Garage Arcade flooring

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Well I gave the kids the basement area for a play room and I'm now going to repaint and put flooring in the garage for aa arcade. I was looking at this from sams club and it seems like a good price and alternative for flooring. Can I see pics of every ones garage arcades flooring. The floors are going to be painted a really dark blue with blue light rope going around the top.

http://www.samsclub.com/sams/shop/product.jsp?productId=143270
 
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I am very interested to see the responses to this thread. I am planning on putting up some walls and sectioning off a portion of my garage as a dedicated game room. Trying to figure out what to do with the floors. Carpet is my first choice (maybe some of the cool black light carpet), but the cost is high and I am on a budget. So also considering other options. Curious to see what others have done with the floors in basement/garage game rooms.
 
Have you considered staining the concrete? You can DIY it and get a 'finished' look, while retaining the durability of a slab. Also, no worries about flooding, etc.. ruining flooring.
 
Have you considered staining the concrete? You can DIY it and get a 'finished' look, while retaining the durability of a slab. Also, no worries about flooding, etc.. ruining flooring.

Just make sure your concrete wasn't burnished when it was finished. You also have to use liberal amounts of muratic acid to clean the concrete before staining. After staining, a clear coat is needed to bring out the color. I did it to my bar floor 5 years ago.
 
Just make sure your concrete wasn't burnished when it was finished. You also have to use liberal amounts of muratic acid to clean the concrete before staining. After staining, a clear coat is needed to bring out the color. I did it to my bar floor 5 years ago.

Yeah like I said to much work, my garage floor has a couple cracks to so im just going to go the rubber mat route
 

Manufacturer's website: http://www.bltllc.com/

Oh man, this looks really easy to throw out there. If you get the 10' wide rolls, it has an overlap on one edge to make the seam a little less noticeable (probably only looks really good on the ribbed pattern):

overlap.jpg


Only possible problem *might* be expanding and contracting with temperature. Now, with arcade games pinning this mat down at various spots, would this be enough expanding and contracting to make it bulge up in the open spots when it gets hotter?
 
For those kinds of prices just go with neon carpeting... unless you plan on parking a car in there (the horror!)...
 
I have RaceDeck in mine in white and black checkered pattern.

I got it back before I lost my job in 2008 and could still afford that kind of stuff LOL.
 
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