Rubber floor mats are a means of protecting flooring that are used by commercial, industrial, and even residential areas everywhere. Warehouses, factories, assembly rooms, kitchens – all of these are areas where you can find rubber matting being used to great effect. Consumers everywhere know how important it is to protect your flooring from heavy weight and high volumes of foot traffic. As one example, the average cost to resurface concrete flooring can be as high as $10 a square foot. If you are a manager in charge of a warehouse (or series of warehouses) with a square footage of potentially 25,000 square feet or more, it is easy to see why you would want to avoid resurfacing as much as possible. Thankfully, floor mats (rubber and otherwise) exist to help consumers avoid these costs. All told, here are five of the primary reasons why floor rubber mats are used in environments of all kinds:
“Corrugated Fine-Rib”
“Corrugated Ramp-Cleat”
- Protects subsurfaces against heavy weights
- Outdoor floor mats great for different weather conditions
- Easy to clean with a water hose and common detergents
- Temporary installations with the use of double-sided tape
- Perfect for use as ramp flooring, industrial mat, marine pathway flooring, fitness center mats, outdoor walkway mats, horse trailer floor matting, and much more
Loves an Uphill Battle: These runner mats are designed for use at inclines. Whether you need to put it down on a ramp or a steep walkway, it will continue to function as a sturdy floor protector and as dependable no-slip mats. The ribbed rubber texture is meant to provide feet with an enhanced level of grip when moving uphill or downhill.
SBR Protection: These black rubber mats are ideal to use as outdoor floor mats thanks to the styrene butadiene rubber that makes them up. SBR is a very reliable type of rubber to have in wet weather conditions. These runner mats will not crack or mold under a prolonged exposure to moisture. Even when wet, SBR never loses the excellent level of grip it provides for your feet.
Scrapes Away Debris: The corrugated ribbed rubber surface assists in keeping your shoes clean. These high quality black rubber mats scrape dirt and mud off of incoming footwear and keeps it trapped on the surface. This quality is especially useful in wet and messy regions.
- Protection: As mentioned, perhaps the biggest benefit of using rubber floor mats is that they keep your floors safe. The elasticity of rubber tile is such that it absorbs impacts better than more rigid, less “forgiving” types of surfacing. Wood, carpet, concrete, tile– these are all examples of types of flooring that are extremely susceptible to the damage that heavy weights can inflict. When you install floor rubber mats into your commercial, industrial, or residential environments, know that you are going a long way in providing the type of security that will keep your floor structurally integral for a long, long time.
- Affordability: Let us imagine, once again, that you are a warehouse manager in charge of the day-to-day operation of multiple 25,000 square foot facilities. You decide you want to purchase protective rubber matting for floor, but you figure rubber will be very expensive, right? Fortunately, that is actually not the case. Rubber floor mats are beloved the world over precisely because they are so affordable relative to other types of flooring. The reason for this affordability is because, in large part, many types of rubber matting are made from recycled rubber automobile tires. Since over 250 million tires are discarded annually throughout the world, there’s certainly no material shortage when it comes to floor mats (rubber especially), thereby reducing the overall cost of the rubber floor mats for you, the end user.
“Bubble-Top” Anti-Fatigue Mat
“Revolution” Interlocking Flooring Tiles
- Comfort: Another implicit benefit that comes from using a material with the elasticity of rubber is the level of inherent comfort that comes along with it. Rubber mats provide a gentle and secure space for you and your employees to walk and stand upon, reducing the amount of pain in your legs and hips, and enabling you all to be more productive (and healthy) throughout the course of the work day.
- Easy-to-Clean: Floor rubber mats are perfect for use in even the most gritty work areas because of their ability to be cleaned thoroughly with just water and a mop. Rubber floor mats are additionally resistant to the degrading effects of moisture than can undermine the effectivity of lesser types of flooring, meaning that they can be hosed down as often and intensely as you like.
- Availability: Because of the sky-high demand for rubber mats in the marketplace, it is quite easy, comparatively, to get your hands on one. Whether it is through an online marketplace over the Internet, or at your local hardware supply retailer, rest assured that the perfect rubber floor mat for you is easily obtainable!
With this sundry of benefits in mind, it is not hard to imagine why rubber floor mats are so commonplace in –and valued by- the commercial, industrial, and residential industries.
“Soft Cloud” Foam Comfort Mats
“Soft Cloud” Foam Comfort Mats
- Will not slide out of place
- Portable and easy to transport
- Perfect for the food service industry
- Easy to clean using water and non-corrosive cleaning agents
Added Traction: This comfort mat benefits from an enhanced level of traction thanks to the closed-cell design on the surface. While this padded floor gives you enough bounce to keep your feet comfortable, it will also increase traction so as to prevent costly and unwanted slips and accidents. Safety is just as important as comfort. Luckily, this anti-fatigue mat provides both in abundance.
Preferred by Employers: Some jobs can be very taxing on the feet. Cooks, cashiers, and assembly line workers often get uncomfortable during the day because they stand for hours on end without any kind of cushioning for their feet. Uncomfortable workers means low productivity. Whether your business is commercial or industrial, mats like the “Soft Cloud” are perfect because they are bouncy enough to relieve feet of stationary pressure. If you notice that your workers are uncomfortable, buy this comfort mat to keep them comfortable and productive!