Flooring for Commercial Gyms - What to Look For?

Traditionally, commercial gym flooring are usually consists of carpets or wood parquet; however over time, such flooring may result in some common problems such as wear and tear, damaged carpet tiles and parquets due to heavy weight impact and scratches, stains, sweat stench and in some cases water damage issue. Hence, most of the time, gym flooring will need to be changed every once in a while.

When sourcing for a good flooring product for commercial gyms, here are some tips for your perusal.

1) Easy to Wash and Maintain

It is best that commercial gyms floor are easy to wash and maintain so as to have a healthy, clean and fresh environment for the gym-goers to enjoy. Sweat stains, dirt and dust particles which can trapped on carpets tiles or parquet may not be easily be got rid of. Maintaining it may also be a chore. Hence, the gym owner may need to look for something that is easy to wash and maintain; and of course has a high level of water resistance.

2) Good impact resistance and other safety aspect

Especially when we are dealing with commercial gyms when all the heavy weights, dumb bells and exercise machines are part and parcel of the place, choosing a flooring product with high level of impact resistance is a must. Looking at other safety aspect, we should also look at whether the said flooring product has a high level of slip resistance or not; so as to minimize the risk of falling accidents in the gyms.

3) Healthy Indoor Air Quality

The gym flooring also need to pass the heath standards and criteria for better indoor quality. This is because your gym-goers will be spending at least half hour or more in the enclosed area. Therefore, while selecting the flooring product, the gym owner always need to ask the contractor whether the said product has passed any heath as well eco quality standards.

High end resilient flooring (HERF) could help to remedy most of the situations and potential problems cause by long term high traffic of the commercial gym floors. This is probably due to its waterproof feature, easy to maintain, high slip and impact resistance as well as good health and eco standards. Ever since its introduction in last 2010, there is a number of commercial gyms using HERF and most of the time, the feedback so far, is highly positive.