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What is a Popular Type of Warehouse Flooring Over Concrete Floors?

By Kyle Schurman Created: September, 2024

Warehouses are rarely known for their comfortable and colorful flooring. The typical plan for commercial warehouse flooring is that it needs to be highly practical and durable above all else. Many warehouses just go with poured concrete and call it good.

However, if you want something to install on the floors that provide a bit of traction or cushioning for employees working all day in this area, Greatmats has you covered. When going over concrete, interlocking floor tiles don’t necessarily need to be thick or firm, as the concrete provides a sturdy base. When installing Greatmats’ flooring for warehouse locations, you can focus on meeting the specific needs you have in the space.

Here are the five most popular warehouse flooring options for specific use cases that we offer at Greatmats.

Best Raised Pattern Flooring for a Warehouse

raised coin pattern warehouse flooring

Having a raised pattern across the top of the flooring tiles for your warehouse can provide both anti-fatigue and anti-slip properties.

Our Coin Pattern Warehouse Floor Tiles have a raised pattern of circles that resemble coins, which helps force workers to adjust their feet slightly throughout the day, rather than standing stationary for hours and causing lower body pain and fatigue as can happen with concrete. They consist of PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, which is a flexible form of highly durable plastic flooring that enhances the anti-fatigue properties.

The raised pattern also gives you an anti-slip surface, which is ideal in a warehouse setting where damp conditions are possible. Rather than allowing potentially slippery conditions to exist on wet concrete, our coin-top PVC tiles protect employees.

Best Stain and Chemical Resistant Warehouse Flooring

chemical resistant flooring for warehouse

When you want to park vehicles or work on them in your warehouse, you need floors that are stain and chemical-resistant. Tuff Seal Warehouse Garage Floor Tiles with Color from Greatmats is an excellent choice for this use case. They do not stain from fuel or other chemicals, giving them a significant advantage over concrete floors.

These tiles feature a hidden interlocking edge, so they create a clean look in the final layout, which may be important in a warehouse where you’re storing or parking private airplanes or other key pieces of equipment, and you need to impress customers.

You receive several different color choices with these tiles, letting you create the ideal space to host customers. Textures available for these tiles include coin and marquis, and you also can select smooth surfaces.

Best Easy-to-Install Warehouse Floor Tiles

easy DIY warehouse flooring

If you need floors for your warehouse that you can install quickly or that you can assemble and disassemble to meet different use cases, our Tuff Seal Black Warehouse Garage Floor Tiles deliver this capability.

They have pop-together edges that give you a large floor covering in very little time. The edges fit together so tightly that you likely won’t see the connected edges in the final layout, creating a sharp-looking flooring. They come apart just as quickly, so you can go back and forth between the bare concrete floor and these black PVC warehouse tiles.

They’re only available in black, which saves you some money versus the version of these Tuff Seal tiles with colors that we mentioned earlier.

Best Thin Flooring for a Warehouse

thin warehouse flooring

When you want the thinnest warehouse tile flooring that remains durable and that can support heavy weights, our Diamond Plate Garage Floor Tiles measure just 5 mm in thickness (or about 1/5 of an inch).

You can select among several different colors in this tile, allowing you to brighten up a bare concrete floor – or hide an ugly stained and cracked concrete floor – in very little time. Each tile has a raised diamond plate texture across the top, which delivers slip resistance in wet conditions.

Even though they are extremely thin, these PVC tiles have resistance to heat, cold, oil, gasoline, and most solvents. They carry a 10-year limited manufacturer warranty, meaning you receive good value with these durable thin tiles.

Best Heavy Duty Warehouse Flooring to Support Significant Weight

heavy duty warehouse flooring

When you need heavy-duty floor tiles that can handle the weight of large machines or vehicles, trust the Dovetail SupraTile model. This PVC material can support up to 20,000 pounds of weight without showing indentions, allowing you to park or drive vehicles on it without concern.

These tiles withstand rough treatment, meaning they are perfect for areas with regular vehicular or forklift traffic. They’re resistant to oils and chemicals that can damage bare concrete.

These tiles have an easy-to-install design, as the edges pop together with minimal effort. You do not need to use adhesive. The PVC material is flexible, so it goes over uneven concrete easily without pulling apart under stress.

Let Greatmats Help You Find the Best Warehouse Flooring for Your Space

If you would like to explore more options for warehouse flooring, reach out to the experts on the Greatmats customer service team today. We can help you find the perfect industrial floor covering for your warehouse.