Daytona tile?

[Spacepig]

Its final decision time, and it looks like its Bigfoot (rubber) vs. Daytona for me. Had been leaning toward the Bigfoot, but the shipping costs make the Daytona almost $250 cheaper. Besides, while there is much talk about Bigfoot on this and some other boards, I haven't seen much from actual owners/users. A question for any Daytona owners out there: is it as "noisey" as Racedeck? In other words, if that is going to bother me, should I plan on an underlayment like the Costco pads or landscape felt?

-Dave

 

[Burner]

A neighbour had Daytona down in his garage for about a week. To answer your question, yes it seemed a bit quiter than Race Deck. Why only a week you may ask? Hi garage is not a straight approach from the driveway, he must come up the drive then turn 90 degrees to enter. This means turning the wheels on the tiles. The turning action caused the tiles to deform, then buckle, separate and even break. This was with a med to lg sized Mercedes park on it. Both of us now have Race Deck in our garages, over two years for him without a problem. The Daytona is definetly a more flexible maybe even softer tile than Race Deck, we felt that this was likely the problem.

I have no idea if this was an isolated occurance, but if it happened once... Anyways I have said on here before don't waste your money buying the most inexpensive flooring, buy the best quality the first time and you only have to do it once.

 

[Spacepig]

Thanks, Burner. One of the things that lives in my garage is 5000 lbs of '59 Cadillac, and it goes in at a slight angle, meaning there will be some turning on the tiles. This is one reason I didn't want to go the expoxy route. Sounds like I better stick with the hard tiles.