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The Best Cheap Garage Flooring Choices

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You can have cheap garage flooring without sacrificing quality, as long as you are aware of your choices and know where to cut costs without sacrificing quality. Choosing high quality flooring for your garage means it will be able to withstand the tough wear and tear this kind of surface usually suffers, but there are affordable garage flooring options that promise a good balance between toughness and price.

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There is nothing cheaper than just painting your garage concrete floors with concrete paint, and repainting as necessary when the wear and tear shows too much for your tastes. Paint is only suitable if your floor is in good condition, and it’s more of an aesthetic improvement that won’t protect the underlying concrete or repair damage to it.

Rubber Garage Flooring

Rubber is the least expensive garage flooring option, but it’s also the less versatile. It is perfect if you intend to use your garage as a workshop, storage facility or even a home gym, but it’s too susceptible to petroleum based products (oils and grease) and heat, and can melt if you park a car hot from the outside. Not pretty! It is softer than a concrete floor and has good insulating and sound buggering qualities, so it’s the perfect flooring for a kid’s playing ground.

PVC Roll-Out Flooring

PVC or mat flooring is slightly more expensive than rubber, but it makes a notable difference in terms of durability and resistance. It is also extremely easy to install without professional help, which makes it one of the best cheap garage flooring choices provided you aren’t too bothered about the looks. To install PVC garage flooring you don’t even need adhesive, and you can pick up the mats and hose them outside if they get really dirty. They also come in a variety of colours and patterns, which means you can achieve a bit of a designer look. But admittedly, it looks very much like you just covered your garage floor with overlapping PVC mats, and not particularly pretty.

PVC Garage Floor Tile

PVC or high quality vinyl flooring tile is easier to install than epoxy, while giving a more aesthetically pleasing result than Roll-out flooring. Interlocking tiles create a seamless look, and can be installed by anybody with a minimum ability at DIY, time and the right cutting tools. They come in a variety of colours and patterns that you can combine, so it’s perfect if you intend to use the garage as a workshop or care about how the flooring looks like. Cheap garage PVC tiles mar and dent relatively easy, but there are also self-correcting versions that will recover their shape after a few days.

Epoxy

Installing an epoxy flooring on your garage is not a task for the inexperienced and it’s not cheap, but it looks great and protects the floor underneath, as well as lasting ages impervious to wear and tear, stains, grease and chemicals that will inevitable fall on it if you like tinkering with your car on your garage. You should look for high quality epoxy, and be prepared to spend time installing it adequately. For example, the floor needs to be perfectly clean before installing, and that may require using substances and tools that require more than a passing familiarity with DIY. But the result is absolutely worth it, and if you are looking to increase the value of your home this is the best option.

Five Home Decorating Tips

Filed Under: Design

They say a change is as good as a holiday. While changing your home does not make you feel like you are lying on a beach sipping Pina Colcada’s, the change will keep your home looking fresh and exciting. Here are five home decorating tips:

Number One – Lights Fittings and Bulbs

One of the easiest ways to change the look and feel of a room is by adding a new light fixture. Change both the ceiling light fixture and your table lamps to give your room a new look. Be sure that the ceiling and table fittings match each other and compliment the style of the room. Remember when changing the light fitting, and bulb, to turn the electricity off at the switch board.

Number Two – Add Cushions

Another simple way to give your home a facelift is by adding new cushions to beds, benches, couches and armchairs. Ensure that the cushions compliment the room and the colour of the chair. For example: ensure that only one of the three – room wall, chair and cushion- is brightly coloured, as too many colours compete and end up leaving the room looking uninviting and unattractive.

Number Three – Change the Curtains

Buying new curtains or simply swapping curtains from different rooms is an easy way to give the room a new look. Ensure that the curtains match the room style and design. Furthermore, change the curtain railing, rings and brackets will make the curtains appear new and crisp up the look of the room.

Number Four – Give the Room a Fresh Coat of Paint

Give the room a fresh coat of paint, this will keep the walls looking new, add a fresh layer of protection and hide the marks that have appeared over the years. When painting the inside of your home, remember to choose a colour that matches the furniture, flooring and outside colour of the home. The three best colours to paint the inside of your home are: light pink, baby blue or cream.

Number Five – Paintings and Art Work

One of the best and most cost-effective ways to decorate your home is to move the existing items around in your home. Move paintings and artwork into different rooms and watch the room transform. Other items that you can move around in the home are: clocks, glassware, candle sticks and cabinets.

Giving your home a face-lift is easier to do that you think. Use these five tips to give your home a new and fresh look and feel. Remember to change your home every 3-6 months to ensure that you never get bored again.

I am Greg Jones: a gym lover, sports nut and DIY guy. I recently decided to give my home a facelift and these are five of the decorating tips I decided to try. My wife and I bought new homeware items to go with the painting and I feel as if we are living in a completely new home. Make the change and get excited to be at home.

Finding the Best Prices For Vinyl Flooring Online

Filed Under: Buying

If you are worried about cost, vinyl flooring is without a doubt one of the most durable and affordable flooring materials for your home renovation project. Vinyl flooring price varies depending on the type of vinyl you are buying, the quality and thickness of the vinyl tile squares or sheets and the guarantees offered by the manufacturers. It is also important to keep in mind that finding the best prices for vinyl flooring can be achieved easily by using the Internet to do your research instead of just buying at your local home improvement store.

Prices for vinyl flooring vary a lot: You can pay as little as $1 per square meter for basic vinyl flooring tiles, or splurge over $5 per square meter on luxury vinyl tile that could pass for natural stone. Depending on the surface you want to cover and the level of quality desired, you may need to look around to find a distributor that offers the style and format you want within your budget. Keep in mind that higher quality vinyl flooring will last longer and will suffer less wear and tear damage. You need also to take into account installation costs if you don’t know how to install vinyl floors yourself, or prefer to leave it to a professional. However, you can achieve significant savings by choosing a type of vinyl flooring that you can install yourself, such as no glue vinyl sheets or peel and stick vinyl tiles.

Lower Vinyl Flooring Costs Buying Online

Once you have decided on a budget and a decorative style, you can do two things: Go to your local home improvement store and see what they have available, or open your favourite browser and check out the Internet. You can buy vinyl flooring materials from all types of websites: from independent manufacturers to trading giants such as Amazon. If you are after a real bargain, EBay often has some really good deals from retailers that want to get rid of excess stock, or home remodelling companies going out of business or getting rid of excess from a past project. It is always a good idea to shop around for the exact design and style you want, and make sure to read the specifications. The thickness of the vinyl tiles will affect how long they’ll last, and each package should specify how much area the entire pack will cover.

Other Things You’ll Need To Buy

Depending on the type of vinyl flooring you are choosing you may also need to buy some extra materials in order to install it yourself. Unless you are using self-adhesive vinyl tiles or no glue vinyl sheets, you will need to purchase vinyl floor adhesive separately. Vinyl can be cut with an utility knife, but you may need specialist materials to level the surface on which it will be installed. For example, if you are installing vinyl flooring over concrete you will most likely need to repair cracks and use a self-levelling compound to make sure the floor is perfectly flat. Other things that may come useful but you may already have at home are a broom to be able to clean the entire floor area before installing, chalk to paint the outlines of existing countertops or toilets, and a tile roller (or a rolling pin from your kitchen). You can often buy everything from the same store you bought your tiles from.

Vinyl flooring price is also affected by the end use it is designed for. Commercial vinyl floor materials are designed to endure heavier use and so are usually more expensive, while vinyl designed for decorative usage on domestic environments is often much cheaper. High end vinyl manufacturers often include a guarantee with their flooring, sometimes subjected to the floor being installed by a professional and restricted to domestic use. Check this out if you are opting for high quality vinyl flooring and want to protect your investment from accidental damage. Vinyl is highly durable, and can last for decades with the correct care provided it was installed correctly.