RaceDeck Inside?

[TheSoundBarrier]

Some rambling here for you. Sorry...

I tore up the carpet from one room inside the house. Carpet is nasty stuff!

My initial intent was to lay down an epoxy finish in place of the old carpet. I already bought the epoxy and all of the gear to get it done before even removing the carpet. However, when I tore up the tack strips, bits of concrete came with it - all around the perimeter of the room. I then started to realize natural imperfections in the concrete, along with cracks, etc... All of the aforementioned details pose a problem for epoxy, unless measures are first taken to repair the floor. I returned all of the gear for the epoxy job - I abandoned the idea...

I began researching other options. The next thing that came to mind was a vinyl floor. Installing a subfloor is of paramount importance with an imperfect foundation though. Some people even choose to install a subfloor, regardless of the condition of their base layer. I don't want to bother with all that.

I then found out about Swiss Trax and next RaceDeck here on garagejournal.com. My plan is to install RaceDeck inside the house in this one room! It will be "my room." I've ultimately decided to do this.

To the point: I am curious if anyone here on garagejournal has installed RaceDeck inside the house. If it weren't for garagejournal, I'd have no idea about RaceDeck. I'm aware that the content on this website is mostly garage based, but I'd like some more inspiration for my prospective project.

Let me know if you get a chance. Thanks guys.

 

[admranger]

You'd want to put down some noise deadening material like the foam underlayment for those engineered wood floors. I don't mind the noise in my garage, but I'd hate it in my house.

Also, I'm going to guess that you are seriously limiting your resale value of the house doing this. There are only so many single guys looking to buy a house...

 

[TheSoundBarrier]

You'd want to put down some noise deadening material like the foam underlayment for those engineered wood floors. I don't mind the noise in my garage, but I'd hate it in my house.

Also, I'm going to guess that you are seriously limiting your resale value of the house doing this. There are only so many single guys looking to buy a house...

That is a really cool idea - the foam underlayment. I don't think I'd let it bother me though, regardless of how loud - especially in one small room. There won't be any real space to do much moving around, so the noise factor is not a real issue for me. I'll be building a big 4x8 table in there for some reloading gear, etc... That alone will take up a ton of space. I'll probably walk in and have a seat at the table. I'm aware of the clacking noise that RD makes.

If I were to sell the house, my RaceDeck tiles would pop right up and I'd take them with me to my next house. Carpet would be put back down where the RD once was.

Anyhow, has anyone here on the forum actually installed RaceDeck inside? That's my question. I'd like to know of your experience and also if you've had to do any excessive cutting on the tiles to get them to fit into a room.

 

[slickgt1]

How about tiles. You can put that right over your concrete, and not worry about anything else. Resale value would go up too.

 

[RaceDeck1]

Hi
We sell quite a bit of modular flooring for inside the house, particularly in basements and multi-use rooms.In addtion to the RaceDeck styles, we also manufacture wood like finishes, carpeted tiles, and others. Please contact us and we will be happy to get you all of the information -

Have a great weekend

 

[bdamico]

Some rambling here for you. Sorry...

I tore up the carpet from one room inside the house. Carpet is nasty stuff!

My initial intent was to lay down an epoxy finish in place of the old carpet. I already bought the epoxy and all of the gear to get it done before even removing the carpet. However, when I tore up the tack strips, bits of concrete came with it - all around the perimeter of the room. I then started to realize natural imperfections in the concrete, along with cracks, etc... All of the aforementioned details pose a problem for epoxy, unless measures are first taken to repair the floor. I returned all of the gear for the epoxy job - I abandoned the idea...

I began researching other options. The next thing that came to mind was a vinyl floor. Installing a subfloor is of paramount importance with an imperfect foundation though. Some people even choose to install a subfloor, regardless of the condition of their base layer. I don't want to bother with all that.

I then found out about Swiss Trax and next RaceDeck here on garagejournal.com. My plan is to install RaceDeck inside the house in this one room! It will be "my room." I've ultimately decided to do this.

To the point: I am curious if anyone here on garagejournal has installed RaceDeck inside the house. If it weren't for garagejournal, I'd have no idea about RaceDeck. I'm aware that the content on this website is mostly garage based, but I'd like some more inspiration for my prospective project.

Let me know if you get a chance. Thanks guys.

You could put real tile down for same or less.

 

[mikeyr]

Friend of mine put Racedeck down in his kitchen, it was there for 6 years until he got married. It was not a problem.

 

[kartracer23]

Friend of mine put Racedeck down in his kitchen, it was there for 6 years until he got married. It was not a problem.

Apparently it was to his new wife.

 

[TheSoundBarrier]

Thanks for the replies everyone, and thank you RaceDeck1; I will shoot an e-mail your way for more info...

 

[foiltravis]

I installed this in my "workroom", actually it is the third bedroom of our house. This bedroom is next to the garage and I have two 36" doors, one that you would expect that goes into the house and the other goes directly into my garage. The floor does get dirty from me walking in and out, especially the white tiles but is easy to clean, the wife loves it and even vacuums it. Everyone thinks it looks great and I am thrilled with it. If I were to sell the house I too would pull the floor and install carpet. Here are a couple of pictures before I filled the room back up with all my stuff. Oh yea, getting that mill on and off that bench is a real pain, weighs about 350 lbs.

 

[TheSoundBarrier]

That looks really sharp. Is that RD CircleTrac?

Your room looks about the same size as the room I'll be working on. Ours is also a third bedroom.

 

[foiltravis]

The flooring is from Bigfloors (apparently a division of Race Deck) and is called GarageDeck, it has the same circle pattern as CircleTrac. The flooring was an easy install, I used my normal saws, table saw and jig saw to make the cuts, using a contour gauge it was even easy to cut the shape of the trim into the tile. It has been installed for about 18 months and if I had to do it over I would.