Looking for rubber gym mats

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Hey people I've been looking for 4 rubber gym mats to put on shed/greenhouse roofs etc when working. Been online looking for them but they are all silly money when you factor in the shipping costs (around £300) :-/.

Just wondering if anyone on here has used this kind of thing instead of boards and if you use them anyone know where to get them from? (on the cheep).

I've phoned round some indoor climbing walls and some gyms but no luck as yet.

Was looking for some 6x4ft 1" thick kind of thing, give or take.

If anyone has any ideas or thoughts it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance people. :-)

[Darrin Turnbull]

Maybe something like this.

[gdh]

A few farmers use 6x4 1inch rubber mats for cattle to lie on. You might get some old ones if anyone is pulling out old cubicles or in smaller.

amounts from stables.

 

I've got a few lying around I think but they're quite rough.

[gdh]

Got these from a quick Google.Rubber Stable Mats (Four 6x4ft 18mm thick matting) For Sale in Milton Keynes, Bucks | Preloved

[farmer rod]

stable matting is quite heavy, quite a job to lift one and cart it outside for a wash. (esp as always covered in **it)

[scraggs]

Martial Arts Mats & Jigsaw Matting | MMA Mats UK

[Thesnarlingbadger]

  gdh said:

Got these from a quick Google.Rubber Stable Mats (Four 6x4ft 18mm thick matting) For Sale in Milton Keynes, Bucks | Preloved

 

 

That sounds perfect, shows how hard I was looking haha.

The weight thing might be an issue, I didn't really think about that. What do other people use? Foam is probably a little too light weight unfortunately. Thanks for the replays

[Mick Dempsey]

Plywood sheets.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

  Mick Dempsey said:

Plywood sheets.

 

 

Yeah I use them now but they just get smashed up to easily, and they don't like the wet.

I was thinking rubber matting because its durable and not a fixed shape, good for folding over the apex of a roof :-).

[leswold]

Never had a problem with 8X4 ply sheets, painted with Unibond for waterproofing & for greenhouse roofs we cable tie two together. Tried (ex-school) gym mats but too heavy when wet...so dumped them.