Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Floor back job

I mentioned in our previous post that we needed to redo our floor because the paint started to peel off after only less than a year. Turns out the paint used was latex and not the epoxy paint with hardener. Because the bedroom was completely emptied out we took this opportunity to do the floor correctly. We got the right epoxy paint with hardener this time. The old latex paint was easy to remove so after a day of scraping the floor clean we painted the new crimson red floor paint. This took a day, two coats. We then left the floor to cure for 3 whole days. Moved the bedroom furnitures on the 4th day. Now we started scraping off the paint in the living room, thought we just redo the living room floor as well while we're at it. Thought scraping off the old paint would be as easy. We thought wrong. There was a very small portion that was really hard to scrape off, with our substandard scraping tools, ittook us 2 days just to almost completely scrape off all the floor paint. Towards the end of today we just gave up on scraping off everything. At least we managed to scrape off the 2nd coat. Tomorrow we begin repainting the floor. The color will be dark brown like the old paint.

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