Question about interlocking flooring and cleaning spills

[frankd]

I'm leaning towards using some sort of interlocking tile floor or vinyl roll rather than a painted on epoxy type floor. But my question is about how easy it is to clean up spills.
What's your experience regarding clean up? My fear is that I spill a gallon of coolant and now I have to pull up all the tiles in the area and clean them as well as clean the concrete below the tile.

 

[SteveCh]

The interlocking tiles can allow some liquid to seep between the tiles. In my case, I have Racedeck tiles and they are very easy to pull up and then re-install. I can't speak for other brands.

First time I decided to pull up some tiles, it took me a few minutes to do it. But now, after having done it a few times, I can pull up a tile in maybe ten or fifteen seconds. Racedeck has a short video on their web site on how to do this with a putty knife. Other brands may, as well, I don't know.

 

[pbon]

Some of the flexible pvc tiles are pretty much water tight. These tiles cost more than the hard plastic snap together tiles. Tuffseal, Armorpoxy Supratile, Norsk pvc and truelock pvc.

 

[frankd]

Cool, thanks for the replies. Any of you have experience with rubber/vinyl garage floor rolls? I thought that could be a good option and have seem some for as little as $1.50 per s/f. My only concern with that would be the seams coming up or not sitting flat

 

[Shea]

Cool, thanks for the replies. Any of you have experience with rubber/vinyl garage floor rolls? I thought that could be a good option and have seem some for as little as $1.50 per s/f. My only concern with that would be the seams coming up or not sitting flat

Make sure any polyvinyl rolls/mats you are interested in are made in the USA. There are cheaper overseas rolls that are not 100% polyvinyl throughout. They use fillers and tend to delaminate.

I would recommend G-Floor polyvinyl rolls as an example. Justin from Garage Flooring LLC is a great source for rolls in terms of questions and pricing.

 

[frankd]

Make sure any polyvinyl rolls/mats you are interested in are made in the USA. There are cheaper overseas rolls that are not 100% polyvinyl throughout. They use fillers and tend to delaminate.

I would recommend G-Floor polyvinyl rolls as an example. Justin from Garage Flooring LLC is a great source for rolls in terms of questions and pricing.

Great, thanks for the info!

 

[pbon]

Cool, thanks for the replies. Any of you have experience with rubber/vinyl garage floor rolls? I thought that could be a good option and have seem some for as little as $1.50 per s/f. My only concern with that would be the seams coming up or not sitting flat

Definitely cheaper. I would not expect them to be water tight at the seams. I would also expect them to move and to expose a gap at the seam at times or to expand from sunlight and buckle at the seam if stuff is on them so they cannot float. The rolls are also likely to be thinner and less heavy duty than flexible tiles.

 

[Armorpoxy]

Hi
Our www.supratile.com solid PVC industrial grade interlocking tiles have virtually waterproof joints. If you lay a paper towel under the joint and pour water on the joint, the towel will stay dry. These tiles are used in firehouses which get flooded from washing the apparatus down.

In addition, our tiles are almost 2' square so they have 1/4 the lineal footage joints of 12" square tiles, therefore greatly reducing the possibility of this problem. We also have not had any reports in millions of square feet sold of leakage onto the floor through the joints.

Polypropylene tiles do not connect as tight and may not be nearly as water resistant. To our knowledge we have never had a customer need to pull the tiles up to clean under them from moisture getting through the joints.

If you desire to test them we can send you sample pieces for you to pour water on the joint and perform your own test, please contact us at below (not PM) to obtain.

Thank you.

 

[Garage Flooring]

I'm leaning towards using some sort of interlocking tile floor or vinyl roll rather than a painted on epoxy type floor. But my question is about how easy it is to clean up spills.
What's your experience regarding clean up? My fear is that I spill a gallon of coolant and now I have to pull up all the tiles in the area and clean them as well as clean the concrete below the tile.

The interlocking tiles can allow some liquid to seep between the tiles. In my case, I have Racedeck tiles and they are very easy to pull up and then re-install. I can't speak for other brands.

First time I decided to pull up some tiles, it took me a few minutes to do it. But now, after having done it a few times, I can pull up a tile in maybe ten or fifteen seconds. Racedeck has a short video on their web site on how to do this with a putty knife. Other brands may, as well, I don't know.

Rigid tiles perform very well overall. It is true that more moisture can get under them but unlike PVC tiles they do a good job of allowing moisture to exit. Anything other than water should clean up and as stated tiles are easy to take out a section