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[slowboy]

mix varnish with floor paint.mines ok after 10 years

[LC0112G]

One bit of advice from me.  Mix some coarse sand in with the paint before you apply it. When (yes when not if) you spill oil/water/PAS fluid/Diff fluid/Brake fluid on a smooth freshly painted floor it turns into an ice rink.

I did my garage floor about 3 years ago (PVA sealed and 2 part garage floor paint) and now, unless you're Torville or Dean it's virtually impossible to stand up in there.

[LC0112G]

Don't paint yourself into a corner! 
My 'tandem double garage' has an up & over door at the front & a pedestrian door at the rear. I set off painting mine at the back at painted towards the big up & over. When I'd almost finished I tried to open the up & over from the inside to find that SMBO had since returned & parked right up to the door ...... the door wouldn't open &  couldn't get out unless I walked over my nice newly painted door!!  No phone in pocket .... hadn't quite been invented yet & she couldn't hear me shouting. I could just about reach the fuse box so switched the lights on & off till she came looking to see WTF I was playing at! 

Ha - I started at the corner away from the door, and painted backwards towards it. Pleased as punch that I hadn't painted myself into a corner, I then went to go home. Couldn't find my car keys, then realised I'd hung them up on the wall - at the far side of the garage from the door. I managed to smooth out the footprints inside the garage, but there is now a row of grey paint footsteps from the garage door to where I park my car 

[Andy B]

Don't paint yourself into a corner! 
My 'tandem double garage' has an up & over door at the front & a pedestrian door at the rear. I set off painting mine at the back at painted towards the big up & over. When I'd almost finished I tried to open the up & over from the inside to find that SMBO had since returned & parked right up to the door ...... the door wouldn't open &  couldn't get out unless I walked over my nice newly painted door!!  No phone in pocket .... hadn't quite been invented yet & she couldn't hear me shouting. I could just about reach the fuse box so switched the lights on & off till she came looking to see WTF I was playing at! 

Ha - I started at the corner away from the door, and painted backwards towards it. Pleased as punch that I hadn't painted myself into a corner, I then went to go home. Couldn't find my car keys, then realised I'd hung them up on the wall - at the far side of the garage from the door. I managed to smooth out the footprints inside the garage, but there is now a row of grey paint footsteps from the garage door to where I park my car