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Home gym in first floor room?

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Greenfingers37 · 10/09/2025 13:16

We’d like to create a small home gym (treadmill/walking pad, rower, free weights) but don’t have a garage or an unused space on the ground floor of our house. We have a small spare bedroom upstairs which could be converted but would the floorboards cope?? 🤣 We’re all adults between 11 and 13 stone (3 of us). Anyone done this who could advise?

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incognitomouse · 10/09/2025 13:42

I can't see why they wouldn't cope but I would be conscious it might be a bit noisy.

Harry12345 · 10/09/2025 17:33

My aunt pout a rower in bedroom and the ceiling came in with the vibration, I wouldn’t put it upstairs

CriticalCritter · 10/09/2025 17:34

Depends on what you plan on doing really. I have a walking pad in my office upstairs but I’d not out the treadmill up there because a) noise and b) Victorian plastering. Similarly if I had free weights that I might be dropping that’s not one for a first floor. Could you have a shed in the garden for it?

Greenfingers37 · 10/09/2025 17:45

CriticalCritter · 10/09/2025 17:34

Depends on what you plan on doing really. I have a walking pad in my office upstairs but I’d not out the treadmill up there because a) noise and b) Victorian plastering. Similarly if I had free weights that I might be dropping that’s not one for a first floor. Could you have a shed in the garden for it?

We do have a shed but it’s full of stuff! Plus I know I wouldn’t want to venture out there in the winter! I actually think a treadmill upstairs might be a bit noisy so I’ve just actually ordered a foldable rowing machine this afternoon 🤣 and have just read the post about vibrations!!! 😳🤣
A rower, some weights and Jillian Michaels 30 day shred on the ipad it is! 💪
Thanks for all the comments.

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CriticalCritter · 10/09/2025 20:36

Greenfingers37 · 10/09/2025 17:45

We do have a shed but it’s full of stuff! Plus I know I wouldn’t want to venture out there in the winter! I actually think a treadmill upstairs might be a bit noisy so I’ve just actually ordered a foldable rowing machine this afternoon 🤣 and have just read the post about vibrations!!! 😳🤣
A rower, some weights and Jillian Michaels 30 day shred on the ipad it is! 💪
Thanks for all the comments.

We cleared the shed for the treadmill 🤣🤣

Wicked123 · 11/09/2025 13:00

My aunt put a cross trainer in the upstairs bedroom and it came through the living room ceiling after a few years of use.

Wicked123 · 11/09/2025 13:00

Harry12345 · 10/09/2025 17:33

My aunt pout a rower in bedroom and the ceiling came in with the vibration, I wouldn’t put it upstairs

This is so similar to what happened to my aunt too but with a cross trainer !

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stample · 02/03/2026 20:24

have a gym on 2nd floor in spare room, it’s above dd’s bedroom.
I use the spindle early am and she doesn’t wake.
evenings use rowing machine, cross trainer and walking pad and doesn’t disturb anyone. Only thing that may be noisy is tra,police but I barely use it

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