How To Make A Mat Well

Turn the matting over and with a straight edge cut the matting as required.

How to make a mat well.

Place your matting into the well making sure it is tight. I used the width of the masking tape as my guide and placed it flush with the outline of the mat. The door mat carpet is made from our washable textile carpet mat a matwell carpet. Craft project instructions vacuum your mat to remove any loose grass and dust.

I would normally put an l shaped trim around the mat you could leave the ditra but taking it out will mean more room for the mat whether you remove the ditra of not make sure you silicon around the lower edges to stop any wet getting under tiles you ll have to centre on door too leave about 4 or so in from front frame. Please ensure that all cutting is done from the back of the matting. Recessed into a wood floor framed by a purposefully or bespoke designed trim moulding. Ramping frames are used to create a surface matwell where a mat is laid directly on top of the floor.

How to make a matwell in existing flooring does take more planning. It is definitely easier to leave a hole when new flooring is being laid rather than making a hole in flooring that is already fitted around the door. For this mat i placed everything by eye rather than measuring. We custom make the door well mats to the size you require so you only pay for what you need and there s minimal wastage.

To create the border secure a strip of masking tape around the entire perimeter of the mat. And finally our preference recessed into the wood floor with no moulding or trim. Gradus is able to offer a complete service for the provision of barrier matting systems including product specification and recommended layouts quotations and full on site installation and project management services click here for. If your mat well is not a recessed door mat well you could use a door well frame or sunken doormat trim to hold your mat in place.

There s essentially three ways of setting a mat sat on top of a wood floor with a none slip backing that always seems to slip.