All the info is there, you need a platform, not sure why you want to drop dumbbells, but this will do it!
http://ausbb.com/workout-equipment/15419-building-lifting-platform-home-gym-3.html
Plywood or chipboard floorring with rubber tiles over the top. 35kg dbs dropped straight onto the rubber will leave dents on floorboards.
My other problem is that i'm totally technically incompetent when it comes to building anything (i struggle with ikea), so i'm looking for minimum construction requirements to save the floor (i don't, for example, own a saw or a drill
is the framework beneath neccessary for protection? or would a couple of layers of chipboard do the trick?.
perhaps
15mm rubber, glued to
chipboard glued to
thin rubber backing?
or is that not likely to do the trick?
I'm thinking more of making two platforms for the weights and simply standing on gym flooring style rubber (15mm x 2 maybe?) in the middle.
And this is how you are supposed to do it, if this does not work the weights you are using are too heavy for you:
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Will
Thin rubber
Plywood
15mm rubber gym flooring
do the trick?
or do i need to build a fancier structure?
perhaps
Plywood Structural Cd 2400X1200mm 12mm - Bunnings Warehouse
cut down to 600 wide by 1m long (for my initial platform, my initial dumbell area will be 1.5 wide, thinking i could just place a platform either size for the dumbells?), cut down 2 1m x 1m 15mm mats to 600x1m each and glue to the top, and find and glue thin rubber on the back to prevent floor scratching?
Edit : of course transporting a 2.4m x 1.2 sheet of wood would be interesting.
To stop the scratching/denting on the floor go the following
1. carpet off cut (go to a carpet shop they usually bin the odd size offcuts)
2. ply or chip board (bunnings will rip the sheets down to a size that suits you) I would use 12mm thick as a minimum, ask for 19mm yellow tounge at bunnings that would prob ber best value for $$$
3. Rubber tiles over the top. Although I would probably just leave the timber but if you like to stand on rubber tiles so be it.
Doesn't need to be fancy just there to stop putting dents in the floor of your rental property.
Nothing wrong with dumping genuinely heavy DB's if you fail.
I'd be interested in that, thats not far from me!
Edit : Was this FlexiTec flooring?
How firm is the rubber?, ok footing for deads/squats? or do you sink in?
Edit2 : Interestingly they actually sell Stall mats that all the americans say is ideal flooring
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