Epoxy paint on basement floor, good or bad idea?
 

Instead of tiles or a floating floor, would paint your basement concrete floor with exposy paint?

I have it in my garage for the last 7 years. It's never peeled.
It's great and cleans up easy without staining.

Be sure to put a good coat on then a second thicker coat.

Also don't forget the sparkly stuff that goes in it, that keeps the floor from being slick like ice when it gets wet

they had that on HGTV not to long ago...lol Yes i watch HGTV sometimes

its a good idea and a lot of people r doing it now....

I faux painted mine to look like stone. When the appraiser came to inspect my house he had to get down and feel the floor to see that it was not real.

It felt nice and cool in the summer, but a little cold in winter. That might have just been me because I don't like cold weather.

Even on a basement floor, you would still put that sparkling stuff?

I'd like to see a picture of that floor:winkwink:

yes, epoxy becomes very slick.

If you step on it with wet feet you will bust your ass

Does it looks something like that:
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/254/epoxynr2.jpg

On the other hand, a slick floor is alot easier to clean:winkwink:

I think the big question is what is the space going to be used for? If it is going to be finished living space, I would go with something more traditional looking. If it just storage and work space then one of the many concrete stains/coatings would be fine.

Good solution to a cold basement floor is the in floor heating elements BTW.

The basement is mainly used as a storage, workshop and playroom. There are no heating element beneath the concrete floor.

Even if there isn't, you can install them fairly easily.

The basement clear height is already low as it is. By adding a heating system and a floating floor over it, you would almost need to crawl in it:winkwink:

I have heard nothing but good things about this too. I live in Phoenix and let me just say its so hot you literally feel your skin fry when in the sun for only seconds out here. We do a lot of this to the garage floors out here and there is even a rubberized type that they have started to put down on them as well and it really looks nice and it isn't affected by the heat like paint etc.

Gotta be sure the floor is dry.. when it's getting wet during the year you end up with a mess. If so just go for a cheap concrete paint or even oil

I don't follow! Do you mean, it get messy if you apply it on a wet floor, of if the floor gets wet regularly afterward?

if its get wet afterward ;)

Then I may need to instean a french drain and vapour barriers around the foundation to remove some humidity in the basement.

A true epoxy finish as used in airplane hangers is so toxic to apply that I would never recomend it for the DIY'er. If there is any question of moisture infiltration, you don't want to use any kind of coating that is going to seal it off. Rather try a translucent stain. (Yeah I did TV {and i mean TELEVISION} home improvement shows in my past life). I would ask, what are you trying to accomplish? Is it to make the floor look better, be easier to clean or lighten the space? With those answers, I can point you in the best direction.

not sure if it was epoxy, but i painted a floor with some kind of special floor paint before and put these sprinkles in it that came with the paint. it turned out awesome.

Epoxy is very durable..you can add some grit to it to avoid slippage