![]() These are pretty much in a state of disrepair now. They are also quite easy to clean, as you can just brush leaves and such like away. It still looks a lot better than it ever did before we had these, so we are definitely keeping them. Since it is regular wood, it is perfectly possible to treat it with some kind of oil (teak, lacquer, etc.) to make sure it survives rain and sunshine. Since then, the varnish has worn off, but structurally the tiles remain sound and solid. These were installed over a year ago, in May 2015. Time will tell how long this lasts, but so far so good! A good low cost option that is easy to put down. It looks good, it feels good, and I feel positively ready to show off the garden and the patio floor this summer with my Bluetooth speakers. I am rather proud of how the patio looks now. More decking options available from IKEA can be found at the following link: They retail for £17 for ten tiles, a square foot each. More information on the Skoghall Floor Decking tiles can be found on the IKEA website: In fact, since it is pretty much polished acacia wood, it is what the wood is. Is it slippery in the rain? No, not at all. To begin with it seemed like they were collecting water, but the way the wood is arranged, it easily lets the water flow away. The same method can be used to cover up any left over areas where a whole tile won’t fit, by breaking it into smaller pieces.Įasily! It actually started to rain about an hour after I laid it down. ![]() I had to go around a pipe, and all I did was to break off some bit of wood off the tiles using pliers. The plastic is quite easy to cut and break using pliers, though to cut the wood you will need a saw. It is essentially made of bits of wood attached with bits of plastic using screws. I had a bad shoulder, and bending was painful for me, and despite that it probably took me 2-3 hours. ![]() Removing tiles is equally easy, just pull them apart. I used thumbs to apply pressure on each clip, there were three in the ones I used, and each clips give you a satisfying click sound as it goes in. To clip in, you have your tile with the female end of the clips on the floor already, and you push the next one on. As you lay them down, it will be advisable to have the clips in the corner you start from, so you can then clip in other tiles in. The tiles have little clips that means they can be clipped together to tile together on the floor.Įach tile has clips on two adjacent corners, and the housing for the clip on the other adjacent corners. There is no obvious way to ‘stick’ these to the floor, though you can use screws or similar ways if you prefer. Something like a wooden or a rubber mallet could be useful, but I would advise against using hammers. Only a good pair of scissors/snips/cutters/knife to open the pack up. It is, of course, advised that you clean your floor before you lay these tiles down. ![]() All that is needed is a floor that doesn’t have anything on it, so tiles can be laid on top of it easily. There isn’t a lot of preparation required. Luckily they had enough in stock, and since they come neatly packaged in roughly square cube packages, it was easy to load them in my small hatchback. So, off to Ikea we went (sadly, no Ikea in Oxford – the nearest ones are in London, Milton Keynes or Bristol). We needed 14 packs of 10, and that came out to be £238. We measured up and found that our outside floor was 135 square feet (9 x 15 feet). The Skoghall Floor Decking ones were the cheapest ones that can be bought, and come in packs of 10 tiles of a square foot each, for £17. We needed a simpler solution, and interestingly we discovered decking tiles.Ī little bit of browsing and research pointed us towards Ikea’s range of Garden Decking tiles. Patio decking can be expensive, hard work and time consuming. We had a rather ugly (and stained) concrete floor on our patio, and it definitely needed some cosmetic improvement. So, what are floor decking tiles? They are basically tiles that look like (and are essentially made of) decking, but instead of laying down patio decking, which involves laying down slabs of wood on top of a support structure, and hence a lot of work, these can just be laid down on any flat floor that you may have before. This is a different kind of review to normal, but since it comes from personal experience, and since when I was looking for a review I couldn’t find one, I thought I might as well write my own, now that I am done with these.
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