Entrance Mats and Door Mats

More information about Entrance Mats

With so many entrance mats to choose from, finding the perfect one for your doorway might seem like a challenge. Fortunately, at First Mats, we offer a wide range of high-quality entrance mats, each with their own unique features and benefits. All our entrance door mats are backed by our quality guarantee, excellent customer service, and fast delivery. Let us help you find the perfect mat to keep your entrance areas clean and attractive for visitors.

What are Entrance Mats?

Entrance mats, or door mats, are essential for keeping interior floors clean and dry. By scraping dirt and absorbing moisture from shoes, these mats reduce the need for frequent cleaning and help maintain an attractive entrance.

Available in a wide range of materials, sizes, colours, and styles, each entrance door mat is designed to provide specific benefits, including extra absorbency, larger sizes or heavy-duty materials. Here are some key benefits of using entrance mats:

Keep Floors Clean: They effectively trap dirt and debris from footwear, maintaining a clean environment.
Enhance Safety: By reducing moisture, they minimise the risk of slips and falls.
Create a Welcoming Entrance: A well-placed mat adds a touch of warmth and hospitality.
Protect Your Floors: Mats prevent damage from stones and grit, extending the life of your flooring surfaces.

How to Choose the Best Entrance Mats

Choosing the perfect entrance mat depends on several factors, the most important of which is the location. Coir entrance mats are ideal in homes, restaurants, and pubs due to their natural durability, absorbent properties, and traditional rustic appearance. Businesses with high-traffic entrances should use commercial entrance matting with rubber backings and more durable textures.

The main types of entrance matting available are as follows:

Indoor Entrance Mats

The most common place to find a mat is inside the main doorway. This is where you can form a barrier to capture as much dirt and moisture from shoes as possible and prevent tracking this throughout the building. For the best performance, choose thicker mats with non-slip rubber backings, which will last longer and move less on the floor.

Top Choice: Our PlushChoice mat is the most popular product in the range and is available in customisable sizes. This low-cost vinyl mat is suitable for moderate foot traffic and is popular in homes, offices, and smaller workplaces.

Outdoor Entrance Mats

The best way to keep floors inside the building clean is to prevent dirt from entering through the door. That's why we offer a range of entrance mats suitable for outdoor spaces in all weather conditions. Their coarse-textured surfaces are superb at trapping mud and stones, allowing the indoor mat to focus on soaking up water.

Top Choice: Our EntraGuard Scraper Mat is a popular option. The textured surface makes it an abrasive entrance mat, with a pattern of holes or wells to scrape and trap debris from footwear. Available in a range of sizes, this rubber mat is ideal for homes and business entrances.

Commercial Entrance Mats

Heavy-duty entrance matting is a must in high-traffic areas such as offices, schools, and other public buildings. Features like rubber backings and wear-resistant piles ensure a cleaner and safer entrance for visitors, even in busy entrances. The durability of commercial door mats means they are also more resistant to stains and damage, offering lower maintenance than domestic mats.

Top Choice: We recommend the AquaProtect, an effective and high-quality entrance mat that can absorb up to 6 litres of water per square metre. Capturing moisture from footwear helps maintain dry floors, creating a safer environment for employees and visitors.

Barrier Matting

Barrier mats create a safe barrier between clean floor surfaces and the outside world, preventing debris, dust, and moisture from entering. They are usually larger in size than standard mats, so they are used as runners. Choose standard-size mats in lengths up to 3m or custom lengths.

Top Choice: Our EntryBrush Ribbed Door Mat offers excellent moisture absorption properties and doubles as a scraper mat to remove debris from footwear. It's also available in extra-large sizes, making it a great barrier mat for high-traffic areas.

Coir Matting

Made from natural coconut fibres, coir matting is a popular option for homes and other low-traffic areas. Its abrasive scraper surface and natural moisture absorption properties make it ideal for porches and matwells. It's also easy to cut to size.

Flame Retardant Door Mats

While all door mats should provide a certain level of flame resistance, not all meet certain buildings' stringent fire safety requirements. Residential housing schemes like flats and apartments are particularly cautious about allowing their tenants to use door mats. For these areas, we recommend our Dura-Plush Flame Retardant Door Mat. It has been fire-tested to Cfl-S1 and is popular with local councils and landlords. It removes water and dirt from shoes, keeping surrounding floors clean and dry.

What Size Should My Entrance Matting Be?

Choosing the correct size for your door mat can significantly impact its performance. The rule of thumb is that the bigger your entrance mats, the better! Your feet must be in contact with the mat to work effectively, so the more times you can step on a mat, the more dirt it will remove.

Our entrance matting is available from 60cm x 90cm, ideal for domestic doorways, up to 115cm x 180cm for large commercial entrances. We also offer a range of extra-large sizes and custom mat sizes, so you can choose the size you need. The standard thickness of our entrance mats is 9mm, but there are options on either side, from our 5mm thin door mats to our 11mm thick absorbent mats.

Why Buy Entrance Mats Online from First Mats?

At First Mats, our range of high-quality entrance matting is backed up by amazing customer service. But don't just take our word for it. See the thousands of reviews from customers who all received first-class service.

If you have questions about our products, our expert team will be pleased to guide you through our wide range of high-quality entrance mats and help you get the best value for money.