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So many brands out there! Any recommendations?

Have you considered a coating instead of tiles? Tiles seem like they would gather dirt and spills in between them.
Durafloor

Here's a tile on sale: MotoFloor

The prep before the coating seems difficult and tile floors are basically foolproof ;)

Lily Liu wrote:The prep before the coating seems difficult and tile floors are basically foolproof ;)

Have you laid any tile before??
There is a lot of prep with tiles also, and you better make sure you start with a Strait line and re check before you lay out the floor and find out your garage is not A PERFECT SQUARE BOX.

I would go with a coating there is more prep up front but it goes fast, once you start the application.

Kinda like cooking Chinese food lots of prep, but cooks really fast in the wok.

I tried the single stage epoxy on my floor first. I did the cleaning and drying prep and painted it on. It looked good for a while, but I noticed that where the tires sat, the epoxy bubbled/distorted.
I then went to Home Depot and bought several of their sheets of linoleum. I first rolled out and cut fit the sheets to the floor. I then washed the epoxy floor, let it dry spread the adhesive and rolled out the linoleum. It has held up well for many years. There is discoloring under where the tires sit, but I run a buffer over it once or twice a year with a cleaning pad and then wax it and it looks great again. It also provides a softer surface if you drop parts and if it gets gouged, I can cut out a square and replace it with some spare material that I kept.

John Fendel wrote:I tried the single stage epoxy on my floor first. I did the cleaning and drying prep and painted it on. It looked good for a while, but I noticed that where the tires sat, the epoxy bubbled/distorted.

I did the single stage epoxy too. Looks better than the cement floor, but nothing like the pictures they show. I mixed two colors to give it a deeper textured look. Then covered it in three layers of the epoxy. Has stood up well over the last 6 years. I have no tire marks from parking the cars, but I do have them where I have stacked tires on their sides. I how have permanent black rings with imprints of the sidewall lettering/words in the epoxy.

Lesson learned - I don't store tires directly on the floor anymore.

Tom Denham wrote: There is a lot of prep with tiles also, and you better make sure you start with a Strait line and re check before you lay out the floor and find out your garage is not A PERFECT SQUARE BOX.

I would go with a coating there is more prep up front but it goes fast, once you start the application.

Kinda like cooking Chinese food lots of prep, but cooks really fast in the wok.

I think she's looking specifically @ modular flooring (just lay on top of the garage floor - relatively portable and doesn't have to go to all edges, just enough for the car), so little to no prep work involved.

And chinese food is easy to prep, just lots of grease & msg = win, hee hee.

Sorry Lily, no recommendations on tiles - the spot I'm renting has epoxied floor, sooooo easy to clean up small oil drops & dirt.

I highly recommend Racedeck

Thanks much for all the input guys!

Guess it depends on the quality of the epoxy covering. Mine looks just as good now as when I applied it 4 years ago. But I did use an industrial version that was rated for a 5000lb capacity forklift running on it. It's handled spills of all the usual automotive type fluids and solvents quite well.