Maybe you’re buying a home to remodel, and the garage flooring isn’t in the best of shape. Or maybe you didn’t realize that a concrete garage floor could crack and come apart until it was too late, and now there’s really no way to apply paint or any other type of coating. It could even be that your garage flooded or the ground shifted, damaging the concrete in a way that could be neither foreseen or prevented. Regardless, there are many times where a garage floor covering is either desired or necessary due to a damaged floor.

Why Shouldn’t I Just Repair The Concrete?

Although there are ways to repair cracks in the concrete, and then paint over them, there is always the chance that the cracks will return. In fact, there is a very good chance that whatever caused them to appear in the first place will simply cause the same problem to happen again. Because of this, it is probably a better idea to skip garage floor paint altogether and go with a garage floor covering instead. A garage floor covering can be defined as a garage floor mat or tiles. Pretty much anything that doesn’t coat the original concrete, but instead adds something more. Both of these garage floor coverings can be used on damaged concrete, but to different degrees.

Garage Floor Tiles Don’t Always Work

If you plan to use tiles on a floor with only smallish cracks, you may not need to do anything with the cracks before you do. This is because tiles can grip the garage flooring all around the crack, instead. Because garage floor tile really isn’t a coating, and is actually a separate material altogether, they may actually help hold things together and prevent expansion of old cracks as well as new ones. Just like any other garage floor coverings, the point is to cover any defects so that, while they’re still there, they’re not visible. Garage floor tiles are not ideal in situations where the concrete garage floor is stained, however. If you do use tiles in this case, the stains will end up “sweating”, and dissolving the sticky stuff that holds the tiles to the ground. When this happens, the tiles will lose their grip, and the floor won’t be in any better shape than it was before.

Garage Floor Mats Always Work

Sometimes the garage flooring just isn’t up to having much of anything stick to it. Luckily, a mat will do the job just as well when it comes to making it easy to clean up chemicals, and they can look really good as well. However, this is akin to sweeping the problem under the rug, and may end up causing even more trouble. Depending on just how bad your concrete is, there may be some edges that are jagged enough to tear the mat from underneath, especially when you drive a car onto it. The concrete can conceivably get worse, as well, since it will be covered up and you won’t really see it. One of the best things about a garage floor mat, though, is that it can be very easily replaced. Of course, this will only work if you can afford a new mat.

You May Not Have A Choice Of Garage Floor Covering

You could very easily use either solution on your damaged concrete if you judge that tiles will be able to hold their grip. However, if not, your only real choice will be a garage floor mat.

Check out Sweet Garage Floor for more info on garage floor coverings.

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