looks very nice, clean

 

Great job with your garage project. Its really coming together and soon enough it will look like a Porsche dealership!

You certainly made the best decision selecting porcelain tile. Its simply the best floor treatment you could choose and the best investement for your home. You should get more than 100 years from them.

 

The tiles were 2.50 a square, you can roughly double the price to get an installed price...subject to obvious variations to prep the floor. It should be quite a bit cheaper in the US.

 

I'm hoping for at the very least 100 years LOL...

It will last a very long time and porcelain tiles for sure are the best floor treatment IMO...

Easy to clean, no peeling of any sort and maintenance free.

 

Hopefully you have to jack up the car. Looks good.

 

Your garage looks great. Seeing more people doing tile is inspiring me to do my own that way. There are too many nay-sayers that assume the tile is not durable enough.

 

I will write a blog article about this eventually, but the greatest misnomer about porcelain tile is that it is not durable or that it stains. That would be true if we were talking about natural stone or ceramic tiles, but porcelain tile is the single best floor treatment you could have on a garage floor.

If anyone would like some more information on porcelain tiles, kindly send me a private message and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

 

did you lay the tile to extend past the garage door ? pics ? how does the tile lay against your driveway ? is it level ?

 

Henryr - Most tile manufacturers will have specialty tile, such as bullnose that will provide a nice transition from your driveway into the garage. You can also have a profile machined in the event a bullnose is not available.

Another idea is to install a threshold, just like is done on entryway doors to homes, to provide a nice transition from the driveway into the garage.

 

Here are two closeup pics showing the garage floor...

The first is showing the finish with a bull nose of sorts at the end of the tile laying to the concrete.

The second shows the garage door down nearly butting up against the bullnose.

It was suggested that I could tile out to the end of the concrete floor to the driveway tiles and have the tile travel under the garage door. This would have resulted in having the tile exposed to the winter elements...the tile manufacturer said it would be fine but I decided why chance it...

The entire floor is slanted towards the doors for drainage....I'd guess about 4" from the back of the garage.

 

Nice!

 

Tiles are heading into their third winter and all is like new....

 

Can you tell me how they are when they get wet? Slippery? They look great.

 

These are commercial Porcelain tiles with nothing extra for non slip and really, I've never slipped or had anyone else slip which of course is not to say that you could not slip... I don't take any extra care really. The finish is like new...

They get salty slush on them but I am fairly diligent about keeping the area clean.

 

Great thanks.