garage floors

SNKBYT

Enthusiast
Joined
Oct 16, 2000
Posts
418
Reaction score
0
Location
E.SWANZEY, NH
Can anybody tell me where I can purchase Race deck flooring or a similiar product? Pros and cons? Thanks Tim
 

Photog1

Enthusiast
Joined
Sep 6, 2004
Posts
765
Reaction score
0
Location
Morton, Illinois
www.racedeck.com

I have this flooring and it is awesome. Mine is black and gray checkerboard (don't do black and white it would be to hard to keep clean) with a red outline in the 3rd stall around the viper. It came ups and was easy to put in. My oldest daughter and I put the whole floor in one saturday .That is a 3 1/2 stall garage. If I can remember I will take some photos and post them.
 

PhoenixGTS

Enthusiast
Joined
Jul 9, 2004
Posts
2,685
Reaction score
1
Location
Phoenix Arizona
I have been doing a major/multi-weekend service on my car. Changed all the fluids and lots of cleaning. Spilled oil, gear oil, ATF and a ton of dirt, brake dust, grime, water, soap and rust all over the floor. With my epoxy if wipes right up. I mean spray on some Simple Green and wipe with rag. Done. For regular duty dust I mop every couple of months with a wet mop. NO WAY having a Race Deck floor could compare to that convenience and ICK who knows what ends up growing under that stuff if you do not take it up and clean under it regularly. Epoxy coating is the answer if you do real work in your garage.
 

Bill B

Enthusiast
Joined
Oct 16, 2000
Posts
1,081
Reaction score
0
Location
Plantation, Fl. 33323
I don't know what is considered "real work" in your garage but I restore cars and bikes I'm currently finishing my Isetta (frame off) and starting a viper engine swap into my Satellite. While working on my Knucklehead I knocked over a 90lb vice on a pedestal the 1/4" plate that it's mounted on landed corner first. It went rite through my racedeck and took a chunk out of the concrete underneath it All I had to do was replace the tile and the floor looks like new. It isn't as easy to mop as epoxy but reparability was more important to me.
 

SylvanSRT

Enthusiast
Joined
Feb 2, 2003
Posts
3,677
Reaction score
0
Location
Sylvan Lake, MI, USA
i have the 100% two part solid epoxy industrial floor coating for over 6 yrs and love it. it would drive me nuts knowing that dust dirt and other debris that blow into or collects in a garage was sitting under the race deck.
 

kcobean

Enthusiast
Joined
Aug 29, 2005
Posts
5,675
Reaction score
0
Location
Sterling, VA
I have the Epoxy floor (the Quikrete product to be exact) and while I love the look and the ease of cleaning, this floor is treacherous beyond belief when wet (or if you're wearing socks). The night my Viper showed up, it was raining (hard). In his excitement my son was running around and had a nasty slip/fall. We thought for sure he had a concussion. If I had it to do over again, I'd do the race deck.
 

SylvanSRT

Enthusiast
Joined
Feb 2, 2003
Posts
3,677
Reaction score
0
Location
Sylvan Lake, MI, USA
when my epoxy floor coating was done a traction additive was put into the middle layer of the coating in my case they used glass beads that are very small 1mm or less and this gives a surface that even if wet has grip, even with flat bottom shoes. i have seen other things used for traction including metal particals that were too sharp to kneal on. the glass beads are perfect.
 

SSSSE YA

Enthusiast
Joined
Nov 1, 2000
Posts
3,802
Reaction score
1
Location
Simi Valley, CA, USA
Race Deck


637Garage_1-med.JPG
 

Mark Red GTS Cooper

Enthusiast
Joined
Oct 3, 2000
Posts
907
Reaction score
0
Location
Gainesville, VA, USA
Wow, what a response, I know you will puff up your chest and blast back another smart ass statement with cute litte gifs after this and show your internet bravado,,

I come to this section to read about what this forum section is for, if you can read, it is for RT/GTS type issues, not floors, not show me a pic of your animals, not look at my friends VW, it is for RT/GTS issues plain and simple.

There is enough crap to search through in just the RT/GTS stuff when you need to find something.

mark
 

Qualitywires.com

Supporting Vendor
Supporting Vendor
Joined
Oct 18, 2000
Posts
7,050
Reaction score
0
Location
Louisville, KY
I would stay away from light colored two part expoxy floors....shows too much dirt. I just did mine and you can see scratches already! But I would prefer the expoxy over other stuff. Easier to clean messes up. But expoxy floors do chip when tools are dropped. Not much..but still...GrR!

440DSC08188.JPG


440DSC08192.JPG
 

viperbilliam

Enthusiast
Joined
May 17, 2005
Posts
1,061
Reaction score
0
Location
Richland, WA
Mark Red,

There are separate forums for what you are looking for; this forum is GENERAL Viper which is about any subject of interest to any Viper Generation that concerns a Viper. Don't you think a garage floor, which is an important part of your Viper temple, is a worthy subject? By the way, "steller" is spelled "stellar".

Yeah, some responses on this website are uncalled for or a little "out there" but we have to wear a flame suit when we venture out there but good or bad it does make this website interesting. We could probably do without the rudeness but it's amazing what some people do behind the anonymity of a web post.
 

DavidSB

Enthusiast
Joined
Jun 15, 2005
Posts
233
Reaction score
0
Location
Santa Barbara
I posted the following on a similar garage floor thread some time ago. I've since put RaceDeck over the expoy and couldn't be happier. Easy to put down, nice on the feet when working in the garage for hours, easy to keep clean, it's tough and pretty easy to replace a tile if ever damaged.

"I want to chime in here with a not-so-great experience with a professional 2-part epoxy coating affecting the concrete that might be of help to others considering it. I built a new garage in 2001, waited a full year for the concrete to stabilize an settle with only a few hairline cracks and had an ICT-brand coating applied. Everything was and is fine with the coating - its close to indestructible (can drop tools, solvents, etc without chipping or staining) - until about a year after the coating was down when I first noticed some surface spalling. The quick story is that the epoxy sealed the top surface so well that it trapped whatever moisture the slab absorbed through its edge (vapor barrier below) and my particular concrete contains as part of the aggregate mixture, what is common for this area, small pea-size nodules of expansive material. When the nodules absorb moisture they expand. If they're near the surface, the expansion creates a spall over each one. I probably have 25 of them in a 600 sq.ft. garage. So if I had it to do again, I'd put down some type of tile, which I may now put over my epoxy."
 

EA6BPilot

Enthusiast
Joined
Apr 21, 2004
Posts
235
Reaction score
0
Location
Alexandria, VA
ab,

Great setup! How tall are your ceilings? How high does that lift go? I'd love to do that, but I only have the standard 8' ceilings.

Frank :usa:
 

Qualitywires.com

Supporting Vendor
Supporting Vendor
Joined
Oct 18, 2000
Posts
7,050
Reaction score
0
Location
Louisville, KY
Frank,

Mine are 12 ft ceilings, but you could get away with 8 feet...just can't park and SUV under your car. My lift is and oversize one...it goes up I think 80" I can park an SUV under it. If you notice my tracks for the garage door, I had to get them modded to hug the ceiling so I can max out my garage,
 

Jay Herbert

Enthusiast
Joined
Dec 7, 1997
Posts
3,111
Reaction score
0
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Race deck or similar products are great for garages, those that have them really like them. If you are doing heavy service and drop fluids on it all the time, you may get a lot of those fluids below the floor as noted in one of the other replies.

Another option I have yet to see any here try is commercial roll rubber flooring. You may have noticed it in the entry and aisles of Circuit City stores. This type of flooring is made in chemical resistant formulations, and the seams between sections are sealed. The surface of these floors range from smooth to flat with slight raised rounds, to diamond plate looking. At $3-$5/sq. ft. it is expensive, but no chipping, not seams to leak and acts a vapor barrier to. Interlocking rubber tiles are also available, but they would have the seam leaking concern.

I have two part epoxy on the working side of my shop, I like it. Yes it chips when you drop a wrench on it and has a few stains from me not waiting for it to cure long enough before driving the Viper onto it, but over all, no other issues. My floor had been done ten years before I put the Epoxy on, so it was way past any spalling issues that one person mentioned. I chose a light beige color. Like AB mentioned, it does show dirt.... but it is easy to sweep and mop, things I have never been able to do before in any of my garages.
 

Photog1

Enthusiast
Joined
Sep 6, 2004
Posts
765
Reaction score
0
Location
Morton, Illinois
Re: garage floors

Here is another attempt at posting images. Thanks!


8170garage2-med.jpg
[/image]
8170garage1-med.jpg
[/image]
8170viper8-med.jpg
[/image]
8170viper5-med.jpg
[/image]
8170viper6-med.jpg

[/image]
8170viper4-med.jpg
[/image]
 

hemibeep

Viper Owner
Joined
Jul 1, 2004
Posts
977
Reaction score
1
Location
Tampa FL
Re: garage floors

94 viper, looks great, also like the decor on the garage doors....what is that?


seeee ya, first person I know that could shoot a photo while riding a bike upside down..
 

Photog1

Enthusiast
Joined
Sep 6, 2004
Posts
765
Reaction score
0
Location
Morton, Illinois
Re: garage floors

94 viper, looks great, also like the decor on the garage doors....what is that?


seeee ya, first person I know that could shoot a photo while riding a bike upside down..


Thanks
Those are the insulated panels on the garage doors that were white and I decided to be creative and paint them the same color combo as the floor. Pain in the but to paint but I think they look better than plain white.
As far as the bike riding upside down I don't get it :confused:
 

Photog1

Enthusiast
Joined
Sep 6, 2004
Posts
765
Reaction score
0
Location
Morton, Illinois
Re: garage floors



Very nice that garage looks just a little bigger than mine but is it attached to your home? It would be kool to have a lift like that maybe one of these days. Were you tring out the lift with some yellow car you wanted to make sure it worked ok before you took a chance with a Viper.LOL :2tu:
 

29OUTLAW

Viper Owner
Joined
Oct 18, 2004
Posts
767
Reaction score
0
Location
Solomons Island, Md.
Re: garage floors

Some have talked about stuff getting under the Race Deck.

I sometimes wash my car in the garage. Even though I have no floor drain, the slab is tilted slightly towards the door opening for water runoff. With Race Deck, my indoor washing would certainly be a no-go.
 
Top