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Home Gym Install
Verified Purchase
Self-installed in
third floor home gym
RickInHouston
from
Houston, TX
wrote...
We own a townhouse with a third floor loft that we use as our gym. Currently we have a treadmill, racks of dumbells, a benchpress cage and curl station. We had the original burber carpet as flooring. Wanting to upgrade the space a bit, I purchased 3/8″ custom rubber rolls as a replacement for the carpet. Rubber Flooring Inc was very helpful with selection and confirmation of my lengths. I chose 3/8″ over the slightly thinner ones for cushion, durability and ability to lay flat easily. Downsides are weight, weight and weight. They arrived as planned on a palate. Rubber flooring is very heavy and very unwielding to carry because of its shape. The weight does, though, help it to easily lay flat when installed without any glue or tape. It took me only one day to install. Moving all the equipment to one side of the room I was able to cut the carpet and padding up in sections and remove. I took out the border tacking to hold it in place. I scraped the subfloor clean and vacuumed it. Using a clean, sharp blade at all times I was able to easily cut the sections as needed. I was concerned about the two door threshold areas, but rubber flooring can easily be cut to fill in any gaps and looks seamless. Always remember, ″measure twice, cut once″ The gym looks really great! The rubber smell lasted about one week, but is now gone. Going from carpet to rubber flooring - the room is now more alive with sound since the carpet / deadening material is gone so is sound might be an issue, think about this. Pictures to follow!