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Originally Posted by tfalk
Any noticeable change in the floor with the lift on it? I'm looking to do something similar but was hesitating about the motofloor since I wasn't sure how it would be with the lift on top of it.
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yes, with the weight of the lift, with direct sunlight (think leave garage door open with sun shining in) there is a buckle between the lift. I've since moved the lift to the other side of the garage, where I think I'm going to leave it. I'm going to cut a couple tiles so the post bases are under the tiles with a little room on either side for expansion. This will correct the problem.
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Originally Posted by mreid
Joe, that's the exact color combo and pattern I was looking at. It really looks great! How is it holding up?
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Thanks. . . I put it down in late August, so it's been less than a year, but it looks as good today as when it went down. It gets a little crappy looking in the winter with salt and sand they put on the roads here, but a quick hose and squeegy and it looks great again
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Originally Posted by PaulProe
How do you deal with spills getting into the cracks?
I use my garage as a shop. It is also in snow area so the floor sees oil spills, ice melts, road salt drops, anti-freeze pukes . . .
Doesn't all this accumulate thru the joints into the sub-space? I would think it gets pretty funky
Or do you just not pay any attention to it? ? ?
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so far I've dumped 4 qts of old
oil on it and flushed a radiator (and missed some of my pail) I clean it like the concrete floor (speedy dry and a dust pan) and then give it a quick hosing off. some get's between the cracks, but most garage floors have a slope to them. The hosing help the product puddle towards the garage door.
Something else I did. . . because I too didn't like the sound of walking on it (well I didn't like the sound of my neighbors racedeck, so I assumed I would like the sound of walking on this). I put down a layer of roofing paper on top of the cement, and taped the seams with waterproof tape. I'm assuming this will help with spills too, but the main purpose was to soften the "hollow" sound of walking on it, and it did.
also these are shipped in 12" squares, verses the racedeck 2x2 (4 tiles) squares, so installation took a little longer. It wasn't 4xs longer, but it probably added 1/2 an hour. I did it myself, except having a daughter hand me the correct tiles, in just about 3 hours total for my 600 sq ft garage. My wife now wants to do her garage, but wants pink and purple so I'm dragging my feet a little