Rubber floor mats are a means of protecting flooring that are used by commercial, industrial, and even residential areas everywhere. Warehouses, factories, assembly rooms, kitchens – all of these are areas where you can find rubber matting being used to great effect. Consumers everywhere know how important it is to protect your flooring from heavy weight and high volumes of foot traffic. As one example, the average cost to resurface concrete flooring can be as high as $10 a square foot. If you are a manager in charge of a warehouse (or series of warehouses) with a square footage of potentially 25,000 square feet or more, it is easy to see why you would want to avoid resurfacing as much as possible. Thankfully, floor mats (rubber and otherwise) exist to help consumers avoid these costs. All told, here are five of the primary reasons why floor rubber mats are used in environments of all kinds:

1. Protection: As mentioned, perhaps the biggest benefit of using rubber floor mats is that they keep your floors safe. The elasticity of rubber tile is such that it absorbs impacts better than more rigid, less “forgiving” types of surfacing. Wood, carpet, concrete, tile– these are all examples of types of flooring that are extremely susceptible to the damage that heavy weights can inflict. When you install floor rubber mats into your commercial, industrial, or residential environments, know that you are going a long way in providing the type of security that will keep your floor structurally integral for a long, long time.

2. Affordability: Let us imagine, once again, that you are a warehouse manager in charge of the day-to-day operation of multiple 25,000 square foot facilities. You decide you want to purchase protective rubber matting for floor, but you figure rubber will be very expensive, right? Fortunately, that is actually not the case. Rubber floor mats are beloved the world over precisely because they are so affordable relative to other types of flooring. The reason for this affordability is because, in large part, many types of rubber matting are made from recycled rubber automobile tires. Since over 250 million tires are discarded annually throughout the world, there’s certainly no material shortage when it comes to floor mats (rubber especially), thereby reducing the overall cost of the rubber floor mats for you, the end user.

3. Comfort: Another implicit benefit that comes from using a material with the elasticity of rubber is the level of inherent comfort that comes along with it. Rubber mats provide a gentle and secure space for you and your employees to walk and stand upon, reducing the amount of pain in your legs and hips, and enabling you all to be more productive (and healthy) throughout the course of the work day.

4. Easy-to-Clean: Floor rubber mats are perfect for use in even the most gritty work areas because of their ability to be cleaned thoroughly with just water and a mop. Rubber floor mats are additionally resistant to the degrading effects of moisture than can undermine the effectivity of lesser types of flooring, meaning that they can be hosed down as often and intensely as you like. Especially recycled products made from rubber tires, are made to withstand the element and harsh conditions and will not be a poor investment.

5. Availability: Because of the sky-high demand for rubber mats in the marketplace, it is quite easy, comparatively, to get your hands on one. Whether it is through an online marketplace over the Internet, or at your local hardware supply retailer, rest assured that the perfect rubber floor mat for you is easily obtainable!

With this sundry of benefits in mind, it is not hard to imagine why rubber floor mats are so commonplace in –and valued by- the commercial, industrial, and residential industries.