Protecting Your Garage Floor

Protecting your garage floor goes beyond just preventing an unsightly oil stain from your leaky auto. Garage flooring will thoroughly cover of your garage floor, will help prevent mud from being tracked into your home, will eliminate the possibility of dangerous slips, and will make cleaning as easy as turning on a hose.

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The Choices in Garage Flooring
A lot of options are out there for garage flooring. Depending on what you need, you can get a great product for about $1.50 per square foot. More expensive options are out there for professional garages in need of thicker protection and interlocking pieces. Garage floor tile is generally 1 foot square and can cost as much as $4.50 per square foot. The benefit, of course, is that the garage floor tile locks tightly together and can be removed and washed individually. Also, there is much less waste, since you can buy precisely what you need. The cheaper options come in giant rolls that must be trimmed according to your needs, leaving potential for an unsightly finished edge and requiring thorough cleaning of the entire garage mat.

The rolling garage floor mats are usually about 7 to 8 feet in width, about the width of a car, so a two-car garage will require a pair of them, costing you between 400 and 600 dollars altogether. And if you want total coverage, you might need to buy a third to run between the cars and in all the other uncovered parts of your garage that stray from a straight rectangle. In this respect, it may make more sense to seek out affordable garage floor tile sold by the square foot.

Use Specific Garage Floor Mats
If you can stand working on your cement garage floor and only need to protect it in certain places, you should consider the smaller garage flooring that is available. Garage mats made for motorcycles, scooters, and lawnmowers can be used with equal effectiveness to protect your floor from a leaky oil pan, differential, or brake line. There are few homes out there that wouldn't benefit from garage flooring, so it is a question of how best to employ it.