Choosing Between Types Of Garage Floors
Reasons for different choices and varieties of colors, styles, and types of garage floors abound! Be sure to take into consideration the most popular garage floors and look at each advantage and disadvantage known about them. You are the one that will have to live and likely work with your decision, therefore you are the one best qualified to make that final choice!
Using Epoxy Paint For Garage Floors
Epoxy Garage Floor Paint is the most commonly used flooring in garages. It is considered permanent. However epoxy garage floor coating can bee fully removed by stripping after it has been applied. It has a professional look that is both shiny and durable. This option is the most cost efficient if you are physically able to do the work of laying the epoxy garage floor coating yourself. If you will need to hire someone to apply the epoxy garage floor paint for you then another covering might be a cheaper choice! The labor hours needed for this install far out numbers other options.
Garage Floor Tile
The only similarity in paint and garage floor tiles is a somewhat close end product, otherwise the differences are vast. Both require you to get down on your hands and knees for installation, but breaks of a few hours to a few weeks can be taken in the installation of garage floor tiles. There is always the possibility of slight fading, but otherwise the results would be the same. The ability to take time off in the installation process makes it worth the choice over paint to many. Assuming you can find matching color and design, broken or damaged tiles can easily be swapped rather than replace or redo the entire garage flooring. The selections available are wider and more varied in tiles. Paint remains a cheaper option than tile.
Complete Garage Floor Coverings
The quickest, simplest way to cover entire garage floors are garage floor mats , they only require cutting and placing of the mats. Easily recycled or thrown away, if your garage floor mat becomes badly damaged, just pull it out and toss. Moving any tables, tools or shelving you may have placed on the mats would be the only labor intensive issue. Mats are likely not for your garage floors if all you plan to do is park you car in you garage, as they tend to bunch and bend under the automobile tires causing damage to the mats. Tires and paint are both cheaper than the garage floor mats option.
Single Compartment Mats For Garage Floors
A compartment mat is a type of mat that is intended to be used only in one spot, and generally temporarily. Not that they don’t stand up to more permanent use, but they would be the least cost effective solution in that case since you would be buying many mats, one at a time. These are great for temporary solutions when you need to work only in a particular part of the garage, and they can be pulled outside of the garage for cleaning if necessary. They are, by far, the fastest of any garage floor covering to install, and most can either be stacked or snapped together to create a seal, should you want to use them throughout your garage. If this is the goal from the beginning, however, just about any of the other options would be preferable.
Check out Goddard’s garage floor website for more information on garage floor coverings.
