Room essentials / BUYING GUIDE

Flooring, storage and cooling for a home gym

Practical room purchases from Bunnings and specialist gym suppliers, from surface protection to a dedicated lifting platform.

Rack & RoomUpdated 17 Oct 20262 min read

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Spend first on the floor area you use, a place for loose equipment and cooling where you train. Bunnings offers ordinary garage and room supplies; specialist gym storage and lifting platforms become useful when the equipment load or training setup calls for them.

In this guide

Flooring, shelving and a fan from Bunnings

Kenova

1 × 2 m studded rubber mat — 3 mm

A pre-cut sheet of 3 mm natural rubber for surface protection under light equipment and around the work area.

Photo: Product image: Bunnings / Kenova. The selected pack contains one pre-cut 1 × 2 m sheet, shown partly rolled.

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CORTEX / Lifespan

15 mm gym tiles — pack of 25

Twenty-five bevelled rubber tiles, each nominally 1 × 1 m, sold on Bunnings Marketplace by Go Easy Australia.

Photo: Product image: Bunnings / CORTEX / Lifespan. Surface and bevelled joins shown; the linked package contains 25 tiles, with nominal dimensions subject to the listed manufacturing tolerance.

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Pinnacle

1200 mm five-tier adjustable shelving

A 1.2 m wide shelving unit with five adjustable 9 mm MDF shelves for organising gym accessories, towels and supplies.

Photo: Product image: Bunnings / Pinnacle. Selected size: 1830 mm high × 1200 mm wide × 540 mm deep.

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Arlec

45 cm Grid Connect DC floor fan

A floor fan with six speeds, an adjustable head, oscillation and Wi-Fi control through the Grid Connect app.

Photo: Product image: Bunnings / Arlec.

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Four different jobs, four different purchases

Example	Useful for	Purchase detail
Kenova 3 mm garage matting	Basic surface protection	A 1 × 2 m mat; choose around the actual equipment and floor
CORTEX 15 mm gym tiles	Covering a planned gym area	The linked 25-pack uses 1 × 1 m tiles and is a Bunnings Marketplace order
Pinnacle five-tier shelving	Towels, shoes and smaller accessories	Apply the listed shelf rating and fixing instructions to what you store
Arlec 45 cm floor fan	Airflow aimed at the training position	Leave its base and power cord clear of the walking route

Measure the covered area before buying packs

Twenty-five one-metre-square tiles cover 25 m² before cuts and layout losses. A smaller room may need a different pack size, while thresholds and an irregular edge can change how much of a pack you use. Draw the tile layout before ordering.

The CORTEX pack is supplied through Bunnings Marketplace and is not an in-store pickup item. Its delivery arrangement belongs in the comparison with a local gym-flooring seller. Thickness alone does not establish suitability for dropped weights or the floor’s structural capacity.

Heavy weights need storage designed for them

Garage shelves are useful for towels and accessories. A collection of dumbbells or plates needs the shape, loading arrangement and rating of the storage itself to suit those weights. Leave enough room to lift a pair out without twisting around another machine.

REP’s Modular Storage 2.0 offers different shelves and widths for larger collections. The ratings vary by shelf type, and 2.0 does not extend the original MSS. A small dumbbell pair may only need its own suitable stand.

What comes with a lifting platform?

Rogue’s linked Deadlift Platform is the frame-only US package. Rubber tiles or another specified lifting surface cost extra. The outside frame measures about 254 × 132 cm, which is larger than its nominal eight-by-four-foot lifting area.

Choose it for a dedicated deadlift position or the platform features you intend to use. Include the surface and freight in its quote. For other equipment, covering the required floor area and arranging storage may be the more useful first purchase.