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gym flooring for on top of luxury vinyl plank flooring?

Posted on 7/14/23 at 11:58 am
Posted by Canuck Tiger
Member since Sep 2010
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Posted on 7/14/23 at 11:58 am
I have a basement gym that is in a room with pretty new LVP installed (it floats on the concrete floor). I currently have a ton of those interlocking EVA foam mats down, and they get jacked up under my rack whenever it moves due to banging weights to finish heavy sets of squats or bench. They also get dented from equipment sitting on them or even dbs resting and they haven't held up super well overall. I also notice them giving a bit when I squat heavy.

So I was going to upgrade my flooring but I have heard that horse stall mats can stain the floor you put them on, and that LVP is especially bad about getting stained this way. So does anyone have another recommendation? Are there interlocking mats that actually are good quality or are they all junk?
Posted by h0bnail
Member since Sep 2009
7628 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 12:22 pm to
Maybe use some moisture barrier between LVP and whatever you decide to use?
Posted by AZBadgerFan
Scottsdale, AZ
Member since May 2013
1884 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 3:45 pm to
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So I was going to upgrade my flooring but I have heard that horse stall mats can stain the floor you put them on


I've heard the same, the horse stall mats have an oil in them that will stain your LVP. I recently put some laminate flooring in my home gym and bought a cheap 8'x10' area rug from Costco (I think it was around $100) to use a barrier between the laminate flooring and the horse mats.



Posted by Canuck Tiger
Member since Sep 2010
1808 posts
Posted on 7/14/23 at 11:47 pm to
Hmm would plastic you use for vapor barrier on walls work you think?
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