Hi All,
We have a heated garage and end up with inches of standing water in our garage every winter. I usually end up using the wet floor vac to **** up the water and then a fan to dry the floor. I'm getting tired of that.
I don't like the commercial floor mats that you can buy because they are all poorly designed. Most only have a depth that might hold an inch of water if that. I want to make my own and use either foam pipe insulation or a funnoodle for the outer edge of the mat:
Essentially what I would do is get a large mat that would hold water and then roll the outer edge of the mat, with the foam contained inside the outer roll to form a perimeter "lip", and then I'd glue the edges in place.
The idea being you could drive over the foam edge onto the mat. Super simple to make.
However, I am looking for ideas on what to use for the mat itself. Those cheap blue tarps won't work---they will pass water through them. I was thinking of maybe using that EDM rubber roofing material. But there must also be some other membranes out there that would work so I'm looking for suggestions. Even a really heavy vinyl tarp might work.
I'm not interested in suggestions for floor drains, or putting a coating on the floor itself or gluing tubing to the floor, etc. (all things I've seen suggested elsewhere) None of those ideas are practical in my case.
I've googled and also searched this forum and I haven't come across any great ideas for a source or suggestion of mat material. I knew you guys would have some great suggestions so I thought I would ask!!! Any ideas n what I could use for a mat?
Thank you!
We have a heated garage and end up with inches of standing water in our garage every winter. I usually end up using the wet floor vac to **** up the water and then a fan to dry the floor. I'm getting tired of that.
I don't like the commercial floor mats that you can buy because they are all poorly designed. Most only have a depth that might hold an inch of water if that. I want to make my own and use either foam pipe insulation or a funnoodle for the outer edge of the mat:
Essentially what I would do is get a large mat that would hold water and then roll the outer edge of the mat, with the foam contained inside the outer roll to form a perimeter "lip", and then I'd glue the edges in place.
The idea being you could drive over the foam edge onto the mat. Super simple to make.
However, I am looking for ideas on what to use for the mat itself. Those cheap blue tarps won't work---they will pass water through them. I was thinking of maybe using that EDM rubber roofing material. But there must also be some other membranes out there that would work so I'm looking for suggestions. Even a really heavy vinyl tarp might work.
I'm not interested in suggestions for floor drains, or putting a coating on the floor itself or gluing tubing to the floor, etc. (all things I've seen suggested elsewhere) None of those ideas are practical in my case.
I've googled and also searched this forum and I haven't come across any great ideas for a source or suggestion of mat material. I knew you guys would have some great suggestions so I thought I would ask!!! Any ideas n what I could use for a mat?
Thank you!
