Need flooring advice for the Pussycat Potty Palace/garage

Some background:

1. We have a garage, approx. 22x13 ft.

2. We don't (and will never) use it to park a car in. That may change, if we ever wanted to sell the house, which we have no intention of doing, but one never knows.

3.  We use the garage for storage (on shelves), a workshop/tool place, and mainly, for a cat bathroom. We have 8 litter boxes in it at all times. This is the main purpose of the room; storage is a close 2nd.

4.  We have a laundry sink and litter box cleaning area. We use the sprayer faucet several times a day for the boxes. The floor gets a bit wet daily.

5.  It has a concrete floor, which we expoxied 3-4 years ago, but that's wearing off, and doesn't seem to be an option. We probably should've done and extra step that, at the time, seemed correct to omit, according to the kit's instructions.

6.  I need to be able to easily sweep up litter dust, etc. and be able to mop it. When I mop this finish, it just gets muddier; the bare concrete was actually a bitter better in this regard.

DH talked me out of getting a professionally-done expoxy finish.  I think he's right. He thinks the litter dust will grind into the finish. I thought about those rubber tiles, but the grooves would be a PAIN to sweep out.

I had the idea of getting sheet vinyl flooring (like for kitchens). We would only adhere it around the perimeter of the sheet vinyl, and under any joins, in case we ever had to tear it up, and return the garage to being a garage (for re-sale).  We have heavy, 5-shelf steel shelving units around the perimeter of the room on 2 sides, and a small chest freezer. I may change out the shelving to get Sterilite resin 6ft-tall cabinets, as the dust gets all over the plastic storage bins on the open shelves. Drives me nuts!

Do you think the sheet vinyl would work? If so, could you suggest a color for me from the link below (nothing black, though!)?

http://www.homedepot.com/Flooring-V...ENT_ID&langId=-1&storeId=10051&searchNav=true

Thanks!

What about a garage floor mat like these: http://www.allmats.com/site/439205/page/639085

You can roll it up and move it around easily if you have to, you can spray it down with a hose, you can cut them with a utility knife if you have to, they can be made in custom sizes to specifically fit your garage, and, depending on the style you get, some have grooves to collect liquid for easier clean up (you could mop it to the garage door and straight outside. 

There are also special tiles you can get that are easy to install, like these: https://www.tuffsealtile.com/Institutional/

You just place them and tap them in. There's a seal that's created when you install the tiles that's supposed to be waterproof, they're easy to clean, don't contract like the mats might and are supposed to be comfortable to walk on. They also apparently help insulate the floor. 

Just a couple other ideas in addition to the vinyl flooring. I think they would be more durable than the vinyl, and easier to remove if you have to (plus you can reuse the mat or tiles). We had vinyl flooring in our old apartment and my parents had it in their kitchen. I know a few breeders that have used it in their kennels as well. Temperature fluctuations can make it curl and warp, it seemed to wear pretty quickly as well, in my experience. 

Thanks!

I did think about those, but I don't like the textured surface, as I said above--wouldn't litter get trapped in the pattern?  Also, if there anything soft and rubbery/vinyl, we think the cats will bite out chunks of the flooring. 

I don't think litter would get trapped in there, they're made for garage use and things like litter are often used to soak up spills.

Is there anywhere local to you that sells them or something similar? You might be able to get a piece and see what it's actually like. You'd be able to rub clean litter on it and then see how easy/hard it is to get off and how durable it seems. I would imagine that since they're made for pretty tough use that it wouldn't be easy to get chunks or pieces off, but you never know. Over time, maybe, but you may have the same problem with the vinyl flooring if a corner or edge starts to come up and they decide to chew on that. At least with the tiles you could replace them as needed instead of having to do the whole floor or trying to patch it? I'm not sure. Keep in mind that with a lot of vinyl floorings they're also textured to mimic what real tiles/wood/whatever feel and look like, so you may have an issue with that as well. 

I'm going to do some more looking around and talk to some of my friends that have kennels and see what they're using now and how they like it. 

I would go with epoxy.  I had it installed badly but when it was new it was GREAT.  Easy cleaning and dragging a cat tree didn't hurt it.  Mine was applied to the floor not being clean/dry according to a few different people.  Vinly is good but replacing it down road is a hassle instead of just re painting it.  Make sure to see the persons work/recomandations whatever way you go

Can I suggest vacuuming your floors? We have textured tiled floors and nothing seems to escape the vacuum. Sweeping does not work as well and takes more time/effort.

I second the vacuum idea.  Just get one of those $20 stick vacs from Walmart. It works MUCH better than sweeping!

The vinyl would work BUT the glue on the edges will cause you a LOT of nasty if/when you go to take it up. The people who had our house before us used it to put down outdoor carpet on the screen porch. After 10 years! I STILL do not have it all up. It took me forever to get all of the sticky up. Now it just looks bad.

Kim