Foam Floor Mats

Are you considering picking up some foam floor mats?  There are many reasons you may want to pick up some foam floor mats, they have a variety of uses.  I can tell you one of the reasons I picked some up for myself was because I had decided to install a home gym.

You see, I had just bought myself a new house and decided to turn one of the rooms into a weights room.  I bought a total gym as well as a whole set of weights from 10 pound all the way up to 100 pound dumbbells.  The last thing I wanted was for all these dumbbells to drop on the floor and leave indentations, so it was pretty much essential for me to get some padding.

The matting I bought was about 1” thick and was quite easy for me to install.  I decided to get the interlocking foam mat so that I could customize it to fit my room and that ended up working out quite well. 

If you do get the interlocking foam floor mats, you can by the stuff based on how many square feet you want to cover and it’s priced pretty reasonably, especially if you find a good place online to pick them up from.  In general the more you pick up the better a deal you will get.

Once I had finished interlocking all the pieces and cut off the excess, I was pretty much ready to go, ready to install the gym overtop of it.  If I hadn’t installed this I’d have had to deal with a LOT of dents and dings all over the place as well as the sound of me just dropping weights to the floor which I do often.

But you know, this isn’t the only application for foam floor mats, you may have a toddler whom you want to create a safe play area for, or maybe you need some flooring for gymnastics or for your garage, basement or deck.  This stuff has many different uses and I’m sure you can think of many more.

When you’re picking up the foam floor mats, your main areas of concern are going to be the quality of the rubber, the thickness of the rubber, the ease of installation as well as the cost for the covering.  The thickness of the mats can vary quite a bit from 3/8” thick all the way up to 1” thick and the quality of the foam will dictate whether it will hold up over time. 

Of course you’re also going to want to make sure you get a texture, color and pattern that you like and that fits in with the room you’re placing it in.

Whatever reason you’re getting foam floor mats for, you’re going to want to do a lot of shopping around before you buy, the overall cost can really add up when you calculate it out for the size of your room.