Gym equipment is heavy, you will need to cover your existing floor with a protective covering. And also gym equipment is expensive so you need to protect this expensive equipment. If you drop down gym equipment like barbells, kettlebells, and weight plates you may damage your existing floor and gym equipment.

Protective Floor Types

There are two  types of materials to use a protective floor covering, these are rubber and Eva foam

Rubber Floor As Protective  gym Flooring 

Rubber is the common product suitable to use as flooring to protect your gym equipment and floor. There are 2 types of rubber floorings; Recycled rubber mats and virgin rubber mats. Both materials have the same physical effects.

Eva Foam Mats

Eva foam mats have similar protective effects, but these mats are softer than rubber floors. Eva mats commonly used for martial arts.

When we compare gym floor product types

Price range: the most expensive is virgin rubber.

Durability: Virgin rubber and Recycled rubber have the same durability.

Softness: Eva foam mats are softer than rubber floor coverings.

Easy application: both materials have an interlocking system which you can apply by yourself

How to Choose the Gym Flooring

When you are going to choose the floor for your gym you need to answer the 2 main questions listed below.

Is your gym in a basement or on the floor?

If you are going to make your gym on a floor than you need a tick floor.

What is the maximum weight you are going to use?

This weight is the weights of barbells, kettlebells, or weight plates. More heavyweights need more thick floor.

If you have any more questions about the choice of the gym flooring you can contact us via telephone or email. We will be happy to assist you.

The post What is The Best Protective Covering for Gym Flooring? appeared first on FlooringFitness.

Polyurethane has very unique features as a floor, it is soft and strong t is strong enough to use as a commercial floor in a production unit or a warehouse.

Polyurethane is also strong and hard enough to bounce a basketball on the floor and soft enough for players not to injure themselves.

Polyurethane is used together with a rubber under layer when you are going to build a sports area. The rubber under-layer helps for softness and the polyurethane-based cushion coat and topcoat applied together in layers.

Application polyurethane flooring together with rubber base is a professional job and needs attention and takes time, for every layer you need to wait to dry for polyurethane to be hardened.

If you try to make it faster you will have air bubbles on the surface and these bubbles won’t be nice on the final surface and later on, these bubbles will start to damage the surface.

And the result is a nice smooth sports surface for indoor.

The post Polyurethane Coatings for Commercial and Sports appeared first on FlooringFitness.