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My new swisstrax flooring

bryan01601

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Well I finally finished my flooring installation in my new house. I am very happy with the Swisstrax tiles. They were super easy to install and click together. Thanks to everyone here I was able to weigh the pros and cons of all the flooring types and decided this was beat for me and I couldn’t have been happier! 3938C9C9-EDC0-4D82-9C0A-8E2E4C965420.jpegC6950A3D-1F1B-4DE5-BA0A-D6A373FD2684.jpeg
 

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CombatNinja

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Sweet setup you have there. Love that ceiling height and the high-lift doors. Looks like about 14' or so. Is a lift in your future?
 

White Shadow

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I unclick mine, pull out to driveway. Clean garage slab and then pressure wash tiles before re-entry. Excellent product and totally practical.

I used to do that too, until I found a much better and easier way. I give mine a quick vacuum, just to get any debris that fell through the floor tiles. Then I powerwash the entire floor with my $20 surface cleaner attachment on my power washer. The floor tiles come out sparkling clean and the concrete floor gets washed good too, with no need to unclip the floor and drag it out of the garage.

Try it and you'll never go back to pulling out the floor tiles again.

BTW, mine is RaceDeck, not SwissTrax. But they clean up the same...
 

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mepstein

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That sounds like a few day job!
Probably less than an hour. You un-click large sheets at a time. Start at the far end so you are dragging tile on tile so it slides easily. Clean and then reverse for assembly.
 

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Probably less than an hour. You un-click large sheets at a time. Start at the far end so you are dragging tile on tile so it slides easily. Clean and then reverse for assembly.
Plus moving everything off the floor
 

White Shadow

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Let me just say that "unclicking"the floor tiles, especially in large sections, is a huge pain in the ***. First, they aren't easy to unclip. Secondly, large sections of the floor tires are surprisingly heavy to drag out of the garage. And finally, clipping them back together in large sheets is also a big pain. Once side will go together quite easily, but for the other side, you'll have to lift the existing tiles up to slide the tiles you're snapping back into place underneath. It may sound easy, but it's not. Working with big sections just makes it even more difficult.

That's why I came up with my surface cleaning/pressure washer solution. And to be completely honest, I've found that the Free Flow tiles don't even need to be cleaned very often at all. I clean mine once a year at most, and that's usually just to get all the salt and road grime out of my garage after parking the cars in the garage all winter long. All the **** from snow melt/slush ends up on the floor, so I usually clean the floor once time in the Spring and then nothing to clean again until next Spring.
 

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That sounds like a few day job!
Few hours really, dragging the floor out is fairly easy for me and unclicking takes a bit of time but not a big deal. I do that once a year as well to deal with road salt from the winter. Otherwise take the pressure washer spray everything down/mop and let is trickle out the garage doors.
 

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I powerwash the entire floor with my $20 surface cleaner attachment on my power washer. The floor tiles come out sparkling clean and the concrete floor gets washed good too, with no need to unclip the floor and drag it out of the garage.
Do you have a picture or link of the surface cleaner?
 

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I dunno. Seems like a fire hazard overall.

Do some woodwork, bunch of sawdust under this magic floor tile thing. Spill some oil or diesel... Then a week or three later your grinding and welding right into the diesel soaked sawdust that you couldn't sweep up.
 

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Yep I don't understand why this love of the holey tiles. I thinks that would be a pain. I still think epoxy is best to clean and maintain if done right. My epoxy floors have been down since 2013, went through 2 car restorations and still holding on.
 

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This thread was obviously started by someone selling Swisstrax. No posts in 10 days and no posts on any other thread.

James
 

mepstein

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Yep I don't understand why this love of the holey tiles. I thinks that would be a pain. I still think epoxy is best to clean and maintain if done right. My epoxy floors have been down since 2013, went through 2 car restorations and still holding on.
It really depends on your needs. I love the racedeck free flow in my workshop. I don't do a lot of heavy duty work in the shop so the flooring keeps it looking nice without much effort. My friend and I work out of his barn and the bare concrete floor takes a beating. Plastic tiles and epoxy floors would be quickly trashed. When oil spills, we just throw a piece of cardboard down and keep working. We drag sharp heavy stuff on the floor that would gouge epoxy. We weld and grind when we need to. Horses for courses.
 

DocHappyPIlls

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Well I finally finished my flooring installation in my new house. I am very happy with the Swisstrax tiles. They were super easy to install and click together. Thanks to everyone here I was able to weigh the pros and cons of all the flooring types and decided this was beat for me and I couldn’t have been happier! 3938C9C9-EDC0-4D82-9C0A-8E2E4C965420.jpegC6950A3D-1F1B-4DE5-BA0A-D6A373FD2684.jpeg
What colors did you do?
 

Swisstrax_Official

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What colors did you do?

Looks like they used a combo of pearl grey and slate grey in their garage, but the lighting in the photo is making it a little tricky to be sure. You can see more color options here on our store page:
 
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