How Do You Choose the Right Gym Flooring?

There are many sports centers of different sizes and designs with a large selection of equipment and devices. However, they all have one thing in common: the floor! The floor is one of the most important parts of a sports facility. Flooring is a lasting investment. A solid and stable floor is the basis of any training space. Whether you own a full gym garage or are just starting to build it, choosing the right gym flooring can make a big difference to your training experience.

Floor tiles or floor mats for which place?

• Home Gym
• Garage Gym
• Cross Training Box
• Physiotherapy practice
• Sports club or association
• Outside (garden or terrace)
• Sports area of ​​a fire station or military
• Sports Hall
• Children’s play area

Your choice as to the type of sports flooring to install is based on 3 main factors:

1. Hygiene

While hygiene has always been an essential point for any gym, this aspect is all the more important in the midst of a pandemic. You should look for coating solutions that are easy to clean and disinfect so that the premises are always spotless.

2. Friction

In order to choose the materials for the flooring, you should also consider their tensile-slip ratio or level of friction. A sports floor at the appropriate friction level helps prevent injuries in athletes because it reduces the risk of falling. This factor is also important to give greater stability to machinery and equipment.

3. Resistance

Gym flooring should match the requirements of each area, but in general, it should be durable and resilient. In addition to providing a safe and comfortable surface for playing sports, it also has to support a lot of material and heavy equipment.

Protect your gym flooring!

To protect the gym floor covering during an ancillary activity, The most interesting product on the market today is a roll-out protective mat. This mat allows the floor space to be used for multifunctional, especially for exhibitions, parties, etc. By installing this mat, the (sport) covering is optimally protected.

Best way to choose your gym flooring

Again, the choice is vast and will depend on the obvious budget but also on the destination of your gym.

• Do you want to turn it into a multisport hall?
• Will your gymnasium host extra-sporting events?
• Is it dedicated to a leisure practice or on the contrary to national or even international competitions?

All these questions are essential to choosing the right flooring of which there are no different types.

Advantages and disadvantages of each gym flooring:

• Parquet, solid or semi-solid, on single or double joists, and available in different species, is a noble material with surface elasticity. Perfect for its slippage, elasticity, versatility, and durability. Its disadvantages lie in the acoustics and its intolerance to water.
• Linoleum is a natural and ecological floor covering with excellent puncture resistance during extra-sporting events. Linoleum exists in surface or point deformation. Very long life which can go up to 40 years.
• PVC is a very resistant material based on PVC resin, mineral chalk, plasticizer, and pigments. It has an infinite palette of colors and patterns. This combined elastic deformation floor is designed to be easy to maintain, very flexible but must be protected for other uses.
• Polyurethane resin allows a more versatile use than PVC. This ground with surface or point deformation is suitable for disabled sports and multiple activities. The resin is cast on-site in situ, easy to repair and maintain.
• Rubber is a natural material, very resistant to stress, and very durable. Very soft ground

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