Dropped Weights Crack Bare Concrete And Slide Loose Mats Apart
We pour a rubber surfacing glued to the concrete and deep enough to absorb a dropped plate, so a basement gym in Brooklin stops being a bare floor with mats that creep. Interlocking tiles open up at the seams, trap sweat and dust, and shift under a rack. Let a dumbbell fall on bare concrete and the slab chips while the noise rings through the house.
Poured between three-eighths and three-quarters of an inch, rubber surfacing quiets the drop, protects the concrete and gives the rack a level, grippy base. There are no seams in rubber surfacing to lift, and it is cleaned with a mop.
A Studio Floor Has To Handle Salt Tracked In All Winter
Whitby Rubber Surfacing pours gym rubber surfacing that shrugs off the slush and salt that walks in from the parking lot from November to April. A studio on Dundas Street or in a plaza on Taunton Road gets the same freeze-thaw slush that every entrance in town gets, and a hard floor near the door goes slick and dull. Rubber surfacing drains, grips and does not scale.
The town has a deep bench of places that need this rubber surfacing: arena dry-land rooms, school weight rooms, physiotherapy clinics, the fitness rooms in seniors' residences, and the hundreds of basement gyms built since 2020.
What We Do On A Gym Floor
We grind the slab, vacuum the dust, fix any moving crack and check for moisture, because a basement floor on the Whitby clay plain can wick damp up from below. The floor is primed once it is dry.
Mixing happens right in the gym; the rubber surfacing then gets troweled out to the depth on the quote, deeper under the lifting platform and racks if the room is laid out that way. Black SBR is standard; an EPDM fleck, a colour band or a lane line goes in where the owner wants it. Walk on the floor the next day; roll the equipment in after two to three days.