Dealing With Garage Flooring Edges: Swisstrax Treadware
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- This is the product needed to address odd transitions when installing plastic interlocking tiles in your garage. I share how I installed it today.
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Matty...WHAT is goin' on with those shorts!?
Those are gucci shorts bro...
Those shorts are definitely janky and not dialed in
Jason Ernst I came to comment on the same thing, it’s not every day you blend in with the flooring in your garage 😂
They are spot on!
I missed the old intro Rev's. Idk about those shorts though...
Chris M haha forget the shorts. I want to know how a dude that lives in Florida is whiter than Casper the ghost lol
I think it would’ve been better to use 3 pieces instead; cut them all to be equal in length.
Yes then you would have only two joints instead of three with the unstable 2" pieces.
Are those Swisstrax shorts you're wearing? The pattern on your shorts looks like the Swisstrax pattern on the floor!
It does to me anyway! The more I see you installing Swisstrax flooring, the more I'm thinking about installing it in a new house I'm having built. I'll wait until I move in, to make my final decision. I really like what you did with Ed's garage. I could work in a garage like that.
You should have centered 1 and cut 2 larger for the sides. You still end up using 3. Looks good anyway.
YOu should tell us what colors you are using.
When people ask about dirt and Swisstrax, point them to Rad Garage's vids where he shows how he yearly cleans under the flooring and he's a guy who washes INSIDE his garage in harsh Canadian winters.
I have a piece of advise for you: Get bigger hammer. So you don't have to tap 20+ times at single nail.
Anyone else feel the need to paint or colour the silver nail heads black to blend in?
Throughout the whole video my OCD has been hoping be would paint them 😪😂
Why didn't you use black nails? Also you are using the wrong hammer for this application and when you're drilling use a smaller drill bit first that will guide the thicker drill bit. These nails are strong enough to go every two feet this looks Overkill
Jeremy Lujambio It’s all good. He needed to use a larger diameter metal bit first to go through the diamond plate that way the masonry bit had enough room to get through plate to start going through the concrete.
This is OG over-engineering is the name of the game!
Matt Morman. CEO / owner of bossed garage. I have chatted with him on email.
Next time you should use ankers with threds, so you can fasten it with bolts and have the option to remove the edging
Damn you are taking a huge hit with shipping on this. If I could afford it I'd 100% buy it from you.
id get some black paint on those silver fixings holding treadware down, then its dialed in matt
should have split distance between 3 instead of haviing the 2 little janky pcs on end.
I got a quote on my 400 sq ft garage from Swisstrax, with tax and free shipping. I would save like $200 going through them.
Yeah...their salespeople are the worst. They undercut me all the time.
Regarding the dirt. Maybe these people are living up north and worried about heavy dirt/mud and crap. Your garage stays fairly clean in Florida.
Matty, can you recommend the best way to add parking stops on top of Swisstrax tiles? I'm looking for a solution that a) won't be too visible color-wise; b) that people won't be inclined to trip over and c) that won't lift up off the concrete after being installed. I saw some nice-looking diamond plate versions sold by HD but they are pricey....about $80 per stop. I don't recall if they came in different colors. I like your Treadware solution for the entrance lips but would like to replicate that same style and color for parking stops. Thanks and great job!
I laughed when matt was vacuuming the the drill dust his OCD kicked in and he started vacuuming the outside of the warehouse lol.
That dirt can come in on any momment, so better clean it before it mess up
Watching Matty swing a hammer is pretty funny.
Matt's shorts look like the design of curtains in the 60's
Watch out if there is direct sun on parts of the flooring. I left plenty of gap around the edges but when the sun shines in the door in just parts of the flooring it buckles very badly. I used racedeck brand but likely an issue with any of these plastic snap together flooring. 2500 for the flooring in my garage and when the sun is out it buckles like shit.
Nathan Pust while thats always a risk I will say I so far have ONLY had that issue with RaceDeck which is thinner and “cheaper”. I had that in my last garage and the sun would cause it to expand a ton and bulge everywhere. Not the case with Ribtrax.
I backed up my truck and all the tiles buckled some came apart. I wanted to ask do you have like a 2 inch gap between the tiles and the wall all around?
I cut mine right up next to the wall. The only way the would buckle is under some serious speed and braking or aggressive turning.
@@ObsessedGarage yeah my garage is an L with the driveway so I have to turn in(drive straight down the driveway then make a left into the garage) I drilled some tapcons on the front row and have yet to have an issue. I’ll report if it is a true fix
Well where do you purchase this treadware?
www.obsessedgarage.com/products/swisstrax-treadware
Great job, If you would have snapped a chaulk line from one side to the other on the outer edge, it would have made keeping it straight much easier.
Maybe The question should not be posed " What about the dirt "
It should be what happens when the dirt gets wet and turns hard.
what about the slush and sand that comes of the car driving in the winter.
I think it would be great for climates like yours .
Not so much in the great white north. Unless you have some insight.
Are those pajama shorts? jk
Since your in the luxury retail business and have a financial background. Any worries about this recession that seems to be looming?
I figure that you've probably at least thought about this--because it's you--but have you tried construction adhesive like PL Premium for installing these? In my experience with it, it's the strongest adhesive I could find while renovating my basement, but it still has just enough flex to it so that it shouldn't immediately crack and de-bond if you happened to drive a car over it.
How much does this slow down the water draining out of your garage when cleaning? And have you pulled out the floor since installing the edging to clean it? Has this made it more difficult? I have Epoxy and I'm starting to not like it as much much and the top coat has started to yellow since new from the sun when the door is open and I'm going to be building a new home and I'm dreading the cleaning underneath. Trying to convince my other half. We clean out garage in the winter months in Illinois with water twice a month.
Girlfriend’s weight and health is inverse to the popularity of this channel.
Hey Matt, regarding the dirt under the swisstrax. You should make a video pouring dirt/dust on a small area on a floor then vacuuming it up and show everybody how much dirt is left when removing the swisstrax. I know you showed us when moving the lift, but a separate video thats is easier to find for people. Love the videos buddy, cheers!
Nice vid... Thanks! TIP: Get some cans of compressed air for cleaning keyboards and use it to blow out the concrete from the holes after drilling.
Looks pretty awesome!! I have a couple questions; Thanks.
1) What is the total depth?
2) What gauge is it?
what do you do about water that gets under the swisstrax? if a garage isn't graded properly so the water flows out the front, then swisstrax or any garage tile would be a bad idea right?
I think the old slats were there to not get in the way of the door coming down. Did the new one stop the door from dropping all the way?
I knew he was going to pull out the eraser lmao
Erik Hachey I was surprised Matty didn’t pull out the bead maker and put some one the tread plate
Agreed this pretty much explains how to clean Swisstrax.
SwissTrax shorts - match it with diamond plate belt for edge piece
“You can see this expandable anchor” as the cameraman is filming from the parking lot🤣🤣
That type of door insulation are you using on the inside of the gargae doors? I like the look of those way more than the ones I've been looking at.
How does it drain?
Each tile has a network of channels underneath that allows draining.
3 or 4 anchors would be enough per piece imo. And it would look way cleaner.
I like the shorts. It’s the diamond plate trim and silver hardware that isn’t OG spec.
Not going to lie, that spread finger technique at 22:24 had me worried!
Love your shorts Matt - matches the Swiss track flooring
Maybe I missed it but won’t this disrupt the flow of water trying to leave the garage? My little guy is running around and screaming so I tried to listen to s much as I could lol
Yes, the Treadware would be bad for water drainage.
Paint the concrete section black it wont look to slopey plus it will look good
Where's your safety glasses????
My grandma had a curtains with similar pattern as your shorts
What size hammer anchors did you use?
What is the rise this will cover? I understand that you have total rise is about 4 inches, but what is the rise of the lip where you installed it?
I don't think it could cover that much ground.
How do you clean under?
from time to time, the front lip should peel up
Why not stainless steel edge plates?
Swisstrax shorts ?
Let's do it
Will this be helpful to folks with garage openings that are "trayed"? I laid my tile down, and it seems that the tiles get pushed on as the wheels hit that edge and it caused a few to raise up when parked in the garage. Everything lays back flat when you pull out.