[Shop-talk] Shed Flooring

[Doug Braun]

Yesterday I went to HD and bought two boxes of tough-looking (and heavy)
commercial-grade vinyl composition tiles.  But later when I read the
installation instructions, I learned that they warn against installing the
tiles any place where the temperature would get below 50 degrees.

I realized
that in sub-freezing weather, the tiles could get quite brittle and could
crack or work loose.  The fact that the shed floor is a bit more flexible than
a house subfloor, and that I would be tossing heavy things on it, would only
increase the risk.

So I returned the tiles and adhesive, and decided to
simply paint the floor with some floor paint I had lying around.

HD also had
vinyl flooring in 8x12 rolled-up sheets, but the stuff had extraordinarily
ugly patterns  (e.g. fake woodgrain) and the label also warned about unrolling
it when cold.

Doug



--- On Sat, 4/18/09, FRED E THOMAS
<frede.thomas2 at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: FRED E THOMAS
<frede.thomas2 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Shed Flooring
> To:
"Jack Brooks" <jibjib at att.net>, "'Shop-Talk List'" <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 10:13 PM
> My work shop (10 X 15) will be 16
> years old this Sept.and I just layed 
> Linoleum right over the 3/4 plywood
floor, still seems
> perfectly level and 
> doing just fine, now I'll not
mention the @#$%$#@
> doors.  FT