New (to us) house has a fairly large basement with a standard concrete floor. Three rooms have a poorly done DIY "paint-on" epoxy-looking finish. It's not done well and generally craptastic, so I'm having a pro come to grind it off and give me a real commercial grade epoxy covering. It ain't cheap.

My question pertains to a fourth room. It does not have the craptastic fake epoxy paint, but was left in bare concrete.

I'd like to coat it with something to seal it and control the concrete dust that untreated concrete floors create.

What's the best product for DIY application? Looks are at the bottom of the list of concerns. I'm happy to roll on something clear or opaque - makes no difference. The key is durability and dust control.

There are way too many products and I just don't have time to research them all the way I normally would, so thanks for any recommendations.

-Rob

Why not use the same stuff you are using in the other three rooms?

It depends what you want to do.

If you are in one of the high radon zones of Colorado then epoxies etc won't do the job. Also, depending on the age of the concrete even the radonseal products differ in recommendation.

If you're not worried about radon and just want the sealed appearance then I'd echo the above question. Is this one room one that has more social traffic?

Because it would cost me an additional $2,200 to have the room done in the same epoxy.

I’m looking for the best product I can get by the 5 gal. bucket and roll on myself for free.

And again - going for concrete dust mitigation, don’t care about appearance.

-Rob

Drylok likely has something that will work for your project.

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Originally posted by ChuckFinley:
It depends what you want to do.

If you are in one of the high radon zones of Colorado then epoxies etc won't do the job. Also, depending on the age of the concrete even the radonseal products differ in recommendation.

If you're not worried about radon and just want the sealed appearance then I'd echo the above question. Is this one room one that has more social traffic?

The OP is in Maryland, and did not mention Radon. That said...Question - Will Radon degrade the coating and/or affect the coating integrity, or just not keep it out?

No radon concerns. Test was clean during inspection and we have a detector just in case.

This is purely about dust.

-Rob

I wonder if LVP would be cheaper ?

It certainly wouldn't take too long if you count the dry time and smell from the other idea...
I did our basement room in a long Saturday.

And you'd have something just a tiny bit easier on the feet or anything else that might drop at some point.