HMG Paint’s step by step guide to flooring paints

If the prospect of painting the floor of a workshop, a warehouse or changing rooms is a daunting one then the new Floor Paints Guide from HMG is exactly what you need.

Manchester-based HMG Paints will take the building and decorating contractor through what you need to know and which of the company’s range of high performance, durable and versatile floor coatings you should select for the job in hand.

It’s not just the potential size of the job, it’s selecting the correct product according to the use to which that floor will be subjected: light, medium or heavy traffic; inside or outside; what is the existing substrate and how was it laid down in the first place?

The company offers three distinct coatings; HydroPro Floor Paint, Polyeurethane Floor Paint, and 2K Epoxy Floor Paint and the Guide provides a handy at-a-glance reference as to the properties of each.

It goes on to explain the importance of identifying the type of floor you will be working on. Is it new or old concrete, if new, is it power floated because this will have an effect on the adhesion of paint? If an existing floor, has it been painted previously?

According to the answers the Guide takes you through floor preparation techniques including washing and degreasing.