A Bare Concrete Gym Floor In Oshawa Is Cold, Loud And Hard On Joints
Rubber surfacing turns a bare basement or warehouse slab into a floor that soaks up a dropped dumbbell and takes the chill off a room. The finished basements of Taunton and Kedron, the studio spaces near Ontario Tech and Durham College and the fitness rooms in the condo buildings along Simcoe Street all start with the same cold, hard concrete.
Gym rubber surfacing takes the sting out of it. A plate hitting rubber is a dull thud rather than a sharp crack, a shoe on rubber grips instead of skating, and a floor that is a few degrees warmer under bare feet makes a basement gym a room people actually use.
Interlocking Gym Mats Curl At The Edges And Slide On Concrete
Rubber surfacing goes down as a single piece, which means no curling mat edge, no seam to catch a toe and no tile creeping across the floor under a squat rack. Puzzle mats and rolled rubber both have joints, and joints collect sweat, dust and chalk. Poured rubber surfacing has none.
Poured rubber surfacing on a gym floor in Oshawa is bonded to the slab, so it does not move, and it can be poured thicker under the free-weight area and thinner under the cardio machines in the same continuous surface. Basement slabs on the old lakebed south of the 401 can hold moisture, so the slab is tested for it before the primer goes down.
Gym Rubber Surfacing In Oshawa Is Poured At Three-Eighths To Three-Quarters Of An Inch
A gym floor begins as a bare, clean slab, which means grinding off old paint, sealer or carpet glue, filling the cracks and priming before any rubber surfacing goes down. Then SBR granules meet their binder in the mixer and go on by trowel: three-eighths of an inch across a general fitness floor, climbing to three-quarters wherever plates will be dropped, with an EPDM fleck stirred in if colour is wanted.
By the next morning the rubber surfacing takes feet, and after roughly 48 to 72 hours it takes racks and machines. Cleaning is a broom, a hose or a mild soap, never anything stronger.