5/8" Diamond Plate Evolution Rubber Tiles Reviews

It depends what you want to use the product for. If you want a floor for a weight room its a 5 star. If you do the p90x standing kick boxing, then it will work fine. If you do any floor work, yoga, etc, it will tear you up because its rough. You will need a yoga mat on top of it. It was hard to put down, you will have raw hands afterwards. You have to push hard to drop the holes over the plug to get it to hook. The smell will go away in a couple of months. Mopping between the cracks is a pain in the rear. Water gets down between the cracks and will not give you a fresh clean look. If I could find something without the cracks and a little softer I would buy that product. So this could rate between a 3 or 5 star, its really depends on what you need if for.

I was looking for a clean, quality, commercial-grade type of floor for my workout room in the basement of my home and these rubber tiles are absolutely perfect. The quality is outstanding...the tiles give you plenty of grip for various exercises while having just enough ″give″ to them so as to not cause foot or joint fatigue. (BTW, I placed my tiles directly onto the concrete floor in my basement.) Because of the shape of my room, I had to cut several of them in order to fit tightly and cleanly against the walls, but with a sharp carpet knife, it was easy to do. My only gripe about these tiles is that they were VERY difficult to ″snap″ together. As you know, these tiles have a male and a female edge to them, and I couldn't believe how hard it was to get the rubber male knobs to fit into the female openings. I thought they would just snap together and all would be good, but since you are dealing with rubber, things didn't line up perfectly every time so it took a lot of pushing, pulling, and prying in order to get each knob to connect to its corresponding opening in the other tile. Ended up with a couple of blisters on my thumbs from pushing down. I also used a rubber mallet which helped at times. You see, if you don't get every knob snapped in its place, then you will not end up with a nice smooth/flat transition from one tile to the next. Since I do a lot of lunges, steps, and jumps in my workouts, I wanted to have a smooth floor with no chances of tripping or catching my shoe on the lip of one tile that might be a bit higher than the other one. But eventually I got them all put together and it looks great. (Plus, as a guy, I actually like the rubber smell that these new tiles give off, but I'm guessing that will fade away over time.) So...all that to say that while I am extremely pleased with the way my floor turned out, I was just frustrated by how difficult it was to fit or ″snap″ all the tiles together. Overall, I would still highly recommend these tiles if you have a workout room that needs an awesome floor; these are high-quality, heavy-duty, commercial-grade tiles.

Very Happy

So I was the 1-star review that had a really hard time installing the tiles. The soap and water trick is a miracle. I wish I thought of that earlier!!! I relaid all of the tiles using this method and was able to install 48 tiles in about 2 hours. Thanks for the tip. Rubber flooring Inc should include that in their installation instructions. Thanks again!

I was setting up my new home gym and researched all the different floors that I thought might work. Settled on these tiles. First, yes they do smell like a Discount Tire store which I knew from reading all the reviews. I had no issues with ordering or delivery, everything happened just as I was told. They arrived around Thanksgiving so my yard was already dormant so I just laid the tiles out in the back yard to air out for a couple of weeks, then moved them to the garage to lay out for 3 more weeks. After a total of about 5 weeks I began the install process. Once installed in the house, it took another month to 6 weeks before we no longer noticed the smell. So just know that this product is going to have a smell for at least a couple of months. Second, and more importantly, the install process. After reading many of the other reviews I learned that a very small amount of soapy water on each of the male connections would work wonders and it did. This product would be almost impossible to lay correctly without a little lubrication for the connecting parts but extremely easy to install using just a few drops of soapy water. 3rd, knowing this product was made from recycled tires, I was a little worried about the difficulty of cutting pieces to fit when that was necessary. Quickly realized that was not a problem. Even though these tiles are very durable, they are also very easy to cut with a box cutter. Each cut I made took 2 passes. The first was to score the rubber, the second was to complete the cut. I installed about 160 sq ft and changed the blade on my box cutter once to keep the cutting easy. It only took me a couple of hours to lay the whole floor. Finally, durability. We have had the floor installed for about 4.5-5 months now and have had no issues. It has plenty of give when jumping or lifting on it but firm enough that when I move any of the equipment in the room, there are no indentions left from the feet of the equipment, this was a big surprise to me. The floor gets a lot of abuse from walking around in cycling cleats but it doesn't seem to hurt the floor at all. The only downside to this product is keeping it clean. Still looking for the right answer for cleaning.

I purchased three types of flooring from your company for my Sports Performance Facility, in New Mexico. Your products help turn a warehouse into the finest training facility in the state, THANK YOU

Installed about 600 sq ft. of this in my gym. The tiles themselves are very heavy, durable material. Once installed, they look great and I think they will hold up very well. To install they just push together with your fingers or a rubber mallet. 95% of the tiles come together great and seal very nicely. Now to the other 5% - some of the tiles just DO NOT go together like they should. It seems like the little nubs or the little holes that must connect are off by like a millimeter or so. This makes them incredibly difficult to connect. After much fighting and sore fingers, these eventually did connect. Given how about 95% of the tiles connected perfectly, I can only attribute this issue to a manufacturing defect.

These tiles are excellent for p90x or insanity training. Very good construction. Easy to put together. Does not slide around.

Very happy with product not as difficult as many said in write ups to install. I allowed to vent in garage before installing in an upstairs very well ventilated room with numerous windows. It has been 3 weeks and the smell is very bad and not getting better.

So far all is good with the rubber tiles. We really struggled going back and forth with the tiles or a rubber mat. I think we made the right choice but the cost of shipping these is ridiculous! These better last forever otherwise we made the wrong choice. Rubber smell is not that bad and does slowly go away over time. Not to hard to install but our area is only roughly 6'x9'

I chose this product based on this quote from Rubber Flooring Customer Service ″That is actually a low odor product since it is made of Natural Rubber″ and when I called they represented that ″we put it in our small room here and even on the first day we could not smell it″. Based on that advice I did not leave it outside or in a garage before installing in the basement as I thought any smell would be gone in a few days at the most. That is a big mistake. My entire basement outside of the Gym room was overwhelmed with a rubber smell. I am not sure this is natural rubber. I had to open outside doors in cold weather. With the right advice, I would have left this in my garage to breathe for 6-8 weeks. I am now 8 weeks in, and the room still smells like rubber, but not the whole basement. I believe if it was in an open location first I would have been fine much sooner. Once it is installed, it is too much work to pull it back up and set it outside (300lbs all cut to the right corners). The customer service group cannot give shipping updates accurately. I ordered based on a specific delivery window (1 week) b/c I was headed out of town. I was assured that was no problem. They delayed the shipment b/c end pieces were on back-order and then promised not to ship it out while I was away. However, they simply emailed the warehouse who did not make a note of the advice, so it arrived during vacation. I had to have someone pick it up; note this is 300lbs of flooring sitting on the curb outside. Customer Service said 'we can't control FedEx' but the issue was that it even left the Warehouse both behind the promised schedule and then ahead of the promised delay. I am disappointed with the advice on the smell and the shipping, but I rated 4 stars as it is a solid but forgiving flooring that works great for crossfit. I lift barefoot and it is a little rough to jump on, but not too bad. The smell will probably be gone soon as I have 4 plants down there and an air purifier trying to clean out the off gassing.

I liked the way this looks but hesitated to order it because the reviews said it was difficult to install. I finally decided to order them and they came in last night and were super easy to install. I turned the corners up and lined up the first male and female bit then laid it back down and went along the line and easily popped the rest in with my thumbs. Zero issues with them lining up. Originally I was only going to cover a small section of the floor but like them a lot so I ordered more in order to cover the entire room. I can't wait to get the rest in!

We purchased the evolution mats for our home gym. They offer a great soft non slip texture we are able to cut them to size somewhat quickly with a sharp utility knife. Joining the mats can be challenging as stated in other reviews, as it was expected we didn’t hold it against the mats. The mats a vacuumed after each workout with a Dyson V7 keeping them clean has been easy rolling a workout bench on the mat isn’t a challenge. The only thing I would say is a negative is the mats are harsh on bare skin, adding a yoga style mat on top for floor exercises might be a must.

Very sturdy and heavy duty. Can be a bit tricky to cut to size, but with the right tools and some time you could get nearly perfect cuts. Would recommend for home gym.

I love how easy this was to install. Cutting the tiles for the edges was very smooth. They just pressed together. Doing plyometrics on them is fantastic. I've had some cheap flooring options before that would just come apart and bunch up while jumping around. These hold well and are great for absorbing that jump-around shock to the joints. It was well worth the money spent for a nice wall-to-wall gym floor.

It's great. Have mine on the second floor over layers of plywood. Distributes impact and easy to assemble and clean. Adding more to fill in the room for an aerobics area. Equipment doesn't affect it either.

We bought the evolution rubber floor for our gym house and it looks amazing. Love the design and how easy was to install. First two couple of weeks smelled like rubber alot, but in least than 3 weeks it was gone. Great quality and service.

We love the way this product provides a cushion-feel yet is strong enough to lift weights on and doesn't feel ″spongy″. We hired a wood floor guy to do the install, and edged our floor in quarter-round as we went right to the edge of each wall. We transition to tile at the door threshold, and the height was perfect. No sloped transition piece needed. Was not expensive to have it installed and well worth it, although we feel like we could have done it ourselves.

We put this in our home gym and it went together in an afternoon with a little water on the nubbins and a deadblow hammer. The rubber smell is quite strong at first, but quickly subsides in a month or so... if you could air it out for a while in the garage that might help. Otherwise we are very happy with it.

I purchased a few pieces of your rubber flooring and had a wonderful conversation with the customer service lady who was extremely helpful with my order. I explained to her my plans for your materials and she asked me to send some photos of the final project once everything was setup. Thank you for your help, your great customer service and creating such a nice quality.