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Garage Painting Services We Cover
Garage work covers three separate surfaces with three separate specifications: the floor, the walls, and the door. They are usually quoted together and are genuinely different jobs.
In Green Point the garage is often a basement or semi-basement bay in a block rather than a freestanding structure attached to a house. That changes things - access is shared, work has to be sequenced around residents' parking, ventilation is limited, and the slab is frequently below the surrounding ground level with moisture moving through it.
It also means that in a block the garage or parking area is common property, so the work is a body corporate decision rather than an individual one. See estate and body corporate painting for how those projects are structured.
Why Paint Your Garage Floor?
- Bare concrete dusts continuously, and that dust ends up on the car, in the store room and through the building
- Concrete is porous, so oil and fluids stain permanently and moisture moves freely through the slab
- A coated floor is sealed against the chloride-laden moisture that attacks reinforcing in coastal basements
- Light-coloured floors dramatically improve visibility in the poorly lit basement parking common in Green Point blocks
- Sealed floors sweep and wash clean rather than absorbing everything spilled on them
- Bay numbering, demarcation and safety lines can be incorporated properly rather than painted on afterwards
Garage Floor Paint vs Epoxy Coating
These are not the same product and the difference in service life is substantial. Floor paint is a thin, single-pack coating that sits on the surface. It is inexpensive, quick to apply and appropriate for a low-traffic domestic garage - and it will wear through under tyre scuffing within a few years.
Epoxy is a two-pack system that bonds into the prepared surface and builds real thickness. It resists tyre pickup, oil and chemicals, and in a shared parking basement with daily vehicle movement it is the only sensible specification.
The deciding factor in Green Point is usually moisture rather than traffic. In a below-ground bay, epoxy applied over a slab with rising moisture will delaminate no matter how well it is laid, which is why we moisture-test before recommending either. Full detail on epoxy floor coating.
Garage Door Painting
The door is metalwork, and in Green Point that means treating it as a corrosion problem rather than a decorating one. Steel and aluminium doors facing anywhere near the sea carry a salt film that holds moisture against the surface permanently.
Preparation follows the same rules as any coastal metalwork: fresh-water wash to remove chlorides, mechanical preparation back to sound metal, and a primer appropriate to a high-corrosivity position rather than a general-purpose metal primer. Galvanised and aluminium doors additionally need degreasing and etch priming, because standard primers will not key to them.
Sectional and roller doors have moving parts, and the running gear should be protected during coating and checked afterwards. A door that is painted beautifully and then binds on its tracks is not a finished job. See anti-rust coatings for the full metalwork specification.
Our Garage Painting Checklist
- Moisture testing on any below-ground or ground-level slab before specifying a floor system
- Mechanical preparation of the floor by grinding, not acid etching
- Oil and fluid contamination fully removed before coating
- Walls checked for damp, which is common in semi-basement bays, and treated before painting
- Door prepared as coastal metalwork with the correct primer for the substrate
- Running gear protected during work and checked on completion
- Bay numbering and demarcation included where required
- Work phased around resident parking access in shared basements
Frequently Asked Questions
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