Rubber Mats In A Home Gym Curl, Slide And Trap Sweat At The Seams
We replace loose mats and tiles with one poured rubber surfacing floor that has no seams at all. Interlocking tiles lift at the corners, mats creep across a smooth slab under a treadmill, and every seam holds sweat and chalk. On a basement floor in New Sudbury or a garage in Lively the seams also let moisture through from the slab below.
Poured rubber surfacing bonds to the slab and covers the whole room in one continuous sheet. There is nothing to lift, nothing to slide and no seam to clean out.
Gym Rubber Surfacing Absorbs A Dropped Barbell
We pour gym rubber surfacing at three-eighths of an inch, or up to three-quarters where a floor takes heavier weights, and deeper still under a lifting platform if the quote calls for it. A hundred-kilogram deadlift dropped on a bare slab rings through the framing and can chip the concrete; on poured rubber surfacing it lands with a thud that stays in the room. The rubber surfacing also protects the plates and the bar.
The gym floor is usually poured in black SBR granules, which is the cheapest and densest option. Coloured EPDM can be added as a border, a lane, a logo or a whole top layer if the room is a commercial studio rather than a garage.
Fitness Rooms In Sudbury Serve Schools, Arenas, Hotels And Seniors' Residences
We install rubber surfacing in weight rooms and fitness studios for schools, arenas, hotels, retirement residences and workplaces across Greater Sudbury. A fitness room in a seniors' residence wants a firmer, thinner rubber surfacing that a walker rolls over easily; a school weight room wants the thick, dense build-up that survives teenagers and bumper plates.
Outdoor fitness pads get the same treatment. Rubber surfacing around outdoor equipment at a park or a workplace drains, stays slip resistant and does not ice over the way a concrete pad does.
To install a gym rubber surfacing floor we grind or clean the slab, strip any paint or sealer, repair cracks and prime before the rubber surfacing is mixed and troweled in place. Indoor jobs can be poured outside the outdoor season because the room is warm and dry, though ventilation is arranged during the cure. The next day the floor can be walked on, and two or three days later the racks and machines go back.
A garage gym is often poured together with the garage floor, one black surface from the door to the rack.