Recent content by Charlieu

Nice idea tying the design of the floor to the design of the cabinets. It really completes the overall look of your garage.

I have the free flow tiles and my secret weapon is a Shop-Vac. I bought the free flow to keep the dirt trapped so I wasn't kicking it up while detailing my car. It works great for that and the sand still surrenders easily to the vacuum.

Very nice design. I'm sure your baby will feel right at home with those colors. Hopefully you will update this thread with a picture of your new arrival in it's home.

Camera's just don't do these floors justice. You really have to see them in person. Very nice floor and some nice tips for others looking to do this on a tight budget.

RaceDeck does have something to say about it on their site and will even sell you rolls of stuff to put under it if you don't want to go to a big box store and pick it up there. I'm not certain how large your garage is, but mine is a small two car and a half hour with a shop-vac and a wet...

What a difference a floor can make. Very nice garage! What's that white stuff just outside your garage? :)

Mid 30's this morning in north FL and walking around on the RaceDeck in socks did seem a bit better than walking on the concrete. However, we have these temps for a few hours. I imagine that having days and days of these temps would get both concrete and Racedeck equally cold. An underlay...

You greatly understate your efforts. Maybe not fancy, but definately fantastic! Very nice garage.

You will want to leave a quarter to half in gap around your installation to allow for expansion. If like me you have something like a HVAC system, pipes or other fixtures that you would have to tile around, you would leave a gap. The tile is pretty dead on 12 inches. What does vary is the...

I agree with you that someone putting down this type of flooring system should look at both. They were the finalists when I made my decision. From my experience, I can't agree with you about the colors being better with SwissTrax. The silver and blue I used for most of my floor appeared to be...

I have to agree with you. Real men wouldn't build a room with a conversation area and a fireplace. In fact the room would be dominated by a big screen for football, racing and movies with lots of explosions. Looking at all the hard surfaces, the room must be an acoustic nightmare. Put a pool...

When I do a car wash in the garage, I use a product called Optimum No Rinse which limits the amount of water that hits the floor. It does creates the same pattern of wetness on the floor as before I had the RaceDeck installed. In other words, it is not contained within the boundry of a tile...

One of the things I saw when I was looking into plastic tiles were people talking about the sound the tiles made when walking on them. I did FreeFlow tiles throughout my garage and also installed an AccuPark. The Accupark comes with a couple of regular tiles for the base. Walking on them...

The decision maker for me was the fact that you just put this stuff down and then get on with the rest of your life. No waiting for things to cure, dry, etc before you are using your garage again. If I was starting out with a new built empty garage, it would have been a whole different story.

Roughly (and I do mean real roughly) 19 X 16 ft. I had to cut tiles for the last row at the back of the garage and along the right wall. They must have used warped lumber when they built the forms for the raised portion in the back. I had to measure and cut each tile individually. The right...