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One other tip I used, is to actually raise the mats off the ground. I put them in my backyard and put some old paint cans & cinder blocks under them so that air was able to circulate under the mat.

Literally in the car on the way home from Tractor Supply & I was not prepared for this smell 🤢 thank you for this video!!!

Bought four 6'x4' mats and scrubbed them down with soap and water and a pressure washer & left them outside for 2 days then brought them inside and set them up in our flex room near the front door, but the rubber smell was still potent. It took about 2 weeks for the smell to subside somewhat, but at least my wife said the smell is bearable now. Happy Wife...Happy Life!

I bought 8 of them. After all the work to get them home, I power-washed them and scrubbed them with simple green. I’ve repeated that process daily for 5 days straight, they have sat in the sun for 5 days as well. There is NO reduction in smell, not even a little. I’m really annoyed that I went with stall mats…

Holy smokes. 8 min vid for “air out your mats”

I guess this helped me decide to put my gym in the garage now instead of the basement!

4 mats from tractor supply have been sitting outside for 2+ months (flipped every other two weeks, baked in sun, soaked in thunderstorms)

We used our Ozone machine and it worked in a day. Smells like a pool now but better then it was.

Use cat litter and this absorbs the smell also keep it out in sunlight for a few days and the smell disappears. Keeping rubber weight plates in a box with cat litter also helps remove the smell significantly

Kept them outside for 2 weeks. Rained on , blown on,heated on. Hardly any smell at all when fitted. Your right , Patience is the key. 👍

Thanks for the tips - I bought a couple of these and returned them since the smell was so strong. Thinking I might try again, and put them under my deck outside for a month or two and see if that helps! It's high up so they can get plenty of air. And Go Bears!

Thank you for this - because i Have one in my house under a bike and i woke up last night and wanted to scream 🤣🤣🤣🤣

you should wear a good respirator when dealing with new mats (volatile organic compounds are no joke)

I ahve had mine installed in my home gym for 1 eyar and the smell is as bad now as it was when we put them in. We ahve to exhaust the room before we use it with a quiet cool ceiling vent fan its that bad., So don't know what to tell you , our is bad.

It takes about 2- 3 weeks for the smell to go away..

Thanks Man!❤

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WOW last 2 mats I bought at TS had no smell., late October just before Halloween ( massive frost 22 degrees here along the shore line in CT. I still love my WOOD rack almost 36 years later. Yeah I'm 54 6-1 30o lbs