Do lockable Vinyl floor tiles make work areas like garages any warmer and bearable?
The vinyl floor tiles alone will do nothing to help your situation. Sounds like you have the perfect situation to install an electric under-floor heating system to solve both the cold floor and the cold air. If you are a fairly skilled diyer, you can install a version that is installed in thin-set and hard wired like this one…http://www.warmlyyours.com/products/floo… Install a layer of rolled cork over the heating system before putting down the vinyl tiles for maximum insulation. If you don’t want to or don’t feel comfortable installing a permanent under-floor heating system, use a version that can will heat only the area where you most often work and can be plugged into a wall outlet like this one…http://www.warmlyyours.com/products/area… They are actually designed to go beneath area rugs, but
Pay no attention to the other answers and listen to me. The tiles (mats, really) will offer some relief. True enough that they and everything else in the garage will be at the ambient temperature. If the air is 40 degrees, then so is everything else (assuming no outside interference). But the mats tend to act as insulators, rather than conductors, of heat or cold. And so, if you sit on them while working, they’ll trap some of your body heat and make you a bit warmer. But just a bit. Heating sources work in one or two ways. They either make things hotter directly -like the sun; or they make the air warmer -and that makes YOU warmer, like the hot air heating system for a home. I think I’d be given to use one of those space heaters that uses bottled gas and looks sort of like a street light. They are frequently used outdoors to heat a dining area when the weather gets a bit chilly. Of course, you want one that’s safe to use INSIDE. If replacing the gas bottle is a hassle, then use the mos
