Garage Tiles with flat and sloped floor

[buster09841]

hello all,

I joined up because I'm going to be doing a lot of garage organization over the next year (gotta work slow to keep the wife happy!).

I want to start with flooring, as my 2.5 year old concrete floor is already showing some wear from the northeast winters.

I have been going back and worth on materials and have ruled out a few.

out:

VTC
porcelain or ceramic
epoxy

What I'm looking at are either Racedeck tiles or one of the many pvc tiles like armorgarage.

they are about the same price and I see benefits in both. but I really like the idea of the free flow tiles with racedeck since we get a lot of rain and snow and having that all melt through would be great and then just pressure wash it out at the end of winter!

my main question is this.

I have a 20x20 2 car garage with a 10x16 bump out that goes straight back the 1 bay. making one side 10x20 and the other 10x36.

the bump back section is level concrete and the remainder of the garage, 20x20 area, is sloped at a little under 1/4" per foot.

can the Racedeck tiles handle the change in pitch from flat to sloped or will the connection point cause a raised lip and uneven surface?

I know the pvc tiles can do this but they don't have an option for flow through.

thanks,

Brian

 

[Garage Flooring]

This should not be a problem

 

[buster09841]

This should not be a problem

Thanks!

I guess I just thought rigid plastic might not do the contour like flexible tile.

My worry was that the transition is going to fall right on the joint between 2 tiles.

Thanks for the quick reply

 

[Garage Flooring]

Thanks!

I guess I just thought rigid plastic might not do the contour like flexible tile.

My worry was that the transition is going to fall right on the joint between 2 tiles.

Thanks for the quick reply

1/4" slope has never been a problem.

 

[Armorpoxy]

Hi,
Our solid PVC Supratiles www.supratile.com can definitely handle this. They are super quiet to walk on and since they are solid and they have very tight full perimeter joints. We have never had a report of water getting under them under normal use.

We sell hundreds of thousands of square feet to firehouses www.armor-tuff.com

20% discount on them for GJ members.

 

[SiGmA_X]

Just curious, why did you rule out porcelain tile?

 

[buster09841]

Just curious, why did you rule out porcelain tile?

1 reason really....time.

I just don't have the time to do it with a new born, 2 year old and 4 year old. And I guess also because I can do it and I refuse to pay someone to lay it on my 600 sq. Ft garage.

So modular tiles make sense for me because I can knock them out in a weekend easily, and I don't do ******** work in my home garage because I have lifts avaliable to me at work. So I mainly park cars and store the family **** in there.

 

[zeeway]

Installed Racedeck on my 16 year old garage floor a few months back. My floor has expansion joints cut in both directions and a few major cracks, both of which cause some additional slope changes in the left- right direction. I used landscape fabric under the tiles for a quieter installation, and am very happy with the result. Not sure, but the landscape fabric may have helped with the slope changes, also. The Racedeck tiles handle the various slope changes and look good.

Angie