Our old garage had RaceDeck Diamond for about 8 years. I did all kinds of work on it for a road course track car. Multiple brake pad changes, oil changes, suspension changes, clutch replacement, etc. You can watch our video review below.Can these tiles be used on a floor that actually gets mechanic work done on it? I use jacks, jackstands, brake clean, the usual things that would happen. I see all of these posts with show cars sitting on the mats and that looks great but what if I actually want to use my garage as a hobby mechanic?
Thanks!
Mike
How does a creeper roll on the free flow?Yes and yes. I do actual work in my garage and I have a RaceDeck Free Flow . Just built a second garage and I’m going with a mix of Free Flow and Diamond.
James
Awesome review! Thank you!!!!Our old garage had RaceDeck Diamond for about 8 years. I did all kinds of work on it for a road course track car. Multiple brake pad changes, oil changes, suspension changes, clutch replacement, etc. You can watch our video review below.
No problems at all.How does a creeper roll on the free flow?
It will melt in a fire but it does not ignite like wood, rags or paper.Seems like it'd be a fire hazard, no?
How about water, oil, etc. Must leak between the tiles and the floor?My RaceDeck has held up to everything that you are concerned about, but it won’t do well with weld splatter. That melted a couple holes in
How about water, oil, etc. Must leak between the tiles and the floor?
We had some industrial mats in the office at work. Started stinking in there.
Occasionally the truck's drippings go toward the office (floor is sloped all wrong) and apparently would go under the mats.
Those mats trapped a few oz of drippings and it just festered unil it was stinking up the place. Easily 6 months.
Was very surprised it didn't dry, but the mats trapped it to the point of not allowing evaporation.
Or if I used the race Mat in the office and mop water passed through?
I can see it usable in a "garage" that's been converted to a house extention like a den, gym, spare bedroom, but pulling trucks in and working on them?
95% of the shops I service just have concrete. The other 5% have some sort of paint or epoxy on the concrete and the wear areas are redone every few years.
I hate it when people ignore questions and are rude. So how about that?I hate threads where people completely disregard and ignore people who actually have the product in question. What do stinky rubber industrial mats have to do with RaceDeck? ... Nothing! I do all the work mentioned with no issues. My tiles take a beating. I just built a second larger garage and am ordering more tiles for the new garage. I have all FreeFlow now but am going with Diamond everywhere but the first two rows and the perimeter. I wish Jorgen would put pictures of some actual working garages on his site. Seeing all those "showroom" garages makes it seem like they are the only environment the tiles can handle.
James
The OP was asking about tiles not mats. This thread is about tiles. Your speculation about tiles not being usable in a “mechanics” type garage is wrong. I was not trying to be rude. I actually do mechanics work on these tiles and I’m not talking just oil changes. I don’t tell people what a product is good for when I have never used it. Definitely not a fan boy. Their marketing is terrible IMHO. I’m sick of all the show car **** in the ads. I’m an industrial electrician at a major auto manufacturer and stand on hard *** concrete all day long. I’m also older and the tiles are much easier on the joints than concrete. They also isolate you from a cold floor in the winter. If I was doing mechanics work in a garage then I would put 2-3 rows of FreeFlow in the front and two rows along the perimeter. This avoids the wavy tiles in the sun. I don’t care what they say about capturing expansion and all this other **** the solid tiles will expand in direct sunlight. My current garage is all Free Flow and I’ve come to not like it so much when it’s under the lift because it’s kind of a pain to clean up that’s why I’m going with solid under the lift in the new garage. I’ve had high-end epoxy in the past. I did not like that so much because you drag an axle or motor across it. It gets all gouged to hell and if you get any sunlight on it then it yellows. No thank you.I hate it when people ignore questions and are rude. So how about that?
We were looking into some sort of mats to replace what we have which is why I compared it to the issue we had with what we have.
2 offices in a warehouse, about 1000 sq feet.
The brand this post is about was being considered, but I just crossed them off.
I was pushing we just repaint the floor, it lasted 25 years and mostly just wore from the chairs.
Every few months I’ll hose out my garage and scrub it with a broom. Yes the water goes through the joints and onto the cement. It dries up in a day or so in the summer. In the winter it takes a few days.How about water, oil, etc. Must leak between the tiles and the floor?
We had some industrial mats in the office at work. Started stinking in there.
Occasionally the truck's drippings go toward the office (floor is sloped all wrong) and apparently would go under the mats.
Those mats trapped a few oz of drippings and it just festered unil it was stinking up the place. Easily 6 months.
Was very surprised it didn't dry, but the mats trapped it to the point of not allowing evaporation.
Or if I used the race Mat in the office and mop water passed through?
I can see it usable in a "garage" that's been converted to a house extention like a den, gym, spare bedroom, but pulling trucks in and working on them?
95% of the shops I service just have concrete. The other 5% have some sort of paint or epoxy on the concrete and the wear areas are redone every few years.