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07 Jun 2005 02:06 #3220 by balinwire
Replied by balinwire on topic garage floor patterns
This is my favorite brown floor pattern in the world, "The Showroom"



The complex pattern would be far to difficult to do so I was considering this simpler angular checked floor pattern like these beautiful displays in an 1/8in commerical tile, the racedeck website has some good ideas on patterns there.




I may modify the 1,1,1 setting to a 1,2,1,2, 45% angled setting with a border, or borders.

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05 Jun 2005 17:06 #3215 by balinwire
Replied by balinwire on topic Diamond Deck
That racedeck floor is mighty awesome. The garage looks like the emergency room in a hospital! <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->

Here is a drawing of a dream garage for your 1928 Auburn, The quote from the manual on floors says,

"Good Flooring Necessary", There is nothing better than concrete. Wood is used but it soaks up oil and gets exceedingly dirty, smelly and combustable. A concrete floor can be kept clean and is of course, fireproof.

Sometimes small garage floors are laid with the center, under the car, depressed about an inch, forming a permanet pan which may be filled with sawdust to asorb dripping oil. A regular pan may be used, and keeps the floor clean.

With the diamond tread on the deck, there will not be any slippages! It looks awesome. Will it support a floor jack with a load on it?


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29 May 2005 03:24 #3199 by Bill Hummel
GARAGE MAKEOVER was created by Bill Hummel
My son and I just put in a RaceDeck floor in our garage. It is a big improvement over the concrete that was there. The concrete was cracking as a lot of 20-year old floors do. These tiles sit on top of the old floor. Just sweep out the garage and lay the tiles down. They snap together quite easily. I used large 2-foot squares to speed up the installation. The tiles come in 8-inch tall boxes in 2-foot x 2-foot squares.

I had heard good things about the RaceDeck system so I went online and used their floor planner to order my tiles. They snap together like big legos.



Read the instructions first! I got my tiles put in 90-degrees sideways so my beveled border at the opening of the garage wouldn't mate properly. I ended up sawing off the plastic hooks and glueing the border to the tiles. No big deal, but it would have been simpler to have read the manual!

For more pics, see here: www.hummel.com/garage

To learn more, click here: www.racedeck.com

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