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Aruffell

Aruffell

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I'm guessing that this is quite a niche area but I'm hoping that some may have suggestions either way.

In our new house, we are going to have a room which will be a home gym, it will have an underfloor heating floating floor system put in (concrete based gypsum boards) and laid on top of this will be a 6mm hardiebacker concrete based board similar to no-more-ply.

What we were initially planning is to lay down a good quality (probably 10mm) laminate and then using rubber gym/stall mats around and under the heavy equipment to protect the laminate from stray weights being dropped and from the heavy equipment etc...

Would the mats cause the laminate to sweat?
Would this be the best way to do it? Would the rubber hamper the underfloor heating?

It will only be a few tiles and not the whole room so can be moved around etc...

Thanks in advance.

Andy
 
Aruffell said:
Any post in particular?
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the whole thread is worth a read. it could save you buying equipment you don't need or inferior equipment.

unless you already have everything bar matting.

for mats you want a minimum of 12mm ideally. ebay, horse stall mats or there is shop which sells really cheap 5mm mats you could double up.

as long as it's solid rubber, a mat is a mat. places that sell gym equipment also sell mats but they tend to be expensive but the quality is high and gauranteed. with ebay and can be hit or miss.

i would read the full thread tbh full of info.
 
Solid 18mm rubber matting is usually quite common. I.e horse box matting, which is what I have in my garage, That said a 6x4ft is 40KG so depending on the room + weights + equipment will all add up, if it's upstairs.

No idea how your underfloor heating/laminate would be affected but if anything you'll be wanting to cool the room not heat it (to an extent).
 
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