Indoor gym turf installation in Dublin
Dublin's gyms are mostly in new shells - retail condos off Dublin Boulevard, flex units near the BART station, ground floors under new housing. New concrete is clean, flat, and troweled to a sheen that adhesive slides off. Profiling it properly is most of the job.
New-shell fit-outs
Retail condo and flex units
Slab profiling
Troweled concrete prepped properly
Licence 1059264
C-61/D12, C-27, C-8
Bay Area only
Not a national rollout crew
New concrete is the trap, not the gift
A brand-new Dublin slab looks like the perfect base - flat, clean, uncracked. It is also power-troweled to a closed, glassy surface, and it may still be giving off moisture. Both have to be dealt with before adhesive goes anywhere near it.
- Mechanically profiled so the adhesive has something to key into
- Moisture-tested - a new slab can be months from dry
- Control joints treated so they do not print through the turf
What we fit in Dublin
The indoor gym turf work the newer Dublin buildings actually call for.
Agility and speed lanes
Marked turf lanes for shuttle runs, ladder work and timed sprints, set out to the length your unit can genuinely give you rather than to a standard that does not fit it.
Multi-purpose gym floors
Open turf floors for units that have to be a class studio in the morning and a training floor at night, zoned so both work without re-laying anything in between.
Strength zones over new slabs
Heavier shock pad under racks and drop areas, bonded to a properly profiled slab so the build-up does not creep or lift under repeated loaded work.
Single-sport training areas
Golf, batting, goalkeeping or lacrosse areas with the pile height and infill suited to that sport rather than a general gym turf stretched to cover it.
Colour, layout and customisation
Turf colours, court customisation and layouts planned around the space, from the O'Neill's installed work.
Why Dublin jobs go wrong when they go wrong
Nearly every floor we get called in to fix on a newer slab failed for one of these four reasons.
Adhesive laid on a closed slab
A power-troweled surface is dense and slick. Without mechanical profiling the bond is only as good as the laitance sitting on top of the concrete, and the turf lifts at the edges within months.
Moisture nobody tested for
New concrete carries water for a long time. If it is still driving moisture upward when the floor goes down, it finds the adhesive. A test costs almost nothing next to relaying a floor.
Control joints ignored
Slab joints move by design. If they are not treated as joints they eventually print a line straight through the turf - filling them and forgetting them is not treating them.
Lanes set out to a catalogue, not the room
A sprint lane that does not fit the unit is a lane nobody uses. We set the layout out on the actual slab and walk it before anything is cut.
Lanes marked where they actually fit
Dublin's newer units come in awkward depths, with columns and door swings in inconvenient places. Setting the agility lanes and sport zones out on the real slab - chalked, walked and adjusted - is what makes them usable once the turf is down.
Turf over a new slab: done properly against done fast
The fast version
- Adhesive straight onto the troweled surface
- No moisture test on a young slab
- One pad thickness across the whole floor
- Lanes measured off a drawing
How we do it
- Slab ground and profiled before bonding
- Moisture tested before anything is ordered
- Pad specified per zone and per load
- Layout set out and walked on the slab
The Dublin sequence
Four stages, and the first two decide whether the floor lasts.
Test the slab
Moisture and flatness checked, control joints located, and the surface assessed for how much profiling it is going to need.
Set out the floor
Lanes, zones and any single-sport area chalked onto the slab and walked through with you before a roll gets cut.
Profile, pad and lay
Grind and profile, shock pad down, turf rolled, cut, seamed and bonded with the adhesive suited to that slab and the temperature on the day.
Finish and groom
Edges and thresholds trimmed in, seams checked, the floor groomed, and the maintenance routine handed over.
One surface, several sports
A Dublin unit often has to serve a mix - general conditioning, a golf net, a batting area. Pile height and infill get chosen per zone so each one actually plays the way it should.
Dublin indoor gym turf questions
My unit is brand new. Is the slab ready for turf?
It might not be. New concrete keeps giving off moisture for a long time and is usually troweled to a closed, glassy surface. We moisture-test it and mechanically profile it before bonding anything - which is exactly the step fast jobs skip.
Will the slab's control joints show through?
Not if they are treated properly. Control joints move by design, so they get handled as joints during preparation. Filled and forgotten, they eventually print a line through the turf.
How long a sprint lane can I get in a retail unit?
It depends entirely on the depth of your unit and where the columns and doors sit. We set the lane out on your slab in chalk so you can walk it before committing, rather than promising a distance that turns out not to fit.
Can one floor handle classes and heavy lifting?
Yes, by zoning it. Heavier shock pad goes under the racks and drop areas, a lighter build-up under the open class space, and the turf runs across the whole thing as one surface so there are no edges to trip on.
Can I put a golf or batting area in the same room?
Yes. Single-sport areas want a different pile height and infill from general gym turf, so we treat them as their own zone within the same floor rather than laying one turf everywhere and hoping it suits both.
Do you work alongside the building's contractor during fit-out?
Regularly, and it is the easiest time to do it. The slab is accessible, nothing is installed on top of it yet, and we can flag moisture or flatness problems while they are still cheap to fix.
Get your Dublin slab looked at
New shell or existing unit, the first thing worth doing is testing the slab. Call and we will come and check it.
Visit
Pavers and Turf by O'Neill's
2133 Research Dr Unit 16, Livermore, CA 94550
Mon–Fri, 8:00am–5:00pm
Talk to us
Pavers and Turf by O'Neill's, 2133 Research Dr Unit 16, Livermore, CA 94550. Phone (925) 443-7888. Email [email protected]. Open Monday to Friday 8am-5pm; Saturday and Sunday closed. California contractors licence 1059264 (C-61/D12 synthetic products, C-27 landscaping, C-8 concrete).
Have the slab checked before you order a floor.
Call (925) 443-7888 or see the full service at paversandturf.com/indoor-gym-turf-installation/ - a moisture test now is cheaper than a relay later.