Tiling garage floor

[Rudie]

Hi, want to hard tile the garage floor rather than soft mat it or paint it. Hopefully make the cleaning of it a lot easier than the rough concrete surface.

I don’t think there is a dpm under the concrete but will have to use the SLC to get it all level first.

Is there any advice before I put down the SLC like using pva? I was looking at these tiles

http://www.diy.com/departments/cirq...-tile-pack-of-9-l-333mm-w-333mm/161765_BQ.prd

Thanks know advance.

 

[flameport]

Do not use PVA.

 

[Rudie]

thanks flameport. so will plan to use a slc. if i lay the tiles on a wet bed (seen on a few youtube vids) will that work? tiles will be around 7mm thick

 

[Tigercubrider]

It depends on what use the floor will be used for?
If you are in the habit of dropping tools then I wouldn't use ceramic?
There are plastic based treadplate panels that could be used in commercial garages.
Personally those riven tiles look awkward to clean

 

[Keithmac]

Tiles are great until you drop something heavy on them, I've done it and its bloody annoying!.

 

[Rudie]

i'll try and buy the thickest tiles i can get/afford and have rubber mats under workspaces!

 

[SFK]

Thickness (to a point) is not critical.
When I looked at this, but did not get round to doing it, one of the bits of advice as to "ensure the adhesive has a 100% covering between floor and tiles - no holes or gaps".
This is because you need a solid transition between tiles and the floor - any gaps below tiles are where car/bench weight will crack the tiles.

I ended up looking at Swimming pool tiles as they were relatively reposnably priced and were textured and expect people to drop things on them.

SFK

 

[Keithmac]

Yep, need a properly buttered tile.

I put a 300mm long masonry bit back in it's sheath but it went straight through and landed on the tile, only a chip but really annoying!.

 

[Rudie]

thanks guys, thats why i mentioned a wet bed of cement/adhesive as that way there should be no gaps. i laid some utility room floor tiles this way at a friends a few years back and it was alot easier than spreading the adhesive using a tool as u drop the tiles on and they all self levelled with minimum tapping