Gym Flooring Tiles
Choosing the right rubber gym floor tiles will ensure your workout will be safe, help you avoid injuries and ensure your gym equipment is secure. The right gym flooring can add to the look and feel of not just a home gym but commercial gyms too. We supply small and large projects with gym flooring tiles, including BTR, leisure centres and school gyms. Brands we supply include Ecore and ECOsurfaces, Pavigym and Physical Company with underlay, rolls and studio floors.
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Rubber floor tiles are a popular option for different gym floors due not just to their non-slip quality, but the ease of laying without the need for adhesives and screeded floors. The elasticity of rubber flooring mats ensures energy recovery as well as anti-fatigue properties. They also absorb high impacts. This is crucial if you are looking at installing equipment like power racks, bikes, and treadmills.
Types of Gym Rubber Floor Tiles
Gym rubber floors comes in a range of options :
- Jigsaw rubber tiles (popular for small home gym spaces)
- Rubber gym mats (various sizes, 1m x 1m, 0.5m x 1m, 800mm x 800mm etc.)
- Rubber floor rolls (varying thickness and width - needs glue!)
For commercial gym facilities, you must think about the health and safety issues, with the rubber flooring rolls becoming more popular. For home gyms it is often the choice to reduce noise and prevent damage to the floor - but choose your thickness wisely.
The Right Rubber Flooring for your gym
If you buy the wrong rubber floor tiles for your gym, you might have the expense and inconvenience of having to remove your equipment to replace it, which is not a simple task.
You’ll need to make sure your rubber gym mats can handle the equipment that you’ll be using and the amount of people that will be using it. You’ll also want to consider the type of flooring that currently exists in your gym, such as concrete or wood. You can find out more about this in our guide to buying gym flooring. We also offer a gym design consultancy to help you choose the right flooring and equipment for your needs. Enquire today.
Shop the selection of rubber gym flooring at GymEquipment.co.uk and don’t forget to browse our range of sprint tracks too. Spend £100 or more to qualify for free UK delivery.
Rubber Gym Flooring FAQs
This will depend on the area you want to cover (naturally!).
We suggest you measure the area carefully, then depending on how you want to lay the tiles (brick, offset or columns) then between 10 - 15% extra for waste/cutting.
Our tiles vary between 1m2 and 1m x 0.5m tiles. Larger more regular shaped rooms are easiest to lay with 1m2 tiles, smaller rooms or odd shapes, angled walls or lots of small alcoves, then we'd suggest the 1m x 0.5m tiles as they are much easier to handle and cut correctly.
This actually depends on your subfloor and what exercise/activities you will be doing.
As a rule of thumb, light cardio and/or bodyweight training then 10mm - 15mm.
Home and garage gyms with a variety of exercises and activities including light strength needs 15mm, 20mm or 25mm. If you like heavier weights (25kg plus for dumbbells and 80kg plus for barwork, then 30mm or 40mm is essential.
For dedicated lifting areas, Olympic training and/or commercial gyms then 40mm+ will ensure maximum protection for your subfloor.
Ok the answer this to this is yes, with one caveat. The surface must be flat, clean of dirt and dust and level.
Lay your tiles down on a new screed (once sealed or primed to prevent damage to the rubber tiles), concrete or wood floors. You can also lay on top of carpet tiles provided they are a short pile and the carpet tiles are glued down. Ideally though it is always best to lay directly on to the subfloor, or on top of an acoustic underlay if this is required/needed.
Tiles greater than 20mm in depth usually come with what are called tile connectors (or clips). These are 'push fit' plastic connectors.
The connectors are supplied with the tiles (we supply them free - a lot of sellers don't) and they are used to connect the corners and edges of adjacent tiles to lock them in place and create a large mat structure. This means you do not need to use adhesive if you don't want to.
Tiles that are 10mm or 15mm in depth cannot use the connectors as the depth is too small to take the clip depth.
Absolutely. Ideally the floor will be dry and have a dpm below the concrete which helps to prevent dampness and moisture from constantly coming up through the concrete floor and sitting below the tiles. The rubber tiles will help to insulate the space - although don't expect miracles.
We suggest a minimum of 20mm, but better still 25mm, 30mm or 40mm budget depending.
Made using virgin rubber, not recycled tyres, GymEquipment.co.uk sells gym floor tiles that are either EPDM, or a hybrid SBR base with a bonded EPDM top layer. The smooth top layer makes them easy to clean and maintain. EPDM gym tiles also have less smell, have colour stability and are longer lasting.
EPDM tiles do cost more money due to the virgin rubber, but then they last longer, look better and also offer a range of colours and fleck patterns.
At the cheaper end of the flooring scale, SBR gym flooring offers a durable, shock-absorbing surface. SBR stands for Styrene-Butadiene Rubber and this comes from recycled car and truck tyres. The finish is a dark black or charcoal grey and the surface is a granular, textured crumb-rubber.
They are not the easiest to keep clean and depending on who you buy them from they can be very smelly due to the adhesive used to bind them together.
GymEquipment.co.uk do NOT sell pure SBR tiles for the reasons above. See our EPDM rubber tile FAQ for more information.
No. Rubber gym tiles do not require adhesive for 99% of rooms and spaces. You will need a smooth and level floor to get the best results and ensure the tiles lie flat.
Be careful to buy tiles that come with clips (20mm or deeper) that link the tiles together underneath. This helps you to create a large single mat in effect which creates a huge amount of friction which is what keeps the tiles in place.
With the EPDM tiles, first hoover the tiles, then simply use a special floor solution designed for gym tiles, or just washing up liquid in water and a mop. With SBR floors, a good hoover and then a damp cloth rather than wet.
Do not use any solvents or chemical agents to help you clean the ribber as this may affect the colour on the tiles as well as the surface of the tiles.
All our gym flooring is supplied in one of two ways.
Either by pallet to kerbside. You are then responsible for moving the tiles in to the room where they are needed. If you have bought as part of a project, then we can deliver to our installers, who can bring them when they arrive.