Garage floor tiles - advice needed QUICKLY!

[Nagra]

Apologies for the curt thread title but I need some advice and quickly!

I have a builder working at my house double-wall insulating the garage and I need to find some floor tiles that are strong enough to park a car on but made of a material other than plastic.

Any ideas?

I dont like the plastic floor tiles as I have been told that they can bend and flex and (with the heat of a hot car exhaust) have been known to blister.

If anyone can point me in the direction of...

1)Floor tiles made of ceramic/stone/porcelain that can withstand the weight of a car

or

2) Plastic tiles that will not bend or blister or make that irritating tap-tap sound when you drive onto them (can this be cured with underlay?)

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Kul

P.S I am in Berkshire

[Dog Star]

I've never heard of this "blistering" - have you looked at something purpose made such as motofloor? I know it's plastic but it's designed for the job.

The thing is that ceramics can crack - especially when you start lobbing bikes up onto centre stands or using a jack.

[Nagra]

Thanks for the reply Dog Star

I have heard 'horror stories' about plastic tiles so it could all be nonsense and my fear over ceramic tiles is (like you said in your post) they can crack if too much weight is placed on a single point.

My thinking was if I get lots of small ceramic tiles then that would help spread the weight.

Have you any knowledge on Ecotile or Dynotile?

[thinfourth2]

A car doesn't actually have that much ground pressure as they have 4 big contact patches where as a fat women in stilettos has 2 small and 2 tiny weeny contact patches.

So a floor tile designed for fat chicks will survive a car

[ZOLLAR]

thinfourth2 said:

A car doesn't actually have that much ground pressure as they have 4 big contact patches where as a fat women in stilettos has 2 small and 2 tiny weeny contact patches.

So a floor tile designed for fat chicks will survive a car

I love your thinking!

[Bonefish Blues]

TBH I think it's more to do with the quality of the tiling than the material as long as you're not using waffer-thin ones - look at car showrooms with their 600mm2 porcelain tiles etc.

Perhaps if you want to be on the safe side, a smaller quarry tile would be the way to go, though.

[Nagra]

Thanks for your quick replies guys, I have decided to go with a ceramic tile (300*300) with a perfectly level concrete floor underneath.

[thinfourth2]

Nagra said:

Thanks for your quick replies guys, I have decided to go with a ceramic tile (300*300) with a perfectly level concrete floor underneath.

Fine for fat chicks

[sdmurray]

Nagra said:

Thanks for your quick replies guys, I have decided to go with a ceramic tile (300*300) with a perfectly level concrete floor underneath.

Noooo! You need this:

http://www.pafsystem.com/interlocking-tiles.html

We have it and it doesn't do what you say but lies flat, is easy to clean, is comfortable to crawl around on when working on cars and you can design your own layout as we did:

[perdu]

sdmurray said:

Nagra said:

Thanks for your quick replies guys, I have decided to go with a ceramic tile (300*300) with a perfectly level concrete floor underneath.

Noooo! You need this:

http://www.pafsystem.com/interlocking-tiles.html

We have it and it doesn't do what you say but lies flat, is easy to clean, is comfortable to crawl around on when working on cars and you can design your own layout as we did:

that's a not bad garage...



bloody good floor too