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I'm planning to paint my garage floor with the Behr one-part epoxy paint from Home Depot. They recommend using cleaning and etching solutions before putting down the primer. My garage floor is 40 years old, quite dirty, greasy, paint-stained, etc. in many places, and with a rather slick hard surface.
Like most houses in this area of California, we have no basement. Most folks here who do anything puttering around their house, have kids, or go camping end up using the garage for storing stuff other than their cars. So only about a third to a half of my 2-car garage will be available for a shop. And, right now, the remainder is piled deep with stuff, some on rolling bakers carts, others just in boxes on the floor.
I'm wondering whether to do the largely manual cleaning (i.e., wet floor, pour on cleaning solution, scrub with brush, rinse off with hose) recommended on the HD prep bottles, or to borrow or rent a pressure washer to handle it. My fear is that the pressure washer may splash all over the freshly painted walls or piles of stuff, unless I go to considerable effort to cover everything with plastic tarps. But, then, even using the garden hose to rinse the solution off the floor is likely to soak some stuff.
I noticed that one of the pressure washer makers has a $60 round floor cleaner accessory that floats just above the floor surface on jets of water, with rubber skirt on the perimeter keeping the water spray confined under the tool. Anyone used this thing? If so, how do you clean up the dirty water left behind?
Any suggestions, short of emptying the entire garage and covering walls with plastic, for doing this odious job?
Like most houses in this area of California, we have no basement. Most folks here who do anything puttering around their house, have kids, or go camping end up using the garage for storing stuff other than their cars. So only about a third to a half of my 2-car garage will be available for a shop. And, right now, the remainder is piled deep with stuff, some on rolling bakers carts, others just in boxes on the floor.
I'm wondering whether to do the largely manual cleaning (i.e., wet floor, pour on cleaning solution, scrub with brush, rinse off with hose) recommended on the HD prep bottles, or to borrow or rent a pressure washer to handle it. My fear is that the pressure washer may splash all over the freshly painted walls or piles of stuff, unless I go to considerable effort to cover everything with plastic tarps. But, then, even using the garden hose to rinse the solution off the floor is likely to soak some stuff.
I noticed that one of the pressure washer makers has a $60 round floor cleaner accessory that floats just above the floor surface on jets of water, with rubber skirt on the perimeter keeping the water spray confined under the tool. Anyone used this thing? If so, how do you clean up the dirty water left behind?
Any suggestions, short of emptying the entire garage and covering walls with plastic, for doing this odious job?
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