Gym changing rooms can be high-traffic spaces with specific demands in terms of safety, durability, and impeccable hygiene standards. With regular exposure to moisture, dirt, and heavy foot traffic, many flooring systems simply don’t stand the test of time. Tiles crack, lino discolours, and the paint peels from poured concrete.
For modern health clubs, resin flooring provides a superior solution for changing rooms that balances a great, long-lasting appearance with excellent safety and straightforward hygiene control. Read on to find out more.
What Type Of Resin Flooring System Should I Choose For My Gym Changing Room?
There are several types of resin flooring system that stand out due to their high versatility and hygiene characteristics in gym changing rooms, for example:
- Epoxy resin flooring: this is a popular choice for gym changing room flooring because of its resistance to chemicals and moisture, and its near-heroic durability. An epoxy resin floor has a clean, highly polished appearance, and its nonporous surface ensures that water and sweat don’t seep into the floor. Epoxy can also handle regular exposure to disinfectants and cleaning products, making it perfect for maintaining hygiene in changing rooms. Wet areas, such as the showers and entrance to poolside, can be enhanced with slip resistant additives to improve safety.
- Polyurethane (PU) flooring: polyurethane resin flooring gives you a great balance of flexibility and durability, making it another great option for your changing facilities. Polyurethane is resistant to scratches, scuffs, and impacts, which is important in changing rooms where people often wear trainers, keys are dropped, and bags are occasionally dragged across the floor. PU also has good thermal and chemical resistance, helping your flooring investment hold up in the warm and humid environment of health clubs.
- Decorative resin screeds: a resin screed combines resin with an aggregate of your choice to create a smooth surface that can mimic natural stone, and even include embedded designs, giving your gym changing space a stylish but functional edge.
- Self-smoothing resin systems: a self-smoothing resin flooring is a poured resin system that creates a perfectly level surface throughout your changing room. This is perfect for customer safety and ensures there are no gaps in some areas of the room between the floor and your lockers, which can harbour dirt and cause a hygiene hazard. This type of resin system is designed to spread evenly across the subfloor, creating a durable and level surface that is easy to clean and strongly resistant to wear and tear.
Specialist Additives For Improved Hygiene And Safety
To meet the specific needs of your gym changing room, your resin flooring can be enhanced with various additives and treatments. These include antimicrobial additives, which can be incorporated into your resin to inhibit the growth of fungi, bacteria, and other microorganisms and also help prevent the spread of threadworm eggs and other parasites among gym users. Another popular option is slip-resistant additives, such as aluminium oxide or quartz dust, which is included in the resin mixture to create a textured, nonslip surface to improve safety.
Find Out More
Reach out to the team at Advanced Resin today for more information about our resin flooring systems for health clubs or to book a free, no-obligation consultation.
