Garage Floor Tiles?

[razor11]

I've got a double garage floor that needs coating. I could screed it to a flat surface then paint it, but might consider floor tiles.

Any experience/recommendations/cautions/sources/guide prices welcome.

Thanks
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[ymwoods]

Just looked back for a thread I saw running similar to this one and the company I have linked to below were mentioned as very good. Looks like the normal garage floor stuff (IE just for cars rather than fire engines etc!) is selling at £29.50/m

http://www.versatileflooring.co.uk/

Edited by ymwoods on Sunday 22 August 06:20

[razor11]

Cheers for that.....I will have a look at it.

I did try to Search, honest. But for some reason its not been working when I have tried over the last couple of days. I tried a Google search which led me back to PH Forums.

The thread I read was a year or two old. I get the impression that both a lot of alternatives/sources have appeared on the market since then and a few more installations have gone down.

Cheers

N

[WestieMan]

Have the same ones with the Raised Disk in my workshop ( I am running a Garage/MOT station.

They are very nice, easy to clean, they look great and are nice and warm to the feet in the cold months.

BUT when the weather is warm beware, the tiles will get very soft and they lift ( bulge ) of the floor. Also if you have a car running for a long periods on the same spot again they start to lift.
Not a very cheap solution but they are very hard wearing and they will laxt you for years.

P.S if you fit them your self ( they are very easy to fit ) make sure you leave a good expansion gap all around the walls.

Edited by WestieMan on Sunday 22 August 21:17

Edited by WestieMan on Sunday 22 August 21:18

[S47]

I used extra large tiles in my garage - 8'x4' sheets of 3/4" ply
They only cost £10/sheet and I needed 11 for my 6x6m garage.
The advantage of wood is its easy to paint, I used normal gloss, and it's nice and warm in comparison to concrete to work on. looks the bogz dolloks, everyone who's seen my garage reamrks on the floor

[razor11]

Thanks for the replies.

Its good to know that these tiles are working well in (commercial) practice. Good tip on the expansion gap.

Plywood flooring, how cunning...and obvious when you think about it. I guess you trimmed inward opening doors to suit. Do you have a 3/4" step at the main door or do you have a trick for that as well?

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[2stis]

The 'Versatile' stuff seems pretty good. I put some of it down in an old barn to try to turn it into something a bit more useable, and no need to worry about the odd leak from the roof as being PVC they should withstand water without any problem:



and then have laid similar stuff, but in a different colour, in the garage and it seems to stand up fine to cars being parked on top of it:



It is quite easy to keep clean with a mop and then you have a completely dust free floor.

[foz01]

Can these versatile etc floors stand up to to a trolley jack?

[2stis]

Yes, a trolley jack would be fine on them. If it is anything very heavy over a very small area then I would probably put something else underneath it - I have started using some of the larger offcuts of the tiles that I kept after cutting to fit the edges for this. There was one spot where I left a heavy fridge on just its pointy legs for a few weeks and that did make an indent when the weather was hot and the floor gets softer, but I just checked again now and it seems to have returned to its completely original state now that I have shifted it elsewhere.