Garage floor for mixed use

[DBUD428]

Hello all,
I have a two Car Garage with a utility area in a 52 year old house that needs a nice floor. I am a woodworker and I need to share the space with my tools and one car.
The previous owners of the house used the garage for a daycare business and later extra living space. In the process they glued linoleum to the concrete floor and then later covered that with peel and stick tiles. I have scraped all of that old worn out and broken junk off the floor and now have exposed concrete. The concrete has a lot of staining so apparently cars (leaky ones) were parked in here at some time before the linoleum went down. With the amount of staining present and the unknown contributor to the stains I am very hesitant to attempt an epoxy floor. I just don't know if I could get it clean enough, plus I really don't want to rent a POD to store all the stuff in the garage while I prep/paint a floor.
I have pretty much settled on tiles, such as RaceDeck or MotoMat but have a few questions.

1. Is this a good solution for stationary tools that will rest on the flooring?
2. do I need to worry about mold or mildew forming under these kinds of floors, since water will drip from the car in the winter and from the A/C?
3. Is there a significant difference between RaceDeck and MotoMat?

I look forward to hearing from somebody with experience with this to help me make the best decision.
Thanks!

 

[RaceDeck1]

Hello all,
I have a two Car Garage with a utility area in a 52 year old house that needs a nice floor. I am a woodworker and I need to share the space with my tools and one car.
The previous owners of the house used the garage for a daycare business and later extra living space. In the process they glued linoleum to the concrete floor and then later covered that with peel and stick tiles. I have scraped all of that old worn out and broken junk off the floor and now have exposed concrete. The concrete has a lot of staining so apparently cars (leaky ones) were parked in here at some time before the linoleum went down. With the amount of staining present and the unknown contributor to the stains I am very hesitant to attempt an epoxy floor. I just don't know if I could get it clean enough, plus I really don't want to rent a POD to store all the stuff in the garage while I prep/paint a floor.
I have pretty much settled on tiles, such as RaceDeck or MotoMat but have a few questions.

1. Is this a good solution for stationary tools that will rest on the flooring?
2. do I need to worry about mold or mildew forming under these kinds of floors, since water will drip from the car in the winter and from the A/C?
3. Is there a significant difference between RaceDeck and MotoMat?

I look forward to hearing from somebody with experience with this to help me make the best decision.
Thanks!

Hello -
For stationary machinery, tools, cabinets, etc, you can trim around them or place on top of RaceDeck, though you will save money by not putting flooring underneath something you will never see. All of our flooring has a patented full-suspension channel system that allows air to circulate and our material is non-porous so it does not promote mold growth. On the RaceDeck Vs. MotorMat? ( did you mean MotoFloor at Costco?) I am not sure about Motofloor, it is not a product we manufacture or that we have ever really seen anywhere. With that said, RaceDeck is better

 

[DBUD428]

Hi Jorgen,
Thanks for the quick response. The MotorMat is for sale at Home Depot. Here is a link:

I am not considering the Costco Floor because it is not available in the colors I need.
Does anyone have any experience with the MotorMat flooring? It looks like it is the same as the RaceDeck floor, but I don't know anything about it.
Thanks!

 

[Garage Flooring]

Hello all,
I have a two Car Garage with a utility area in a 52 year old house that needs a nice floor. I am a woodworker and I need to share the space with my tools and one car.
The previous owners of the house used the garage for a daycare business and later extra living space. In the process they glued linoleum to the concrete floor and then later covered that with peel and stick tiles. I have scraped all of that old worn out and broken junk off the floor and now have exposed concrete. The concrete has a lot of staining so apparently cars (leaky ones) were parked in here at some time before the linoleum went down. With the amount of staining present and the unknown contributor to the stains I am very hesitant to attempt an epoxy floor. I just don't know if I could get it clean enough, plus I really don't want to rent a POD to store all the stuff in the garage while I prep/paint a floor.
I have pretty much settled on tiles, such as RaceDeck or MotoMat but have a few questions.

1. Is this a good solution for stationary tools that will rest on the flooring?
2. do I need to worry about mold or mildew forming under these kinds of floors, since water will drip from the car in the winter and from the A/C?
3. Is there a significant difference between RaceDeck and MotoMat?

I look forward to hearing from somebody with experience with this to help me make the best decision.
Thanks!

There are a lot of great products for use in an application like yours. Modular tiles are becoming a very very popular option. I would suggest getting two full sized sample of whatever product you think you are going to use and lock them together. We work with a lot of different manufacturers and the truth is every garage is different and calls for a different type of flooring.

I am in the process of doing my garage and we had a lot of the same considerations you do. Our garage is a parking area, a make shift shop (table saw, band saw, nothing fancy) and a playroom for the kids. Mostly its storage.

We had a lot of options for our garage and for us what it came down to was clean up. We decided to go with a PVC product because in both the PVC tiles and roll out flooring products the floor tends to function like a seamless floor. A lot of the good modular tiles have a pretty tight locking system but for our purposes, at this stage in our life, we just could not deal with the small gap every 12" Between the sawdust and the stuff the kids do it just was not going to work. For most people, in most garages that is not an issue. We sell a lot of modular tile and very few people take issue with the way they lock... In this specific case for my specific garage they just were not a good fit.

I like the TrueLock PVC tiles a lot but ultimately we went with a roll out product.

 

[DBUD428]

Is the space between the snap together floors significant? From the pictures I have seen on line they seem to be a fairly tight fit, and it would seem that the area would be easy to sweep clean. I am planning to cover the entire garage and put my tools on top of the tiles, since I feel like the floor is an upgrade to the garage and any future buyer would not appreciate holes in the floor where my tools sat. Any feedback RaceDeck owners?
Thanks,
Dale

 

[floorcoatingsguru]

Modular flooring is the way to go. Race Deck is a good product along with Swiss Trax. I installed both for years. I still have both systems in two areas of my shop. Although I'm a coatings guy, your situation calls for that solution.