Garage floor ideas

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TheCyclingProgrammer wrote: »

Giving my garage a makeover at the end of the month and I was planning to use rubber floor tiles. Its not the cheapest option (as other say its just a garage) but IMO it will make the garage look much better, keep the dust down and easier to keep clean, useful if you're mainly using the garage for storage.

To me, the advantage of floor tiles is that they can be laid over non-smooth floors (you may need to remove any major high spots and fill any major dips), are easily cleaned, easy to install DIY and damaged tiles can be replaced easily.

My garage floor isn't quite as rough as yours but it's not perfect - if you want to go for the painted look, you really need to lay a heavy duty self-leveling compound first and then paint with two-part epoxy paint - a lot of hassle and not as easy to repair if it gets damaged.

Expect to pay around at least £500-600 for a double garage if you want to use floor tiles. There's a number of suppliers with a range of colours, patterns and also quality. You want 7mm thick tiles minimum. Big Dug and Mototile both sell them.

Levelling/painting the floor will probably be cheaper if you DIY it but there's a greater risk of making a complete mess of it.

I've seen the stuff on bigdug and they are my current favourites. I'm still thinking that board may be required beforehand. Having used self-levelling on an area of around 1m sq, I don't fancy doing 36m sq!

TheCyclingProgrammer

You could get a professional in to do the levelling if you want a good result.

I'm also leaning towards the BigDug ones myself. Dynotile is another local supplier though they appear to have some quality issues. Both work out around £600 for a double garage.

Mototile and Garagepride tiles seem high quality but expensive, nearly double the price per square metre. I do like the Mototile skirting system though.

Herzlos

rach_k wrote: »

Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting high quality mats, just something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Interlocking-Soft-Tiles-Kids-Play-Floor-Foam-Mats-Baby-Exercise-Gym-Eva-title-/112230522749?var=&hash=item1a2175df7d:m:m3AI9vJ9nWRRI8HIbQeh-5A

(I haven't used that seller so can't vouch for them or their mats, but that's the type of mats we had. We used them for a playroom, outside and also under a treadmill with no problems.)

I've done that in my garage (tiles from Costco rather than ebay) and I've been pretty happy with it. Bit of insulation/padding, still handles heavy stuff on it, and cheap enough to replace if it gets ruined.