After removing your ugly carpet you'll probably be left with holes from the nails that held everything in place.
Let's first get that floor cleaned, sweep, vacuum, wet wipe, as much as you possibly can.
Now patch up the holes with premixed concrete like this one I got from Lowe's.
While that's drying, take a scraper and work on getting up the glue and any oddball bumps you don't want showing through.
Some would say sand, however, I hated the dust, time spent sanding and would rather accept that concrete is perfectly, imperfect!
Just to keep things moving I would work on the middle and the outer portions of the room at different points in time so while one thing is drying I can still be working on something else.
Now that the concrete is dry and you've scraped up your glue, let's prime. I used this primer on my concrete.
Once the primer has dried I moved onto caulking. The last area I worked on I did caulking after painting but I didn't like how it left a speckle residue on my now dark floors so I would recommend to caulk before paint. This time around I feel like I'm finally "getting" the caulk gun (yay)!
Now that I've primed I can start to see some spots that may need more concrete.
So while those concrete spots are drying lets go ahead and start painting the middle portion.
Once the middle has dried I'm going to start edging or cutting the edges. I opted to do this rather than use painters tape because I have the absolute WORST luck with it, it always bleeds through somehow or another, no matter how neatly I apply it. So I'm edging but I'm going between the wet concrete spots because...I'm impatient (hehe).
I go ahead and add another round of paint to the middle.
Once that's dried I finished edging/cutting where I hadn't yet.
When everything's dry and looking the way I want it to, I seal it twice with dry time between. I believe this seal is supposed to be like a modpodge. I'm waiting for it to harden enough to bring furniture back in.
I'm loving the dark floors and the NO CARPET concept!
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