Porcelain Tile - Best Garage Floor? Better than Poly / Epoxy?
Carpet Tiles
This should be interesting. 24x24 porcelain on garage floor
Garage floor tiles
Are garage floor tiles easy to install?
How do I clean garage floor tiles?
Can I install garage tiles over cracked or uneven concrete?
Videos
I must be missing something. Every discussion I can find on Porcelain Garage Tiles makes it seem that it has the fewest downsides. It looks the best, it lasts the longest, it costs roughly the same as epoxy, easy to clean... You can use jacks on them, they dont stain, they're not too slippery.
With that said, why isn't it more popular? There's only a handful of DIY videos on youtube and general google searches pull results of those interlocking tiles or epoxy prep, not porcelain. This seems like a no brainer, not some niche finish. I have a garage with a concrete pad thats a few decades old that I'd like to use these tiles on soon. The tiles range from $1-2 per sq ft which is very reasonable, add in labor and its similar price to epoxy
Day one today. I'll make sure to post completed pics.
Edit: Man, the comments in this thread are hilarious. Especially from the ones who think they know what they're talking about.
Let me clear a few things up.
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Almost every new car dealership uses porcelain for its showrooms. Why? Because it's the strongest surface, and looks like a million bucks when a new car is sitting on it.
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Properly installed, there will be no cracks and no chips. You could smack a piece of porcelain with a hammer a few times before you actually chipped it. (Properly installed).
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It's resistant to all oils and any liquid that it will ever see. Power wash it every spring, and it will look brand new, even in snowy climates.
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My own garage floor is 16x16 Porcelain. It's almost 20 years old. Still looks brand new. I park a 7,000 Suburban on it, and it sees snow and ice all winter long.
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That particular porcelain is a 4.5 PEI rating. You could drive a tank on it.
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Total cost for this 450 sq ft is about $13,000