Best floor shop covering

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Well to me anyway. And of course not for a place where you do hot work but everywhere else, it's sooooo great.
It's hard but has more give than the concrete floor which is great for fatigue.
You can use a rolling stool/chair on it.
Stands roughly one inch from the floor so even though it is perforated, it isolates your feet from the cold very well.
The fact that it is perforated makes all the swarf and general shop crap fall through letting you walk barefoot on it if you want. Not that I do that, well not often anyway. ;)
If you drop small objects it has a tendency of trapping it underneath instead of having it rolled all the way under that bench where you can't reach. :grumpy: Of course that still happens sometimes but I blame the shop gremlins. ;)
Keeps the shop looking clean without having to spend even more time on the Shop-Vac than I already do. :o





Only drawback it that being hard plastic, as you can see from the pics, it breaks on the edges and where you drop heavy stuff on it. :o

Anyway the purpose of this post was twofold. First to share with you guys but also in case someone recognize this and know where I can buy a truckload of the stuff. (Cause my source is dry :()

Id' be eternally grateful. :thumbup:
 
I do machine work as well as knifemaking.

I surround my machines with a similar product -- in addition to the benefits you mention, because nothing will tick me off quite like dropping a $70 milling cutter an chipping an edge.

Look at restaurant supply companies. It's called "anti-fatigue mat". It comes in different form factors - I like the large mats - 3' x 4', but it's also available in the 1' squares as you show.
 
We put out horse stall matt 3/4" thick. I've heard that a gravel shop floor is very good for your back though. If we were to build I'd like to look into that.
 
Andy- I would carefully evaluate where you heard that from before turning your shop floor into a gravel pit. In my professional opinion, it is how you stand/sit that makes most of the issues or solutions, and a gravel floor can quite easily allow poor posture to become worse due to being able to dig your own "ruts" that just exacerbate the problem. Sometimes a sore body is from using proper posture in a disfunctional body and is actually better in the long run if seen I. The right light! Talk to ergonomic assessment professionals if you can, I see the benefits ( like running on natural tracks vs man made), but some things throw up caution flags because I work on postural related issues every day and don't want to see you guys loose productivity from misinformation or fad of the day limited information.

Sorry Patrice for the side tracking.
 
I use a similar product from Home Depot. It is easy to lift up for cleaning, but great on keeping your soles off the cold hard floor.
 
Andy- I would carefully evaluate where you heard that from before turning your shop floor into a gravel pit. In my professional opinion, it is how you stand/sit that makes most of the issues or solutions, and a gravel floor can quite easily allow poor posture to become worse due to being able to dig your own "ruts" that just exacerbate the problem. Sometimes a sore body is from using proper posture in a disfunctional body and is actually better in the long run if seen I. The right light! Talk to ergonomic assessment professionals if you can, I see the benefits ( like running on natural tracks vs man made), but some things throw up caution flags because I work on postural related issues every day and don't want to see you guys loose productivity from misinformation or fad of the day limited information.

Sorry Patrice for the side tracking.

Good to know. I'm glad I mentioned it.
 
With Pat being in Quebec, Princess isn't an option for him

plus that listing has expired


"Archived Product: Not Available for Sale "

I get caught on that often
 
Ken I have been using the horse stall mat around my machines in the shop for the past couple years. I like it a lot and its cheap. The above product that Patrice is asking about gets very expensive. The mat I use is the 1/4 or 3/8" and it provides plenty of cushion for me.
FYI I could not imagine using the 3/4" stuff as the matting is pretty heavy to move around if/when needed.
 
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