Whats your garage floor like?

Just purchased my first house and hopefully if everything goes to plan ill be have keys at end of september. Whilst my mrs is sorting the boring stuff im sorting my garage.

Its going to be a bikey garage, with half for bike storage (motor and push) and half as a area to work on bikes/cars etc.

What shall i use for the floor?

It needs to be hard wearing, easy to clean, and not cost loads. PVC or rubber Tiles seem the best option but cost £2.50 a square foot and that would be too expensive if ive worked it out correct.


area is 30ft x 25ft

I've had tin of Safety Blue floor paint sat in shed for nearly a year...

I'm unsure of what prep the dirty concrete floor requires before painting.

Any ideas folks? Will probably help OP also.

Sweep all the dust off is all the prep it needs ( I think)

errrrrrr no, this is very much not the case - that much I do know!

B&Q carpet tiles.

Much nicer when you work on the bike. Cheap and if you don't stick them down you can spill stuff on them and just remove and replaced the soiled carpet tiles.

Use floor sealant first, or the paint peels off.
We found this out and have a lovely cellar floor, but a tatty garage as we didn't seal that.

As an aside, I would personally only ever use a 2 pack floor paint

That's a good sized garage.
My garage is 5m x 7m and I used proper interlocking garage floor tiles cost me about £400.00 and it has proved to be exactly what I needed. Had to cut very few to get a wall to wall fit and if I move will take them with me.

Yes they will crack and yes they can be very slippy.

Some good ideas. Ill see if our local carpet place can help. PVC tiles are my first choice but cost is too much. Unless i do half the garage pvc and half carpet?Cant buy anything yet so got a month to decide which way to go.