Hello All !!!! I am contemplating on painting my shop. It has aspenite on the walls and ceilings, and is 16ft. wide by 60 ft. long with a 9ft. ceiling, I would like to paint the ceiling white and the upper part of the walls will also be done in white. I was thinking that the lower part say 4 ft would be painted in a gray. Now I am not much of a painter, and don’t know much about it, I do know it comes in a can.
What I want after the primer coat should I use oil based, latex, waterbased or what, One of the main reasons that I want to paint it is to brighten it up, at the present time it is very dark, even though I have a lot of windows in the shop, the back section is darkened because of a large overhang on the outside.
All suggestions will be considered.
Thanks Jack
Oh by the way how is our FORESTGIRL !!!!
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latex should be fine, it's in the interior right...
there's no need to reinvent the wrench
sparky,
before i moved all of my tools and such into my garage/shop, i painted it. two years later i wished id done a much more of a to my liking job. i.e. today i would have been much more careful about my choice of color. its a big job painting a woodshop. everything must be moved out, swept, cleaned, dusted...
i wish you good going!
eef
I cant help you much on the paint questions but I think you're on the right track to brighten the shop up. I did a white epoxy for the floor a couple years ago and it was a HUGE improvement in the overall brightness.
If you build it he will come.
Sparky,
Go with white latex. Use a flat sheen. All of the big paint companies make a special product for floors. I'd go with white there as well. What you loose in looking dirty you will more than make up for with brightening up the place.
If you choose to go with a roller, don't fool around with the "roller pan". Get a 5 gal. bucket screen, put it in the bucket and go. Better yet, if you have the space empty, get an airless sprayer and spray the whole place, then roll out the floor.
Using white all over will make an unbelievable difference in the brightness and visibility in your shop!!
Regards,
Mack
"Close enough for government work=measured with a micrometer, marked with chalk and cut with an axe"
Amen to the bucket screen.Brian
I'm thrifty so when we bought our new house I brought over 3 5 gal buckets of white from our old house that the builder left behind. My shop is in the back bay of our garage (2 car tandem). The first bucket I opened was a semi-gloss white that I painted my shop with, walls and ceilings. I really like how it reflects the shop lighting, but it shows every imperfection, drywall screw hole, and tape joint in the walls.When I ran out of that I opened the next bucket and started putting it on the rest of the garage. It was flat finish, as is the third 5-gal bucket. Oh well. Now that it's been up for a few weeks, I actually like the look of the flat in the main part of the garage better than the semi-gloss, seems a bit more finished and I don't see the wall imperfections as much. Doesn't reflect light as much but a painted shop is better than an unpainted one. Plus the paint was free and I have plenty, so I can't complain.Definitely use the bucket screen.Use drop cloths and wipe up any splatters on the floor, especially if you're going to epoxy coat your floor. The less stuff you have to try to get off the floor prior to etching the concrete, the better.Erik
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