Episode 025 1995 - 96 Season
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Al Carrell: Now you've probably seen this material on tennis courts, maybe around the pool someplace, on a deck and in the gym where you work out. It has lots of sports uses. I think that it's going to be great for home use too. For example, I just learned that I can put it over this yucky garage floor. The floor is terrible looking and I was going to have to paint it. Now, with this stuff on there, it's going to look really great. It's called Mateflex and we have Mr. Mickey Lavicska who is an executive with the company that manufactures it. Mickey, thanks for coming out.
Mickey Lavicska: Thank you Al, I appreciate it.
A.C.: I'm real excited about putting this on the garage floor. You told me that it's going to be able to uh, hold all the weight of the cars. I was concerned about that.
M.L.: Absolutely, no problem with that Al. The products are made of plastic, either polyethylene, polypropylene or PVC. This particular tile will hold 16,000 pounds per square foot.
A.C.: Oh man, that's great. I don't have to go on a diet.
M.L.: Not at all.
A.C.: Okay, and it is easy to put down, whether you're a do-it-yourselfer or a pro, right?
M.L.: It's extremely easy. For this particular application, we'll start in the corner. We'll work our way down toward the door and off to the right-hand side here.
A.C.: Okay.
M.L.: They're one foot by one foot interlocking modular floor tiles and they snap together very easily. However you lay down the first tile, is how you attach the corresponding tiles to it. For instance, this first tile has the loops to the left and the loops to the top. The next corresponding tile beside it will also have the loops to the left and the loops to the top.
A.C.: Okay, then on the bottom here are the locks?
M.L.: These we call the male studs and these would be the loops.
A.C.: Okay.
M.L.: And they fit correspondingly right into the loops.
A.C.: And you just tap it in the center and it's in.
M.L.: And it's in.
A.C.: Now does Mateflex come in a lot of different colors?
M.L.: Many different colors.
A.C.: Can we do something in here?
M.L.: All, we brought along some dark blue tiles to show stripes in the Mateflex as to where the tires of the car would line up in the garage.
A.C.: That'll be a help.
M.L.: The nice thing about our product is it's maintenance-free. You can put it down in any season and leave it there all year round. It will not rot; it will not crack; it will not rust, like an asphalt, concrete or wood base. We're putting this installation in one tile at a time, but for larger installations, particularly pool decks, we can prefabricate these in 2x3 or 2x4 foot sections to make it much easier to put large quantities down.
A.C.: Great.
M.L.: We've got many hundreds of supporting legs underneath the tile that give it that added strength. And they also raise the tile off the ground to allow the water to drain through adequately.
A.C.: What about if you have a problem with, let's say, a car that leaks and the oil is going down through this and into the concrete. What do you do?
M.L.: No problem at all with that Al. You can simply just take this up, or you can pop these tiles out. Let's say you have a defective tile in the center, or there's oil in the center you want to clean underneath it. You can simply pop off the tile right out of the center and clean underneath it.
A.C.: Easy.
M.L.: Here Al. We're cutting an actual piece off a larger tile to finish off our perimeter edge.
A.C.: Sure looks easy.
M.L.: Very easy. A utility knife is all you need, just a cut right along the flex joints of the tile.
A.C.: And it attaches the same way as all the rest of the tiles.
M.L.: Exactly.
A.C.: And what about when cars drive up to the edge. We're going to have this right up to the door, what's going to happen over here when they drive up there?
M.L.: Well Al, we've got a real nice device called a ramp edge and on this side here where we have the locks it would just fit right into the loops for a nice clean edge.
A.C.: Oh, that's great. Well Mickey, that was easier than I thought it was going to be. And I really appreciate your coming down to help us.
M.L.: Anytime Al.
A.C.: Folks, if I can do it, anybody can do it. It's something for you to consider for your new house.
Mateflex
Mickey Lavicska
1-800-926-3539
| Concrete Block Retaining Wall | Home Security Checkup | Handy Hands | Internet Homepage | Replacing A Plug | Mateflex Flooring | The People Behind the Loan | |
To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #025.