5/8" Diamond Plate Evolution Rubber Tiles Reviews

The tiles themselves are great as they are strong but have a lot of flex to them. Very easy on the knees during workouts. However, these tiles are next to impossible to ″snap″ together. The rubber male and female pieces do not snap together easily, nor do they always line up correctly. I had to stretch the material a lot to get every little ″nub″ to snap into place. I have a 385 square foot room, which called for 48 tiles, and it took approximately 50 hours to get the tiles down, and it's still not perfect. I have lots of lumps due to the little nubs not lining up or snapping down correctly. I am considering scrapping the tiles and ordering rolls as i think the look will be better.

It depends what you want to use the product for. If you want a floor for a weight room its a 5 star. If you do the p90x standing kick boxing, then it will work fine. If you do any floor work, yoga, etc, it will tear you up because its rough. You will need a yoga mat on top of it. It was hard to put down, you will have raw hands afterwards. You have to push hard to drop the holes over the plug to get it to hook. The smell will go away in a couple of months. Mopping between the cracks is a pain in the rear. Water gets down between the cracks and will not give you a fresh clean look. If I could find something without the cracks and a little softer I would buy that product. So this could rate between a 3 or 5 star, its really depends on what you need if for.

the product is not so easy to install as seen on the you tube video. Everything has to be perfectly lined up and has the potential to be a bad zipper. The finished product turned out ok however.

So far all is good with the rubber tiles. We really struggled going back and forth with the tiles or a rubber mat. I think we made the right choice but the cost of shipping these is ridiculous! These better last forever otherwise we made the wrong choice. Rubber smell is not that bad and does slowly go away over time. Not to hard to install but our area is only roughly 6'x9'

We purchased the evolution mats for our home gym. They offer a great soft non slip texture we are able to cut them to size somewhat quickly with a sharp utility knife. Joining the mats can be challenging as stated in other reviews, as it was expected we didn’t hold it against the mats. The mats a vacuumed after each workout with a Dyson V7 keeping them clean has been easy rolling a workout bench on the mat isn’t a challenge. The only thing I would say is a negative is the mats are harsh on bare skin, adding a yoga style mat on top for floor exercises might be a must.

Very sturdy and heavy duty. Can be a bit tricky to cut to size, but with the right tools and some time you could get nearly perfect cuts. Would recommend for home gym.

I was setting up my new home gym and researched all the different floors that I thought might work. Settled on these tiles. First, yes they do smell like a Discount Tire store which I knew from reading all the reviews. I had no issues with ordering or delivery, everything happened just as I was told. They arrived around Thanksgiving so my yard was already dormant so I just laid the tiles out in the back yard to air out for a couple of weeks, then moved them to the garage to lay out for 3 more weeks. After a total of about 5 weeks I began the install process. Once installed in the house, it took another month to 6 weeks before we no longer noticed the smell. So just know that this product is going to have a smell for at least a couple of months. Second, and more importantly, the install process. After reading many of the other reviews I learned that a very small amount of soapy water on each of the male connections would work wonders and it did. This product would be almost impossible to lay correctly without a little lubrication for the connecting parts but extremely easy to install using just a few drops of soapy water. 3rd, knowing this product was made from recycled tires, I was a little worried about the difficulty of cutting pieces to fit when that was necessary. Quickly realized that was not a problem. Even though these tiles are very durable, they are also very easy to cut with a box cutter. Each cut I made took 2 passes. The first was to score the rubber, the second was to complete the cut. I installed about 160 sq ft and changed the blade on my box cutter once to keep the cutting easy. It only took me a couple of hours to lay the whole floor. Finally, durability. We have had the floor installed for about 4.5-5 months now and have had no issues. It has plenty of give when jumping or lifting on it but firm enough that when I move any of the equipment in the room, there are no indentions left from the feet of the equipment, this was a big surprise to me. The floor gets a lot of abuse from walking around in cycling cleats but it doesn't seem to hurt the floor at all. The only downside to this product is keeping it clean. Still looking for the right answer for cleaning.

Installed about 600 sq ft. of this in my gym. The tiles themselves are very heavy, durable material. Once installed, they look great and I think they will hold up very well. To install they just push together with your fingers or a rubber mallet. 95% of the tiles come together great and seal very nicely. Now to the other 5% - some of the tiles just DO NOT go together like they should. It seems like the little nubs or the little holes that must connect are off by like a millimeter or so. This makes them incredibly difficult to connect. After much fighting and sore fingers, these eventually did connect. Given how about 95% of the tiles connected perfectly, I can only attribute this issue to a manufacturing defect.

I love how easy this was to install. Cutting the tiles for the edges was very smooth. They just pressed together. Doing plyometrics on them is fantastic. I've had some cheap flooring options before that would just come apart and bunch up while jumping around. These hold well and are great for absorbing that jump-around shock to the joints. It was well worth the money spent for a nice wall-to-wall gym floor.

It's great. Have mine on the second floor over layers of plywood. Distributes impact and easy to assemble and clean. Adding more to fill in the room for an aerobics area. Equipment doesn't affect it either.

We bought the evolution rubber floor for our gym house and it looks amazing. Love the design and how easy was to install. First two couple of weeks smelled like rubber alot, but in least than 3 weeks it was gone. Great quality and service.

These tiles are excellent for p90x or insanity training. Very good construction. Easy to put together. Does not slide around.

Very Happy

I purchased three types of flooring from your company for my Sports Performance Facility, in New Mexico. Your products help turn a warehouse into the finest training facility in the state, THANK YOU

Very happy with product not as difficult as many said in write ups to install. I allowed to vent in garage before installing in an upstairs very well ventilated room with numerous windows. It has been 3 weeks and the smell is very bad and not getting better.

We love the way this product provides a cushion-feel yet is strong enough to lift weights on and doesn't feel ″spongy″. We hired a wood floor guy to do the install, and edged our floor in quarter-round as we went right to the edge of each wall. We transition to tile at the door threshold, and the height was perfect. No sloped transition piece needed. Was not expensive to have it installed and well worth it, although we feel like we could have done it ourselves.

We put this in our home gym and it went together in an afternoon with a little water on the nubbins and a deadblow hammer. The rubber smell is quite strong at first, but quickly subsides in a month or so... if you could air it out for a while in the garage that might help. Otherwise we are very happy with it.

I purchased a few pieces of your rubber flooring and had a wonderful conversation with the customer service lady who was extremely helpful with my order. I explained to her my plans for your materials and she asked me to send some photos of the final project once everything was setup. Thank you for your help, your great customer service and creating such a nice quality.

I used these tiles for gym flooring. This area is primarily used for weight lifting. The product has excellent impact resistance. It takes the impact of 80lb dumbbells without damaging the subfloor. The surface has good traction and is cosmetically equivalent to commercial gym floors. The installation was simple. Per the other reviews, I did lubricate the joints with water during installation. I have no ripples or raised sections. I did have one tile with a cosmetic imperfection. Their customer service was excellent and it was replaced immediately (via FedEx). The tiles are made from recycled tires. As you would expect, the area is going to smell like a tire store for a week or two. There is no smell after that timeframe. The only reason I did not give the product 5 stars was the pricing for the perimeter sections. Not worth the investment in my opinion. I trimmed off the connecting pieces at the edge lines to get the same look. It did take longer to do that, but it looks good at the floor/wall interface.

The floor was easy to install and looks great. My only complaint would be that it is hard to clean and keep clean.