Concrete floors are one of the most inexpensive and low maintenance flooring options.
Removing paint from concrete porch floor.
Try hand scraping and wire brushing off flaking paint on delicate surfaces or sand water blasting for concrete that can handle higher pressure cleaning.
Start early and you should be able to complete a porch in one day.
To get oil out of concrete or remove unsightly paint or other stains fill both buckets with hot or warm water and add several squirts of dish soap to one of the buckets.
In this video i use an angle grinder with a diamond wheel and dust collection to remove old floor paint from a concrete porch.
Yet where there s a will there s a way.
Remove paint stripper residue.
If you ve ever spilled paint on your driveway patio or garage floor you probably accepted that it wasn t going away.
If you don t already own a pressure washer or sand blaster you can rent these from local tool rental stores or your nearest big box home supply store.
Follow this tutorial to successfully remove paint stains from your driveway or patio.
Paint stains on concrete completely disappear using this method leaving you with a clean surface for repainting if necessary soda blasting is also an environmentally friendly way to remove paint from concrete and causes no damage to the underlying concrete.
If you don t have concerns about damaging your walls or concrete floor old paint can be powered off with a pressure washer or sand blaster.
Sweep the area to clean away dirt and debris.
However if there are any stains on it you need to know how to remove it efficiently.
Peeling paint is not only unsightly but it can trap moisture against the concrete of the porch which can cause the concrete to erode over the time.
There are many ways by which paint stains can be removed from concrete flooring.
Chemical cleaning paint stripper may be useful for older stains covering small areas.
Use the edge of a scraper to remove as much of the paint as possible.
There s no doubt that removing paint from concrete is time consuming and laborious.
Soda blasting is a great way to remove paint from large areas of concrete.
Carefully follow the directions that.
For this stage of the job so long as you re working on a compact concrete patch you can probably get by with a wire scrub brush or a paint scraper.
Removing paint can give a porch new life.