Garage flooring tiles

[MikeGTi]

Morning all

I'm looking to tile the floor of a 6m x 3m garage (so maybe ~22m2 if allowing for wastage?), but after some Google-fu it seems that prices for floor tiles vary massively! I've seen some packs that work out around £300 while others are £600+.

Can anyone recommend anywhere that supplies decent tiles that won't break the bank?

[MDT]

when you say tiles, do you mean the plastic type? or porcelain tiles?

I did my garage 6m x 6m in porcelain tiles about 10 years ago, they were off ebay and commercial grade ones it was about 1/3 of a pallet and from memory was about £1k worth.

They have stood up really well to a fair bit of abuse and clean up very well.

One thing to keep in mind is I found you will use a lot more adhesive than you think.

I would have a hunt on ebay and see what comes up.

[kambites]

It also depends on what you want to use the garage for. We have cheap vinyl ones in ours and they're great... until you want to put big point loads on them. A trolley jack's wheel will just chew through them so I have to put a bit of ply under my jack every time I want to lift a car. Hardly the end of the world, but running a relatively low car it did mean I needed to find an even lower entry trolley jack.

[Vanden Saab]

MikeGTi said:

Morning all

I'm looking to tile the floor of a 6m x 3m garage (so maybe ~22m2 if allowing for wastage?), but after some Google-fu it seems that prices for floor tiles vary massively! I've seen some packs that work out around £300 while others are £600+.

Can anyone recommend anywhere that supplies decent tiles that won't break the bank?

The price of tiles is normally dependent on how many they throw away. I say normally as there are some 'designer' companies that trade on their name and charge more for lower quality tiles.
By throw away I mean how good their quality control process is for rejecting tiles that are out of size, square or flat.
Personally I would go for a 16 to 20mm porcelain tile designed for patios rather than the standard 8 to 10mm interior ones. More difficult to cut but much stronger when you are driving a car on them.
While you can buy them online in my experience you are better to go to a local 'tile warehouse' as you can see the tiles and put some together to check for size and square and if any are broken or substandard you can exchange them with tiles from the same batch.
TL/DR the difference in price is either the quality or how much profit the seller is making.

[MikeGTi]

MDT said:

when you say tiles, do you mean the plastic type? or porcelain tiles?

Good point!

I'm after the rubber type, mainly just to keep the dust down from the concrete floor with the car parked on top. Unfortunately the garage is too small to carry out any real work in it so they'll only really have to deal with the car being parked on them and having racking on top.

[Mont Blanc]

Big thread here:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Steve Campbell]

If it's just to keep dust down and park on top, consider the rubber matting rolls as a simple solution. I did the same in half of my double garage. 2* 6m rolls of 1.5m wide button rubber. Super easy to roll down, works a treat and is relatively cheap.

[kambites]

I think mine are these ones and they're... adequate: https://www.bigdug.co.uk/workshop-flooring-c348/fl...

[un1eash]

I went with rubber stable mats as my garage is primarily used for storage and gym. The car doesn't spend much time in there.

[MikeGTi]

Cheers all

I'll jump on to the big thread that Mont Blanc posted and have a peruse.

[curvature]

I used Plasfloor in Birmingham.

https://www.plasfloor.co.uk

They are a smaller tile but this also means you get less wastage and you can introduce some fancy patterns if you wish. They have a good online design tool that calculates everything you need.

What sold them to me is the fact that they use them in their factory and run fork lift trucks over them.