Need some help with race deck install (odd 3 car garage)

[atar23]

I’m looking for some advice on installing tiles in my three-car garage. I’ve hit a snag because the garage doors aren’t square, and I can’t figure out how to align the tiles properly. My goal is to keep the cuts toward the back of the garage while ensuring the black edge lip lines up neatly at the entrance of each door. Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated!

 

[CSRPenFab]

My 1000 sq ft 3 car is offset as well. It’s a 2’ offset with the single door being 2‘ deeper. I simply started my layout along the wider 2 car door and it all worked out fine. Both transition edges are right under the door seals. Get it as close as possible and you only make cuts along the back and one side wall.

 

[Al G]

Get one close and live with the gap in the other. It's a garage, not a showroom. I think you've made it harder for yourself leaving that gap in the middle to fill in.

 

[CombatNinja]

Prioritize the double section and get the single as close as you can. Your stagger looks to be about 2', what is the actual measurement?

 

[TX4runner]

Unless you are disconnecting the tiles between the bays it's going to be very hard to have the lip transition exactly the same on both doors. It would also look like two separate bays as the pattern wouldn’t connect in the middle. I’m with Ninja. Prioritize the double bay.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

It may be an optical illusion in the photo, but it appears the tiles in the 2 bays do not line up and cannot be joined in the middle. If that is the case, I would pull the tiles and start over. Measure the distance between the opposite wall and the double door and calculate how much to take off the first tile to allow a .5 inch gap and have the tiles end as you wish at the double door. Then work your way across the back wall and toward the doors.

 

[Shea]

I’m looking for some advice on installing tiles in my three-car garage. I’ve hit a snag because the garage doors aren’t square, and I can’t figure out how to align the tiles properly. My goal is to keep the cuts toward the back of the garage while ensuring the black edge lip lines up neatly at the entrance of each door. Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated!

It's rare to get offset garage doors aligned perfectly. The way you started the installation is a bit unorthodox and makes it harder as well.

The way to do it is to assemble the first few rows all the way across the front of the garage from wall to wall. Use only whole tiles at first and do not separate them like they are now. Line up the edge ramps against the double door and see how it plays out with distance on the single door. You can move the row back and forth to see what works best. You will have to make a compromise somewhere.

Once you have that figured out, run a row all the way up one side of the garage. Again, only using whole tiles. You can fill in the rest from there and trim the tiles to fit on the other wall and back wall.

 

[atar23]

Thanks for all of the feedback. Here’s where I am at now. Still organizing but nearly done!

 

[RaceDeck1]

keep the pics coming, your garage looks great! thanks for choosing RaceDeck

 

[3335173]

I had the exact issue with my last garage. I wanted that factory edge on the entrance but needed them to meet in the rest, so it will have to be one whole tile off. The My solution was to adjust the layout so one door, the tile edge was about 4" inside the garage door and the other was about 2" outside the door. Not ideal, as that edge then gets weather and sun, but it was north facing. Only the edge trim showed on the outside. The other solution was to separate the sections with another color and stagger them. I didn't think I'd like the lack of symmetry.