Gym Flooring
Flooring Varieties
Many kinds of sports flooring exist. Working Wolfe can install rubber rolls and/or tiles as well as turf and even artificial ice!
Why Rubber Flooring
At Working Wolfe, we focus on six areas where rubber flooring excels: health, green building, safety, performance, longevity, and appearance.
Health
- We use only quality manufactured gym flooring that does not out-gas. We wouldn’t want our homes to smell like a tire store, and we don’t want yours to either.
- Working Wolfe only works with companies whose manufacturing standards are very high.
- Non-hazardous cleaners are available for maintaining and cleaning rubber floors.
- Good quality rubber flooring does not need resurfacing so no polyurethane or similar products are needed.
- In-home gyms, traffic is low enough that abrasion causing rubber dust is unlikely to cause a problem.
Green Building
- Most gym floors use recycled rubber because of its durability, safe footing characteristics and other performance characteristics. Recycling takes a great amount of waste out of U.S. landfills. Furthermore, the flooring itself is recyclable decades from now after its usefulness is over.
- Recycled rubber flooring contributes to Green Building certification, a big plus in the building industry.
Safety
- Quality manufacturing produces flooring that does not lift or produce uneven surfaces that may result in a trip or fall. Working Wolfe will produce a high-quality installation, which is why we insist on using the products of high-quality manufacturers.
- Fall protection depends on good footing. Rubber flooring has outstanding stability features.
- People with visual problems, especially the elderly, often mistake changes in reflections on floors for changes in heights. Rubber floors that are not designed to mimic shiny wood floors avoid this problem.
- Rubber floors have better tracking when wet than wood floors. (Spills do occur, so adopt a safety first mentality. Clean up spills immediately not matter what flooring you choose.)
- Rubber floors without specialty surfacing absorb impact from falls much better than other flooring types. Also, the resilience of rubber floors lessens fatigue. That enables quicker recovery from heavy exercise and lessens post-exercise pain.
- Rubber flooring suppresses noise. Those familiar with the sound of heavily weighted bars dropping welcome that.
Performance characteristics
Working Wolfe will consult with you on your specific training needs. Consider the range of your specific training needs.
Most home gyms will do very well with one of the basic rolls or tiles, but the number of choices is high. Working Wolfe will consult with you and help you choose the right flooring.
Aesthetics
You want to be in your gym. Make it pleasant. Flooring comes in many colors, and you can create interesting patterns. You can mix flooring types in a multi-use room.
Maintenance
Rubber flooring needs no resurfacing. Regular cleaning requires no expensive machinery. Good rubber flooring is stain-resistant and colorfast.
Product Lifetime
Rubber flooring costs less over fifteen years. Maintenance is 50% lower than the next lowest cost alternative and about 66% lower than carpet. Overall costs of rubber flooring are 2X the installation cost versus 9X the cost of carpeting installation.
Furthermore, rubber flooring is designed specifically for physical training and heavy use. Gyms with rubber floors last a long time.
Lastly, rooms with rubber floors convert easily to family room purposes. This flexibility makes the resale of your home easier. Furthermore, because of Working Wolfe’s no-glue installations, you or a new owner can easily replace it.
Working Wolfe will help you find what you want for a gym floor.