I was thinking about tiling my garage floor. It has a nice pitch to it and I was thinking of using some aluminum u channel the same depth of the tile to make drain channels towards the door. Has anybody done something like this or have thoughts about it
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OJ Bartley
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That's a pretty cool idea, whippet! I'd be very interested to see that.
Garage Flooring
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I was thinking about tiling my garage floor. It has a nice pitch to it and I was thinking of using some aluminum u channel the same depth of the tile to make drain channels towards the door. Has anybody done something like this or have thoughts about it
What type of tile are you considering... Not brand, but ceramic, PVC, plastic, etc
MagicMarker
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I was contemplating asking my local tile guy how much to do my garage with porcelain.
Angelfire
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I guess I'm having a hard time visualizing this. Assuming porecelain or ceramic here. If you ran them parallel to the slope, I wouldn't see much water ending up in them unless the sections of tile between channels was sloped into them. If running perpendicular, I could see them getting the water...you'd have to then tie those into channels running parallel to get the water "down the floor" so to speak. For me, I'm afraid those channels would just become full of **** forever needing to be cleaned out (ie. gutters on the house, control joints in concrete).
Cave Creek Ray
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Why bother? You just end up with "crud catchers" that take extra time to clean out.
The beauty of porcelain is that you can use a blower to keep the floor clean most of the time because very little sticks to it. If you live up north and drop "poop-cicles" off your car every time you park in the winter, just hose it out and use a nice big squeegee to push the water -and dirt out. It leaves the floor spanking clean.
Now, if you live up north and you are worried about freezing your door closed due to melt-off, I'd look at silicone spray or some other non-stick on your door edge. My worry with metal inlay channels is the expansion on metal is very different than tile. Eventually, it will break loose. Then you'll end up gluing it back in every year. Unless you have a drain inside the garage to run it to, what have you gained?
The beauty of porcelain is that you can use a blower to keep the floor clean most of the time because very little sticks to it. If you live up north and drop "poop-cicles" off your car every time you park in the winter, just hose it out and use a nice big squeegee to push the water -and dirt out. It leaves the floor spanking clean.
Now, if you live up north and you are worried about freezing your door closed due to melt-off, I'd look at silicone spray or some other non-stick on your door edge. My worry with metal inlay channels is the expansion on metal is very different than tile. Eventually, it will break loose. Then you'll end up gluing it back in every year. Unless you have a drain inside the garage to run it to, what have you gained?
Angelfire
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Not if you get the proper tile. CoF is the coefficient of friction rating used to describe the level of friction, dry and wet. IIRC, 0.60 is generally considered good for wet and there are plenty of porcelain tiles out there with this rating.
Garage Flooring
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Not if you get the proper tile. CoF is the coefficient of friction rating used to describe the level of friction, dry and wet. IIRC, 0.60 is generally considered good for wet and there are plenty of porcelain tiles out there with this rating.
Is porcelain not slippery?
Please be careful relying on CoF testing. At least one of the ASTM standards that was commonly used, is no longer an ASTM standard because it was not accurate. Get some samples, put them down and get them wet.
Garage Flooring
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Mines not slippery at all. I bought several samples & wet them down in back yard for real world testing.
That is the way to do it!
Angelfire
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Yes, definitely get samples. I did and flooded them with water to check for slipperiness. As it turned out, all the samples I got, about 6 in total, all were grand when wet.
Cheers.
Cheers.
OJ Bartley
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Definitely test the tile. The one I used, I just put a tile down on the floor of Home Depot, poured some water on it from the bottle my wife was drinking, and stood on it and tried to twist and slide. Mine is actually less than .6 COF, but really not bad.