Best flooring for garage?

[zimm17]

Just bought a house that has a 2 car garage with an ugly concrete floor. What are the current best solutions for a covering? Race deck? Some kind of epoxy coating? I'm tough on floors- floor jacks, dropped tools, some hobby welding, grinding, etc.

My brother's place has ventilated race deck, and after working in his garage for a few days, I hate it. Too uncomfortable to kneel on, swallows small hardware, and I wouldn't know where to begin with a sloppy oil change clean up.

 

[ATC]

So it's just ugly? Not cracked, uneven, etc...?

If I were using a garage like you are, I wouldn't worry about the floor. Use it as-is.


I guess if I had to do something, it would be an epoxy coating.

 

[zimm17]

No it’s fine. House is only 5 years old. Maybe you’re right. I can take that money and buy a new air compressor….

 

[Zeke]

Did you know the next forum on the index is called "Flooring?"

 

[zimm17]

Did you know the next forum on the index is called "Flooring?"

No and that is embarrassing because I cruised through the topics and didn’t see it. Sorry.

 

[4 Ever-Fish N]

I'd definitely go epoxy. I put epoxy down when my concrete floor was new. There are some stains, concrete cracks, etc but overall it still looks good. It may take a lot of work to get your floor clean enough to have the epoxy stick.

 

[kbuhagiar]

I installed MotoFloor (which is Costco's licensed version of Racedeck) on my well-worn 2-car garage floor several years ago. I loved it, easy to trim & install, easy to clean, and it really brightened up the place. Only complaint would be the slight clackity-clack sound from walking on it. Sold the house in 2021 and left it there, new owner loved it too!

 

[kbuhagiar]

My brother's place has ventilated race deck, and after working in his garage for a few days, I hate it. Too uncomfortable to kneel on, swallows small hardware, and I wouldn't know where to begin with a sloppy oil change clean up.

The original RaceDeck (or Costco's MotoFloor) is a much better choice, IMHO.

 

[kbuhagiar]

I've got a 1950's detached single garage that I am looking to improve into a more usable workshop space. Repairs to the roof and window have resulted in a drier environment, my attention is now turned to the floor. It is made up of a mixture of concrete and concrete slabs with no DPM below. This seems to suffer from a little condensation in winter and a gap between two of the slabs allows damp upwards in very poor weather. The biggest problem is the concreted areas are quite dusty. My play is to lay a DPM over the existing floor and then install interlocking PVC floor tiles over the top. Does anyone see an issue with this plan? The floor is mostly level, although my biggest concern is preventing the existing floor from breathing and causing more problems. There is a DPC in the single skin brickwork one course up, I guess the DPM would need to lap up this course of bricks? In an ideal world I would rip the lot up and re-lay the slab however this would have to be a last resort being both time and cost prohibitive

yomav,

You may want to start your own thread and post your query there.
It's considered bad form to hijack someone else's thread.

 

[frankd]

I have a product called "garagedeck" made by bigfloors.com. I do like the product but the main reason I installed it is because the original concrete floor is from 1955 and its cracked, pitted, patched, etc. If I had a good solid/sound floor, I'd probably just put some sort of sealer on it or something to prevent the concrete from staining or soaking up oil spills.

 

[dcg9381]

I'd definitely go epoxy. I put epoxy down when my concrete floor was new. There are some stains, concrete cracks, etc but overall it still looks good. It may take a lot of work to get your floor clean enough to have the epoxy stick.

I've done epoxy before. I now use polyurea and will never look back. It's less expensive, you can install it as a solid color and flake it (identical to epoxy) - less prep, easier to install (less skill). Did I mention cheaper?