| Author | Message | ||
     Dana P. |
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| Jon |
I'm with you Dana. My garage walls are textured and painted with cabinets and a checkered floor for the bikes. It's my man-cave. All I need now is a lava lamp. Tramp, I won't slap you but I might put a dash of soy in your latte...as punishment, y'know. | ||
| Tramp |
soy in my latte....? why, i oughta..... | ||
| Naughtynurse |
At least your keepin the house clean while I am at work!!! LOL I love the garage the way that it is !! To each there own. I did paint the floors(with Home depot's epoxy paint) and put a lot of effort in it and the cement decided to bubble those mats are the way to go for the $$$$$$ It covered all of the bubbling!!! (Message edited by Naughtynurse on July 16, 2005) | ||
| Coolice |
Ya you say that now Dyna, wait til ya get some "creature" comforts out there and it eventually gets improved. I think Lake wants to start out right and not have to empty the garage and do it over. Like I need to do now, the old floor in my garage is so porous that when I wash something the concrete soaks up the water and I can't squeegee it off. Do it right Lake! | ||
| Kinger |
This topic couldn't have come up at a better time! I was just thinking about researching the same thing. The house should be done by October at the latest. Now that I work for a contractor, I think I should be able to find a little gas heater that got "dented" in shipment!  | ||
| Dbird29 |
Man there is nothing better than a heater in the garage and the DirecTV service on the old 27 inch TV. Makes Winter (what we have in Utah) pass just fine. No paint on the flooor yet but watching this thread! DBird | ||
| Charlieboy6649 |
I just used the Lowes brand epoxy coat on my new floor and it looks great. I like the look of a finnished floor much better. The guy said that it's the same as the Rustoleum stuff but cheaper. We'll I don't know if the Rustoleum would or wouldn't have done the same thing, but it bubbled after some soap or lotion or something leaked out of a moving box. The paint was fairly new too so that may have been part of the problem (not cured yet)... I like the idea of the linoleum tiles and will prolly do that in the center floor and bike parking areas to stand up to the abuse...Thanks for the idea. I love this place. Besides, if I do drop chemicals and it damages a tile or two, hey, easily replaced... | ||
| Patrickh |
Rustoleum makes several grades of their epoxy floor paint, go to a good hardware store or contractor paint store and have them order the professional grade Rustoleum epoxy...$90 a gallon...the stuff is really high quality. | ||
| Road_thing |
Last time I dropped chemicals, I was out of it for three days. rt | ||
| Aldaytona |
Had the garage floor in my old house epoxy coated by the same guys who did our dealership service floors, I thought it was one of the happiest days of my life. After a while you eventually get a chip through to the concrete, followed by more chips. Chips, touch up, chips, touch up, starting to look like crap now, don't remember the bare floor looking this bad. After a couple of years, empty the garage and had the same fine lads who installed the "floor" remove it. I pay them the second time and as I stare into the empty garage at the bare concrete floor I realize that THIS is one of the happiest days of my life. My new neighbor who retired with deep pockets has big plastic tiles put down in "his" side of the 4 car garage and after a year, hardly a mark. That's what I would use is I ever got the urge to cover my BEAUTIFUL, maintenance free, concrete floor again. | ||
| Tramp |
I guess the argument that painted floors resist mold is valid... when you prep, remember that h2so4 isn't enough to solve oils. first, use 'simple green' at full strength, scrub, then rins well with water, then use the acid. alow for good evap time before topcoating with a catalyzed finish | ||
| Bandm |
Here's a link to some tiles and other things for the dream garage. Be prepared to empty your wallet. http://www.texasgarages.com/racedeck1.htm | ||
| Buells Rule! (Dyna in disguise) |
why did ya stick that black and white checkered floor in your trailer??? Because a trailer floor is made of wood & will absorb any liquids spilled on it. The flooring I installed prevents that & the trailer will last a lot longer. I too agree with Al & prefer the look of simple concrete for a garage floor...no fuss, no work. Can't wait until someone decides to paint their sidewalk because it doesnt match the color scheme of their house. | ||
| Court |
>>>>>Last time I dropped chemicals, I was out of it for three days. Dave's not here. Hey...thanks a million, actually $4,874.00, for posting that Texas Garages link. Geeeesh..... Court | ||
| Henrik |
http://www.locktile-usa.com/ http://www.kiwitile.com/products/ http://www.garagetek.com/contact/ http://www.jnkproducts.com/garage-floor-tiles.htm http://www.gladiatorgw.com/detail.asp?BaseModelID=GAFT48TTPS http://www.garagecreations.com/ http://www.uncoverthenet.com/search/?q=garage%20floor%20tile http://www.1stflash.com/files/RaceDeck-Flooring.htm Get that check book warmed up  Henrik | ||
| Dana P. |
Dyna you can seal wood so the liquids don't soak in for the fraction of the price of a floor.I also agree with Al leave the floor bare if you can.I bought the mats because of the paints and etc,that I had tried. | ||
| Newfie_buell |
What ever happened to plain old concrete floor? I waste oil on it and voilla, haul some sawdust out to soak it up!!!! | ||
| Charlieboy6649 |
OK. So it's about 117 degrees yesterday and I decide to pull my truck in the garage to change the oil. Bet you see where this is going. Hot tires + new paint = dunlop tread pattern in my new floor  The tires look kinda cool with the paint all over the tread though... | ||
| Jon |
Old school linoleum tiles. If you're going to do anything, that's cheapest and most durable. | ||
| Dana P. |
Jon is right they are very durable but one thing they are not.....They are not durable if you do not have the floor buffed waxed and sealed.That is what keeps them durable.If not they dry discolor and eventually start to crack.Another thing is if you do not have perfectly smooth and flat floor to start with it will show in your floor install.Even a small pebble can show.It might not right away but the first time you step on that tile with the debris under it.It will poke through or start to and finally it will pop through.Also a bad choice in cold climate states.Here the best floor would probably be a rubber floor but truly expensive. | ||
| Koz5150 |
Do you people actually work in your garage or is it just there to look pretty? Why don't you take all that money you want to invest in a garage floor and buy tools! Think air compressor, cutting torch, welder, or maybe a bike lift! What happens to one of those pretty floors when metal shavings and molten steel from welding and cutting hit them? IT's a garage floor, it is supposed to get dirty. People who have clean pretty garage floors have obviously spent way to much time in there life cleaning! | ||
| Dana P. |
I own a cleaning Business Koz.LOL... Nothing happens to my floor its rubber.What do you think happens to a Grocery store floor when you drop lets say a big can of soup???Nothing usually,sometimes a small dent but nothing major.In southern states a tile floor can be great. | ||
| Jon |
Koz, Take a breather. I have all the tools I want and I have a floor under my bikes that looks cool, keeps moisture at bay, makes it easy to spot dropped fasteners, bolts, etc, and is cheap to own. No maintenance to speak of. As far as damage, if I ever do have a bad one, I dig out the tile and lay another one down. Big deal. People who have clean garages rock. My garage is a shrine...and a sanctuary. | ||
| Dbird29 |
Nothing better than a heater and a TV in the garage. Hours of tinkering fun. | ||
| Koz5150 |
I am just raggin you guys a bit. My garage is always a bit dirty. When I ploished my rear swingarm this winter I had aluminum dust everywhere. The floor under my bench grinder is maroon with polishing compound. I dumped 2 quarts of oil last week out a 400 small block that someone just bought from me, and there is white paint now from the flower boxes I just built my wife. I keep the floor clean, but I can't imaging it looking like a showroom. The only marks I regret cleaning up were the chalk lines we drew around last year's deer that we slaughtered. We thought they were pretty funny, but they freaked out my wife! | ||
| Jon |
More madness... I have Buell and Teknic race flags strung across my rafters set against a HUGE "Avon Tyres" race banner, padded mats in front of the bench where I stand, a small fridge and a microwave oven. Did I mention that I have a cabinet for my family's helmets. I also have a dedicated Buell cabinet and drawers with a hard binder for all service records and purchase receipts. Of course now that my son has a Honda CRF 100F, I have given him his own drawer....BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA.... And I am typing from this hallowed man cave now...100 mps connection...fresh brewed de-caf. Did I mention that last year I went with a Martin insulated double skinned steel garage door? It seals like a dream and keeps out all elements including most noises. Yes....it looks cool as well. But I won't be happy until I get the lava lamp. | ||
| Leftcoastal |
My garage is still a mess, even after 2 or 3 attempts at "cleaning the garage" (I guess I'm easily distracted and end up doing things other than cleaning) I'm not sure there's even a floor to paint under all that accumulation of "put it in the garage for now" items. Logic says there's a floor under all that - the tires and kickstands are resting on something, after all, but it's still pretty hard to tell there's a floor down there under all that crap! I can only dream of painted or tile garage floors! | ||
| Bomber |
All -- as anyone who has ever been in the Entropy Lab, North Annex will attest, it is cheerfully messy, with swarf all over da joint, containers of long chain hydrocarbons scatter randomly around, pics of buds and tracks and neat scoots, parts from 7 or 8 projects ago littering the benches -- in other words, a happily functional workplace ;-} I painted the floor for two reaons -- reason the first -- cut down on the dust that an untreated garage floor continually generates -- while I've yet to attempt brain surgery in there, the reduction of cement dust has been gratifyingly worth the effort and expense -- reaon the tooth -- make it easier to find the lil circlip I just dropped -- with my failing eyesight (due, in part, to the big fun Thang mentioned above a bit), the extry light reflected offa the light grey floor and the contract afforded between said surface and the part I just dropped makes it much easier to see where the lil bugger scampered off to heat is good -- keeps me from walking like an old crippled up dude after a few hours of making swarf in the winter (of course, as many know, I'm only a midle-aged cripple) . . . and, yes, Newf -- we gots big-butted bugs here in the summer, and lots of em (this year's been kinda light, with the lack of rain and all, but still . . . . . ) | ||
| Newfie_buell |
The biggest thing we get up this way are some large bumble bees. |
