Garage Flooring

[JAZ 34]

Evening gents,

My £75 (x3) per tin garage floor paint has started peeling off the floor and am looking for altenative steps to floor my garage.

Was thinking of this stuff.

www.softfloor.co.uk/garage_floorin

Any ideas?

Cheers

JAZ 34

[V6GTO]

It'd be cheaper to carpet it!

[amg merc]

JAZ 34 said:

Evening gents, My £75 (x3) per tin garage floor paint has started peeling off the floor and am looking for altenative steps to floor my garage. Was thinking of this stuff. www.softfloor.co.uk/garage_floorin Any ideas? Cheers JAZ 34

IMHO a waste of time and money as anything layed onto the orignal floor will eventually give grief due to peeling/curling, water and dirt ingress to the underside and/or joints, etc.!

My suggestion os to simply repaint with Wickes Gargage Floor Paint (in 3 colours excluding special Espana Turquiose!) every three years - job done!

[n8bby]

Jaz this flooring is stocked at costco warehouse if you decide to use it,it may be worth checking there price out.

[adrian w]

the versitile flooring company or ecotile,www.ecotile-uk.com. Ive got about 60000 sq-ft of it, you won't find better.

Adrian

>> Edited by adrian w on Thursday 2nd March 23:17

[GreenV8S]

How much does that Ecotile stuff cost? I don't see any prices on their site.

[chillidog]

Have a look here:-

www.nobleforums.com/showthread.php?t=633&page=2&highlight=kiwi

I'd be happy if my garage looked like this
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Richard

[3rtt]

I fitted these ceramic tiles to my garage floor. A bit more expensive than floor paint, but much more easy to clean and service.





First time at laying floor tiles too.

I have some more pix if anyone requires.

Cheers,
Ian

>> Edited by 3rtt on Friday 3rd March 14:16

[washy]

www.garagewizards.com do the Dura stuff which is very nice. Just looked and the interlocking floor tiles are £33 per square metre inc VAT

[JAZ 34]

Thanks guys,

I have floor paint on the garage floor but it is lifting. Must be all this salt they are putting on the road - after 2 ft of snow overnight here in Aberdeen!

[V6GTO]

Do what a mate of mine did...black marble floor and walls to show off his yellow Fezza

[JimNoble]

Has anyone put down a self levelling epoxy type floor? eg.

www.industrial-flooring.co.uk
www.acml.co.uk/esl.htm
www.druidmedia.co.uk/garafloor/
www.qualityepoxy.com/

I was going to use this sort of thing in my garage, but couldn't find anyone willing to come out and grind/blast the cruddy layer of old paint and lumpy concrete off the top of the existing floor beforehand...

Jim

[falcemob]

3rtt said:

I fitted these ceramic tiles to my garage floor. A bit more expensive than floor paint, but much more easy to clean and service. First time at laying floor tiles too. I have some more pix if anyone requires. Cheers, Ian

Ian
You have mail

[3rtt]

Tim,

YHM.

Cheers,
Ian

[obes]

am agreeing with 3rtt here, I'm prepping mine for tiles. (my paint peeled too !)

[falcemob]

3rtt said:

Tim, YHM. Cheers, Ian

Thanks for that. I hvae put it on my list of things to do around the house, No.3120

[3rtt]

Just one correction on my side, the tiles I used were porcelain not ceramic. Porcelain are much harder than ceramic tiles and more suitable for garage floors although a litte more expensive.

My laying tips:

The garage floor (double size) was fairly level concrete base. The house is a new build around 8 years ago.

I started with making a center line down the middle of the garage floor to establish a start position. Adhesive was a standard flooring adhesive in powder form that was mixed with water in a mixing bucket. Using a tile flooring trowel I applied the adhesive to the floor about 5mm thick using the grooved side of the trowel to about 1 mtr square each time. I also used the little plastic star shaped spacers to line the tile up with each other. It was quite easy to make a level surface using a straight edge on top of the tile. The only cuts I had to make were at each side of the garage floor.

The whole job took a full weekend of laying. I used the same adhesive to grout the following weekend.

To finish, I cut strips of tile to make a kick panel or skirting all around the outside.

Quite proud of my first tiling job.

Cheers,
Ian.

[silversix]

This sounds very very nice. I've got a bathroom that needs doing if you have a spare weekened.......

How do you think that it'll cope with a trolley jack etc?

I like the idea of the self leveling Epoxy personally. and under floor heating.

[3rtt]

silversix said:

This sounds very very nice. I've got a bathroom that needs doing if you have a spare weekened....... How do you think that it'll cope with a trolley jack etc? I like the idea of the self leveling Epoxy personally. and under floor heating.

LOL. I think I need to takle tiling a bathroom myself before I'm let loose on yours.

The porcalain tiles will stand up to a trolly jack and axle stands Ok. It's the ceramic ones that probably wouldn't.

Not sure how you would lay underfloor heating with self leveling epoxy on top?

Cheers,
Ian.

[LDoR]

falcemob, dam, that is an impressive looking job, almost makes you think of the inside of a car dealership.

I was going to suggest as a cheap flooring that you sand the floor down and put lots of clear varnish on it to make it look modern and art deco but there appear to be far better suggestions here than i came up with.

If i ever manage to get my hands on a Noble i'm going to have to put some effort into getting our garage cleared out and banning anyone from storing crap in there.