Top 10 Questions About Ground Protection Mats

1. What Can I Use As Temporary Flooring Over Grass? When creating a sitting area outdoors for a wedding reception, a backyard party, or a similar event, you need base flooring that’s sturdy and waterproof. Ground protection mats are good for this use case, as they protect the grass, even in damp conditions.
2. How Can I Protect a Yard From Construction Equipment? Rather than allowing heavy landscaping or construction equipment to tear up your lawn, lay out ground protection mats to bear the weight of the equipment. Heavy-duty plastic mats will not allow the equipment to sink into the grass, preventing ruts from appearing.
3. What Is the Best Way to Create a Temporary Sidewalk? Creating a safe place to walk at a construction site or across a damp yard is easier when you use ground protection mats. These hard plastic mats do not buckle under the weight of people walking on them or of vehicles driving across them, and they include a raised surface pattern for traction.
4. What Are the Best Skid Steer Ground Protection Mats? When planning some heavy-duty work around the home, finding a way to keep the yard protected while using bobcats, skid steers, and other heavy equipment is important. Our equipment protection mats support the weight of the vehicles, distributing the weight so the equipment doesn’t sink into the yard.
5. What Are the Best Ground Protection Mats for a Tree Service? When working on tree trimming or removal in a residential area, companies often use heavy equipment to drop the weight of the tree safely. Our protective mats can catch the weight of heavy branches as they fall, and they can support the wheels of vehicles and equipment, like a chipper, as they move across the yard.
6. What Makes Ground Protection Mats Great for Cemeteries? To maintain the look of beautiful landscaping in a cemetery, add plastic ground mats across the open grassy areas to allow for the safe movement of vehicles and equipment. These mats also can work to create a temporary walkway to a gravesite, giving attendees the ability to walk safely across soft ground.
7. What Size of Ground Protection Mat Do I Need? When laying out a temporary roadway with yard protection mats, you’ll want to make sure all the wheels and tracks on the vehicles fit the width of the plastic mats. A typical mat measures 4x8 feet, so you can use one row of mats for a roadway for small-wheel, narrow vehicles and two rows of mats for large-wheel, wide vehicles.
8. What Are the Top 5 Uses for Ground Protection Mats? Some of the best ways to make use of plastic yard mats include creating a roadway for heavy equipment moving across grass, making a temp walkway for outdoor events, laying out an outdoor event flooring, protecting the asphalt surface on a track and field oval, and protecting a sidewalk or driveway from crumbling under constant heavy equipment movement.
9. Where Can I Find Lightweight Protection Mats? When using sturdy plastic mats to protect the yard or lawn, a typical 4x8 foot mat weighs close to 80 pounds. To make the mats easier to move around, look for mats that are slightly smaller than average, such as a 2x8 mat or a 2x4 mat, as such mats weigh less.
10. How Do I Protect My Driveway From Heavy Objects? When performing construction work at your home or office building, you may need a solution that can keep the concrete driveway or sidewalk from crumbling under constant pressure and massive weight. Our protection mats protect yards and lawns, but they also deliver protection for concrete areas.

Best Ground Protection Mat Products

AlturnaMats Ground Protection Mats

With 4x8 feet of coverage per mat, the AlturnaMats Ground Protection Mats from Greatmats can create a large walking area or a temporary roadway at a residential site or at a construction site. Each mat measures 1/2 inches in thickness and can support loads up to 120 tons.

VersaMats Diamond Foot Mats

At a coverage size of 3x8 feet, the VersaMats Diamond Foot Mats from Greatmats have a non-traditional size for those who need to create a custom-sized temp roadway. Each of these mats withstands a load of up to 120 tons and carries a limited lifetime warranty. 

Black Ground Protection Mats

For those who need smaller protection mats to enhance portability, the Black Ground Protection Mats from Greatmats measure only 2x8 feet in size. This saves quite a bit of weight versus the typical 4x8 foot mat. These smaller mats still can support up to 120 tons of load and still offer cleats to enhance traction for foot or vehicular traffic.

Liberty Ground Protection Mats

Large 4x8 foot protective mats can be difficult to carry in and out of place, but the Liberty Ground Protection Mats include hand holes that simplify moving the mats and stacking them for transport. These 1/2-inch thick mats include a textured surface pattern to improve traction and can support loads up to 80 tons.

Clear Ground Protection Mats

When you need to leave the yard protection mats in place for a few days, using the Clear Ground Protection Mats from Greatmats is a smart idea. These mats use a transparent plastic design that allows some sunlight to reach the grass underneath, helping the grass remain viable during days of extended usage of the mats.

Ground Protection Mats Customer Installations

Lisk Landscape Innovations

Lisk Landscape Innovations makes use of heavy equipment to eliminate standing water in the yard or basement for customers. The New Jersey business selected clear plastic protection mats from Greatmats that allow sunlight to reach the grass. These mats protect the lawns of customers as employees move the equipment back and forth on a project that could take a few days.

Landscaping: Clear Ground Protection Mats

Whispering Tree Service

When working in tight conditions in residential areas to trim or remove trees, Whispering Tree Service in Virginia needed a way to protect the beautiful lawns and landscaping of their customers. The service researched its options before selecting our ground mats, which offered both smooth surfaces and cleat surfaces for extra traction, meeting different use cases the business faced.

Tree Service: AlturnaMats Ground Protection Mats

Industrial By Products LLC

For Industrial By Products LLC, dealing with the spring thaw in Minnesota left the company with difficult working conditions when trying to move large trucks over soft ground for weeks in the early spring. By deploying Greatmats’ protective mats, though, the company was able to create temporary roadways that could support loads up to 120 tons that allowed them to work successfully at any time of the year.

Trucking: 3x8 Foot Ground Protection Mats

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