polish porcelain tiles

[Sylquebec]

Hi guys, i will be in the process of laying porcelain tiles this summer in my 23x25 garage. I would like the look of gloss porcelain tiles. How great of an idea this could be? I will go a dark color, almost black with dark grout. Does a dulling porcelain floor can be repolish to get the original look back? I tried at my local floor shop to scratch a polish porcelain tiles with the edge of another tile, i find it to be very hard... let me know what you think about it. Picture are what kind of color and gloss im looking floor, and the other , simply a pics find on the web...

 

[duneslider]

It is extremely DIFFICULT to polish porcelain tile. I would NOT ever in a million years install a non-polished porcelain tile and try to polish it. If you want polished porcelain, then buy polished porcelain. Also, if you want the floor to look good with a polished tile you need to install it dead nuts FLAT or it will look like ****. I charged more than double to do that sort of floor.

 

[gregtwojeeps]

+1 ^^^ and I hope you don't get out of the car with wet feet often.... or have snow /water drip from the driven cars parked in the garage.

 

[RedDirtRoad]

If your floor is very level I would go with 20x20 floor tiles. Less tiles and less grout lines make a sleeker look I think.
Very nice 355 and looks to be a 599?
Are you on the other forum for your cars?
-Dominic

 

[Sylquebec]

Sorry guys, this is not my cars. I simply put this pictures because it was looking like a gloss porcelain tile floor.
I had no intention to polish non gloss tile...i want to buy them already polish for sure.

 

[Dakota00]

What's your intentions for your garage? Working garage? Parking only summer car(s) in it? Parking a DD in it during the winter?

 

[Sylquebec]

What's your intentions for your garage? Working garage? Parking only summer car(s) in it? Parking a DD in it during the winter?

no car will be park during the winter. i will park motorcycle and a summer car. I will for sure work in it...the more i thing about it, the more i think i shoud go with not so glossy tiles...

 

[Jack Olsen]

More important than the appearance is going to be how slippery they are when wet or dry. Every tile (in the US, at least) comes with a dry and wet coefficient of friction number. Look at that when you're choosing your tile.

Also, black is going to be very dark when you're working on a car on it -- it doesn't reflect any light back.