Archive for March, 2010

Rubber Floor Tiles For Your Home Or Business

Friday, March 12th, 2010

In this day and age, there always seems to be an alternative solution to a sticky and expensive problem, especially when it comes to flooring. If you have checked out contractors for new flooring such as concrete floors in your garage you probably have found that this is going to be a VERY pricey situation. The best way out of this is to get rubber garage flooring.

These flooring are usually tiles that you can place on the floor yourself, and it takes only a few hours to a few days depending on how big the floor is. This means you will not have to hire a contractor, you will not have to pay for parts and you will not have to pay for labor. In fact, if you need or want someone to help you, you could just as well hire some of your buddies on and pay them with pizza!

Seriously though, these floors are incredibly easy to install and if you have ever watched a DIY home show, you have provably seen the rubber garage flooring in action. They are functional, cost efficient, easy to lie down and install and best of all they are very tough and durable. In fact, most of the rubber garage flooring can stand up to acids, oils, gasses, and even chemical compounds.

They also are very easy to wash and can simply be wiped down with a store broom and hot soapy water! These flooring options also come in an array of colors as well which is awesome because now you can find a pattern, style and color that really matches up to what you want. The pieces of the flooring come in tile shaped sizes and will most likely have grooves on the outsides of all four edges.

This sort of look somewhat like “jigsaw” cuts. Each piece will fit into the next piece very uniformly and will cover the floor in its entirety. These do not have to be used for just garages either. You can also use them in your business as flooring “tiles”. You can use them in your home or business gym. This is nice for those of you that have carpets or hardwood flooring down and you do not want the equipment to ruin the existing flooring.

Also, with carpets and heavy machines you often get those “divots” that you simply can never seem to get out! You can use them in your basement if you want to renovate it, but you do not want to spend thousands of dollars on a brand new floor. You can even use these for airplane hangars. And since you can choose the color or colors for the floor, you can also brand your company if you choose to place these in a business – red and black, black and yellow, white and green, etc.

Therefore, while these seem like a VERY simple product, and they are installation wise, they are also incredibly versatile and will make your life so much easier!  Rubber floor tiles are definitely worth a look for protecting your floor.

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Buying Rubber Floor Mats

Friday, March 12th, 2010

When buying rubber floor mats you should first determine what type of mat, you would like for your home or office and decide what activities will be performed on those areas.  Rubber mats can be used for professional office spaces, storage spaces or recreational activities.  They are durable enough to be used for more than one of those activities as well.

Another consideration when searching for the proper rubber mat for your floor is to decide the duration in which the rubber mats will be laid on the floor.  For some, they will be laid for only as long as it takes to accomplish the activity, yoga mats used in Yoga stretching, for example.  Others they will be permanent flooring for certain offices or perhaps a gravity-based exercise equipment area.  Still others may use them for semi-permanent structures.  In this case, someone may convert a room in their house as a seasonal storage area and remove then replace the rubber floor mats every few months.

There are several different types of rubber floor mats and each has their good and bad points.  Rollout rubber floor mats can be purchased in rolls.  Often a buyer would contact the manufacturer, who would cut the length to the specifications of the purchaser.  This is convenient and appears very professional, as the amount of creases in the flooring is greatly reduced.  The down side is the rubber mats are specially designed for one particular floor plan, and while the rubber rolls may be transplanted to another location, the rubber mats will likely require cutting and pasting to fit the new location.

Interlocking tiles are a much more convenient style of mat when it may be likely that your location may change.  If you are in a large area that has floor to ceiling support beams, like a warehouse or a basement, interlocking rubber mats may be the wise choice.  You may need to cut the rubber mats to fit around the support beams, and in this case, you will only cause damage to one or two mats.  These mats can then be replaced if you move to a new location instead of an entire roll.

You can also find rubber mats designed for specific areas like that of a garage.  These rubber floor mats will have a special type of texture to suit the needs of a garage.

Once you have mapped out your floor plan and decided on the types of floor mats you will be using, you should decide on the thickness of your mats and the special materials.  Different companies use different materials in their mats so much research is needed on this topic.  Depending on how much protection you floor, or the equipment to be used on it requires, you may easily determine what is appropriate.  Sizes can generally range from 1/4″ to 2″ in thickness.

The final consideration for buying rubber floor mats would be a particular type of adhesive, which would only be required on permanent flooring surfaces.  Many of the rubber floor mats on the market provide their own form of traction.  Whatever your goals, there is a rubber floor mat that can suit your needs.

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Rubber Floor Mats For The Home

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Rubber flooring is fast becoming a popular form of protective flooring in workshops, exercise rooms and cars. There are several reasons for the increasing popularity of rubber floor mats, some of which are:

  • Durability: A rubber floor mat is highly water resistant and durable.
  • Affordability: For commercial usage rubber flooring is far cheaper than any other form of flooring.
  • Water Resistance and non slip surface: There are many businesses such as garage and fish shops in which after certain time of usage the flooring becomes dangerous for workers to move around because of either moisture or grease on the surface of the floor. This is a very important safety consideration that employers have to keep in mind.
  • Natural substance: Many environmentally conscious people choose rubber flooring just because it is natural and recyclable.
  • Easy to maintain: Rubber floor mats are very easy to clean. All the spillage can just be cleaned with a brush and detergent solution.

Rubber Floor Mats Applications

Household applications:  If you have been thinking of rubber mats as big black ugly looking mats that may spoil the whole decor of your home then it is time for you to rethink. Many different shapes, sizes and colors of rubber mats are available that will enhance the decor of your place. In addition, from safety point of view rubber mats are of great help. Using rubber floor mats in wet areas such as laundry and bathroom can prevent any possible injury to your near and dear ones because of slippage. The garage, which is the storehouse of all kinds of lubricants and grease along with the car, can also be a danger zone for your children. By using rubber floor mats you can minimize the chances of any accident or even carry over of dirt and dust to your expensive drawing room carpet. Another good domestic usage of rubber floor mats is the area around the sink in the kitchen. During cooking, you cannot avoid spilling water on the floor, which may prove to be a potential threat to you.

Floor protection:  While rubber floor mats are great for protecting people as is in the case of it’s domestic and industrial use, they are also used for floor protection. Rubber floor mats find this kind of application in cars where the mats protect the car carpet for dust and grime. Rubber mats are also used in high traffic places such as showrooms and shops to prevent the expensive marble or wooden flooring beneath.

Other uses: Rubber floor mats find extensive usage in fitness industry. Due to their elasticity and portability rubber floor mats are used for gym flooring, workout mats and exercise mats. Rubber floor mats are also used under fitness equipments to prevent any damage to the gym floor.

These rubber floor mats are available in various price ranges depending upon the quality and thickness. Though they are easily available in supermarket, Internet scouting can fetch you better deal in terms of variety, price and shipping.

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