As with floor paints there are two primary types of floor stains from which to choose.
Epoxy floor oil stain.
Oil stains are at best difficult to get out and in most cases can be downright impossible to remove.
By performing general maintenance doing a deep cleaning every few months and removing stains as needed you can keep your epoxy floors in excellent shape.
Getting the existing floors ready for applying epoxy is tedious.
The main one is that your car is losing this lubricant due to a leak.
Epoxy flooring consists of a resin part and a hardener part much like epoxy glue.
Acid based and water based stains.
Typically you cannot epoxy paint over oil grease stains the epoxy will not adhere properly to the concrete.
You can remove most stains yourself with just a little elbow grease.
The most common is that these losses are due to the screw that serves to empty the crankcase is not properly tightened.
Situations in which the garage floor can be stained with oil when you find an oil stain on the garage floor it can be due to different causes.
Fortunately epoxy floors are very durable and typically don t require a lot of maintenance.
Epoxy floor covering offers an easy way to make your concrete garage slab even more ideal since it not only covers all those old stains and discoloration but it also stops the future absorption of oils grease dirt gas and chemicals so the floor looks better longer.
We have occasionally reported results of adhesion testing of west system epoxy to wood coated with various stains.
In fact many people choose epoxy floors for their garages because they are so easy to care for.
Rather than coating the floor in one entire color concrete stains create a pigmented marbled effect.
However there are some guidelines for keeping your epoxy floors clean.
Oil bonding epoxy primer this amazing product is the answer to floors that have been contaminated with oil grease that won t come out via chemical and power washing s.
If your floor is full of oil stains you need to be very careful on how you prep it before applying any epoxy coating to it.
If it s a minor and or fresh spill simply wipe it up with a clean paper or microfiber towel.
First off you need to determine how to handle the stain.
The concrete floor has to be clean and free of any grease oil or solvents before the epoxy coating is applied.
Regular garage floor paints are one part oil based or water based.
In varnish over epoxy epoxyworks 18 we touched on the topic of wood stains under epoxy and warned that some oil based stains would cause an adhesion problem for west system epoxy.
Since then we have done some additional adhesion testing to a number of stains.
High quality epoxy floor paints are neither one part oil based nor water based and all epoxies are not the same and you need to know why so you don t have to do your floor a second or third time.