Sand the concrete clean with a palm sander and 60grit paper don t use water to clean with.
Removing peeling paint from basement floor.
Apply a thick layer of paint thinner paste to the paint spill.
Having done so get ready to apply the.
You can repair just the areas that are peeling.
Let it sit for several hours.
There are different sorts of chemical paint strippers.
I have a basement floor that has been painted at least once and probably with an oil base.
I think i have efflorescence on the concrete walls of my basement.
This is from damp mopping and we plan to use a tsp cleaner.
It is environmentally friendly and less messy to work with.
If it is latex paint use peel away 7.
Then carefully remove the paste.
Put on work gloves and concentrate on one section at a time.
Apply the paint stripper to the wall.
My house is 90 years old with a poured concrete foundation.
Vacuum clean and wipe the area with a clean rag denatured alcohol wet the rag and wipe the concrete.
Use a scrub brush and a paint scraper to scour the surface of the concrete.
Scrape peeled or chipped areas and apply paint stripper.
If some of the paint has already begun to chip or peel scrape it away with a putty knife.
If the old paint is oil based use peel away 1.
In preparing to paint the floor with a concrete water based acrylic floor coating we are seeing the current floor coating bubble and chip off.
The surface is blistering and peeling and i see small white deposits.
The best one to use is peel away.