Just purchased my first house and hopefully if everything goes to plan ill be have keys at end of september. Whilst my mrs is sorting the boring stuff im sorting my garage. Its going to be a bikey garage, with half for bike storage (motor and push) and half as a area to work on bikes/cars etc. What shall i use for the floor? It needs to be hard wearing, easy to clean, and not cost loads. PVC or rubber Tiles seem the best option but cost £2.50 a square foot and that would be too expensive if ive worked it out correct at £1800 area is 30ft x 25ft
Screed it with self levelling floor screed then pva seal it then paint with floor paint. Another option is to make use of carpet floor tiles from an office refurb or strip out. That way any damaged floor tiles can be easily replaced.
I usually recycle someones carpet every couple of years, using the carpet underneath as under lay. Cosy
I bought some dark (charcoal grey) hard wearing floor tiles (carpet) plus 5L pva adhesive cost me about £200 all in with about 10 spare tiles for any spillages etc, looks great IMO
Carpet warmer than the other options too. Only downside I find is when you drop something there is no noise and it bounces god knows where.
At least you have your priorities right Don't go for carpet on the bike working area, you want something like semi spongy lino. Easy to clean, and not hard enough for things to bounce when then hit the floor
Warmth isn't a issue as its heated. But need something that will wear well, and not be slippy when wet too. Pvc Tiles are best option but cost loads
Decent quality floor paint. If your like me and do any welding or grinding in there the last thing you want on the floor is an oil soaked carpet.
Ditto. It makes the whole garage much warmer too. Just try to get the short pile, light coloured variety - dropped fasteners can be a pain to find in dark coloured shag pile. And it keeps the dust down too.
I used some polyurethane floor paint in my double garage. I made the mistake on my first garage of buying a tin of the stuff from b&q and it cost me a small fortune as I needed like 3 tins. Then on my new garage when I moved i just ordered some from toolstation. A massive drum of the stuff, cost a fraction of the price and was enough to give my double garage floor 3 or 4 coats of paint. Its pretty tough wearing and easy to clean. It was just dusty concrete before and this sealed it up nicely. Before painting the floor I wired in a new consumer unit, new sockets, 4 long strip lights and also gave the walls a couple of coats of cheapie magnolia paint. That brightened up the garage a treat and it feels nice & cosy in there now. I did consider pvc tiles, lino, carpet, or even ceramic tiles for the floor, but when your jacking up cars, welding & moving bikes etc around I wanted something hard wearing, non slippery, easy to maintain and cheap.
At work we have lots of work benches and areas we weld in and fabricate machinery so we buy second hand industrial rubber belting and cut this to size it's really hard wearing and you can weld etc on it.
I had a load of 1m square Gym mats. They are pretty expensive but are soft wash clean and join together. Well worth the extra.
Well put it this way, i was cutting the chain off my 996 with an angle grinder the other morning, and decided to protect the back wheel with a nice oily rag i had lying about. Within a few seconds, the sparks from the grinder set fire to the oily rag and resulted in a comical dance of panic as I had to put down the angle grinder without chopping my hand off, whilst simultaneously trying to grab the flaming rag & run out of the garage with it! Personally though, when im welding I usually do it outside the garage on the patio or somewhere well away from anything which could catch fire.
its okay, i was taking the pi$$... funny vid on youtube, one of those 'women drivers' compilations and, i shit you not, one of the clips is CCTV from a petrol station in the US..the woman gets out, dicks about trying to get the fuel in, then as it automatically starts pumping (as they do in america) she sits in the drivers seat, door open and lights up a cigarette....after a minute she returns to the fuel filler, and ciggie in hand reaches to extract the nozzle....fuel vapour, lit cigarette and dumb bimbo is quite a heady cocktail...the look of surprise, bewilderment and incredulity is comical as the vapour ignites, and then in seconds turns into a raging fireball!!! Boom!! then a million and one jets spray powder over the entire forecourt covering EVERBODY...
