Garage flooring
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The prices for those rubber tiles seem a bit mental to me? I've just ordered a solid oak floor at £25 a square metre, I'd expect rubber to be no more than £10 a metre really. The rubber certainly isn't aesthetically pleasing enough to be worth the expense I don't think, might as well put some time and effort into it and spend the same money on ceramic tiles.
I need to level and finish a large garage floor at some point, so interested in alternatives at sensible prices.
I need to level and finish a large garage floor at some point, so interested in alternatives at sensible prices.
CorradoTDI said:
Eliot - they look great for the price, what do you plan to do with the edging, cut them??
The sell gradually chamfered edges for £1.80 each, which is a little pricey - but you only need 10 of them across the front of a double garage. For the walls, I will probably just cut a full tile - as you can make two edges out one tile.I've got another pile of 80 of them waiting to be laid this weekend - ill post a picture.
cptsideways said:
Carpet
Yes really, I have a similar garage floor, modern carpet is fireproof, its comfy to work on, moving a jack about is quiet, it absorbs minor spills, well mine does.
I just replace mine every couple of years, its utterly brilliant in the cold weather too.
This. On my third carpet. When it's getting a bit crap, if I see a carpet fitter putting new carpet in a local house, I take the old one off him, saves him carting it to the dump. In fact the last one I did I gave him a tenner and he fitted it for me. It's not wall to wall or perfect, but does the job cheaply. Though to be honest I only park my kit car in the garage and I don't use it in the wet so no experience of "wet bike/car syndrome"Yes really, I have a similar garage floor, modern carpet is fireproof, its comfy to work on, moving a jack about is quiet, it absorbs minor spills, well mine does.
I just replace mine every couple of years, its utterly brilliant in the cold weather too.
eliot said:
The sell gradually chamfered edges for £1.80 each, which is a little pricey - but you only need 10 of them across the front of a double garage. For the walls, I will probably just cut a full tile - as you can make two edges out one tile.
I've got another pile of 80 of them waiting to be laid this weekend - ill post a picture.
That's interesting, lack of edge bits was the main thing putting me off those ones. I've got another pile of 80 of them waiting to be laid this weekend - ill post a picture.
Yes they are pretty decent and strong. Easily jack car up and put axle stands on them.
The only issue I would say, is that they show dusty footprints - but Ive only just completed the whole floor to be fair and we have been walking through with lots and lots of garden rubbish (several trailer loads). In the photo i had just ran a mop over the existing ones and they came up good again.
Give endurance matts a call, they will post out a small sample.
The only issue I would say, is that they show dusty footprints - but Ive only just completed the whole floor to be fair and we have been walking through with lots and lots of garden rubbish (several trailer loads). In the photo i had just ran a mop over the existing ones and they came up good again.
Give endurance matts a call, they will post out a small sample.
I'm currently going down the porcelain tile route for my garage after several years of tolerating bare concrete. I got these for a good price from the UK importer as they had a cancelled special order. £250 for 32m2 and about another £200 for the adhesive/grout.
Somewhat harder than plastic tiles to put down... the miserable effort below is after 9 hours solid backbreaking work yesterday:
Should get it finished at some point!
Somewhat harder than plastic tiles to put down... the miserable effort below is after 9 hours solid backbreaking work yesterday:
Should get it finished at some point!
eliot said:
Yes they are pretty decent and strong. Easily jack car up and put axle stands on them.
The only issue I would say, is that they show dusty footprints - but Ive only just completed the whole floor to be fair and we have been walking through with lots and lots of garden rubbish (several trailer loads). In the photo i had just ran a mop over the existing ones and they came up good again.
Give endurance matts a call, they will post out a small sample.
sounds good ill get some i reckon i can live with the dusty footprints!The only issue I would say, is that they show dusty footprints - but Ive only just completed the whole floor to be fair and we have been walking through with lots and lots of garden rubbish (several trailer loads). In the photo i had just ran a mop over the existing ones and they came up good again.
Give endurance matts a call, they will post out a small sample.
eliot said:
Im doing my garage in these:
http://www.endurancemats.com/products-page/industr...
They are made from pretty tough pvc, about 12mm thick. They are going dowm nice on my not entirely level concrete floor.
I'm going to call in here later and see if I can get a sample to compare against the Mototile sample I got a while back. http://www.endurancemats.com/products-page/industr...
They are made from pretty tough pvc, about 12mm thick. They are going dowm nice on my not entirely level concrete floor.
Just seen these pop up on the google adverts:
http://www.softfloor.co.uk/checker.shtml
These are identical to the endurance ones (they do them in checker as well) They want £4.18 per tile - compared to £2.20 from endurance
http://www.softfloor.co.uk/checker.shtml
These are identical to the endurance ones (they do them in checker as well) They want £4.18 per tile - compared to £2.20 from endurance
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