On Saturday I wanted to get the 'mud room' area of the basement ready for the winter, shake out the rugs, sweep the floor, nothing big. But once I got those things done I looked around and realized there wasn't much else in that area of the basement. May as well move whats left and paint the floor. So I swept, vacuumed and then mopped on Saturday.
I mopped again on Monday night. Because the goal is to get it as clean as possible, and then do an acid wash. The acid wash is the part that needs two people (in my experience) one to use the watering can to put the acid on and then a few containers of water to rinse and the other person to try to control where the water goes with a vacuum.
The actual painting part, that can be done when the acid rinse is dry, goes very quickly.
And can really make the space feel nicer. The specs are dried paint flakes that you can purchase with the basement floor paint, they even come in a shaker. When the paint is still wet you just shake a few in. It might be the most fun part, and not just because it is the last step.
And sometime in the future I can do another section, I still have lots of paint (it only takes one coat), lots of acid and a few of the sprinkles left.
No comments:
Post a Comment