Best Garage Upgrades For Detailers? · The DIY Detail Podcast · Radar

Choosing the Right Flooring1:21 – 6:41

Yvan LacroixHost

1:21

But that being said, the shop upgrade for me, first of all, if you look at the first episode, it was a mess.

Yvan LacroixHost

1:27

It's my daughter's garage that she didn't use other than to throw crap in.

Yvan LacroixHost

1:32

And when I say crap, we took a lot of loads to the recycling center.

Yvan LacroixHost

1:37

So a lot of happy kids.

Yvan LacroixHost

1:39

Her kids, the youngest is 12 years old.

Yvan LacroixHost

1:42

She still had baby furniture and baby clothing.

Yvan LacroixHost

1:45

never got rid of anything, just kept piling it up in the garage.

Yvan LacroixHost

1:48

So this was a cathartic moment for her.

Yvan LacroixHost

1:50

But anyways, we got everything out of the way, cleaned the shop out, replaced the flooring.

Yvan LacroixHost

1:56

And the flooring was concrete before, but it was cracked up, it was old.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:00

We cut out all the flooring and put in a heated floor.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:04

And the reason for the heated floor is very important to me.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:08

I don't like being cold.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:09

But the second thing that really makes a heated floor nice is that any moisture left on the floor evaporates away quickly.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:16

So you're not left with a slippery, damp floor.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:19

As far as the choice of flooring, I'm leaving it bare concrete, but I'm polishing the concrete.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:25

That's an episode to come.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:26

And the reason for polished concrete, just like the shop we see behind Nick there, It's a very easy surface to deal with.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:33

I've had Swiss tracts.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:34

I've had epoxy.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:36

I liked both of them, but not enough to do it again.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:39

So the epoxy over time wears.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:42

No matter how good your epoxy is, especially if it's a high traffic area, and for myself, the garage is not necessarily high traffic, but I have a bus that comes in and out of there once in a while.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:53

And that puts a lot of stress on flooring.

Yvan LacroixHost

2:56

And the Swiss tracts, we had it in our previous shop.