Checkered Garage Floor..
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Re: Checkered Garage Floor.. (HankB1)
NICE, like pulling into the winner's circle every time. All you need is a couple of 'Winston Cup' babes to greet you !
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Re: Checkered Garage Floor.. (terryrudy)
Looks familiar Olivier. :) I used home depot tile for mine though. About $350.
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Re: Checkered Garage Floor.. (GrandSportC3)
Oliver,
Did you have any concerns about not being able to locate fallen parts quickly on the black paint? I'm planning to do my garage (a wide-3 car garage,) but since I do so much tinkering, and I have hands like bricks (I'm a drummer -- no finger independence!) I tend to drop screws and bolts.
I plan to do the floor in light gray so I can find the stuff I drop...unless you say that you can still find oily bolts on the floor on the black.
Sam
Did you have any concerns about not being able to locate fallen parts quickly on the black paint? I'm planning to do my garage (a wide-3 car garage,) but since I do so much tinkering, and I have hands like bricks (I'm a drummer -- no finger independence!) I tend to drop screws and bolts.
I plan to do the floor in light gray so I can find the stuff I drop...unless you say that you can still find oily bolts on the floor on the black.
Sam
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Re: Checkered Garage Floor.. (78Vette-SA)
i'm planning on doing the same thing. One I have 2 months of painting the inside of the house first. Then i'm spakling the walls and putting a semi-gloss white over the walls and ceiling after which i'll do the squares. Should look nice. one problem I first have to figure out is a pulleyt system to suspend the hard top over the Vette to allow me to raise and lower the hard top by myself. Yeah I know there are motorized kits but I'm making my own. 2 two by fours bolted into the studs above with three pulleys fore and aft with pipe insulation around the lifting straps. the 3rd pulley will tie the 2 main lpulleys into the lifting line which will use a sailboat non-slip chock to hold the hard tops weight. Once that's built I can start painting.
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Re: Checkered Garage Floor.. (sammyb)
Oliver,
Did you have any concerns about not being able to locate fallen parts quickly on the black paint? I'm planning to do my garage (a wide-3 car garage,) but since I do so much tinkering, and I have hands like bricks (I'm a drummer -- no finger independence!) I tend to drop screws and bolts.
I plan to do the floor in light gray so I can find the stuff I drop...unless you say that you can still find oily bolts on the floor on the black.
Sam
Did you have any concerns about not being able to locate fallen parts quickly on the black paint? I'm planning to do my garage (a wide-3 car garage,) but since I do so much tinkering, and I have hands like bricks (I'm a drummer -- no finger independence!) I tend to drop screws and bolts.
I plan to do the floor in light gray so I can find the stuff I drop...unless you say that you can still find oily bolts on the floor on the black.
Sam
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Re: Checkered Garage Floor.. (terryrudy)
Yeah the squares are 2' x 2' but I used 1' x 1' squares and put 4 of them together.
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Re: Checkered Garage Floor.. (tersian)
Those home depot tiles, are they the self-stick or were they normal linolium tile?
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Re: Checkered Garage Floor.. (norvalwilhelm)
Looks good but now you will be paranoid about scratching it when using a jack or sliding any heavy object across the floor. :) :lol:
