Best Paint for Concrete Basement Walls

Looking to improve the look of your concrete basement walls? Masonry paint is the way to go and can be tinted to add the perfect amount of color.

GARY: I have a basement I want to do over. I have poured-concrete floors but poured-concrete walls. I want to seal the floor and the walls and I was kind of thinking – I don’t know if epoxy, like you would use in a garage – epoxy paint on the floor and something – is the same thing on the wall or is there something different for the wall?

TOM: Well, let’s talk about this – these concrete walls. Now, do you have any moisture issues here or are you just kind of being preventative?

GARY: No, no. I made sure that the outside was all tapered. There’s gutters on the outside.

TOM: Yeah. Then you can use a standard masonry wall paint on that. And as far as the floor, the reason to use the epoxy flooring paint is because it’ll be super durable. I don’t think you need to do that on the walls. You basically want to slow down natural evaporation of soil moisture through the walls to the interior.

GARY: That’s great help, guys. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.