I park 1 car and two motorcycles in my garage. I don't work on my car but i do small jobs on the motorcycles should I be looking at hard or soft plastic tiles?
J D Porcelain is a terrible choice for a garage. The first time you dropped a large wrench or lug nut on it, you would have a huge cracked or shattered piece and because it is cemented or grouted in, its difficult to perform a spot repair. A better choice for a garage, is something like NewAge LVT. They are easy to install and are rated for about 40,000 lbs. if you damage one, they can be separated at the joint and a new one dropped in.
james mccarthy I’m sorry but you’re just wrong in this case. When properly installed the tile will be as strong as the cement underneath it. The issues you’re describing occur when there’s voids from poor troweling/placement. Go look it up. There are videos of people literally smashing porcelain tiles with metal hammers and leaving no damage.
@@thelonewolf666 Easier and cheaper, in most cases, certainly. But better? Not really. It's non-porous, so it doesn't stain or absorb liquids as well or better than epoxy or any other substance. Assuming a proper PEI rating it's as strong or stronger than concrete when properly installed (there are sledge hammer tests if you're inclined to look them up). It requires less maintenance than most surfaces (especially non-perm like interlocking tiles, etc). And, it's the *only* truly lifetime product. So if you plan on living in a house for 20+, there's a pretty good incentivizing reason to consider it and potentially offsets the long-term cost concerns. Look, I get where you're coming from. From an uninformed perspective it seems like a crazy choice (I initially thought so too). But if you check out the garage journal forums there are a lot of great successes and apart from the effort/cost there have been zero negatives posted that I can see.
@@thelonewolf666 If you actually looked into it like I suggested you'd see that it doesn't. Porcelain only fails when installed improperly (ie. voids). Period. A high PEI rating, through-color tile will endure just about any kind of abuse and looks great to boot. Plastic tiles collect moisture under them, and the really nice ones that channel air underneath to make them breathable are more expensive than porcelain materials. Look man, I'm not saying it's for everyone (it's clearly a *huge* project). All I'm saying is you clearly haven't *actually* researched it or you wouldn't be completely dismissing it.
@@thelonewolf666 Lol, why do you insist porcelain is then by the nature of your statement "dumb"? It's clear I'm the only one of us that's really researched both or you wouldn't be making such a blanket statement. Plastic traps moisture underneath, unless you go with the tiles that are slatted in which case it traps dust/debris too. Any and every spill requires removal of the plastic tile and then clean-up of both the concrete (which may have absorbed some of the fluid) and the tile itself. If you don't care about these concerns then plastic is probably right for you and I wouldn't try and talk you off it. But to say it's by default "smart" is...well, the opposite of that.
Do the soft ones pull apart when turning the car wheels on it?
I park 1 car and two motorcycles in my garage. I don't work on my car but i do small jobs on the motorcycles should I be looking at hard or soft plastic tiles?
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Can i use this in my basement bar man cave
Yea, let's just glance over porcelain which is superior to both of those types in almost every way.
J D Porcelain is a terrible choice for a garage. The first time you dropped a large wrench or lug nut on it, you would have a huge cracked or shattered piece and because it is cemented or grouted in, its difficult to perform a spot repair. A better choice for a garage, is something like NewAge LVT. They are easy to install and are rated for about 40,000 lbs. if you damage one, they can be separated at the joint and a new one dropped in.
james mccarthy I’m sorry but you’re just wrong in this case. When properly installed the tile will be as strong as the cement underneath it. The issues you’re describing occur when there’s voids from poor troweling/placement. Go look it up. There are videos of people literally smashing porcelain tiles with metal hammers and leaving no damage.
@@thelonewolf666 Easier and cheaper, in most cases, certainly. But better? Not really. It's non-porous, so it doesn't stain or absorb liquids as well or better than epoxy or any other substance. Assuming a proper PEI rating it's as strong or stronger than concrete when properly installed (there are sledge hammer tests if you're inclined to look them up). It requires less maintenance than most surfaces (especially non-perm like interlocking tiles, etc). And, it's the *only* truly lifetime product. So if you plan on living in a house for 20+, there's a pretty good incentivizing reason to consider it and potentially offsets the long-term cost concerns.
Look, I get where you're coming from. From an uninformed perspective it seems like a crazy choice (I initially thought so too). But if you check out the garage journal forums there are a lot of great successes and apart from the effort/cost there have been zero negatives posted that I can see.
@@thelonewolf666 If you actually looked into it like I suggested you'd see that it doesn't. Porcelain only fails when installed improperly (ie. voids). Period. A high PEI rating, through-color tile will endure just about any kind of abuse and looks great to boot. Plastic tiles collect moisture under them, and the really nice ones that channel air underneath to make them breathable are more expensive than porcelain materials.
Look man, I'm not saying it's for everyone (it's clearly a *huge* project). All I'm saying is you clearly haven't *actually* researched it or you wouldn't be completely dismissing it.
@@thelonewolf666 Lol, why do you insist porcelain is then by the nature of your statement "dumb"? It's clear I'm the only one of us that's really researched both or you wouldn't be making such a blanket statement. Plastic traps moisture underneath, unless you go with the tiles that are slatted in which case it traps dust/debris too. Any and every spill requires removal of the plastic tile and then clean-up of both the concrete (which may have absorbed some of the fluid) and the tile itself. If you don't care about these concerns then plastic is probably right for you and I wouldn't try and talk you off it. But to say it's by default "smart" is...well, the opposite of that.