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Protecting Your Toys All Winter Long

14 December 2021
Andrew Hofstetter
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Categories: ATV's and Motorcycles, Blog, Garages, Grand Mat, Winter

This winter, you need to protect your toys, equipment, and your garage floor from the brutalities of winter.

Your garage, after all, is a busy place. Cars and trucks pulling in and out. Snow blowers, sleds, ATV’s, storage, tools, and projects all needing a place. Depending on how warm you keep your garage, salt-packed chunks of ice may fall to the floor and melt across your concrete and spread to your toys, equipment, and belongings. 

It doesn’t take long before the muck of the outdoors — and of winter — finds itself all over your garage. You’ll quickly find yourself with dirt, salt, and sand caked to the bottom of your feet when walking in your garage. In all of the filth of winter, you need to protect your floor and your equipment from winter wear and tear. 

GrandMat – Protecting Your Toys…and Your Floor

Motorcycle Winter Storage

If you’ve winterized your motorcycle, there’s a strong possibility that it is sitting in your garage, to the side and out of the way. However, you still want to protect it. The melting salt-packed snow that falls from your vehicle is going to drain, leak, pour, and pile. Salt is corrosive and letting it get onto the wheels of your motorcycle is a recipe for disaster. The GrandMat’s surrounding lip keeps the corrosion away. 

Snowblower Storage 

The amount of filth, junk, and dirt that end up in your snowblower isn’t immediately evident when you use your snowblower. The snow may look pure and white, but it doesn’t take long to discover that the dirt and sand hidden in that blanket of white is a filthy mess on your garage floor and corroding your concrete. The Grand Mat keeps all that melting mess contained and off your floor. 

Snowmobile and ATV Storage

Your garage floor is the ultimate victim of wear, tear, and winter. From leaking fluids from cars, trucks, ATVs, and all sorts of equipment to the filth and grime that comes in from the outdoors, salt and dirt are corrosive to concrete. By using a GrandMat, you’re protecting the floor to your garage, extending the life of your concrete and keeping dirt and grime contained. 

In the winter, the snow, salt, filth, and muck that stick to your vehicles end up being an issue for both your garage floor and and the toys and equipment that you use throughout the year.

GrandMat is the best solution to protect them both. 

Garage Floor Protection from ATVs and Side-by-Sides

27 July 2021
Andrew Hofstetter
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Categories: ATV's and Motorcycles, Blog, Grand Mat, Product Highlights

When we designed and created the Grand Mat, we did it because we were solving a dilemma in our own lives. We live in Minnesota — the land of 10,000 lakes and just as many miles of trails. And it’s not just about the salt and filth from the roads on our vehicles. We also spend our winters snowmobiling deep in the woods or out on the lakes on the way to our ice houses. We spend the other three seasons outdoors as well, covering our cars, trucks, and toys with mud and grime. Cruising the backroads on our Harleys. Hauling trailers and 5th wheels. 

And so the Grand Mat was created to help us solve the mess that our fun was making. 

Customized Garage Floor Protection

Not every garage is built the same, and not every garage is set up to effectively protect and store the more unconventionally-sized pieces of our inventory. This is why the Grand Mat can be custom-sized to fit exactly what you’re parking. 

Custom Motorcycle Mats  

This is a must-have no matter where you live, but is especially helpful if you live in a place where months out of the year are spent cleaning up salt, snow, dirt, grime, and mess. Your motorcycle deserves its own space for parking that will also keep it off the garage floor and all the other surrounding messes. 

Custom ATV Mats  

Don’t let your 4-wheelers leak on your garage floor. Don’t let the mud and filth flake and fall all over your garage and get tracked all over. Order a mat that will be the perfect size for all of your ATVs to park side-by-side. It will protect your floor and give your garage some much-needed organization. 

Custom Trailer Protection

Perhaps your trailer is getting beat up with the dirt bikes, four-wheelers, or even tools you’re constantly moving in and out. A custom-built trailer mat can be installed — and easily removed for cleaning! 

To order a custom-sized garage floor mat for your motorcycles or ATV’s or to custom outfit your trailer with a mat that will protect the floor and preserve your investment, talk to Grand Mat today. 

We’ll help you build the garage you need. 

Giving Your Garage a Gadget Makeover

6 July 2021
Andrew Hofstetter
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Categories: Blog, Garages, Grand Mat

At Grand Mat, we believe that every person needs a good garage and that every garage needs a good owner. There’s nothing worse than a garage that’s so overrun with clutter and storage overflow that you can’t use it for what it’s intended for. This is part of the reason that we created the Grand Mat: So that people could get rugged, premium protection for their garage floor. It saves concrete from the muck and filth of 4 seasons of hard use. 

Part of making your garage all that it can be (besides the Grand Mat, of course), is a handful of unnecessary gadgets and conveniences that are worth considering. Some of them may make you the envy of your neighbors. Others may simply cause them to shake their head in disbelief. 

Below is our list of “Don’t Needs but Must Haves” 

The RoboMow

This is a bit of a mix between an invention by Rick Moranis’ kid from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and the Roomba. This little addition to your inventory of unnecessary add-ons give you more time in your garage. Which takes us to our next suggested purchase. 

The ShamWow

This isn’t an infomercial. And we’re not promising you anything extra if you call within the next 10 minutes. But until you’ve tried one of these, you can’t truly appreciate how much they’ll change your life. So it’s not fair to call this a list of unnecessary items. Because the ShamWow is necessary. 

Garage Door Decals

This is by far our worst suggestion…but not without a bit of redemption. Consider the ridiculousness of having a garage door that looks like it’s your boarding a horse or storing a dump truck. If you’re not going to buy this for yourself, consider installing it at night on your neighbor’s garage door. 

At Grand Mat, we’re all about making your garage all that it can be. If you’re in the market for rugged, premium protection for your garage floor, let us know. We’ll set you up with the most versatile, longest-lasting, and effective garage floor protection solution on the market. 

Better Ways to Organize Your Garage

2 June 2021
Andrew Hofstetter
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Categories: Blog, Garages, Grand Mat

The easiest way to keep your garage space clean and organized is to make sure you’re setting yourself up for success. 

Rather than cleaning as you go and making it a continual effort to keep up with the messes that take over your garage, consider setting yourself up with a system for organizing your space. The right effort and equipment that will make your hard work last. 

Invest in Storage

Good storage is a must for your garage. Consider making the investment in good shelving systems. Heavy duty shelving can be costly, but the investment will save you headaches in the long run. Whether you buy a kit or make them yourself out of lumber, shelving is a life saver for your garage space. 

Beyond shelves, also consider simplifying your tool storage, upgrading your tool boxes, and getting bikes and other awkwardly shaped or oversized items off the floor. 

Invest in Equipment

Having items like a pressure washer, extra lighting, and heating can make a huge difference for you as you get ahead of the mess in your garage. Once-a-year, it’s worth a mass cleaning of your garage, where everything is moved out and the floors are pressure washed. Insulated walls and a reasonable heating unit also help you stay ahead of your garage all year long. 

Invest in Protection 

Whether you have an industrial-sized garage or a single-car stall from the 1950’s, it’s worth protecting your garage. This is why people seal their concrete floors. It’s also why the Grand Mat exists. The more people use their garage, the more they expose it to the elements. Whether it’s the snow and salt from the winter, mud and grime from the spring, or the oil and fluids from your old truck and ATVs, it’s worth spending the money and effort to protect your garage from top to bottom.

The more work you do on the front end, the more likely you are to maintain a relatively clean garage all year through. So get started with the right equipment and reach out to us! We’ll get your garage space fitted for a Grand Mat that will provide the rugged, premium protection you’ve been looking for. 

Spring Cleaning Your Garage

23 March 2021
Andrew Hofstetter
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Categories: Garages, Grand Mat

It’s springtime! We made it through another winter and, even though we’ll probably still see a snowflake or two (especially here in Minnesota where Grand Mat is located), there’s not denying spring’s arrival. The days are getting longer. The sun is feeling warmer.

With the coming of spring also comes the need to clean your garage. Somehow through the course of winter, your garage became more and more cluttered, the dirt and grime from snow-covered, salt-covered cars left a film over everything. You threw things in there, knowing you’d have to clean it up when things were a bit warmer.

Here are some checklist items for you as you get your garage ready for the warm weather that’s headed your way. 

De-Winterize

Take everything out of your garage and get all the sand, grit, dirt, and grime out of your garage and off the floor.

Toss

You know that thing you didn’t throw away last year in spring because you thought you might need it? It’s time to toss it. Maybe it’s the bin with no lid or the hose roller. Maybe it’s the shovel with the broken handle that you thought you’d fix. Whatever it is, toss it. 

Do an Inventory

Take a minute to do an inventory of your garage contents. What do you need more of? What are you running low on? How are you on grass seed, gasoline, Gojo, and garbage bags? As you get things organized, make a list for your next Home Depot run. The more you get ahead of it, the better off you’ll be. 

And of course, don’t forget a Grand Mat.  

It’s Time for a Grand Mat

18 March 2021
Andrew Hofstetter
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Categories: Grand Mat, Product Highlights

At Grand Mat, we like to say that your garage isn’t good until it’s Grand.

Grand Mat is the first-of-its-kind, rugged and yet premium protection for your garage floor. It’s the answer you’ve been looking for to keep the snow, salt, dirt, grime, mud, and oil off of the floor of your garage. And unlike many of the other garage floor protection solutions out there, this one is both long-lasting and easy to install. 

Whether keeping your space clean from the messes of salty, icy, snow-covered roads, finding a place to park your snowblower in the winter or your Harley in the summer, or protecting your garage from your mud-covered side-by-side, Grand Mat has you – and your garage floor – covered. 

  • Our EDPM Rubber material can withstand extreme heat and cold temperatures as well as high levels of stress.
  • A 2.5-inch four-sided lip contains the crud and stops snow melt, messes, and mud from running onto your concrete floor.
  • It’s high-level durability and easy maneuverability makes it easy to install, clean, and store. 

We have a mat in the size you need. We just need to hear from you. Once you let us know the size of your space, we’ll be able to get you into our production schedule.

So go ahead and enjoy the season! We’ll protect your garage from all of it.