Question:
I want to find some of the interlocking rubber "tile" that shops and gyms
use (like find it for cheap). I could just drive the car right up on it, it
would leave insulating airspace, it could be cleaned up easily, taken out in the
summer, and taken up to sweep up. Anyone know of any "surplus"/used sources for
this?
Heated garages are wonderful though huh? I can't tell you how many times people
come over in the dead of winter, and we go out into the garage. A big wave of
heat...
I have a red 40 watt bulb on the side of my furnace that is on anytime the
heat is on. This so that me and my wife can tell when we open and close the
garage doors and don't leave them open. In spite, I have offered many thousands
of BTUs to my neighborhood when the garage doors hit something going down and
re-opened after I went inside....can anyone in the group help me please?.
Answer:
Can you afford to give up about 4" of clearance? There's a guy with a
boneyard over on the west side of Narragansett Bay who buys scads of
surplus from military auctions. He had pallets and pallets of the
rubber tiles they put in submarines to absorb sound and shock of
falling objects (don't want the bad guys to hear you drop that
Budweiser). IIRC they are quite thick though, so you may have to
slice a few on the diagonal to provide a smooth transition for Zinny.
They are definitely stable enough to support whatever you'd want to
put in you garage vehicle-wise. I don't know what he'd want for 'em,
but it may be worth a rake, since they've been there a while and
there's old VW's sprinkled aroung the property as well.
Its a strange setup - a road leads almost a mile off into the woods
and all along it, there are cars (or trucks or paving machines)
pushed off to the side, sometimes two or three deep. The raod
branches and this pattern is repeated along the branches. The weird
thing is that this dude knows where _everything_ is: 'Got any VW
busses?' 'One down this path 300 yards off to the left and onother
over there a quarter mile'.
