Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Garage Floor Solutions (Matt Boyd)

[George (ygpz4re]

Matt,

I've read all of these posts and have a question:  do you want a working garage or a showroom garage?

If it's to be a "working" garage, I'd do nothing to the floor, put down the big mats that Gary recommended, and put a couple of large drip trays lined w/ "Pig Mat" (available at your FLAPS) to catch the oil drips from the PIII and a smaller one under the red car.  Also consider the "Raceramps" (?) Charles linked to prevent flat-spotting (been meaning to get some of these for "Old Blue", but just haven't yet....).

If you want a "showroom" garage, based on Charles's remarks about the Racedeck, I think I'd go with that.  I'd almost bet money that it's far more affordable than a high-end coating.  And you can *still* put drip trays under the cars.  (In fact, you probably should no matter what...)

Perhaps the best of all worlds is the Racedeck with the big mats under the cars, and drip trays to catch oil drips.

I thought about doing something similar to the new garage (which you still have yet to see!), but in the end, just considered it a lot of money spent for very little actual benefit.  But then, I'm not driving wet, dripping cars into the garage.  And no matter how much I clean it, it's still a garage, subject to spiders and cobwebs, dirt and dust, never completely sealed from the outdoors, etc etc.

FWIW, YMMV, yadda yadda....

gp