Cheap flooring For Gym

B-D-P--

Hi all,
We have to move buildings because the one we are in is sold to new owner.

We do personal training, have equipment but do alot of floor exercises too.
The new venue has polished floor.

Looking for suggestions to keep costs down on flooring.

Carpet may be best but I'm thinking carpet burns and drink stains.
Lino also an option but may be too slippy?

Easy to say mats but would be long seeing d 000's go there.
Thats a lot for start up business.

Thanks for info.

COH

Paint it?

B-D-P--

Kinda fear thats making the business look cheap?
Also v cold for back exercises

Alf Veedersane

Lino won't make it look high-end.

Paint the floor and use mats for back exercises. Most gyms provide mats for floor exercises anyway so it's not necesarily going to be a negative in terms of optics.

If what you're offering is good enough and it sounds like you probably have a client base, you can probably hold off on flooring until you can afford better flooring.

My thoughts as a consumer anyway.

deadlybuzzman

I know gyms and I work with flooring. Your cheapest way out is floor paint, some are grippier than others which is worth considering for insurance.
Use that and mats for anywhere with barbells.
On areas getting less punishment you can get very light almost feltlike carpet online. It's fine for the short term up to 24 months. Darker polypropylene contract carpet is perfect for those areas in the long term though.
My gym has bare concrete, contract carpet and astroturf, it's a higher end gym and it looks great

Hanley

Paint floor. Make platforms for lifting area.

For ground based activity, use foam mats.

It's exactly what we've done in RevFit and if anyone says it looks cheap I'll slap them.

http://www.halfords.ie/workshop-tools/garage-equipment/garage-essentials/rolson-6-piece-floor-mat-set-120-x-180cm


€10 covers 2x6ft. spongy enough to lie and kneel on, solid enough to squat and deadlift on.

They're warm and they're cheap and I couldn't recommend them more.

Mellor

What kind of polished floor? Polished concrete, timber, something else?
Painting it is easy, but might not be possible with lease conditions, make good clauses etc
Vinyl would be better than lino. What was the floor in the previous place?

The best option depends on the exact actives really. I'd do something different in a more strength training environment (Like Revfit) compared to a fitness studio aimed at P90x type classes for yummy mummy types.

And budget affects it too.
I'm currently doing a gym with a 150 thick rubber acoustic floor, costing about $250 per square metre.