Bedroom Workshop flooring

[rjacobs]

First post, been lurking for a few weeks now.

Just bought a new house. Im used to having a basement to setup a work shop in. Specifically a reloading room. New house is in Texas with no basement so I am converting one of the bedrooms into a reloading room. Its got carpet. Dont want to tear said carpet up. Both bedrooms(not sure which one I am going to put this in) are basically 11x11 so not that large of an area. Garage is out due to heat issues in summer.

Ive been wracking my brain on something to put down over it to keep the carpet from getting dirty and damaged. There will be zero wet spills in this area and zero potential for them.

-Was thinking those thick rubber mats like you see at a gym. They are about $3 a square foot from what I can find.
-Something like the TrueLock or Racedeck tiles at somewhere in the 2.50-3.00 a square foot range.
-Roll out mats of some kind, but they seem like they would move around to much and not be secure. They also seem to be in that 2-3 dollar a square ft range.

Anything else anybody can think about? Like I said, not really interested in tearing out the carpet in one of the rooms, but I could and just lay tile and be done with it. If it ever gets turned into a bedroom again, just put an area rug down. I could probably do tile for under $2 a square foot since the carpet that is in there is basic brown. Thats my last option, I think.

Whats your alls thoughts? Any other products to think about?

 

[Garage Flooring]

First post, been lurking for a few weeks now.

Just bought a new house. Im used to having a basement to setup a work shop in. Specifically a reloading room. New house is in Texas with no basement so I am converting one of the bedrooms into a reloading room. Its got carpet. Dont want to tear said carpet up. Both bedrooms(not sure which one I am going to put this in) are basically 11x11 so not that large of an area. Garage is out due to heat issues in summer.

Ive been wracking my brain on something to put down over it to keep the carpet from getting dirty and damaged. There will be zero wet spills in this area and zero potential for them.

-Was thinking those thick rubber mats like you see at a gym. They are about $3 a square foot from what I can find.
-Something like the TrueLock or Racedeck tiles at somewhere in the 2.50-3.00 a square foot range.
-Roll out mats of some kind, but they seem like they would move around to much and not be secure. They also seem to be in that 2-3 dollar a square ft range.

Anything else anybody can think about? Like I said, not really interested in tearing out the carpet in one of the rooms, but I could and just lay tile and be done with it. If it ever gets turned into a bedroom again, just put an area rug down. I could probably do tile for under $2 a square foot since the carpet that is in there is basic brown. Thats my last option, I think.

Whats your alls thoughts? Any other products to think about?

Hard plastic tiles won't work for this application. Stuff will work its way through. It just does. Mats come at the widest 10'. They won't fit will and will squish down on the carpet (highly technical term).

Rubber tiles, which we also sell, have a relatively lose lock. They are also rubber and rubber stains stuff. Probably not a good idea.

PVC tiles could work. Specifically the Exelia tile or the Norsk tile. I have a few NORSK here I could send you full size samples and you could test them out.

Another thing to look at -- depending on how thick the carpet is -- see if anyone has some click lock type floating floor on clearance and use that. Last I looked either home depot or lowes had some that they were blowing out.

Get one case, assemble it on the floor and decide if it has to much give.

 

[rjacobs]

Its fairly thick carpet, pretty high grade and its brand new so the nap is still tall.

The issue I guess is cost getting out of control when I could probably lay a brown ceramic tile for $1 or $1.50 a square foot and just call it done, although this is not my preferred method I dont think.

Those Norsk tiles look nice, but $350 or so to do a ~100 sq ft. room starts to get pricey. I bet replacing the carpet in there in the future if I didnt put anything down and just destroyed it would be cheaper in the long run.

 

[ratdoggy]

Pull the carpet up,save it,leave the floor bare and reinstall the carpet after momma tells you she's preggo

 

[rjacobs]

Pull the carpet up,save it,leave the floor bare and reinstall the carpet after momma tells you she's preggo

there aint no momma and there aint gonna be no preggo when there is a momma. I got a line, and thats it. One advantage of being over 30 and dating women over 30, they are either bat **** crazy and want kids, or they are the complete opposite and want nothing to do with kids.

The reloading stuff for me is a side business that brings in some income and allows me to shoot for cheap/free.


Can carpet thats cut to be an exact fit be laid right back down, stretched and the seam redone easily? Thats probably the easiest thing to do if its possible.

 

[rsanter]

I'm with the pull the carpet and save it to put back later.
Yes if you pull it carefully then it can be reinstalled with no trouble.

I would either paint the floor or put cheap laminate flooring in

Bob

 

[DHWhite]

Hello everyone, well, gym mats are especially designed to protect floors and equipment, creating a safe and clean surface. You can check this out.

 

[rjacobs]

Hello everyone, well, gym mats are especially designed to protect floors and equipment, creating a safe and clean surface. You can check this out.

worst overt shill post ever

 

[mark11]

Anything you put over the carpet will mat it down and trash it anyway. Consider ripping it out and putting laminate in. You can get some dirt cheap at Depot and while not the best stuff it will probably do you fine with the limited traffic it'll see.. If the room goes back to being a bedroom the floor will still work. Tile in a bedroom would be kinda weird to me but laminate looks great.

 

[rjacobs]

Im thinking you guys are talking about wood laminate flooring right? Im already planning to take the carpet out of the dining room and replace with wood laminate flooring so might as well go ahead and put it in the one bedroom I plan to use as a work shop too and be done with it. The floor wont get a lot of traffic on it, I just dont want carpet down due to stuff like gun powder spillage, primer(both used and new) spillage, brass shavings and dust that end up everywhere, etc... Need a hard suface. Like I said, no liquids will be present save for a cup of coffee or water in the room.

Looks like I can get wood laminate flooring for under $2 a square foot(some places show some for like .79) and I am sure I can install myself as its a floating floor basically from what I am seeing.

 

[ford guy]

Pull the carpet & save it for a future re-installation.

I found 3/4" oak prefinished hardwood flooring on my local Craigslist & installed it in my reloading room. It is the best looking room in the house!

Bob

 

[rjacobs]

got a concrete floor so real wood is basically out. I think ill go with some type of laminate. Lots of wholesale type places here in Dallas.

 

[joshgn]

how about carpet tiles? they are rubber backed and thin...they would go great over the bare floor...

get on amazon and do a search for "dean carpet tiles" $1 a sq ft shipped...just throw them down and go...

 

[azula]

I'm with the pull the carpet and save it to put back later.
Yes if you pull it carefully then it can be reinstalled with no trouble.

I would either paint the floor or put cheap laminate flooring in

Bob

Laminate is a great idea. The way they are making it today, it can easily be installed and just as easily removed.

 

[rjacobs]

how about carpet tiles? they are rubber backed and thin...they would go great over the bare floor...

get on amazon and do a search for "dean carpet tiles" $1 a sq ft shipped...just throw them down and go...

no carpet, dont want carpet. I dont like vacuuming up gun powder, sweeping it is better.

 

[Off-Street Parking]

I was in the same situation in a rental apartment years ago. I needed the work space, but everything was carpeted. The only idea I had was to take sheets of plywood and drill a grid of holes part way through, then glue wood dowels in place. The idea was that you could then flip it over, have a flat stable floor, and the dowels would elevate it enough to avoid flattening out the carpet.

In the end, I had a job change and moved... But I always wondered how well it would have worked?

 

[rjacobs]

Im going to do laminate wood flooring I believe. Seems about the cheapest and will probably hold up well enough over the long term. Once its down I will most likely put down my anti-fatigue mats in front of my bench. Might even build my bench into the closet if there is enough room. My current bench is 8'x2'x36" tall and I need all that room and then some.

 

[T_R]

I would pull up the carpet, padding and tack strips. Roll up the carpet and padding and save it. Glue down a solid sheet of linoleum to the subfloor. There will no cracks for powder to fall into. Then if you ever want to put the carpet back down, you won't have to remove the linoleum. Just nail the tack strips back through it and lay the carpet back over it.