Garage floor tile sale @ Costco $100/pack of 48 tiles ($2.08/sq-ft) free shipping

Quote from rcs1 : Umm... your math is a bit off. I'm not the guy you were replying to, but we have a similar situation. I have a 1900 sqft house with a 3 car garage. The garage is 742 sqft. Yes it is a large garage, but where on earth you are coming up with "6-9 cars" I have no idea. At the price posted of over $2 a sqft that is $1542 plus tax for me to put these down.

I don't' want to make a big deal of this, but you asked. He said his garage is 22 feet by 42 feet. Your typical sedan is well under 22/3 = 7 1/3 feet wide (I think it's well under 6?) So you could park three abreast. the only question is can you park cars 3 deep in 42', or just 2 deep. Hence 6 or 9. If you go with 6, I think there are probably better ways to arrange them than what i described. Some of us (namely me) have older houses, and I actually think the garage is smaller than the bedroom it is underneath (which is about 13 x 11). Deeper, but narrower, so it may balance out. Our car fits in there. And yes, that 22 x 42 garage is comfortably over 6 times the size of that.

It's all good, and it was just an offhand comment, didn't put a lot of thought into it -- until now, lol. But you asked. I'm not exagerrating though when I say tht I know a number of people whose house has a smaller footprint than that garage!

Quote from sonup2000 : i didnt use costco i used swisstrax.com same concept. price is about the same.

I like the cabinet with the duct taped doors in the "before" shot - that's a nice touch.

Quote from puddnhead : I don't' want to make a big deal of this, but you asked. He said his garage is 22 feet by 42 feet.

Actually, I thought it was kinda big, too, until I did the math on my own 2-car garage - and it's close to 500SF. With space for wall storage, it neatly fits my truck and the wife's minivan, but there's little extra space. Poster was right that a typical bay is 11' wide - 9' for the door, 1' clear on either side (actually 1'-8" outsides and 1' between). 22' long is enough to drive a full-size car in and have space so that you don't have to tap the wall. My truck - Ford F150, nothing special (1.5 cab, 6.5' bed), is 244" long. My garage is 26' deep, so I have 30" shelves in the back, and it's just enough "clear" space to walk in front of the truck if the (folded) bike rack isn't in the hitch. If you get closer than 9' car to car, you can't get out unless you both drive compacts (9' is standard, often minimum, parking space pitch), and you need to allow an extra foot on the outsides if you're in a garage, or you can't open the door on the outboard side.

If you were a car collector, and you collected small sports cars, you could put 6 in his garage if the doors were on the end (which they never are for regular houses). If you had Cooper Mini's, you could park three deep (they're just over 12' long) and get nine, provided they had sunroofs so you could climb out the top. You couldn't do that if you were driving even a small/mid-sized car like the accord (16' and change each).

Nice find. I think we are still going to go with industrial epoxy

now you're making me want to take out the tape & measure my garage tonight!

Ours is definitely small though. We can park our Equinox in there, but the passenger has to get out before we pull in, and there isn't a lot of clearance on the door. Googling I see it's almost exactly 6' wide by 15' long, so I'd guess the garage is maybe 17' long by 11' wide, that's about 25% more than what I estimated in my first post.

But even at 187 sq ft, that dude's gargantuan garage is still > 5x the size of mine

I'm gonna use this as a model for my garage...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_1f0SXBsI

I've seen this stuff recommended as a better alternative to what's carried at home depot/lowes:

www.ucoatit.com

The floor tiles are more expensive and I wonder too about possible mold.

Quote from puddnhead : I don't' want to make a big deal of this, but you asked. He said his garage is 22 feet by 42 feet. Your typical sedan is well under 22/3 = 7 1/3 feet wide (I think it's well under 6?) So you could park three abreast. the only question is can you park cars 3 deep in 42', or just 2 deep. Hence 6 or 9. If you go with 6, I think there are probably better ways to arrange them than what i described. Some of us (namely me) have older houses, and I actually think the garage is smaller than the bedroom it is underneath (which is about 13 x 11). Deeper, but narrower, so it may balance out. Our car fits in there. And yes, that 22 x 42 garage is comfortably over 6 times the size of that. It's all good, and it was just an offhand comment, didn't put a lot of thought into it -- until now, lol. But you asked. I'm not exagerrating though when I say tht I know a number of people whose house has a smaller footprint than that garage!

Just as an FYI he said his garage was 22 x 34 = 748sqft, which is basically the same size as mine. If it had been 22x42 that would be 924sqft - at least a 4 car garage, and yes bigger than many houses.

My garage is not small by any means - it has huge storage cabinets, a workbench, etc. as part of it. It is one of the biggest reasons we bought the house we did, since I've accumulated a bunch of crap over the years. But I don't think it would be possible to fit more than three regular size cars (think a Toyota Corolla and a Chevy Malibu) in it. No, they wouldn't be jammed together, but I don't think you could get a 4th car in there at all. Maybe a SMART car, but that would be about it, especially with needing to open doors, etc.

Quote from vulches : I've seen this stuff recommended as a better alternative to what's carried at home depot/lowes: www.ucoatit.com The floor tiles are more expensive and I wonder too about possible mold.

I love the idea of the tiles but we get lots of snow/rain...so I think the epoxy might be a better fit for us. My inlaws had their garage floor done with the epoxy coating, and it looks wonderful, easy to clean etc

Quote from limdoug : I got these about a year ago and I love it. I'm not sure if I paid more or less for this, but I'll try to answer a few of the questions. - no issues with rain/mold (I live in socal though so it's not like it rains a lot here) - very easy to install...they just snap together - easy to clean up..just hose it down - I wouldn't say the black looks extra dirty or anything...but the white (obviously) shows more. Pretty easy to clean up though. - I used a miter saw to cut around the corners and down to size where appropriate - I purchased more than I needed and it was incredibly easy to return to Costco for my money back Please feel free to ask more questions...I really love this product and it just makes your garage look complete.

So now we know who the person responsible for releasing all those snakeheads in wild is

Quote from limdoug : I got these about a year ago and I love it. I'm not sure if I paid more or less for this, but I'll try to answer a few of the questions. - no issues with rain/mold (I live in socal though so it's not like it rains a lot here) - very easy to install...they just snap together - easy to clean up..just hose it down - I wouldn't say the black looks extra dirty or anything...but the white (obviously) shows more. Pretty easy to clean up though. - I used a miter saw to cut around the corners and down to size where appropriate - I purchased more than I needed and it was incredibly easy to return to Costco for my money back Please feel free to ask more questions...I really love this product and it just makes your garage look complete.

That does look very nice. My garage looks to be around that size, how many boxes did you need?

Slightly cheaper at BigFloors.com [bigfloors.com] ($1.98 / sq ft).

I installed vinyl composition tile in my 800 sq ft garage. I got most of it on sale at home depot for $8 a box marked down from $30. My point? There are cheaper and better alternatives than this product in my opinion. I can't stand the gaps in the finished product of the mototile and similar products in addition to the thickness. I understand I got a deal on the VCT which you probably can't replicate, however, I highly recommend a 2 part epoxy system even though I went with the VCT. The 2 part epoxy makes things finishing raised concrete built-ins and built in concrete steps. . A lot of people go with porcelain tile too. I love my vct which is sealed with 5 coats of sealer and wax. It mops up slick and looks like glass. I can blow it clean using my air compressor. However, the vct lacks edge strength and posed some challenges around sharp edges as my garage is raised 1.5" from the driveway and I also have built in concrete do-dads. My solutions around the physical challenges of my garage cost me time and money that would have not been required with an epoxy paint system. I ultimately decided against the epoxy system due to the extremely poor manufacturer's warantee. 1 year for 1-part, 2 years for 2 part epoxy systems. I have installed VCT floors before and new they'd last a lot longer than 2 years. My suspiciousons were the epoxy would have probably lasted a lot longer than the manufacturer's period of performance but I took that as a big issue at the time and went with VCT.

My next home's garage will have a porcelain tile floor covering for sure.

I found quite a bit of good info here on various types of flooring after I did my project... http://www.garagejournal.com/foru...y.php?f=20

Quote from chilifries : Slightly cheaper at BigFloors.com [bigfloors.com] ($1.98 / sq ft).

actually no. The "motofloor" which is what is being sold at Costco in this thread is $2.69/sq-ft. The GarageDeck is cheaper and is also made by SnapLock, but it's not the exact same product as the MotoFloor.