expiredDealPigs22 posted May 31, 2022 02:34 AM
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expiredDealPigs22 posted May 31, 2022 02:34 AM
Costco Members: MotoFloor 1'x1' Modular Garage Flooring Tiles (48 Sq. Ft.)
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1. You can setup the tiles in an hour. Epoxy takes a while.
2. No need to deal with chemicals and fumes.
3. Epoxy has a chance of lifting when you park hot tires on the same spot over time.
4. If you don't wash and etch the concrete correctly, you will have adhesion problems. Doesn't matter to tiles. Just sweep it before laying.
5. If you move, you can take the tiles with you. Huge plus!
6. If your garage has grooves on the floor between each section of the concrete, using a mechanic creeper on the floor catches every time. Tiles does away with this.
7. If you damage a tile, you can simply replace that one tile.
8. It looks a lot better especially if you design it nicely. You can find a virtual designer on racedeck's site.
9. Dropping things on tile will generally not damage your item...especially glass. It won't likely shatter.
10. Very chemical resistant. I have sprayed brake and carb cleaner on it without any damage.
11. It feels softer when you walk on it because it absorbs some of the impact.
12. Sweeps easier because things don't fall into the concrete grooves.
These are just the ones on top of my head. There are more I'm sure.
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As far as this deal goes, I can't speak specifically about these cheap plastic tiles, but my father in law installed similar interlocking plastic tiles in his garage about ten years ago, and they've held up well, but they're annoying as hell to walk on because of the click, click, click of plastic on top of concrete, and you obviously can't do any hot work (welding or burning or grinding) around these tiles, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to use a car jack on top of these plastic tiles without some sort of weight spreader. These plastic tiles just aren't practical for a working garage.
I power washed using muriatic acid, scrubbed, then dried the floor. After drying I used a laser level to find center, stated from the middle and worked my way out. Make sure to back butter the tiles and the floor, have an edge solution, I used something called pencil molding to create an edge/water barrier before the wall as the edges of the garage have a slope. Use a sealed grout or a sealer.
A high shine tile is super easy to clean and looks stellar with LED overhead lights but its super slippery if oil gets on it.
A flat tile holds oil and doesn't clean as easy but doesn't get slippery when oiled.
The garage is about 35x20 with a third stall that's about 25x10 It took me about 8 hours to lay all the tiles and about 8 hours to grout and finish everything up. I had some help throughout but nothing professional.
I have a nice we saw and most tools to make the install go smooth. I got a quote for just install labor that was $2.25/sqft. I'd do it myself again if my current garage wasn't coated.
Which is a huge pain, once epoxy is down, its not coming up without a serious effort, and once it starts to come up, its a mess. I ran a welder in my garage and some material burnt through the coating and its slowly removing itself from that spot.
As far as this deal goes, I can't speak specifically about these cheap plastic tiles, but my father in law installed similar interlocking plastic tiles in his garage about ten years ago, and they've held up well, but they're annoying as hell to walk on because of the click, click, click of plastic on top of concrete, and you obviously can't do any hot work (welding or burning or grinding) around these tiles, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to use a car jack on top of these plastic tiles without some sort of weight spreader. These plastic tiles just aren't practical for a working garage.
Costco has another garage floor system as someone else here has offered that is self-draining and far superior. It is about twice as expensive as this one, but it lasts far, far longer. I replaced my foam tiles with it and am very pleased with the result.
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Pro epoxy quote was $1200
There's also these: https://www.costco.com/.product.100457
I wouldn't get the ones that aren't vented.
1. You can setup the tiles in an hour. Epoxy takes a while.
2. No need to deal with chemicals and fumes.
3. Epoxy has a chance of lifting when you park hot tires on the same spot over time.
4. If you don't wash and etch the concrete correctly, you will have adhesion problems. Doesn't matter to tiles. Just sweep it before laying.
5. If you move, you can take the tiles with you. Huge plus!
6. If your garage has grooves on the floor between each section of the concrete, using a mechanic creeper on the floor catches every time. Tiles does away with this.
7. If you damage a tile, you can simply replace that one tile.
8. It looks a lot better especially if you design it nicely. You can find a virtual designer on racedeck's site.
9. Dropping things on tile will generally not damage your item...especially glass. It won't likely shatter.
10. Very chemical resistant. I have sprayed brake and carb cleaner on it without any damage.
11. It feels softer when you walk on it because it absorbs some of the impact.
12. Sweeps easier because things don't fall into the concrete grooves.
These are just the ones on top of my head. There are more I'm sure.
Self-draining option is a bit more expensive.
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I used landscape fabric underneath and don't really have any clicking (there's definitely a bit of a hollow "thonk" but not a big deal).
I don't park a car in my garage and just do some light weekend warrior type of work in there, though I used to have a bench and dumbbells before moving them inside.
IIRC these were $90/box on sale when I bought them, so it seems the price hasn't gone absolutely crazy.
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