Commercial rubber gym flooring across a training floor with bumper plates

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Rubber flooring

What the surfaces look like

Rubber and turf in commercial rooms — different thicknesses, colour levels and surfaces, photographed in facilities rather than on a sample board.

Dark flecked rubber flooring across a commercial training floor — **Rubber — low colour**Black with light fleck. The workhorse for free-weight floors and anywhere plates get set down.

Blue rubber flooring under a row of cardio equipment — **Rubber — high colour**Colour percentage is the main cost driver in rubber. A strong colour reads as a design choice rather than a utility floor.

Grey rubber studio flooring with strength equipment along a wall — **Rubber — studio grey**A neutral floor that disappears under the equipment. Common in boutique studios and clinics.

Light wood-look resilient flooring in a fitness room — **Wood-look resilient**For amenity rooms and clubhouses where the floor has to match the rest of the building, not look like a gym.

Photographed in commercial installations. Images courtesy of our manufacturer partners, used with permission. Surfaces shown are representative — final product is specified per project.

Thickness, formats & colour

The two questions that decide a flooring quote are how thick the rubber needs to be and what the turf has to survive. Here is how we size both.

Rubber flooring — thickness by zone

Thickness is specified by what happens on that part of the floor, not by the room as a whole. Most rooms use two thicknesses, not one.

Quarter inch commercial rolled rubber flooring sample, 6 mm — **1/4"**6 mmCardio, walkways and machine zones.

Five sixteenths inch commercial rolled rubber flooring sample, 8 mm — **5/16"**8 mmGeneral fitness floors and amenity rooms.

Three eighths inch commercial rolled rubber flooring sample, 9 mm — **3/8"**9 mmSelectorized strength and moderate free weights.

Half inch commercial rolled rubber flooring sample, 12 mm — **1/2"**12 mmFree-weight floors, dumbbells and racks.

Also available in 3/4" (18 mm) for platforms and drop zones.

Thickness	Metric	Where it belongs
1/4"	6 mm	Cardio areas, walkways, stretching space and machine zones. Protects the slab and quiets footfall. Not for anything that gets dropped.
5/16"	8 mm	General fitness floors and apartment amenity rooms. The usual answer where selectorized machines and light dumbbells are the heaviest thing in the room.
3/8"	9 mm	Selectorized strength, functional training and moderate free-weight use. A step up in durability and sound control.
1/2"	12 mm	Free-weight floors, dumbbell areas and racks. Handles dumbbells being set down hard without telegraphing damage into the slab.
3/4"	18 mm	Platforms, drop zones and Olympic lifting. This is what goes under a bar that gets dropped from the hip or overhead.