Garage Floor Ideas

[KobayashiMaru86]

Garage is 8.5m x 2.8m and starting looking into what flooring to go with. I may just tile it but what are my other options? Saw some use some form of click flooring which may be a quicker way of doing it. Last owners look to have painted it at some point but it's long worn away.

[Comacchio]

I went for Plasfloor. Cost £280 for 4.8m X 2.4m. Laid in a few hours with the assistance of a rubber mallet and a multitool for cutting the left and rear edges.

[rigga]

Plasfloor as above in mine, very strong and doesn't deform with jacks and stands etc.
This get asked loads, do a Google search with pistonheads and garage flooring, will bring up old threads.
Search on here used to be good, now its pants.

[thepawbroon]

I was just browsing the other threads today, so here they are:

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

and

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

Personally, I'm going for painting the floor with Ronseal Garage Floor Paint, then covering with Big Dug tiles:

https://www.bigdug.co.uk/mats-flooring-c402/garage...

Edited by thepawbroon on Wednesday 3rd March 15:04

[Comacchio]

thepawbroon said:

You'll need to apply thin layers to prevent it running....

[anonymous-user]

Interlocking foam tiles here. Really easy to snip with scissors. One erroneous pack out of the 10 where the edging was incompatible with the rest of the tiles. Thankfully there was enough from the other packs.

[thepawbroon]

Comacchio said:

You'll need to apply thin layers to prevent it running....

Crazy! I've tried 4 times to get that photo right!

Editing again,.,,

[BishBosh]

Plasfloor for me too...
http://plasfloor.co.uk/

[rob0r]

Plasfloor for me too! About £1400 for 72-ish metres sq. We only laid it about two weeks ago but it's great. I went for this over paint as hopefully I won't have to worry about the flooring again.

[PH User]

rob0r said:

Plasfloor for me too! About £1400 for 72-ish metres sq. We only laid it about two weeks ago but it's great. I went for this over paint as hopefully I won't have to worry about the flooring again.

Is this a particular pattern? I'm trying to work out what it is.

[thepawbroon]

PH User said:

Is this a particular pattern? I'm trying to work out what it is.

Sun, mountains, beach, waves?

[Gad-Westy]

I did plasfloor as well and would do so again. Only issue I had with it was that it doesn't with deviations in floor level very well but not really the fault of the product.

[rob0r]

thepawbroon said:

Sun, mountains, beach, waves?

That's what we were going for! Plasfloors own designer means you can really play with ideas. I nearly put an 8 bit mario down as it can be done perfectly...

Gad-Westy said:

I did plasfloor as well and would do so again. Only issue I had with it was that it doesn't with deviations in floor level very well but not really the fault of the product.

I'd agree with this. Before putting ours down we actually cemented the floor as well as possible to smooth it out, but our floor is a right state underneath still. It's fine but you can't huge amounts of deviation as the tiles will start to not interlock joints. They also absorb weld splatter... but again not really the fault of the product!

Considering the state of the floor before, Plasfloor has been a game changer, so much more pleasant to work on!

[Blakeatron]

Thick carpet tiles in mine, although not really a working garage

[OMITN]

+1 interlocking tiles.

Mine are Flexitile. About £600 IIRC for 25 sq meters including ramp strips for garage door opening.

[thepawbroon]

thepawbroon said:

I was just browsing the other threads today, so here they are:

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

and

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

Personally, I'm going for painting the floor with Ronseal Garage Floor Paint, then covering with Big Dug tiles:

https://www.bigdug.co.uk/mats-flooring-c402/garage...

Edited by thepawbroon on Wednesday 3rd March 15:04

First coat (still wet!)

[Arranguez]

I found the Ronseal stuff to be rubbish. Prepped as directed but still lifts. Good you are covering it with something too.

[Coxey]

I went with ceramics

[MX-6]

Comacchio said:

I went for Plasfloor. Cost £280 for 4.8m X 2.4m. Laid in a few hours with the assistance of a rubber mallet and a multitool for cutting the left and rear edges.

I'm looking into giving my garage something of a make-over and hadn't really considered tiles like these, they look good.

What is the main advantage of them over a concrete floor, is it mainly just that they look smarter? I can imagine they are nicer and less cold to lay on when crawling about around/under the car, but just a bit concerned about damage occuring from tools like jacks, stands and from potential leaks (eg. oil, coolant).

This is the "before" pic of mine, quite a small affair but at least the motor fits in. I moved into the house at the end of 2019 and it's been a bit of a project, but want to give the garage space some TLC in the coming months.

[Gad-Westy]

MX-6 said:

I'm looking into giving my garage something of a make-over and hadn't really considered tiles like these, they look good.

What is the main advantage of them over a concrete floor, is it mainly just that they look smarter? I can imagine they are nicer and less cold to lay on when crawling about around/under the car, but just a bit concerned about damage occuring from tools like jacks, stands and from potential leaks (eg. oil, coolant).

This is the "before" pic of mine, quite a small affair but at least the motor fits in. I moved into the house at the end of 2019 and it's been a bit of a project, but want to give the garage space some TLC in the coming months.

Big advantages of this type of floor is keeping dust supressed, ease of cleaning and a much more pleasant surface to work on. Generally looks better too. Concrete looks fine when new but always looks horrible highly uninviting after a while.

Plasfloor and the like are purpose made for this sort of thing so no issues with leaks etc. They're very durable with jacking too. I've never managed to mark one but they're cheap enough that I had about 50 spare tiles just in case (over bought) and it would be a 5 min task to replace one.

Edited by Gad-Westy on Thursday 4th March 13:19