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!
Epoxy Paint For Garage Floors
There are a couple of reasons as to why this is the most used flooring. It's permanent, for one thing. After the epoxy garage floor coating has been applied, it can only be fully removed by stripping. It's tough, durable, and leaves you with a shiny, professional look. If you can get down on your hands and knees and lay an epoxy garage floor coating on your own, then it is definitely the cheapest solution as well. Unfortunately, any money savings goes right out the window if you have to hire someone to apply your epoxy garage floor paint. This is because it is far more time consuming than any of the other options.
Garage Floor Tile
Garage floor tiles will give you about the same end result as paint from a utility standpoint, but that is about the only similarity. Although you do have to get on your hands and knees to install it, garage floor tiles could theoretically be installed throughout the garage over the course of a year and still come out just fine. To some, this is a huge advantage over paint, since paint has to be done all at once and in an exact order. Tiles are also very easy to swap if one or two get damaged without having to re-apply your entire garage floor. There are also more options for colors and designs than paint. The only downside is that tiles tend to be more expensive when everything is said and done.
Complete Garage Floor Coverings
By far the easiest and fastest way to cover an entire floor, garage floor mats are simply cut to fit then laid out. It's that simple. If a garage floor mat becomes badly damaged, it can be yanked out and thrown away or recycled with very little drama besides moving whatever shelves or tables happen to be sitting on it. This is probably not the best option, though, if you plan to use your garage mainly for parking cars, as the some mats are susceptible to bending and bunching underneath car tires. Garage floor mats tend to be more expensive than either tiles or paint.
Using 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. - 29954
Epoxy Paint For Garage Floors
There are a couple of reasons as to why this is the most used flooring. It's permanent, for one thing. After the epoxy garage floor coating has been applied, it can only be fully removed by stripping. It's tough, durable, and leaves you with a shiny, professional look. If you can get down on your hands and knees and lay an epoxy garage floor coating on your own, then it is definitely the cheapest solution as well. Unfortunately, any money savings goes right out the window if you have to hire someone to apply your epoxy garage floor paint. This is because it is far more time consuming than any of the other options.
Garage Floor Tile
Garage floor tiles will give you about the same end result as paint from a utility standpoint, but that is about the only similarity. Although you do have to get on your hands and knees to install it, garage floor tiles could theoretically be installed throughout the garage over the course of a year and still come out just fine. To some, this is a huge advantage over paint, since paint has to be done all at once and in an exact order. Tiles are also very easy to swap if one or two get damaged without having to re-apply your entire garage floor. There are also more options for colors and designs than paint. The only downside is that tiles tend to be more expensive when everything is said and done.
Complete Garage Floor Coverings
By far the easiest and fastest way to cover an entire floor, garage floor mats are simply cut to fit then laid out. It's that simple. If a garage floor mat becomes badly damaged, it can be yanked out and thrown away or recycled with very little drama besides moving whatever shelves or tables happen to be sitting on it. This is probably not the best option, though, if you plan to use your garage mainly for parking cars, as the some mats are susceptible to bending and bunching underneath car tires. Garage floor mats tend to be more expensive than either tiles or paint.
Using 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. - 29954
