Duraflex Garage Flooring

DuraFlex Tiles are one of our most popular garage floor tiles. The Leather design finish and alternative finishes offered by the DuraFlex Stud and DuraFlex Tread are not only very attractive but also help to prevent slipping when wet. DuraFlex tiles are easy to clean, highly chemical resistant, and interlock tightly to form a durable and long lasting flooring for garages, workshops, warehouses and more!

Material – DuraFlex Tiles are constructed of a proprietary blend of flexible virgin PVC with a proportion of recycled PVC that guarantees the most durable garage tile on the market. This custom PVC blend also ensures that the tiles are flexible and have the anti-fatigue flooring qualities often associated with rubber flooring but also the durability, long life, heavy duty application and chemical resistance associated with PVC tiles.

Size – 500mm x 500mm     Thickness – 7mm     Weight – 2.2 kg per tile.

Recommended Uses – DuraFlex Tiles were originally designed to be used as a garage floor tile however they are now considered a multi-use tile. Besides being used in garages, these interlocking PVC tiles have been used successfully in home gyms and utility rooms, as storage shed flooring, as trade show flooring, as a retail display flooring, in airport hangars, and as a floor surface in warehouses or manufacturing facilities.

Maintenance:

Duraflex interlocking floor tiles are easy to clean. Cleaning of these multi use tiles typically includes:

• Sweeping or vacuuming any loose crumbs, dust, or debris from the tiles when necessary.
• Periodic and occasional damp mopping of the garage tiles with a mild soap and warm water mixture.
• Due to each tile being coated with a protectant silicone sealant, the tiles may become scuffed or scratched during the installation process or while moving large heavy objects. To help reduce the appearance of scratches or scuff marks we recommend using Mr Sheen. You can use a pre treatment on these tiles to improve their shelf life – the one we recommend is a Satin Floor Dressing produced by a company called Amtico. Ask our team if you need any advice here.

Installation:

Installation of interlocking tiles is very simple and typically done by the consumer. Typical installation of these tiles is as follows:

• First, clean your sub floor so it is free of all dirt, grease or debris.
• Snap a chalk line on the sub floor 50cm ( 500mm) from one wall in your room. Snap another chalk line on the subfloor 50cm from an adjacent wall. You should now have a pair of perpendicular lines making an approximate 90-degree angle.
• Begin laying the interlocking tiles along the chalk lines, snapping the locks together as you go.
• Leave the perimeter of the room open until the field is installed.
• After the field is covered, go back and cut in lines along the walls in the room. Leaving a gap at the wall roughly the thickness of tiles – 7mm -being used is recommended to account for expansion and contraction of the floor tiles in varied temperature ranges.

Note: When piecing interlocking tiles together, adhesives are usually not used since the weight of the locked together product is usually enough to keep the floor tiles from moving. However, if you do experience movement and would like to ensure that the tiles do not slide at all, some double-sided tape or mat tape can be used around the perimeter of the installation to prevent any movement.