New Garage floor and floor tiles

[Peter James]

Hi,

I am after some advice.

I am going through a fairly major project at the minute. I am having an attached double garage being built and this will have a concrete floor (with DPM).
I want a maintenance floor covering (we park cars each night) and am planning to go for hard plastic tiles (they fit together using a jig-saw type thing.
Obviously I need to allow the floor to totally dry/cure.

What preparation would I do before laying. The tiles will not be 100% moisture resistant at the joins - so potentially rain water from cars will drop off and possible some might go through the joins (though I am guessing minimal. This also would mean moisture below can breath slightly.

Should I seal the floor before laying using something like PVA or should I leave well alone.

Any thoughts and advice appreciated.

Thanks

 

[bobasd]

leave the floor bare uncovered for 6 months to a year then, as an alternative, lay sheet Polyfloor or Altro commercial grade safety flooring

 

[dazlight]

After a month or so I’d go with 3 coats Uzin PE404 then the pvc / rubber tiles above.