Tub mats
Bath Tub Shower Mat, 35x16 in, Clear
- 35x16 in on the floor
- Colour: Clear
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$24.99
04How the brand got here
One Gorilla Grip product, then a catalog out of the same question
Gorilla Grip started with a bath mat and a complaint that had nothing clever about it: the rug in front of the tub would not stay where it was put.
The first fix was the boring one. Instead of weaving a prettier rug, the Gorilla Grip team went at the underside of it, and kept going until a wet foot landing on the top of the mat could not shift the bottom of it. That is still the order everything here is designed in: the face of a product is what you look at, the back of it is what the product actually is.
The catalog widened the same way, one complaint at a time. A rug that slides on tile is the bathroom version of the problem; a nine-by-twelve carpet creeping across hardwood is the living room version; a cutting board skating on a wet counter is the kitchen version, and a food bowl pushed across the floor by a determined labrador is the version with a tail. Same question, eight rooms, and the answer in each case is a texture, a weight and a backing rather than a slogan.
What that means in practice is unglamorous. A backing compound has to grip tile without gluing itself to a floor finish. A chenille pile has to hold a bathtub’s worth of drips and still come out of a domestic washing machine intact. A tub mat has to keep suction on an enamel floor for months while somebody stands on it wet, and let go cleanly on the day it is lifted. None of those are breakthroughs. They are the parts of the job everybody skips.
Today the Gorilla Grip range runs from a two-dollar corner gripper to a nine-by-twelve pad, and the same test is behind all of it: put it on the floor, stand on it wet, and see whether it moves.
The honest limit of a mat
A mat lowers the odds; it does not abolish them. Federal guidance asks for non-skid mats on every wet surface AND grab bars inside and outside the tub. That is an and, not an or, and no rug on this site is a substitute for the bar.
