cleaning up the attached garage bay (the batcave): part 5

The last 2 weeks, I’ve spent my spare time continuing to clean the floor. Last Sunday I decided to stop fussing over it. I’ve managed to remove all the glaring nasty stuff… SO much spilled paint, primer, roof tar I don’t know what else! But to get all of it would require several more weeks working on my hands and knees, or renting a decent-sized concrete grinder. Not worth it. I washed it the last time in preparation for a BLT G-Floor mat (gray coin pattern). I put my dehumidifier in the bay and ran it all week.

Tonight the bay was very dry, with a relative humidity of 35 percent. I rolled out the G-Floor mat. It’s 10′ wide and 24′ long, which leaves 6′ at the end uncovered, and roughly 18″ uncovered along one side. On the 6′ end that’s uncovered, I will either leave it bare or put down a BLT motorcycle mat. I don’t really have the option of leaving the 18″ side bare, since it will be damaged when I try to roll my jack over it to jack up the passenger side of my cars. I’m looking at getting something like McMaster-Carr 6821T714 to cover the edge there.

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