Best flooring for detailing

[StrutMotors]

Detailing from a garage with a drain and without an oil/water separator is so unethical that once the right person found out you'd be pretty well ****ed. DEP and EPA fines would negate the couple thousand you made from customers who didn't want a mobile provider and went out of the commercial area to your home 'shop'. I think the pollution control process involves excavating and treating the ground where the runoff took place- which could mean tearing up your epoxied concrete and backyard.

I know this is true in CT, and it may well be a national code or regulation because people from all over go out of their way to hide or temporarily cover drains during the inspection process. If you want to detail inside pony up the $5K+ and get a separator installed, or find a commercial garage to lease. Additionally your home has to be zoned correctly as well and some ZEO/Planning Depts wont allow this kind of operation if it is found to increase traffic or noise pollution, there will also be a public hearing where neighbors and residents can voice concern/complaints prior to permits.

Picking out floor coatings and cabinets is a long way down the road.

[Accumulator]

Yeah, this is the sort of topic that doesn't get nearly enough attention IMO.

Noting that I'm nobody's idea of a tree-hugger, and I only detail our vehicles, I simply couldn't do this stuff without taking the proper measures with regard to the runoff....just wouldn't be right. Another case of doing the right thing even though nobody's watching

[mikewilson]

I have a garage with rough floor plz suggest me if i can fitted it with tiles.

[Accumulator]

mikewilson- Welcome to Autopia.

You'd better check with the tile supplier/installer to make sure, but I'd expect the rough texture will work OK, might even give a better surface for the adhesive/etc. to bond to. There's almost certainly a limit to how rough it can be though...

That's assuming real glazed/etc. tiles that sit on a base of (separate) adhesive, not stick-on adhesive-backed ones.

[baseballlover1]

Well... when i can i am going mobile. When i cant i have my garage. My garage is just about 100% finished. I will post up a few pics. its looks AWESOME. All we have to do now is put up the Art/photos.