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Started by Slide Panda, November 22, 2011, 06:05:00 AM

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Slide Panda

November 22, 2011, 06:05:00 AM
So I now have a garge (finally). But the cement floor is original (1956) and seen some better days. As much as I think I'd like an epoxy floor, the amount of prep work needed is just out of scope and budget. So I've turned my eye towards the tiles.

Seems that the two big dogs are RaceDeck and SwissTrax. The offer very similar products and competitive prices. I've been looking on line, and there seems to be a pretty even, but oddly factionalized split on folks preferred brand.

Anyone here have FHE with these sorts of floor coverings? 
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Raux

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November 22, 2011, 07:01:48 AM
I don't have any, but I did a search after your post. LOVE that stuff.

I also found Dynotile?

ducatiz

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November 22, 2011, 07:05:25 AM
How bad is your floor that you think the prep is too much for an epoxy finish?  The epoxy will cover almost anything.

Most of the tile systems are about the same.  If you glue them, leave the ones under your car un-glued so you can pick them up and get oil out.
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#3
November 22, 2011, 07:06:40 AM
I'm a big fan of the epoxy.

What's your budget?

I did 900sq/ft here at the shop for about $600 including all the prep work and product.

It's sooo easy to clean and looks great.
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November 22, 2011, 07:48:27 AM
I used linoleum tiles from home depot and Armstrong glue.  I washed, swept, washed again and let dry.  I did a 20x20 garage for under $300 and 8 years later no tiles are coming up or fractured.  You can buy any color combo you want and it's easy to repair.  Just my 2 cents.  Here's a pic

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Slide Panda

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November 22, 2011, 08:02:46 AM
Quote from: ducatiz on November 22, 2011, 07:05:25 AM
How bad is your floor that you think the prep is too much for an epoxy finish?  The epoxy will cover almost anything.

It'd take a good bit of filler, cleaning and fussing to get a good finish I could be sure would last a while. It's an oler garage that's seen use. Oil and other mystery stuff.

On other hitch to the epoxy is the need to lay it down in one shot. My drive way isn't suitable for any sort of temp storage... Unless I wan't to watch stuff fall over into the street. It is very very steep - Like stair steep at the beginning. Tiles would let me work in segments and move stuff from unfinished areas to finished as needed.
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fastwin

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November 22, 2011, 08:05:47 AM
No tile experience and I have posted this before on another garage floor thread. I went the epoxy floor paint route. The guy that applied it did a great job of prepping the floor. I was impressed. He did an acid wash, then hand sealed all the cracks in the concrete floor. He put two coats of epoxy paint on it over the next two days. It looked like the floor of an operating room! It was awesome.

Problem was two years later we had a drought and a really hot summer. Foundation shifted a little and all the cracks came back with a vengance. All the paint naturally cracked up over the cracks in the concrete and now it looks like shit. :P Just couldn't fight Mother Nature even with non stop use of soaker hoses around the outside of the house.

It looked killer for a couple of years. Looking at it now (with 20/20 hindsight) I wished I had used concrete stain. The cracks wouldn't look so bad.

Good luck with the tiles. They shouldn't be effected as badly by cracks.
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November 22, 2011, 08:10:29 AM
Quote from: fastwin on November 22, 2011, 08:05:47 AM
Good luck with the tiles. They shouldn't be effected as badly by cracks.

Yeah, the systems I'm looking at are floating, so any shifts that might cause cracks or changes that would show up in a 'poxy floor or with glued tiles shouldn't be an issue.
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- '08 KTM 690 StupidMoto
- '07 Triumph 675 Track bike.

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#8
November 22, 2011, 09:25:42 AM
Sounds like the way to go. [thumbsup] If I had a 100% guarantee that cracks would never ever happen I'd do the epoxy paint again in a heart beat. But that's not reality. Tile floors like muskrat's look great too!
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I have flying honey badgers and I'm not afraid to use them!

The fact that flame throwers exist is proof that someone somewhere said "I'd sure like to set those people over there on fire but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

CONFIDENCE: the feeling you have right before you understand the situation.

ducatiz

#9
November 22, 2011, 09:31:58 AM
The tile stuff is fine, even the linoleum type above.  You won't be putting 2-ton equipment on it.  Once the tile borders are set, the ones in the middle don't move much. 

if you have any deep gouges or holes you need to fill them before using tile else it can buckle. 
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MendoDave

#10
November 24, 2011, 05:45:16 AM
Well I haven't used "Garage tiles" before but I did my whole kitchen in tiles last year. They look good and were easy to work with. The only difference is that I had to put down a flexible "Cement board" over the top of the old wood planks and screw it down with ten thousand screws. You wont have to do all that though. You get to clean the concrete instead.

As a matter of fact I'm doing some more tile today in the "Cottage" (rental) bathroom next door. It has some old tile and a couple of them are missing. I'm going to replace it all so that it will look decent until I can afford to tear down and rebuild the bathroom with a new larger one.
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