Garage floor covering recommendations

dale1uk

dale1uk

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Hi guys, I'm wanting to tidy up my garage so it's a nicer place to work in and I'm looking for recommendations for cost effective garage flooring.

My garage is an decent sized single at 6.4m x 3.6m so will need a total of just over 23m2 of flooring. The floor is a concrete slab and currently is partially covered with some old carpet and some 5mm commercial swimming pool pool cover off cuts.

I'd rather not paint the floor as I'd like the benefit of a covering taking the chill off the floor and making it a bit nicer to lie on if I'm working under my car. I'm also ruling out carpet as my car can often get put away when wet, so looking for something that will deal with getting wet.

It seems like my options are:

Interlocking garage floor tiles - the price of these is off-putting!

Rubber floor matting - looks like I can get these in 1.2 - 1.5m wide rolls. Not sure how it would stand up to jacking on and using axle stands

Standard domestic vinyl flooring - can get a 7m x 4m roll for around £170, so looks like the cheapest option. I can't imagine it would fair well when using a jack on it though.

What have you guys used on your garage floors? Anything that comes highly recommended, or is definitely worth ruling out? I don't work on my car in my garage that often, so don't need anything overkill, but at the same time do to want to spend a couple of hundred quid if it just falls apart when I do.

Cheers
 
Thanks for the replies.

So far the best value of my 3 original options I've found are these:

Interlocking garage floor tiles: https://duramat.co.uk/category/heavy-duty-industrial/

500 x 500 x 7mm heavy duty tiles. Would work out just under £500 to do my whole floor. Initial costs are a lot higher, but should never need replaced.

Rubber floor matting rolls: https://rubbermattingonline.co.uk/product/rubber-matting-roll-10m-5bar-checker-plate/

£83 a roll @ 10m x 1.2m x 3mm thick. 2 x rolls would cover the whole floor with 3 x joints. Still not sure how it would hold up to axle stands/jacks

Domestic vinyl flooring: https://www.burts.co.uk/remnants/burts/napa-solid-91-metal-effect-vinyl-flooring-remnant-131346

6.4m x 4m @ £160, 2.8mm thick. Would be the easiest as it's a continuous roll so no joints, but can't see it lasting long term
 
Thanks again for the input guys.

I think I'm fairly set in getting interlocking floor tiles. The initial cost is obviously higher, but I'm hoping they'll be a cost effective long term solution.

I currently have samples coming from Plasfloor and Mototile

Hoping to contact a few other places for prices and samples too
 
Well I've decided to go for the Mototile Motolock 7mm interlocking tiles and the order will be going in today. Going for black and dark grey chequered design

Mototile have an 8% off offer on until the weekend, and coupled with their postage costs (£15 compared to £50 that Plasfloor charge) the overall coats are fairly similar to the thinner Plasfloor tile. The Mototile tiles are also 500x500, compared to 200x200 that the Plasfloor tiles come in, so going with the larger one will make installing them a lot quicker.
 
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My pallet of Motolock floor tiles arrived today :D

Still about a week or so away from being ready to lay them as I still need to finish off painting the walls, replace the garage distribution board, and install new sockets and lights.

Got a couple out to check and really happy with my choice. Seeing the Motolock tiles out in the floor compared to the smaller (and thinner) Plasfloor tiles I definitely don't regret the small extra cost.

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The Motolock tiles are 495x495x7mm compared to the Plasfloor tiles that are 200x200x4.5mm. Looking at them side by side the thickness difference looks more than 2.5mm so will double check the actual thickness of them to see what they actually are.
 
It's been slow progress but got pretty much all of the Motolock tiles down :D

Very happy with the results and how easy they are to lay. Would definitely recommend them if anyone is looking for garage tiles

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Wow, can't believe it's almost 2 years since I laid the Mototile flooring down in my garage! They are holding up great and have zero regrets about opting for them over painting. I wasn't keen on an open tile due to me being more than likely to spill oil or other fluids which would have resulted in me having to lift the tiles to clean up properly, but I can see the appeal of them if you're not a clumsy ****** :D
 
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