Change rooms, wet areas and recovery spaces

The training floor gets most of the attention, but members and athletes judge a facility as much by its change rooms. Wet floors, bare feet and soap are a slip risk. Floors that are hard to clean soon look tired. A change room should feel as considered as the gym itself.

What wet-area flooring has to do

• Grip under bare, wet, soapy feet. This is the first requirement in showers and change rooms.
• Clean easily and resist stains. These rooms are cleaned more often than any other part of the facility.
• Stand up to heavy traffic. Every member passes through them, often twice a session.
• Not encourage bacterial growth.

Safety vinyl for wet areas

For change rooms and wet areas, we install a commercial safety vinyl made for heavy-traffic wet areas. It gives a confident grip for bare feet and reduces the risk of slipping, even with soap and water on the floor.

The test figures back that up:

• Slip resistance: R11 under DIN 51130, Class B for barefoot use under DIN 51097, and P4 and P5 under the Australian standard AS 4586. The datasheet specifies the barefoot test results for showers.
• Durability: use class 34 "very heavy" under ISO 10874.
• Hygiene: doesn't promote bacterial growth (ISO 846 Part C).
• Sustainability: GreenTag Level A.
• Thickness: 2 mm.

Its surface treatment helps it resist stains, which keeps it looking clean between deep cleans.

Lockers, benches and joinery

The flooring is only one part of a good change room. Lockers, benches, vanities and partitions set the feel of the room. Locker locks decide how smoothly it runs. We handle change room joinery, toilet and shower partitions and Ojmar locker locks, alongside the flooring. See Planning lockers for a gym or club.

Recovery rooms

Massage, physio and recovery spaces need a different feel again. They should be quiet, warm underfoot and calmer than the training floor. The right flooring there depends on what happens in the room: treatment tables, stretching, ice baths or saunas. We'll specify a surface to suit.

Getting the transitions right

Where change rooms meet the gym, and recovery rooms meet the training floor, the floor heights and junctions need detailing. That way there are no trip edges and water doesn't spread. Planning all the flooring together, rather than letting different trades do different rooms, avoids awkward junctions.

Planning change rooms or recovery spaces? LUXGYM specifies, supplies and installs rubber flooring, sports turf and wet-area safety flooring, plus lockers and joinery. See flooring and turf, lockers and joinery, or get in touch.