Building a floor in the garage with our own hands: advice of professionals

Arguments in favor of the wooden floor of the garage

The basic requirement for the garage is the integrity of the walls and the high quality of the floor covering. From their "well-being" depends on the safety of objects, equipment, and working equipment placed in it.

Actual question "For what reason is it worth using wood for laying the floor?" The answer lies in its advantages over other materials:

1. Nature of qualities, environmental friendliness, absence of hazardous health components
2. Not sensitive to the effects of acid elements, oil substances, bases containing gasoline( ingarages gasoline is often spilled onto the floor and can corrode the surface of the coating or leave unpleasant stains).
3. Excellent fire safety property
4. Hydrostatic stability
5. Low material cost
6. Purchase availability
7. Endurance of loads. Can carry the weight of cars and the pressure from the equipment stored in the garage
8. The tree is favorable to stains and various contaminants. Sometimes it is enough to wipe the surface with a cloth and a spilled liquid as it was not

We build the right floor in the garage: the choice of the material

Everyone can complete the construction of the floor. It is not necessary to attract a specialist and overpay for quality. It is important to carefully review the list of necessary measures. They are as follows:

1. Selection of boards. The choice of material should be based on quality, strength, reliability and suitable wood species.
2. When buying, it is worthwhile to ask about the period of preliminary storage of the material, what damage and impacts it was exposed to

   

3. . The surface of boards having perfectly smooth features is considered suitable. It is important to inspect the presence of errors and cracks
4. Choose boards need two-meter, do not require grinding and polishing surfaces
5. Apply a wood preservative

   

Wood floor quality on the fingers

In the absence of a solid foundation of concrete, you can create your own, no less strong, option. It is necessary to level the ground with a shovel, pour out sand 3 cm thick. To make a flooring of a stone. You can use gravel or expanded clay. Abundantly fill with water and carefully fix the flooring.

The next step is to build lags. They are wooden installations that hold all the floor structure. It is recommended to use flat boards for flooring immediately, to avoid repeated grinding of the surface during finishing. All wooden structures are better treated with a solution to protect the structure from damage.
The rule of setting lags - perpendicular to the structure of the floor.

The thickness of the flooring material is 5 centimeters. This strength of the boards can withstand the load from the car.

All wooden materials should be carefully treated with antiseptic, eliminating the appearance of mold and fungus. For final painting of the surface, drying oil and paint are used, its shade is selected individually.