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Post by airraider on Mar 28, 2009 11:24:20 GMT -6
Do any of you have carpet in your weightroom? or do you have solid rubber flooring?
My principal asked about just leaving the concrete floor bare.. but I told him it might get a bit too loud in there..
We have a solid rubber floor in our old weightroom that was rolled flooring.
We may go with cheap high traffic carpet and put some of the rubber flooring under all of the weight areas to keep dropped weights from chipping the concrete or tearing the carpet..
We will also use the power clean mats under our PC's and Deadlift sations.
Anyone have any similar/different setups?
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Post by cnunley on Mar 28, 2009 13:38:23 GMT -6
We had a solid concrete floor for the longest time. Everything was remodeled about a year ago and we put in rubber flooring. So much better. I can not remember the cost but I do not think it was very bad at all. I would rather have the rubber everywhere as opposed to just in spots. Now I can set up different lifting stations anywhere I want them instead of just at the softer lifting areas.
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Post by coachwilley on Mar 30, 2009 0:04:13 GMT -6
If you are going to buy the rubber mats...buy them from a farm farm supply store ie. Wheelers. They are about half the price as from a sporting goods store...
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Post by CoachBehr on Mar 30, 2009 8:17:43 GMT -6
just remember, carpet will hold germs. I doubt that the carpet will be cleaned daily
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Post by dabears54 on Mar 30, 2009 8:27:58 GMT -6
I've seen marks on the floor of carpeted weight rooms where kids have "set" their dumbells and/or plates down. It does look good for very long. Plus the germ comment is a really good point.
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Post by ftbll7801 on Mar 30, 2009 8:45:25 GMT -6
I would not want carpet solely on the germ/fungus issue. Could be a bad deal. MRSA can be some really tough stuff..would just rather avoid it.
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Post by coachbleu on Mar 30, 2009 9:45:33 GMT -6
Carpet is a bad idea. Rubber floor it. There's lots of affordable flooring out there. Do it yourself and save money. It will last 10 times as long as carpet and will look good forever.
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Post by calicoachh on Mar 30, 2009 11:29:16 GMT -6
we used to have old nasty carpet in the weight room, we ripped it out and got rubber. you can also get rubber mats for horses at a farm supply store that is cheaper than at workout distributor.
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Post by dubber on Mar 30, 2009 11:58:07 GMT -6
airraider, get you some rubber:  Do it for America  |
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Post by brophy on Mar 30, 2009 12:09:48 GMT -6
what is the plan to get out the sweat, liquids, and blood that will inevitably end up on the carpet?  CARPET!?!?!? What are you guys planning on doing in there? Jazzercise? |
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Post by rocketcoach on Mar 30, 2009 13:05:42 GMT -6
We have a low profile, high traffic carpet in our weight room. The room wasn't initially intended to be a weight room. The carpet has gotten cut up in the areas where dumb bells have been dropped. We have rubber mats that we try to keep under the kids but there are always spots where a dumb bell cuts into it. We power clean and dead lift on the rubber mats as well. I am sure that carpet is a nasty germ infected pit and would love to get a total rubber floor in there. We had a few dads ready to do it for us last summer but as the economy tanked that idea went out the window. Don't do carpet!
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Post by airman on Mar 30, 2009 15:45:33 GMT -6
rubber flooring can get just as many germs. many schools mop the rubber flooring and water gets under the rubber mats. It can cause major problems.
I am not a big fan of carpet just because of the damage weights can do to it.
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Post by airraider on Mar 30, 2009 18:43:20 GMT -6
We were going to go with plain concrete floors, but figured carpet would help deaden the noise a little. There will only be bare carpet in traffic areas.. we will use our old rubber flooring for workout areas.. there just is not enough to fill the whole room.
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Post by tvt50 on Mar 31, 2009 7:03:49 GMT -6
They wanted to put tile in our weightroom! LOL.
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Post by 5straight on Mar 31, 2009 7:06:41 GMT -6
Dont think carpet would be a good idea. For some reason our school put carpet in the LOCKER room and it caused one of our coaches to become very ill.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Mar 31, 2009 8:32:14 GMT -6
Another way to get rubber flooring on the cheap is, if it's played in your area, contacting local hockey rinks and getting their used matting.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Mar 31, 2009 8:33:32 GMT -6
Whoops! Airraider, just saw Shreveport under your location...not sure there are many rinks down that way!
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Post by cnunley on Mar 31, 2009 12:19:17 GMT -6
CARPET!?!?!? What are you guys planning on doing in there? Jazzercise?
another instant classic comment
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Post by airraider on Mar 31, 2009 18:00:32 GMT -6
lol.. well carpet it is.. from the cheapest rubber floor I could find at $2 a square foot.. to the cheapest carpet at $0.67 a square foot.. we had no choice.. the weightroom is completely student athlete funded.. all from fundraisers this spring.. and money was a major factor.
Thanks for the info.
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Post by dabears54 on Mar 31, 2009 21:20:18 GMT -6
Can they spray a floor in like they do bed liners in trucks? We have rubber mats in our locker room/ indoor facility (it's not really an indoor facility, but we do a lot in it) and they're always moving when we any kind of change of direction work. I'm sure that if they could spray a floor down, it would be really expensive.
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