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Rubber flooring is porous, and it holds on to sweat, chalk, and shoe rubber, which is exactly where the smell in a weight room comes from. It is cleaned with a system that lifts out of the pores instead of sitting on top of them, so the odor leaves with the soil.
What West Michigan gym owners and facility managers ask us most.
Because the smell is not on the floor, it is in it. Rubber is porous and it soaks up sweat and body oils, and a mop only ever reaches the top of the surface. Whatever has soaked in stays in, keeps breaking down, and is back within a day. It takes a machine that rinses and vacuums at the same time to pull it back out, and once it is out the smell goes with it.
Not with the right chemistry. What harms rubber is solvent-based cleaner and strong alkaline stripper, both of which break the surface down over time and leave it tacky. We clean with pH-balanced solutions rated for rubber, on poured, interlocking-tile, and roll-goods floors alike.
Yes, and they are some of the worst offenders, because a garage gym is usually a rubber floor over concrete in a room with no ventilation. The visit is the same work at a smaller scale, and it can be booked alongside carpet or upholstery in the same house.
Yes, and for a busy gym that is normally how it is done. Overnight and early-morning scheduling means the equipment goes back and the doors open on time. Recurring schedules are available for facilities that want this on a set cycle rather than when it becomes noticeable.
Not usually. We work around racks, platforms, and fixed machines, and we will clean under anything that can reasonably be shifted. If a piece is bolted down or takes a crew to move, tell us in advance and we will plan the visit around it.
Under an hour in most rooms. Rubber holds no water the way a carpet backing does, and the process extracts as it goes, so the floor is back in use quickly.
