The johnsonite tile is very easy to clean, just a little bit of greased lighting cleaner, hot water and a mop. No effort to clean at all. We had a pretty bad winter as well and still very easy. Also it has a round dimples for a stable walk, no slipping at all.

 

commercial grade composite quartz tile seems to be the strongest and most durable, and tile of choice for race shops and custom garage installers these days. You can find it at tile suppliers for a fraction of the griots price...

dave w

 

I was looking for a quartz tile. Definately a great choice for a garage or anything else. Much better than ceramics and granites as far as maintenance and car. I only know of silestone, is there other brands out there? Thanks.

-gregy

 

Thanks!

 

I check out the locking tiles (racedeck, etc) and purchased www.kiwitile.com. I went with the tile that has holes in it and love it. Small dirt falls down into the holes so it looks clean most of the time. Once every two or three months I use a shopvac to vacuum out the garage, it sucks the dirt up through the holes. If I get a stain on it, I just wipe it down with a wet rag. FYI, Kiwi is metric so it's a bit larger than the US tiles like racedeck. You can jack cars on it, as you can see my lift is setup on top of the tiles, no problem.

Roy



Good luck.
Roy

 

It looks like I am going to go with Armstrong commercial vinyl tile (CVT), Safety Zone type for the main garage floor area (car traffic). This tile has built in grit so that the floor will not be slippery. I plan to use S-230 epoxy adhesive. I plan to use Alabaster and Black in a 4x4 arrangement (2'x2' checkerboard). Officially they do not recommend this but ... oh well! They didn't recommend it in a lab either and it worked well there to.

For the concrete landing area (7" riser, 4' deep and stairs), I will use Ucoat-it UFlek-AF in black with granite flek. I will put silica in it before the final epoxy coat to aid traction.

 

Tim,
Is your garage heated and insulated? If not, you may have problems with the Epoxy during the winter. Armstrong suggested I NOT use the S-230 adhesive with CVT tile because the tile WOULD come up off the base concrete during the winter.

 

Yes, the garage is heated and insulated. Now, I do plan to extend the tiles out to where the garage closes and so some of the tiles will be exposed. I know this will yellow, but I thought if it looked bad after a while, I would just epoxy the little apron area till I got inside the door.