Painting Plastic For Floors

All you need is a drop cloth and some masking tape.

Painting plastic for floors. Paint manufacturers offer super durable porch and floor paint products and sealers that will keep your painted floors well painted. You can easily protect your floor before you paint your walls or ceiling. Prepping for painting plastic surfaces starting with a clean plastic surface enables the paint to better stick to the material without bumps bubbling or peeling. For floors use a latex satin finish floor paint or a semigloss oil base or polyurethane floor paint.

Use a little elbow grease with soapy water and a sponge to remove any gunk on the surface. So you shouldn t remove that plastic layer completely. With the right amount of preparation however you can paint plastic with success. Spread either your canvas rosin paper or plastic drop cloth across your entire floor.

Secure it to the floor using masking tape and get started on your paint job. And if you re planning a floor to ceiling paint party paint your floors after you paint everything. Keep in mind however that depending on the type of paint and plastic you are working with the paint may. First consider your supplies.

Instead of focusing on sanding down the gloss that way the paint can bond with the material underneath it. You also need a primer and a finish paint. They are inexpensive disposable come in several. Plastic sheeting every paint store sells plastic sheeting for covering floors as well as furniture and other things you don t want to paint.

For walls use a quality latex kitchen and bath paint in a satin semigloss or gloss finish. This gloss is not to be confused with the floor s plastic coating. If you think you can paint floors with regular wall paint you re sadly mistaken. Plastic is a tricky surface to paint.

Unlike wood plastic is not porous so the paint has little to stick to. Paint the floor cutting in and brushing.