what about where VCT meets the outside?

[ttod]

After reading numerous threads here about the Armstrong product, I've ordered enough tiling to do the garage. My plan is to use the Roberts VCT 2057 adhesive. I'll start with a pewter and field gray checkerboard in the center where the cars go. Then move all the tools, etc., along the walls onto the checkerboard and tile the perimeter in white out.

My reason for posting is to ask what to do where the edge of the tile meets the outside world. Tires will be running over that and I haven't seen if anybody has addressed that edge in any special way.

I am thinking maybe I will just bevel the edge at 45 and see how that works out. But if somebody knows this needs a different treatment, like maybe a metal flashing, I'd like to hear from you.

 

[Dadillac]

When I did mine back in May this year I didn't do or add anything by the doors. Just had the tile end so the door seal covers the edge. Wife and I park in the garage at all times. After months there is no damage at all on the exposed edge. And it is still stuck down like day one.

Don

 

[JR 42]

In a typical flooring installation, you'd use an overlap reducer (like the attached picture) glued directly to clean dry smooth concrete. I'd be worried about temperature fluctuation and heavy rolling loads in your application - the trim are vinyl or rubber, so they can creep a fair amount with temperature changes; the car tires will exert a heavy rolling load on the trim. We'd use a stout contact cement or urethane adhesive (like Liquid Nails, but better and more expensive) for interior foot traffic.

Beveling the edge of the tile slightly would probably work fine, so long the rest of the install and site conditions are spot on.

JR

 

[Ch3No2]

I too just ended my VCT under the door and called it good. The garage door company showed me some stuff on a roll and it looked like I would have more trouble with it coming up than the VCT. Going on 4 years and no problem with vehicles in n out all the time. I did use an aluminum threshold at the man door.

 

[ttod]

thanks all. Easy enough to put a bevel on the exposed edge, so that's what I'll try.

 

[apollo11]

Metal reducer work too
I would never leave an exposed edge.

 

[Colin Len]

I can't seem to find the thread, thought I'd bookmarked it, but if you search for enough VCT threads here I'm sure you'll find it. There's another member who used metal flat stock (IIRC it was about 1/8"x2" metal strip available at local home improvement stores) which was glued down with some sort of construction adhesive. It gave a really nice finished edge at the garage door and is what I plan to do when I install my VCT.

EDIT: found it in 10 seconds with a google search instead of the forum search: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11812