[Shop-talk] Garage tile

Chip Mautz clmautz at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 08:56:03 MDT 2007


Who did you buy those tiles from?  I was about to paint and flake, but
may rethink that project...  If it's cost effective, I may go that
route - no cold floor in the winter, hot tires lifting epoxy, etc.

I need to do the garage build out before beginning my '65 AH Sprite
resto/refurb...

Chip


On 7/13/07, Mike Rambour <mikey at b2systems.com> wrote:
>    Some miscellaneous junk here so ignore the pics you don't want to see...
>
> http://singer.rambour.com/stuff/
>
>   Has pics of my garage tiled floor along with my 2 lifts and
> cars...and lots of other junk.  The Silver Dino is sitting on a
> scissor lift on that pic, you can see the scissor lift a few pics
> below with my 34 Singer on it.
>
>          mike
>
> At 12:40 PM 7/5/2007, cornerexit wrote:
> >I too would be interested in peoples experience with these tiles. Any
> >pictures of an actual working shop with these tiles would good as well.
> >
> >I just don't see how they could be functional in a working shop, but I'm
> >sure there are things I am missing here.
> >
> >In my shop I do a lot of work on the race car while it is on the two post
> >lift. This means there are all manner of spilled fluids, hot parts that
are
> >cut off the car that land on the concrete, sparks from the welder that
land
> >on the concrete etc. I just don't see how tiles can stand up to that kind
of
> >thing? I also use a number of rolling tools/equipment while under the car
on
> >the lift - trans jack, oil drain, welder, torch, differential stands etc
and
> >I wonder how these things will roll around on top of the tiles?
> >
> >In addition most every piece of equipment and storage cabinets in my shop
is
> >on wheels so I can reconfigure the shop based on the current project.
> >I wonder how well rolling stock moves on these tiles. And I wonder how
well
> >it would work if only part of the shop floor were tiled? How would I get
the
> >rolling stock up the threshold onto the tiles or vice versa? My steel
stock
> >rack on wheels and my ammo cabinets are pretty darn heavy to push around
as
> >it is on the mostly smooth shop floor.
> >
> >The other corner of the shop has the metal fab equipment - welder, welding
> >table, drill press, lathe, mill, grinders, bandsaw etc. In this area you
> >have sparks, metal chunks, oil, chips etc falling on the floor. I wonder
how
> >easy that would be to clean up?
> >
> >On the other hand I just installed a power rack, 300lb. Olympic weight
set,
> >FID bench, and lat pulldown station in a corner of my shop and some sort
of
> >tile or mat under that equipment might make working out a little nicer.
> >
> >Wayne
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