Have been slowly buying a few at a time and cut some up for a deadlift platform. Do not buy the Amazon “gym” mats. Stall mats are it. If a horse can walk on it you can grace it with bumper plates and the tears of your enemies. Yes, it will smell for a bit. It’s off gassing and that’s normal for a newly manufactured rubber product. Just keep good airflow for a few weeks and it will pass.
@@MacStrengthCo for sure. I haven’t been able to find that design naw at a tractor supply for a couple years, but have gotten lucky and found some used so I found keep expanding the gym flooring. Actually have a buddy who found 3 more for me and is dropping them and coming up for a lift when is the area for work.
Starting a home gym in my new home next week. I was looking into stall mats, but inside the house the smell will be too strong. I am going to look at the rep fitness ones or use the rolled out one that coop talked about in one of his reviews.
Ya good idea. I cover those in my review a little and the smell is nothing something I wanted to skip over. In your house I would look at REP mats probably. Easier to move and transport etc. They cut easy with an exacto knife and a straight edge.
@@MacStrengthCo ordered the 4x6 rep mats the reviewers on the repfitness website seemed to think the had little to no odor also🤞 . I will put this on top of lowish to medium carpet.
Thank again for the heads up on rep fitness stall mats, they are great with very little odor. I installed them over carpet. Now, I am thinking about removing the carpet and doing it all over again. I am not sure about softness of the floor on top of carpet, and I am wandering if others have chosen to remove carpet but leave pad or just mats on top of concrete. I am scouring the internet and RU-vid about removal of carpet and what to do with the tack strips on the edge etc. Thanks for your posted videos.
@@brianshockley8161 My recommendation would be to remove carpet, remove underpayment and tack strips. Scrap and clean concrete and install mats on top and trim to fit. That's if you own the house and plan on keeping it a gym for some time.
Whatever you choose, remember that the floor is half the aesthetics of your gym. Me personally, I don’t like the tape on the floor look, and I love my “puzzle piece” tiles, even though they were far more expensive than stall mats and tape. But if you like the matts, then go for it. Just remember, if you’re gonna spend $10,000, $20,000, $30,000 or even $40,000 on equipment, you might as well buy the floor you think is the most attractive. In fact you may want to get rolls and have them professionally installed. Summarize my point…the floor is much more important to the look of a gym than people realize.
Water hasn’t been an issue for us. I use a floor cleaning machine, and no water gets between the cracks. Which were tight enough they had to be hammered into place with a rubber mallet. Yes, I’ve checked after watching a Basement Brandon video. I can roll my fully loaded Rogue plate tree across the floor. I cannot roll my fully loaded rogue three tier storage across the floor. It has three tiers of dumbbells and rolls up the floor. FWIW
I thought the tape was going to look bad but honestly, it doesn't at all. There's clamps you can use underneath as well if you don't want tape but I prefer the tape. It covers the cracks completely.
