Lets see your garage floors!

[midgeman]

Ok odd thread title but today we've done something thats been waiting for ages - paint the garage floor!
First coat done, a couple of patches still need doing, the sealer reacted with some oil and still havnt dried fully but most is covered.

http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk36/Doogle_010...



Oh and following on from the 'best garage' thread, this is the pair that usually live in there and form my 'mediocre garage' Theres also a not very standard mk2 golf but that lives outside.

http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk36/Doogle_010...

[NiceCupOfTea]

Used dynotile tiling, took me an evening to lay down. Keeps the garage warmer, soft to walk and kneel on, quieter as well. Used ex-display stuff too so wasn't as much as you might think!

[Ozzie Osmond]

What a bunch of pussies!

[Jasandjules]

I'm pretty sure there is a floor in there somewhere under the pile of junk and the TVR.... But it's just plain old concrete.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Ozzie Osmond said:

What a bunch of pussies!

If you enjoy lying on cold hard concrete trying to undo a stubborn bolt, or finding everything (including your P&J) covered in a layer of concrete dust, or freezing your nuts off whatever the time of year, then be my guest!

Me, I sometimes just take a cup of tea into the garage to sit down and think about stuff

[midgeman]

Agreed, swapped th gearbox in the camper over winter, freezing cold kneeling on plain concrete, not fun, dusty and dirty no matter how much you sweep it. Not so now

[ollie854]

midgeman said:

Ok odd thread title but today we've done something thats been waiting for ages - paint the garage floor!
First coat done, a couple of patches still need doing, the sealer reacted with some oil and still havnt dried fully but most is covered.

http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk36/Doogle_010...



Oh and following on from the 'best garage' thread, this is the pair that usually live in there and form my 'mediocre garage' Theres also a not very standard mk2 golf but that lives outside.

http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk36/Doogle_010...

looks good but im sorry i laughed hard at painting around the cement mixer.

[midgeman]

Haha yea, couldnt be arsed with moving it and it would have to sit outside if we did which probably isnt a good idea..

[MGB Boy]

The floor at work currently looks like this:





Imagine what I'd be able to get away with when the boss does burnouts on his bike in the workshop

[buzzer]

heres mine... nice coat of 2 pack red, much better than the cheap single pack stuff...

[liner33]

Too old and creaky to lie around on concrete

[kambites]

buzzer said:

heres mine... nice coat of 2 pack red, much better than the cheap single pack stuff...

Where did you get that lift from?

[buzzer]

kambites said:

buzzer said:

heres mine... nice coat of 2 pack red, much better than the cheap single pack stuff...

Where did you get that lift from?

They are on Ebay, around £1500 with the VAT. search on scissor lift or hoist,

Best bit of kit I have bought. its low enough when down to drive over so i can still get 2 cars in my double garage. it gets the car high enough to work easily on brakes and suspension and to work underneath.

It will lift 3 tonne as well!

Edited by buzzer on Monday 18th October 12:02

[Vidal Baboon]

I'd take a picture of the floor if I could actually see it

It's covered with bike bits, tools & oil.

[Biker's Nemesis]

[The Black Flash]

Biker's Nemesis said:

^^^^ mine looks like this ^^^^

Though with quite a lot of chips from dropping tools and bits of car on it. A load better than bare concrete though

[OwenK]

What's the best sort of covering to use for this? We're moving house soon and I will finally have a garage! I want to take the opportunity to smarten it up before we move in and it gets filled with junk - I'd like to make it habitable enough to work on the floor in late nights etc without utterly freezing my bks off - but obviously needs to be resistant to oil spills and so forth, it can't be a fancy foam tile or anything like that. Also, does anyone have any recommendation for the walls/ceiling?

[The Black Flash]

Tiles or 2-pack epoxy for the floor are toughest I think. For the walls, ordinary white or cream masonary paint does the job.

[MDT]

And the most important job to do is to seal / fill that wee gap between the floor and the wall before you do anything, as this is were all the nuts you drop role off to and hide.

[xPOW]

OwenK said:

What's the best sort of covering to use for this? We're moving house soon and I will finally have a garage! I want to take the opportunity to smarten it up before we move in and it gets filled with junk - I'd like to make it habitable enough to work on the floor in late nights etc without utterly freezing my bks off - but obviously needs to be resistant to oil spills and so forth, it can't be a fancy foam tile or anything like that. Also, does anyone have any recommendation for the walls/ceiling?

I sealed my floor and walls with stuff from Wickes. (my garage is a 100 year old building I've converted so needed sealing everywhere to stop bricks dissolving). On the outside, I featherboarded the walls to protect the bricks from further erosion, and stained the boards black. Back inside, latexed the floor to try and get it more level. Then put down black garage floor tiles which interlock to be durable and ok with spills.

Damproof painted and then white walled all the walls (obviously). Stained wooden roof black and replaced flourescent lights for 2 tracks of spots. Line the rear wall with bank of old tyres as a precaution if my right foot slips

Got some posters of car brands made up. Buy cheap Snap-on roll cab for storage (ok and decoration) and you've got a cool garage. Mine's all black and white, but looks good with the colourful cars and posters.

have pics of the conversion if anybody is particularly interested.