Recent content by Drev

Nice garage and more importantly nice car! I have a '07 SWP STI myself...

Surprisingly, no, I don't have any pics yet, but I will post some as soon as I get a chance to clean the garage and snap some good shots. The floor needs a good cleaning and there is a thin layer of wood dust over everything since my garage has become a weekend wood shoppe lately.

Tile is an excellent choice! I did my 22'x24' attached garage in porcelain last summer and couldn't be happier. It was a lot of work on the install, but the finished product is strong and looks great. I used my garage just like you...sometimes I'm doing an oil change and then sometimes I turn it...

I'm currently tiling my garage with porcelain and I chose to use the titanium anodized aluminum edging that gets set in the mortar while laying down the adjacent tiles. My tiles are fairly thick so I'm using the 1/2" (height) with a taper. The bottom run is 5/8" long and it seems to work nicely...

I'm installing some discontinued 12x12's that I picked up for $1.50/ft from a local retailer. The original price was almost 10x that amount so I couldn't pass it up! For me, my garage is well insulated and never drops below 15 degrees Celsius so freeze/thaw isn't an issue. At the moment I'm...

I'm in the same boat as you, SBR, in that I'm making my garage feel just like another room in the house. My neighbours think I'm CRAZY, but that's fine. Maybe I am! Anyway, I'm currently in the middle of installing porcelain tile in my 22'x24' attached garage. Two years ago I acid stained my...

I ended up going to a placed called Crazy Carpet in Chatham (great bunch of guys) to look for something else and I mentioned my garage in conversation. I was informed of a discontinued line of full-bodied porcelain tiles that were normally $9/ft and they had the opportunity to buy a certain...

Nice to see a "local" on here too! I'm from Chatham and I currently have 500 sq.ft of porcelain tile sitting in my garage waiting to be put down. I initially tried acid stain with a clearcoat and the clear failed horribly after one winter's worth of road salt. I should have just tiled it from...

I am laying down porcelain in my 22'x24' garage this spring for a very similar reason. I acid stained the concrete and cleared it, but the clear immediately lifted at the tires and at the edges of the relief cuts in the slab. I love the look of epoxy, however, I'm too concerned about going...

A full-bodied porcelain tile is VERY strong and if it's installed well (ie. back buttered before setting and fully grouted to the top of the tile) then there really shouldn't be an issue with breakage. Obviously if you were to drop something extremely heavy and it hit just right then you could...

I'm using a heavy duty full-bodied porcelain tile rather than ceramic for the garage floor so I don't anticipate any issues during the cold months. The tile will be well bonded to the floor and the grout will be sealed. I won't be tiling over the relief cuts so the sections of concrete will be...

I'll be sure to post pics of the entire garage when I'm done with the floor in the spring/early summer. The tile that I purchased was a MAJOR score in my opinion. The regular price was close to $9/ft and I snagged it for $1.50/ft since it was a discontinued style/model. Now all I need is some...

I'm a big fan of porcelain tile. I tried Kemiko acid stain and a clear coat (just to be different), but I wasn't happy with the clear lifting under tires and at the relief cuts in the slab so I just purchased 500 sq.ft. of industrial quality porcelain tile that I plan to lay down in the spring...

I would strongly recommend an oil based clear sealer over anything latex/water based. I used Kemiko stain in my garage and sealed it with a latex product and it hasn't held up well at all after one Canadian winter. My snow tires have peeled it up in spots and the salt/water mix has penetrated...

I was in the exact same situation and was sold on epoxy until I read about all of the prep work involved. While I still love the look of a nice epoxy with the flake added in I just didn't have the desire or the time to do all of that so I investigated acid stain instead. Prep work consisted of a...