Around two thirds of the bathroom injuries that reach a US emergency department happen in or around the tub or shower, and barely one in fifty happens on the way in. The dangerous moment is the way out, onto a wet floor, and that is the moment every Gorilla Grip mat is cut for.
Every Gorilla Grip card prints the size, the pack count and the material, so you can measure your floor before you decide rather than after the parcel arrives.
2014making floors holdGorilla Grip has been on the market since then
02Start with the room
Eight shelves, and each one solves a different kind of sliding
A bath rug and a rug pad look like the same idea until you own both. One absorbs water and stays put on tile; the other is invisible and stops a nine-by-twelve carpet walking across a hardwood floor. Pick the room and the shelf sorts itself out.
Eight shelves, one question asked eight ways, and every piece on all of them belongs to the Gorilla Grip selection.
03What sells fastest
The four our customers reach for first
Ranked on the size of the rating pool behind each product family, not on what we would like to move. If a Gorilla Grip mat has held its footing under a hundred thousand households, that is worth more than any adjective we could put next to it.
Tub mats
Bath Tub Shower Mat, 35x16 in, Clear
35x16 in on the floor
Colour: Clear
★★★★★ 4.5 · 112,717 ratings
$23.99
Chenille bath rugs
Bath Rug Mat, 24x17 in, Grey
24x17 in on the floor
Chenille
Colour: Grey
★★★★☆ 4.3 · 85,477 ratings
$9.39
Rug pads for hardwood
Slip Resistant Rug Pad, 6x9 ft, Cream
6x9 ft of underlay
Colour: Cream
★★★★☆ 4.4 · 53,036 ratings
$27.99
Cutting boards
Bpa-free Reversible Kitchen Cutting Board, 3-pack, Black
3 in the pack · $7.33 each
BPA-free plastic
Colour: Black
★★★★★ 4.6 · 52,482 ratings
$21.99
04How the brand got here
One product, then a catalog that grew 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.
05The bathroom, both sides of the wall
Six that go down first in a bathroom
The wet side and the dry side want different objects, and Gorilla Grip sells them as different objects. Every card here prints the size in inches, because a rug that arrives four inches short is a rug you live with.
Tile, enamel, hardwood, a kitchen floor at the end of a long dinner. These are Gorilla Grip pieces as they are sold, photographed in the rooms they were sized for.
Suds on a textured mat: the answer for a tub floor that suction cannot seal against.
A contour mat around the base of a toilet, with the rug it is sold beside.
A boot on the WeatherMAX doormat, where grit is supposed to stop.
Coiled mesh across the path a cat takes out of the litter box.
Bare feet on a cushioned kitchen mat, at the length of a working line.
Three reversible boards with rubber borders, sized for a counter that is already busy.
The corner of a rug lifted off its pad: felt above, natural rubber against the floor.
Polymer palm and knitted back, sold by the pair count rather than the pair.
07What it is made of
Five materials, and the job each one is actually good at
Almost every disappointing mat in the world is a good material used in the wrong room. Chenille in a shower stall is a wet rag, and silicone under a bare foot is cold and hard. Gorilla Grip uses five materials, and the table below is the shortest honest guide to which belongs where.
Chenille
Thousands of soft cotton-feel loops. Takes a lot of water fast, dries with air under it, and comes out of a domestic wash without matting. Its place is the dry side of the tub wall.
Memory foam
A foam core under a plush face. Warm underfoot on cold tile and forgiving to stand on while you shave or dry a child. It holds water rather than shedding it, so it wants air and a wash cycle.
Suction rubber
A moulded sheet with hundreds of cups. It works inside the tub, on a smooth clean surface, and it will not hold on a textured or freshly refinished floor. Lift it weekly and let both faces dry.
Felt and natural rubber
The two-layer pad that lives under a rug. Felt gives thickness and quiet, rubber gives the grip. It is the one product here you buy hoping never to see it again.
Material against room
Material
Where it belongs
How it washes
Where it fails
Chenille
Dry side of the tub, sink, in front of a toilet
Machine wash cold, tumble low
Inside a wet tub: it stays soaked
Memory foam
Cold tile, in front of a vanity, kitchen sink
Machine wash cold, air dry flat
Under a door that clears the floor by less than an inch
Suction rubber
Inside the tub or a shower stall
Rinse, wipe, hang to dry
Textured, non-slip or refinished tub floors
Felt and rubber
Under an area rug on hardwood or tile
Vacuum, spot clean, air dry
Under a rug on deep carpet, where it has nothing to bite
Open mesh
Entryways, boot trays, dog crates
Hose off, shake, air dry
Bare feet: it is built to scrape, not to be soft
Nothing in the Gorilla Grip way is asked to work in two rooms at once, which is why the material sits on the card next to the size.
08Under the rug and at the door
Four you buy hoping never to see them again
A pad and a doormat are the two things in Gorilla Grip that do their whole job out of sight. One keeps a carpet from walking across a floor; the other keeps the floor clean enough to walk on.
The face of a mat is what you look at. The back of it is what the mat is. This runs across six of them close enough to see the field of cups on a tub mat and the rubber under a rug pad.
10Against the alternatives
Five ways to stop a floor moving, and what each one costs you
There are only so many answers to a sliding rug, and most households have tried two of them. Here they are side by side, including the ones that do not involve buying anything from us.
The five common fixes, compared
The fix
What it does well
What it costs you
Honest verdict
A plain cotton bath rug
Cheap, soft, washes easily, comes in any colour
No backing at all: it moves the first time a wet foot lands on it
Fine on carpet, a hazard on tile
Adhesive strips or decals
Permanent grip inside a tub, nothing to trip on
They bond to the tub, discolour with age and take the finish with them when removed
Effective, and close to irreversible
Rug tape or velcro corners
Almost free, invisible, holds a rug corner flat
Adhesive residue on the floor, gives up after a few washes
A patch, not a fix
A rubber-backed rug
Grip and absorbency in one object you can wash
The backing wears, and after enough hot washes it hardens
What most bathrooms actually need
A separate pad under the rug
Grips, adds thickness and quiet, outlives several rugs
It is a second purchase, and it has to be cut or sized to the rug
The right answer for anything larger than a bath mat
The bottom two rows are where the Gorilla Grip catalog lives, and the first three are worth trying before you spend anything at all.
11Kitchen, pets, desk and garden
Six from the rest of the house
The same backing logic runs through the whole Gorilla Grip catalog: a standing mat at a sink, a bowl mat under a dog, a chair mat under a castor, a glove that grips a wet handle.
Cutting boards
Bpa-free Reversible Cutting Board, 3-pack, Blue
3 in the pack · $9.66 each
BPA-free plastic
Colour: Blue
★★★★★ 4.6 · 52,482 ratings
$28.99
Hooks and organizers
Over the Door Organizer Storage, 58x15 in, holds 50 lb, Black
58x15 in on the floor
Holds 50 Lb
Colour: Black
★★★★★ 4.6 · 34,772 ratings
$15.99
Drawer, shelf and sink liners
Powergrip Drawer Shelf and Cabinet, 12 in x 10 ft, Beige
What a slip-resistance claim is worth, and who checks it
The bathroom is one of the least regulated surfaces in an American house, and that is worth knowing before you weigh any brand’s promise about it, Gorilla Grip included.
There is no live standard for a bathing surface
ASTM F462, the consumer safety specification for slip-resistant bathing facilities, was withdrawn in 2016. The federal product safety commission states its current purpose as working with ASTM to re-establish it or write a new one. Until that lands, no tub, shower floor or mat in the United States can be certified against an active bathing standard.
The B101 family sets out how floor traction is measured: wet static friction on hard floors, wet dynamic friction, and separately the wet BAREFOOT condition, which is the one that matters in a bathroom. They are test methods for a laboratory or an auditor, not certificates a product carries.
Non-skid mats, strips or carpet on every surface that can get wet, grab bars inside and outside the tub and shower, and every carpet in the house fixed firmly enough that it cannot slip. Three requirements, and a mat answers one of them.
Size, pack count, material and colour, read out of our own product data. Those are the figures you can hold a tape measure against, and they are the ones this catalog stakes its name on.
13In their words
What people say once the mat has been on the floor a while
Real reviews of Gorilla Grip products, printed as their writers typed them. The useful ones are rarely enthusiastic. They are the ones that tell you what happened in month four.
★★★★★
Perfect size for my small bathroom. Very soft and your feet sink in. Easy clean up as well, just shake it out toss in the washer and go. A nice variety of colors as well as sizes.
We replaced an older bath. Our new bath mat is just right. It grips the tub floor securely. It doesn't block the drain. It feels good on the feet as well. The color fits the color scheme as sn added plus.
Overall I love this mat. I got a bunch for the bathroom. This one was the only one not perfectly square and one side was not perfectly straight which is why I dropped a star. Color is vivid. Very soft underfoot. Great size in front of bathtub.
Well made cutting boards. Love that there are three sizes so I can use the most suitable one for my work, and my husband can also use one when we're both cooking. He likes the grooves around the edges to prevent leaks, and I like that they stay in place. This is the second time we've bought these boards.
I had to carpets put together at my front door that kept separating and moving around! I put this pad under both of them and solved the problem! They don’t separate from each other or move around! It works perfectly just needed to trim it down on two ends which was so easy!
Love it. Looks good. Feels good under my feet once I got used to the different feel. Absorbent. Easy to wash, but drying takes awhile by air--have another set to use while this one dries.
Our new mat arrived a few days ago and it is wonderful. The color matches the color I selected, our feet are happy with the material, it adheres well to the tub. Hanging it up after a shower is no problem.
Excellent quality of the three different sizes makes it easy to use the right one for the particular job, and it is easy to clean and won't slip on the counter
Gorilla Grip has been making the same argument since 2014: the interesting half of a mat is the half you never look at.
Stand in a bathroom on a wet tile floor and the trouble is easy to name. The rug in front of the tub is soft, absorbent, the right colour, and it moves. Not far, and not all at once. Enough.
Everything in the catalogue came out of that one complaint, and out of the decision to answer it from underneath instead of weaving a prettier rug on top.
The back of a mat is the product
A floor finish is built to be smooth. Polished wood, glazed tile, enamel, sealed concrete: every one of them is easier to clean because it gives a foot less to hold on to, and a wet one gives less still. Whatever lies on top of it has to make up the difference across its whole footprint, and it has to do that without gluing itself down, without sealing water against the floor, and without leaving a mark when it is lifted.
Those three conditions fight each other, and that is the whole of the engineering. A backing aggressive enough to hold a rug still can soften a floor finish it sits on for a year. A pile deep enough to swallow the water off two feet can stay damp under itself for a week. A suction cup strong enough to hold through a shower has to let go cleanly on the day the mat is lifted. Nobody buys a product for the way it solves those three at once, and every product here is judged on it.
The face of a mat is what you look at. The back of it is what the mat is.
One idea, carried into eight rooms
The catalogue widened one complaint at a time, and the complaints turned out to be the same complaint wearing different clothes. A bath rug that skates on tile. A nine-by-twelve carpet that walks across a hallway a foot a year. A cutting board that slides on a wet counter while a knife is on it. A food bowl pushed halfway across a kitchen by a labrador who is not sorry. In each case the fix lives on the underside, and in each case it is a texture, a weight or a compound rather than a claim.
The gripping face of a rug pad: the whole of the mechanism, and the half of the product nobody photographs.
Around four hundred and thirty pieces sit on eight shelves now, from a corner gripper that costs less than a sandwich to a nine-by-twelve pad. The materials list is short, because there are only so many honest answers.
The room, the thing that moves, and what goes underneath it
Room
What moves
What goes under it
What changes
Inside the tub or stall
A bare foot on wet enamel
Moulded suction rubber
The mat seals to a smooth clean floor and releases when a corner is lifted
The dry side of the tub wall
A rug on tile, twice a day
Chenille or memory foam over a gripping backing
Water comes off the feet and the rug stays where it was put
Living room and hallway
An area rug creeping toward a door
Felt bonded to natural rubber
The rug stops travelling, and gains thickness and quiet with it
Kitchen floor and drawers
A standing mat, a liner, a board on a wet counter
Cushioned backing and grip liner
The mat holds the working line and the drawer stops rattling
Front door and porch
Grit and water arriving on a sole
Open mesh and rubber backing
The dirt stops at the door instead of in the hallway
Feeding corner and litter box
A bowl pushed by a determined nose
Waterproof silicone and coiled mesh
The bowl stays put and the spill has somewhere to sit
Within a shelf the pieces come in families rather than one-offs. A bath rug exists at five lengths because bathrooms do, and in a dozen colours because the rest of the room was decided before the rug was. That sounds like merchandising and is mostly geometry: the 24x17 and the 60x24 are the same object solving a wall of a different length, and the backing on both is the part that had to be got right once.
What a few hundred thousand ratings are good for
The rating pools behind this catalogue run into the hundreds of thousands, counted once per product family rather than once per colour. That number is worth being precise about, because it is easy to wave around and easy to misread.
What it does tell you: these are not prototypes. A backing compound that hardens after ten hot washes, a cup that stops sealing after a season, a pile that mats down in a month, all of that surfaces quickly when enough households are standing on the thing every morning. Volume is a slow, blunt, entirely real test, and the designs that came through it are the ones still on the shelves.
What it does not tell you: whether a given mat suits your floor. A tub with a moulded non-slip texture defeats suction no matter how many people are happy with the same mat in a smooth tub. That is a question about your bathroom, and the answer is on the card and in the guides rather than in the star count.
Four figures on a card
Every card in the catalogue prints the same four things: the size in inches or feet, the count in the pack, the material, and the colour. Three of those are for the floor and one is for the eye.
The size is there because a bath rug bought by eye is a bath rug returned by tape measure. A 24x17 covers the standing spot at a sink. A 48x24 runs the length of a tub. A 6x9 pad goes under a 6x9 rug and gets cut an inch smaller on each side. None of that is interesting until you are the one holding the tape, and then it is the only thing that matters.
Same idea, different room: a cushioned mat measured to the length of a working line rather than to the room it stands in.
The material is there because it decides the room. Chenille belongs on the dry side of a tub wall, where it can take the water off two feet and dry with air underneath. Suction rubber belongs inside the tub, on a floor smooth enough to seal against. Felt and rubber belong under a rug, out of sight for years. Put any of them in the wrong room and it will disappoint you, and it will be the right product doing the wrong job.
Where the idea stops
A mat lowers the odds. It does not abolish them, and the honest version of that sentence is worth more than any promise we could make instead. Around two thirds of the US bathroom injuries that reach an emergency department happen in or around the tub or shower, and federal guidance asks households for non-skid mats on every surface that can get wet AND grab bars inside and outside the tub. That is an and. Nothing on these eight shelves is a substitute for the bar, and a rug lying in the walking line of somebody unsteady on their feet is better gone than better gripped.
What we will stand behind is narrower and duller than a promise about safety: the figure on the card is the figure on the product, the photograph is the thing being sold, and the underside was the part we worked on longest. Measure your floor, pick the material that suits the room, and the floor stops being something you think about.
15Worth reading first
Three jobs that go wrong in the same two or three places
Sizing the floor around a tub, stopping a big rug walking across hardwood, and getting a suction mat to hold on a surface that was never meant to be gripped. Three jobs the Gorilla Grip team gets asked about more than any others.
Most bathroom rugs are bought by eye and returned by tape measure. Here is the whole floor, in inches: the drip zone at the tub, the standing spot at the sink, and the awkward shape around a toilet base.
A nine-by-twelve rug can travel a foot a month across a hardwood floor, and nobody ever sees it move. The mechanism is simple, and so is the fix once you know which of four things is happening.
A suction mat that lets go is almost never a faulty mat. It is a mat on a surface that cannot be sealed against, and you can tell which kind of tub you own with the palm of your hand.
Every size, colour and pack count in the makers at Gorilla Grip sits behind this button, with the current price beside it. Pick your floor, check the size against a tape measure, and it ships from our retail partner.
