Review: GarageTrac Flooring (Originally posted on L2D 3 years ago) http://www.live2detail.com/showthread.php?2932-Review-GarageTrac-Flooring&p=37829#post37829
Product Claims:
GarageTrac® is the most affordable high quality residential garage flooring system available. The patent double tread pattern not only looks high-tech, but offers an added level of traction. This ultra tough garage floor is designed to withstand the harsh elements of the residential garage environment, capable of rolling loads in excess of over 44,000 lbs.
Details:
1.- Shipping: Free on all orders
2.- Containment: Cardboard boxes (All tiles landed in new condition)
3.- Directions: So easy a Skycave® man could do it (See Image #2)
4.- Size: 12x12x1/2”
5.- Color: See Image #1
6.- Price $2.19 Sq/Ft ($1.98 Sq/Ft option also)
7.- Manufacturer: SnapLock Industries
8.- Made in: USA
9.- Limited Warranty: 12 years
Available Colors: (GarageTrac only) - Other patterns have different color charts -
Easy Install
Introduction:
Over my Christmas vacation I was in the process of painting my garage. It had to be made worthy of my amazing banner from Bill and to finally quiet Sky's constant griping about the walls she lived between. While at Lowes grabbing a couple more gallons of paint my eyes caught the garage floor coatings. There I stood for at least 30 minutes. Thinking, reading, thinking..... Hmmmm.... Ultimately I would decide the risks outweighed the coating option available there.
Leaving my Sky out for 72 hours during application/cure and the likelihood of the coating peeling up within a couple years was not my idea of a good time so plans for flooring were forsaken.
Just a week later it was BOGO time in Jims thread and it suddenly dawned on me I would throw a hail marry for bogo racetrack flooring! Well, of course it was an unreasonable request and I knew (thought) garage tile flooring was priced above what I wanted to spend so back to the scrap heap the dream went....
Until.... One fine day in a conversation with Jim he mentioned he had made a possibly game changing discovery! He had found garage floor tiles for as low as 1.98$ per sq/ft on sale! Well, of course you can buy cheap knockoffs if you're into that right? Not so fast!!
From the sound of Jim these were not to be taken so lightly after all and appeared to be a great product! Still, at this point I had talked myself out of it and said to good old dad I would wait until my birthday to do it. Knowing me as he does he waited until our next conversation to slyly tell me this was a sale price and I better jump on it.
Well, father knows best so I started my due diligence on the product. After delving into the website I was given, I found the tiles to appear very similar (if not identical) to the RaceDeck tiles on AG selling for twice as much. I also found that RaceDeck was sold at the same website. The only difference appeared to be that the GarageTrac tiles I was researching were half price and didn't come in as many patterns as the RaceDeck. Warranty would be 12 years vs. 15.
Next I began to search for info that wasn't available on the website. I stumbled on a garage-flooring forum where one fine young gentleman had gathered samples from each of the manufacturers (about 6-10) different companies. He provided a side by side and close-up pictures as well as analysis and testing that showed GarageTrac flooring to be equivalent to or better than the rest.
The Bombshell:
The bombshell dropped when I discovered the garage track flooring came from the exact same address and facility as RaceDeck! The same company makes them both in the same facility and the name of that company is SnapLock Industries. It was for all intensive purposes the same product! They can be snapped together interchangeably and if you want the drain tiles offered only in the racetrack line you can use them with the GarageTrac tiles as the snap locks are identical. Just as many people want to give more of their money away for waxes apparently people like to do the same with garage flooring.
My next attempt at convincing myself not to purchase them was to tell myself they might hold water beneath them but in conversation with the lovely representative and further research I was convinced (or convinced myself) otherwise.
Jim really liked the coin pattern so he made it out for $1.98 (GarageDeck) but I preferred the other two patterns in the line. The MotoFloor was $2.79 and GarageTrac was $2.19. I decided $2.79 was not going to cut it but I was very happy with the $2.19 option (GarageTrac).
Polyaspartic Coating:
At some point during this time my friend Richy shared some info on a coating product that was another option. In the interest of staying on point I won’t get into it but it’s called Polyaspartic coating and here is a photo of a couple samples I ordered in my brief flirtation. It looks great but would need to be installed by professionals and I was quoted over 6$ sq/ft. That would mean I would pay closer to $2,400+/- compared to $750+/-.
Product Claims:
GarageTrac® is the most affordable high quality residential garage flooring system available. The patent double tread pattern not only looks high-tech, but offers an added level of traction. This ultra tough garage floor is designed to withstand the harsh elements of the residential garage environment, capable of rolling loads in excess of over 44,000 lbs.
Details:
1.- Shipping: Free on all orders
2.- Containment: Cardboard boxes (All tiles landed in new condition)
3.- Directions: So easy a Skycave® man could do it (See Image #2)
4.- Size: 12x12x1/2”
5.- Color: See Image #1
6.- Price $2.19 Sq/Ft ($1.98 Sq/Ft option also)
7.- Manufacturer: SnapLock Industries
8.- Made in: USA
9.- Limited Warranty: 12 years
Available Colors: (GarageTrac only) - Other patterns have different color charts -
Easy Install
Introduction:
Over my Christmas vacation I was in the process of painting my garage. It had to be made worthy of my amazing banner from Bill and to finally quiet Sky's constant griping about the walls she lived between. While at Lowes grabbing a couple more gallons of paint my eyes caught the garage floor coatings. There I stood for at least 30 minutes. Thinking, reading, thinking..... Hmmmm.... Ultimately I would decide the risks outweighed the coating option available there.
Leaving my Sky out for 72 hours during application/cure and the likelihood of the coating peeling up within a couple years was not my idea of a good time so plans for flooring were forsaken.
Just a week later it was BOGO time in Jims thread and it suddenly dawned on me I would throw a hail marry for bogo racetrack flooring! Well, of course it was an unreasonable request and I knew (thought) garage tile flooring was priced above what I wanted to spend so back to the scrap heap the dream went....
Until.... One fine day in a conversation with Jim he mentioned he had made a possibly game changing discovery! He had found garage floor tiles for as low as 1.98$ per sq/ft on sale! Well, of course you can buy cheap knockoffs if you're into that right? Not so fast!!
From the sound of Jim these were not to be taken so lightly after all and appeared to be a great product! Still, at this point I had talked myself out of it and said to good old dad I would wait until my birthday to do it. Knowing me as he does he waited until our next conversation to slyly tell me this was a sale price and I better jump on it.
Well, father knows best so I started my due diligence on the product. After delving into the website I was given, I found the tiles to appear very similar (if not identical) to the RaceDeck tiles on AG selling for twice as much. I also found that RaceDeck was sold at the same website. The only difference appeared to be that the GarageTrac tiles I was researching were half price and didn't come in as many patterns as the RaceDeck. Warranty would be 12 years vs. 15.
Next I began to search for info that wasn't available on the website. I stumbled on a garage-flooring forum where one fine young gentleman had gathered samples from each of the manufacturers (about 6-10) different companies. He provided a side by side and close-up pictures as well as analysis and testing that showed GarageTrac flooring to be equivalent to or better than the rest.
The Bombshell:
The bombshell dropped when I discovered the garage track flooring came from the exact same address and facility as RaceDeck! The same company makes them both in the same facility and the name of that company is SnapLock Industries. It was for all intensive purposes the same product! They can be snapped together interchangeably and if you want the drain tiles offered only in the racetrack line you can use them with the GarageTrac tiles as the snap locks are identical. Just as many people want to give more of their money away for waxes apparently people like to do the same with garage flooring.
My next attempt at convincing myself not to purchase them was to tell myself they might hold water beneath them but in conversation with the lovely representative and further research I was convinced (or convinced myself) otherwise.
Jim really liked the coin pattern so he made it out for $1.98 (GarageDeck) but I preferred the other two patterns in the line. The MotoFloor was $2.79 and GarageTrac was $2.19. I decided $2.79 was not going to cut it but I was very happy with the $2.19 option (GarageTrac).
Polyaspartic Coating:
At some point during this time my friend Richy shared some info on a coating product that was another option. In the interest of staying on point I won’t get into it but it’s called Polyaspartic coating and here is a photo of a couple samples I ordered in my brief flirtation. It looks great but would need to be installed by professionals and I was quoted over 6$ sq/ft. That would mean I would pay closer to $2,400+/- compared to $750+/-.
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