fills and seals cracks in your floor.
How to Paint Concrete
Before painting your concrete floor, you'll first have to evaluate whether it's ready for a new coat. Often, you'll have dust, cracks, or other issues with your floor that need to be taken care of.
Worst case scenario, you need to install a new concrete floor. If that happens, a mechanical edger will smooth over your concrete better than a trowel.
A motorized edge can operate at specific angles and move around sinks or protruding pipes, making it ideal for reflooring your basement. If you're a contractor, consider investing in a concrete edger.
For concrete floors that don't need removal, you can use a floor grinder to clean off residue and smooth over imperfections.
They work for removing paint, oil stains, old coatings, and polishing the surface. A multi-surface concrete floor grinder and polisher will make the job much easier.
It'll help if you know what kind of paint you've used previously, as some paints are more receptive to new layers.
Once the floor is level and clean, you paint it as you would any other surface.
Prime the floor if needed, apply painter's tape, mix the paint, and apply. Often, your paint will require multiple coats, which means you have to take into account drying and setting time.
Improve Your Basement Floor
When deciding on a basement concrete floor paint, you have to consider the kind of finish and texture you want. Some paints provide a shinier finish, while others help to mimic other types of flooring.
If you need any help figuring out how to paint your basement floor, or you need assistance with other applications, contact us today. We can walk you through our concrete grinding equipment, coating removal tools, and other related
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