WELKIN Containment Mat, 8'5" x 22', Heavy-Duty Garage Floor Mat

Why it's worth it

At 8 feet 5 inches by 22 feet, this covers a full-size pickup with room at both bumpers. Sponge-column edges compress against uneven concrete to hold snowmelt in, and the included squeegee clears the mat in about a minute.

If your truck comes home with snow packed in the wheel wells, you need walls, not wicking. A vehicle carrying a heavy load of accumulated snow can shed a few gallons of salty water as it melts, and fabric simply can't hold that. The WELKIN's raised border is a high-elastic sponge column rather than a rigid lip, so it compresses and rebounds against the small dips and slopes older garage floors always have. That flexibility is what keeps the seal honest.

The size is the other reason to pick it. Twenty-two feet swallows a crew-cab pickup or an extended-wheelbase SUV with drip room at the front and rear, which is where mats usually come up short. Owners in New Hampshire and Vermont winters consistently report that it does the one thing they bought it for — the rest of the garage floor stays dry. Several buy a second one for the other bay.

From our review of 8 garage floor containment mats, by David Sinclair, Managing Editor

What we like

• +If your truck comes home with snow packed in the wheel wells, you need walls, not wicking
• +The size is the other reason to pick it
• +Cleanup is genuinely quick

What to know

• –It's the heaviest mat here that you'd ever want to move, at close to 30 pounds of rolled PVC
• –The edge that contains water also keeps it