Garage flooring
Discussion
Behemoth said:
Mine were brand new. iirc it was < £350 to do the whole lot inc 3 boxes of spares and the tack adhesive. It was very easy to fit them. Look around and you'll find small companies that sell off surplus. Typically an office will 10% over order and the carpet fitters will flog off the rest.
You've used the tacky adhesive.Edited by Behemoth on Thursday 21st January 15:14
How easy is it to pull up the tile to replace when using this type of non-permanent adhesive? Would it stop a tile moving when a car tyre is turned on it?
Did you use anything stronger around the edges particularly at the garage door end? Did you prime your floor with anything before applying the tackifier?
Richard
RichD1 said:
You've used the tacky adhesive.
How easy is it to pull up the tile to replace when using this type of non-permanent adhesive? Would it stop a tile moving when a car tyre is turned on it?
Did you use anything stronger around the edges particularly at the garage door end? Did you prime your floor with anything before applying the tackifier?
Richard
1. VeryHow easy is it to pull up the tile to replace when using this type of non-permanent adhesive? Would it stop a tile moving when a car tyre is turned on it?
Did you use anything stronger around the edges particularly at the garage door end? Did you prime your floor with anything before applying the tackifier?
Richard
2. Straight on it works fine but I have no idea about turning the wheel if that's what you mean. I don't recommend trying doughnuts
3. Draught strip
4. No, just remove all the concrete dust
the trick is to get a tight fit. I imagine if there are gaps, the tiles will move to fill them. These things take a real beating on office floors, especially when there are castor wheeled chairs everywhere. It wouldn't work if you laid them on the home straight at Donington but you're (hopefully
) crawling @ < 3mph into your garage.The front 25% of my flat concrete painted floor is scabby where the very first layer of paint obviously lifted in small patches due to poor adhesion or damp. Subsequent coats have just compounded the issue, so it now just looks scabby, even were there IS paint.
Mine has been a working garage, where kit cars have been built, engines get swapped over and welding often occurs. So I need something trolley jack and axle stand friendly.
This is an old pic, and theres a lot more wall storage now:
At 28m2 things are starting to look expensive, the more practical the solution.
At £20 per m2 (cheapest floor tiles) the cost is £560,
At £30 per m2 (mid level) it rises to £840.
At £40 per m2 you are looking over a grand.
Because its a detached garage in a corner of the plot, it feels odd to spend four figures on a shiny clean floor, even though ill regularily spend just as much on a performance upgrade or a 3D movie projector that get occasional use.
Am I odd thinking that way? I dont know.
Anyway, the cheapest option I have so far found is 3mm think plastic sheet at £10m2 that has has the same surface area as a tile, but comes in 1.5m wide rolls.
Has anyone ever used anything similat with jacks and stands?
Mine has been a working garage, where kit cars have been built, engines get swapped over and welding often occurs. So I need something trolley jack and axle stand friendly.
This is an old pic, and theres a lot more wall storage now:
At 28m2 things are starting to look expensive, the more practical the solution.
At £20 per m2 (cheapest floor tiles) the cost is £560,
At £30 per m2 (mid level) it rises to £840.
At £40 per m2 you are looking over a grand.
Because its a detached garage in a corner of the plot, it feels odd to spend four figures on a shiny clean floor, even though ill regularily spend just as much on a performance upgrade or a 3D movie projector that get occasional use.
Am I odd thinking that way? I dont know.
Anyway, the cheapest option I have so far found is 3mm think plastic sheet at £10m2 that has has the same surface area as a tile, but comes in 1.5m wide rolls.
Has anyone ever used anything similat with jacks and stands?
Edited by Hol on Friday 22 January 09:40
Edited by Hol on Friday 22 January 09:42
V8RX7 said:
There are ceramic garage floor tiles available from £10/m2 - admittedly you then have to buy adhesive and grout.
Dont I need porcelain floor tiles though? - if im going to be using a jack, Stands, or engine crane.(looking at previous posts).
Although the obvious alternative is a big sheet of plywood 12mm plywood, but then I would have to find somehwere to store it when not needed.
Hol said:
Dont I need porcelain floor tiles though? - if im going to be using a jack, Stands, or engine crane.
(looking at previous posts).
Although the obvious alternative is a big sheet of plywood 12mm plywood, but then I would have to find somehwere to store it when not needed.
Or build a scissor lift into the floor!(looking at previous posts).
Although the obvious alternative is a big sheet of plywood 12mm plywood, but then I would have to find somehwere to store it when not needed.
Trikster said:
For those of you who have gone down the porcelain tile route how have you edged them at the garage entrance?
Really do fancy the look and performance of this flooring but obviously want to protect the lip of tiles to avoid unnecessary forces and cracking
TIA
Mine has an aluminium strip at the front. It happens to be the door runner too, but a regular tile finish strip will work fine.Really do fancy the look and performance of this flooring but obviously want to protect the lip of tiles to avoid unnecessary forces and cracking
TIA
Right i'm going to resurrect this thread
Partly to ask Monkfish for some finished pics complete with the lift.. and partly to ask for some thoughts:
Garage is a large double 5.7m x 5.7m. Had one quote so far to install porcelain tiles at £1900 (waiting to confirm if the tiles are included). However i've been looking more and more at metallic effect epoxy floor coatings. Only had one quote so far (£lots!).
Has anyone on here gone ahead with something like this and if so.. how durable is it?
Partly to ask Monkfish for some finished pics complete with the lift.. and partly to ask for some thoughts:
Garage is a large double 5.7m x 5.7m. Had one quote so far to install porcelain tiles at £1900 (waiting to confirm if the tiles are included). However i've been looking more and more at metallic effect epoxy floor coatings. Only had one quote so far (£lots!).
Has anyone on here gone ahead with something like this and if so.. how durable is it?
MrChips said:
Garage is a large double 5.7m x 5.7m. Had one quote so far to install porcelain tiles at £1900 (waiting to confirm if the tiles are included). However i've been looking more and more at metallic effect epoxy floor coatings. Only had one quote so far (£lots!).
Roughly how many £lots are we talking about (just curious).I've used multi-layers of ordinary epoxy paint on my garage floor and while the finish is a bit utilitarian it has proven to be immensely tough so far.
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