Rubber Flooring – Pros and Cons

The needs of the modern world are ever-evolving and fast-changing, fast-paced lives combined with constantly changing global scenarios have made the need for modern safety flooring a basic necessity, be it a domestic setting or a commercial environment.  The importance of being fit cannot be stressed upon enough in today’s cut-throat scenario where factors like work overload, lifestyle diseases, and environmental factors play a major role in one’s life.  To be able to handle the stresses of life one needs to exercise, you can jog, do yoga, go swimming, tryout aerobics or take the best option available which is going to a gym.

Progress in an economy also leads to industrialization and building of modern homes where demands of modern equipment require constant updating of the infrastructure. This also creates a demand for flooring that is economically viable, durable, long-lasting, beautiful to look at and primarily safe.

Rubber Flooring has many uses and many forms; you may have even gotten so accustomed to it being around you that you’ve failed to notice its presence.  Most gyms nowadays have some form of rubber flooring installed. Rubber tiles are the most common form of gym flooring; these are primarily installed to ensure shock absorption. Plates, weights, bars, and dumbbells cause a lot of sounds and harm the flooring below if dropped or even set down in an inordinate fashion. The noise pollution is not only irritating for the people present in the premises, but it can also be a cause of great worry if the sounds are loud enough to cause the people on the floors below to take legal action.  Rubber-based gym flooring provides a safety net for any falls that may occur during an exercise routine, the shock-absorbing feature will cut out any impact of the fall and you can walk it off with probably a few bruises if the fall was scary enough.

Rubber-based flooring in gyms also helps to keep the flooring below safe combined with a noise-canceling effect that keeps the gym a happy place with a safe environment. The other added advantage that most people are unaware of is the fact that metal-based plates and dumbbells tend to rust over time if left in a damp environment and if they are not moved from their position of rest for a long period of time they will cause a rust stain on the floor they are placed on, this stain is virtually irremovable. Rubber flooring helps you avoid these stains and you can leave the metal weights in the same spot without a worry in the world. Rubber-based flooring also helps in much the same way in domestic environment but most domestic users like to get in touch with a Gym Flooring Manufacturer to be able to have a made to order flooring which matches the interiors of their exercise room, this not only makes the area safe but also adds to the design element of the house.

Rubber flooring has proved to be god-sent for industries, most industrial production houses have a lot of wiring lying around here and there, and this wiring can cause an electric shock to anyone who comes in contact with a naked wire (the wiring loses its insulation covering over a period of time). Water seepage can also occur leading to small pools of water forming on industrial floors this combines with high tension wires is a scenario of accidents waiting to happen. We’ve all read that rubber is a bad conductor of electricity, Industrial zones are probably the one place where being bad for rubber is a good thing. Rubber flooring provides the necessary safety protection from any electric shocks even if there is water underneath it; they also save equipment from getting destroyed as they can provide a certain level of fall protection if any equipment were to fall.

Rubber flooring is also great for kid’s playing areas and schools, where the chances of injury are high. Kids have a very high reserve of energy which they spend by running around everywhere and indulging in fun frolic and games. These little escapades sometimes result in fall and slips which can be dangerous if the flooring is covered in a hard surface. Rubber-based flooring helps in cushioning the falls and its anti-skid nature helps in preventing any slips from turning into major mishaps.

Rubbers flooring based tiles are quite useful around swimming pools as these have an anti-water pooling surface which prevents any slips and keep the area around the pool dry.

Rubber flooring also has many maintenance benefits, it is stain resistant thus using it in commercial and domestic kitchens help in keeping the floor clean, add to this the cushioning effect one gets while standing on them and you have a wholesome kitchen product that chefs love. Cleaning rubber tiles or floors generally requires only a moist mop so you can do away with harsh chemicals and stain removers. You can also use a vacuum now and then to pick up any crumbs and pieces that a mop can’t clean away. Rubber tiles are also the easiest flooring to install, the interlocking features in advanced tiles have helped many people even undertake the installation of the tiles on their own. Most rubber floorings and tiles are made from recyclable material; these finished products are also recyclable making rubber flooring the most environment-friendly flooring product available on the planet. Rubber flooring also provides the end-user the option of a huge range of colors to choose from which is not prevalent in conventional forms of flooring.

Rubber flooring despite the above advantages has certain drawbacks, though there are wood-look finish rubber tiles available in the market the look is nothing compared to the real thing. Quite a lot of rubber-flooring options for professional and commercial establishments come with a high price tag, this pushes away a lot of clientele to other avenues proving that it is not as economical as experts would like us to believe.

Rubber flooring experts claim that it is completely stain-resistant however; if you were to drop strong detergents or cleaning liquids on them you can be certain that the surface and look of the tile will be destroyed completely. Only a few rubber floorings options are odorless thus making the cheaper options less pleasing to domestic users, the synthetic forms of rubber are odor-free but come at a steep cost and this is why breaking into the domestic user market is quite a tough challenge for rubber flooring manufacturers.

You will hear quite a few experts claiming that rubber-based flooring is fire resistant, well we have an answer for you: IT IS. There is a catch however, it is not fire retardant, which means if it were to catch fire it will burn away leaving a sticky residue on the ground which will be really hard to clean later on. Rubber flooring under severe heat and exposure to fire will also release toxic fumes which can be dangerous to health and can lead to other breathing-related issues. Rubber also tends to have a short life span when faced with high footfall and extreme weather, thus making it a less attractive public space option.

GO ahead be bold in saying that you are going to a mental health therapist.

Many people are still suffering in silence with mental health issues the world over. The stigma associated with it seems to be gnawing away at people’s hearts and minds and often leads to fatalities which could have been avoided.

Social stigma revolving around mental health seems to be a stronger than the Berlin wall and is lasting longer than the a fore mentioned wall itself. Health workers are positive that an Oak like approach in making more and more people speak out using all the media platforms available will breach the fourth wall and let people suffering from mental health issues step up and seek help. For some it may be the only hope they have.

Doctors if enough celebrities and media platforms were to talk about the struggles that leading members of society have had with mental health issues and substance abuse, and then it will certainly have a person who are either suffering from or know anyone that is suffering from a mental health issue to sit up, take notice and seek aid. This will in the long run axiomatically remove the stigma surrounding the issue.

Most people who suffer from mental health issues describe being stuck in an endless pit of receptivity thoughts or actions that they can’t shrug off, it feels like an ache that you can’t pin point in your body. Some people describe that all they want to do it stay in bed and avoid all contact with the world, others describe how they feel absolutely convinced that they don’t need to talk to anyone and don’t respond to call or texts for ages. The problem gets so acute that they avoid all human contact altogether. For some even mundane daily activities like going to a grocery store get cumbersome as the fear of something happening or someone doing something overwhelms ever cell in their body.

People suffering from Anorexia recall moments of how even putting on a pair of pants or picking a clothing item to wear can become time consuming tasks as their body organs begin to slow down and brain fog takes over, some can’t even walk for a short distance.

Mental health issues begin like pimples at first but become full blown problems like schizophrenia, bi- polar disorder, depression, anger and rage issues when left unchecked, some of these can be treated with long period of medication and behavioral therapy, others may require lifelong medication and still some have no cure whatsoever. It is the responsibility of those around the person suffering to push them for a healing rather than wait around or break contact, mental health patients generally isolate themselves and break off all contact. This aggravates the problem further as mental health workers warn that friends, family and the world at large should chin up and take control of the sufferer regardless of what the patients behavior is towards them, this will have a ‘ reaching out effect’ and the patient may open up to confide in them and agree to see a doctor. Reaching a mental health specialist is half the battle won.

This maybe easy but for sufferers of abuse it becomes nearly impossible to trust anyone to be able to confide in them, it is imperative that these members of society are reached out to as the world owes them a great deal of empathy and love, after all compassion rules the world.

Mental health workers advocate going for long walks with people you like being around along with joining a fitness club, a gym, yoga sessions, saunas. Even going swimming or hiking and cycling can be great fund. When enlisting in a gym one must ensure that the place has PU Rubber Coated Weight Plates as free weights are the most attractive exercise for any beginner, being in open surroundings and around people eases the mental strain that one’s issues have put on them it also lets them build a social support system and if gym instructors are told about the mental health issue then they can ensure that special care is taken to make one feel more welcome into the public domain. It is more about opening up to a world full of people and possibilities rather than exercise as doctors put it. 

Gym Flooring should always be safe, fire retardant, toxin free, clean and the place and the surrounding should be well ventilated and hygienic. Ventilation and open spaces with plenty of oxygen play a great role in mental health and the body requires a lot of oxygen to develop an open mind and fresh air somehow seems to aid in the healing process. One must also ensure that the place of fitness is equipped with Gym Flooring Rubber Tiles, to ensure that there are no irritating clunky sounds that could irritate an already aggravated mind. This is kind of flooring around swimming pools ensures no water pooling on the surface thus eliminating the risk of slips and injuries. Rubber based flooring has proved it metal in jogging tracks, where even spikes have proven to be unable to chip at the surface, the tracks provide ample amount of cushioning relieving stress on the knees, ankles and hips, thereby allowing the jogger to run for a longer period of time and make running along with jogging a pleasant injury/strain free experience. These sorts of tracks are the rage in fitness circles these days as open area exercises are being advocated all around the world due to their positive impact on the mind and body.

While there are several medications and behavioral therapies to heal mental health issues, it has been found that medical marijuana can help in curing the issues with a slightly different touch. Vaping and smoking it in small amounts has been found to cure many mental health issues and has hence been legalized in countries like USA and Canada where marijuana can now be brought at legal shops.

Fitness Journals are the latest traffic on the fitness road, have you jumped onto the bandwagon yet?

Most people these days have a log, be it about meetings, events, school/college timetables or even a wedding plan pasted on your wall. Even nutritional logs are maintained by those who are diet conscious, but seldom do you find a fitness journal, a log that contains all your daily timings of beginning and ending your exercises, a log that keeps score how much you could lift in the beginning till date, a log that shows the amount of reps you can do. The fitness journal should also show the amount of missed days due to bad health or other factors, this could even help your health advisers and doctors in any unforeseen illness.

Fitness Journals are slowly catching on though, with a slight push from gym coaches and fitness experts, most celebrities have a fitness journal that goes into great detail, defining what they ate that morning to how much they had burnt by the end of their exercise session. Mark Walberg recently put up his daily routine and it was nothing short of phenomenal, it detailed out number of hours slept calorie intake, the type of food eaten, timings of meal, family time, school drop off and pick up times for his kids. The attention to family time and socializing led people to realize that even mental health is part of your fitness and should be included in a journal which should be adhered to at all costs.

Closer home many Bollywood celebrities  follows a strict fitness routine mentioned in their journals, Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Deepika Padukone, all follow their fitness routines to the hilt and have spoken at length about how to keep things simple to minimize the impact of today’s complicated social media life on your mental health.

For people who don’t visit gyms you can always make a fitness schedule that lets you enter the timings that you wake up and sleep and what you ate along with what exercise you did and the days you skipped on your exercises and the days you binged. Making this routine a must for kids can also ensure they get maximum amount of fresh air and sun time thereby giving that much needed down time from television and the ghost of mobiles that seems to be taking over the entire personalities of children these days. Many children are now showing signs of anxiety, anger and social withdrawal combined with depression the moment their mobiles are taken away.

This has prompted governments to open up and create playgrounds both indoors and outdoors in almost every major public place be it malls, parks, offices and even some government buildings. This has been done to ensure that kids play around with other children their age and are comfortable being around people. The one positive outcome of this endeavor is that it gets children out of their homes, away from their computers, televisions and mobiles.As a result of this initiative Playground Rubber Flooring keeping in mind the safety of children has been flying off the shelves, the flooring is made keeping in mind the delicate nature of a child’s health and is thus free of toxins and also comes with a height to floor thickness ratio lest the child should fall from a swing or a slide and land on it. The thickness quotient keeps the child safe and ready or another round at the swings thus keeping the guardians anxiety at bay.

Fab Flooring’s is a leading Kids Play Area Rubber Flooring Manufacturer  with a design team that is at the top of its game and can provide you play ground solutions in one visit. At Fab Flooring’s you can rest assured that your kid’s safety is our prime focus and once we are at the helm of affairs your child can play with abandon.

Celery: Juice it or Chew it, it helps, but nothings proven yet

The world seems to be a place for trends these days and if the graph for inventing new trends is to go by, the past 10 years have seen a multitude of trends that have reached Godzilla proportions only to fizzle out like a damn squib.

The latest trend to take the world by storm is the Celery Juice utopia.  Till about a year ago it was Bitter Gourd and Wheat Grass, then somewhere in between Gooseberry slipped in made its mark and slipped out. But the Celery Juice trend refuses to die down and has made its way through 2018 and is still going strong in 2019. Part of the reason for its resilience could be economics and partly taste. According to some indulgers celery juice is a be all and end all of all juices, a magic potion of healing.

It seems celery can heal anxiety and depression, help cure up that nasty acne, clean your skin pores, and help heal psoriasis. There’s more: Balance blood pressure, lower cholesterol levels and even prevent ulcers. There are proofs of it helping in acid reflux and maintaining liver health and strength and studies have suggested that it aids in digestion. Asian countries have been using celery for cooking since millennia and there are proofs of it in the oldest cooking manuals, so digestion is one point that it scores big on. Since, it aids in digestion it is axiomatic that it will help in healing acid reflux thus maintaining liver health and leading to a healthy gut. So you can take refuge in the fact that it is not a hoax, some health workers also suggest eating the leafs itself and as established earlier with all the benefits it provides to your stomach it is bound to reduce bloating and relieve you of stomach gas.

There is no study till date that has been able to establish that celery can help reduce anxiety and depression although when it does aid in other issue it can help in maintaining mental health indirectly.

The weight loss theory is probably aided by the fact that once a person jumps on the health bandwagon they make many lifestyle changes and also partakes in exercise that will in the end result in weight loss.

It is however imperative that one does not give up on exercise and only eat diet and healthy food, both the processes need to be followed in tandem like a regime to ensure a healthy and long life free of diseases. Once a decision is taken to hit the gym one must ensure they are working out in a safe zone and Gym Flooring Rubber Tiles are installed in their preferred fitness zone.

Celery is rich in potassium, magnesium and fiber all of which are essential minerals. These minerals enrich the bones and are essential for a healthy heart; celery also helps in keeping the body hydrated.

Before jumping into a diet it is always advisable to consult your doctor or dietician as the same diet cannot work for everyone and you don’t want to end up going down the medical spiral hole even though your intention was to be the best version of yourself.

Rubber Flooring – Does It Reduce Fall-Related Injuries?

The human body has brought forth many astonishing stories for countless millennia; you will come across reports of people having performed the most unbelievable of feats and survived the most unfathomable of catastrophes. The endurance of the human body has been the subject of study for ages and yet there has been no concrete evidence of why some are able to do something astounding and some are not able to perform even the most basic of tasks without fumbling.

Ask any doctor and they will confirm that there are no 2 plus 2 equals 4 confirmations for the human body, a treatment that works for one may not work for the other. There are people who get admitted to hospitals smoking a pack a day and go back healed in a week and then there are those who’ve not had an ice cream in 20 years to maintain their fitness routine and yet doctors can’t figure out what is wrong with them even in a month’s time.

There are also those who can confirm of never ever having had a fever or cold and they are 45 but don’t look a day over 30.These folks have a different outlook on life as they say life in-itself is a journey of discovery and that the joy of living keeps them going.

Now an injury can occur to any of these earlier stated life examples. Since most people associate fitness with going to a gym or fitness studio the chances of injury in these places it pretty high. Gyms and fitness studios these days offer a wide range of services like pedicure, manicure, beauty treatments, massaged, saunas and steam baths. Each of these facilities comes with their own unique sets of benefits and problems. Nature has its own way of solving problems, unfortunately for man our problems do not solve out themselves like a balancing act of nature. We have to sit down brain storm and hammer out a solution.

The solution is usually based on the resources available and the prevalent technology of the time. These might be constrictive in nature but necessities are contingencies and we needs to make contingency plans too. The advent of Rubber Flooring  brought about a revolution in the fitness industry, there was a huge rush to install this new industrial marvel that could save money and time and also provide the safety angle that had till now eluded everyone.

Rubber Flooring Tiles gave another boost to the manufacturing industry and added the much needed color scope that was missing. Patterns and designs and also custom made zig-zags had consumers lapping them up at frantic pace. The interlocking ‘do it yourself’ tiles were god sent, not only were they easy to install they could just as easily be removed and put back together. One run over by a mop and the cleaning job with them was done. The tiles also had a long shelf life of 10 years and this was by far the most economical gift any commercial establishment could have.

Rubber flooring not only gave the establishment a reason to cheer in terms of money, it also solved many other issues that were pin pricking them. The noise absorption allowed them to now install heavy machinery with the worry of impact on the floor and the noise cancellation meant there would be no more complaints. You could now get free weight and calisthenic training within the confines of a gym like huge tire rolls and rope picks without the floor below being damaged and if you were in a multi floor system there would be no noise and shock impact reaching the floors below. The flooring installed below also suffered no damage and you could now save huge amounts of money on floor cleaning chemicals.

Rubber Flooring gave owners of both domestic and commercial enterprises an assurance of a risk free and injury free environment. You could skip in the gym and the flooring would absorb the impact and have no worry of falling and injuring yourself, you could perform karate without a worry of braking bones in difficult moves. Accidental weight drops were no longer a bother. Saunas and steam baths were now safe zones and you no longer had to crunch your feet while walking for risk of slipping and in the odd even that you did slip (which is highly improbable on a rubber floor) there was no risk of injury. Rubber based flooring has now made its way around swimming pools , the durability and zero slippage has proven to be a god sent help in public areas where the risk of injury was quite high. The tiles can easily be removed and the floor below mopped up. The high water retention rubber tiles could withstand all the forces of nature and still give you the best in injury safe environment.The flooring has also made its way to public gyms where mishaps are high and once installed near swings and play pans it has been found to give miraculous results. Research has shown a drastic fall in injuries and mishaps in areas of public activity and exercise like play pans and gyms after the installation of rubber based flooring.  Play pans have a different installation system of rubber flooring, is known as a height fall ration, where the flooring thickness has to be according to the height of the highest swing or slide installed, as children are rather adventurous in their endeavors and tend to fight for slides even at great heights, the corresponding thickness of the Rubber Flooring to the fall height ensures high impact absorption giving a cushioning effect to any high velocity impact. This helps save children from any major injuries and you end up with just a few scratches if at all.

In the end it is safe to say that Rubber Flooring is the safest bet out there in the market to today to reduce fall related injuries.