Hello, I need to repaint the concrete front walkway to my house. This is a picture of its current condition. [url]http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb330/octavius98115/photo-59.jpg[/url] This walk is at least 25 years old. The concrete is in reasonably good condition except for two cracks that I used Bondo on -- this was suggested by two different professional house painters. Dunno if Bondo was an ideal fix but it seems okay. As you can see from the photo the old paint is very warn in most places. I want four main things out of this paint job: 1. I want the resulting surface to be very nonslip 2. I want it to look nice and last a long while 3. I want a project that uses more time than money 4. I don't want caustic chemicals used on the concrete if I can avoid it I have this same painted concrete surface in the back of the house as steps leading down to the basement, and it can get pretty slick when its wet from rain - hence my desire to make any new painting job I do be more nonslip (I live in Seattle - we do get rain once in a while here). So some of my questions are: 1. Do I need to chemically remove all of the existing paint? So far I've power washed it and then used a rotating power sanding attachment via my heavy duty power drill. This has removed all lose paint that I can see or touch. Is that enough? 2. What is the best type of paint for exterior concrete? From that research I've done so far it seems to be latex? 3. I've read many times that primer is just inexpensive paint. Can I just use whatever paint I buy as the primer too? I don't mean all in one coat, I mean in separate coats. 4. Any suggestions on the best way to get some nice friction in the resulting surface? Here is my current thought based on a pretty cool nonslip surface I saw on a sailboat. I chatted with the guy that owned the boat - he is a professional boat builder - I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work on concrete? Basically, he applied a layer of paint, and while it was still wet he used a large salt shaker to shake course sand all over it. Then let it dry, and repeated a couple of times, and then finally painted over the last layer without adding sand. What else... I have more time than money for this project, so where possible I'd rather use elbow grease than some expensive chemical stripper - and I'd rather not have some chemical stripper near the blueberry bushes growing next to the walkway. Thanks!

Hi, The wall is 10 feet across and 14 feet high. A few of the very bottom bricks about 5 are flaking, 99% of the brick wall is fine. Its an interior wall (the bricks have been there about 200 years). Its in New Orleans. What can I do to stop this? The apartment above (which has the roof above it) had a leak. Thank you