Bring Some Color And Life To Your Floor
Like a beautiful saying goes, “Whenever you fall, the floor will be there”. In that note, what if we could bring our floors to that life like vibration. Be it your bed room, kitchen drawing room, bathroom, playground, hall, office or store. Any floor design is incomplete without the right paint and finishing. Let me give an insight on the different paints that can rejuvenate your floors.
To get your desirable Floor Paint, always check with the service provider some basic parameters. These basic parameters will ensure your floor health and longevity. They are:
Floor Material — The floor materials can be, Vitrified tiles, Vinyl, Hardwood, Granite, Bamboo, Concrete, Laminate Granite, Bamboo and many more.
2. Base Coat — This is the first layer of paint. The base coat decides what finishing can be laid on top. There are three main base coats. They are: Solid Paints, Metallic paints and lustre pigments. Now a days , epoxy base coat is seen as a very good base coat. One can use single or multiple coat to add durability to the floor paint.
3. Top coat — It is the top floor that will attribute the finishing touch and aesthetic touch to your floor. The major Top coats are; Acrylic, Water based polyurethane and Shellac.
After each coat of paint, ensure to give 1 to 6 hours of drying.
Once the above mentioned three parameters, are worked out, you need to select a perfect floor design. The floor design must correspond to your surroundings.
There are various themes available for your floor design. A lot of service providers might charge extra for providing top coat themes. You can also do with simple patterns of paint like: checkers, alternate, tile like and many more. Floor stencils with respective patterns are also available.
The national average for floor painting remain in a range of Rs 57 per sq ft. to at least rs. 3000 per square ft
However floor colors affect health just like the wall paints. So color selection is a very important aspect. It is best to match the floor paint with the wall and ceiling colors.
The floor paints, no matter whatever be the theme are always known by their base coat name. Naturally different methods of maintaining the floor durability are different. Usually any paint service provider will gurantee a time span of 20 to 30 years for floor paint. But you can re paint the entire layer of 3 coats at least once in every two years.
As far as durability is concerned, latex paints or water based paints have less durability and get washed away faster. These are not even resistant to chemicals, humidity and foot step traffic.
The maintenance of different floors like Marble floor, Epoxy floor, Bamboo floor and so on will be different. But the basic method to maintain the floor paint remain similar. Also remember to maintain, spot clean and wash floors at regular intervals.