This will be true of any low quality rubber including low quality rubber bumper plates.
Rubber horse stall mats smell.
They are so smelly that you need to bring in the big guns.
Instead just stick to some tips on how to remove odor from rubber mats.
These stalls are concrete floors with a thick rubber mat over the top probably a couple inches thick.
For example some rubber flooring products smell stronger than others depending on the type of raw material used or how the flooring was made.
Quite honestly if you bought horse stall mats the above simply won t make any difference at all.
Rubber stall mats strong smell of urine is that normal.
And be warned the recycled crumb rubber used for horse stall mats is known to have a rather pungent smell.
Why rubber mats smell rubber which is tapped from trees in a latex form stinks.
When you smell the rubber from a mat you re actually smelling the mat giving off volatile organic compounds or vocs.
First though let s take a look at why the problem occurs.