All Outdoor Entrance Mats & Runners
The complete range of outdoor entrance matting from Mats Inc. — sixteen products across three approaches to the exterior threshold. Scraper and traction constructions handle heavy debris at high-volume commercial doors. Rubber exterior options range from utility safety scraping to premium patterned aesthetics for high-end customer-facing entries. Drainage and moisture-management mats handle the wet-conditions side of the exterior, from bi-level water channeling to dense-pile absorption. Plus branded outdoor options for entries where the mat needs to carry the company identity at the door. The section below covers how to narrow down to the right one for your placement.
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Super Scrape Rubber Mats$63.50Super Scrape Rubber Mats – High-Traction, Durable, and Customizable Super Scrape Rubber Mats are designed with molded surface cleats to effectively remove dirt and grime. Ideal for outdoor use, these mats ensure slip resistance in wet areas, providing a safe and clean environment. Effective Dirt Removal: Surface cleats trap dirt...
Super Scrape Rubber Mats – High-Traction, Durable, and Customizable Super Scrape Rubber Mats are designed with molded surface cleats to...
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Super Scrape Rubber Logo Mats$105.00Super Scrape rubber logo mats, built for the challenges of busy doorways, combine rugged utility with brand reinforcement. These custom logo rubber mats are your frontline defense against the toughest dirt and debris while also displaying your corporate image. The all-rubber logo mat construction ensures exceptional durability and easy...
Super Scrape rubber logo mats, built for the challenges of busy doorways, combine rugged utility with brand reinforcement. These...
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Berber Logo MatsStarting at $194.00
Berber Logo Mats put your logo on a dense Berber face built for both indoor commercial traffic and outdoor weather. The branded surface presents your identity at the door. Underneath, the looped construction traps dirt and absorbs moisture. UV-stable fibers and a weather-rated backing mean the same mat works...
Berber Logo Mats put your logo on a dense Berber face built for both indoor commercial traffic and outdoor...
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Half-Circle Waterhog Elite Entrance Mat$67.00The Half-Circle entrance mat features provides a "grand" entrance to your facility Waterhog Eco Grand Elite mats are manufactured with a permanent rubber reinforced bi-level face that will not crush providing years of superior dirt and moisture collection. Mats are made with at least 90% recycled plastic content reclaimed...
The Half-Circle entrance mat features provides a "grand" entrance to your facility Waterhog Eco Grand Elite mats are manufactured...
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Super Berber MattingStarting at $60.00
Super Berber Matting Super Berber Carpet Matting is built to withstand the toughest environments while maintaining a clean and professional appearance. Its densely tufted, high-performance yarn traps dirt and moisture, keeping entryways spotless. With a durable rubber backing to prevent slips, this matting offers both functionality and safety for high-traffic...
Super Berber Matting Super Berber Carpet Matting is built to withstand the toughest environments while maintaining a clean and professional...
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Vinyl Link MatStarting at $209.00
Vinyl Link Mat The Vinyl Link Mat offers a unique combination of functionality and style, making it perfect for areas that demand durability and a polished look. Designed to withstand heavy foot traffic, these mats efficiently trap dirt while enhancing the aesthetic appeal of your entrance. Ideal for both commercial...
Vinyl Link Mat The Vinyl Link Mat offers a unique combination of functionality and style, making it perfect for areas...
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Mat-A-Dor MatsStarting at $88.00
Just step on this mat and it cleans your shoes automatically. Hundreds of resilient rubber fingers go to work the moment they are stepped on. Borders are beveled to prevent tripping. Mat hides trapped dirt, and keeps dirt out of your building. Excellent for anti-fatigue in stand-up jobs. Remains...
Just step on this mat and it cleans your shoes automatically. Hundreds of resilient rubber fingers go to work...
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Coir MattingStarting at $70.00
Here is the first shoe and boot cleaning fiber known to man. The Coco matting, also known as coir matting. 3/16" thick vinyl backing completely protects floors with no leak-through as with woven brush mats These mats are easily cleaned by shaking, vacuuming or rinsing Available in rolls and...
Here is the first shoe and boot cleaning fiber known to man. The Coco matting, also known as coir...
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Safety Scrape Rubber MatsStarting at $46.00
Safety Scrape Mats for Maximum Traction and Safety Safety Scrape Mats are ideal for environments where maintaining traction is crucial. Perfect for use in kitchens, locker rooms, inclines, behind counters, production areas, and at building entrances. Durable Safety Scrape Mats for Maximum Traction and Safety Safety Scrape Mats are ideal...
Safety Scrape Mats for Maximum Traction and Safety Safety Scrape Mats are ideal for environments where maintaining traction is crucial....
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Fore-Runner MatStarting at $47.00
Fore-Runner Mat The Fore-Runner Mat is a durable and highly effective entrance mat designed to trap dirt, moisture, and debris, keeping your indoor spaces clean and safe. Made from high-performance materials, this mat is perfect for high-traffic entryways in commercial buildings, offices, and retail environments. Its sleek, low-profile design ensures...
Fore-Runner Mat The Fore-Runner Mat is a durable and highly effective entrance mat designed to trap dirt, moisture, and debris,...
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Spaghetti Mats$61.00The spaghetti mat is ideal around swimming pools, showers, locker rooms and other wet areas to prevent slipping. The unbacked material without edging allows the material to dry quickly. Spaghetti type construction also traps dirt and moisture while scraping debris from shoes and feet. Thick material helps keep the...
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Waterhog Eco Premier Mats$52.00Waterhog Eco Premier Mat The Waterhog Eco Premier Mat is designed for superior performance in high-traffic areas. Made from eco-friendly materials, this mat offers exceptional durability, slip resistance, and water retention to keep your floors clean and safe. Key Features of the Waterhog Eco Premier Mat Eco-Friendly Construction: Made with...
Waterhog Eco Premier Mat The Waterhog Eco Premier Mat is designed for superior performance in high-traffic areas. Made from eco-friendly...
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What "Outdoor Matting" Actually Covers
Outdoor matting isn't one category — it spans three distinct approaches to the exterior threshold, each built for a different problem the mat is asked to solve. Scraper and traction mats deal with heavy debris: mud, gravel, snow, grit, anything that has to come off the shoe before anything else at the door can work.
Rubber exterior mats handle all-weather durability across the full range of utility-to-aesthetic placements, from service entries and loading docks to high-end architectural exteriors with patterned design intent.
Drainage and moisture-management mats handle the wet side — bi-level water channeling, dense-pile absorption, natural fiber for covered transitions, raised-nub debris control.
Most commercial entries actually need more than one type to work properly, paired across the zones where traffic transitions from exterior to interior.
The Three Outdoor Construction Categories
Scraper & Traction Mats
The aggressive-texture first defenders. Molded surface cleats, rubber fingers, or coarse scraping surfaces that dig into shoe treads to dislodge heavy debris. Best at high-volume commercial doors where mud, gravel, snow, and grit are the dominant load.
Includes Super Scrape Rubber Mats with cleated scraping, Super Scrape Rubber Logo Mats that combine scraping function with branded molded logos for customer-facing entries, Mat-A-Dor with rubber fingers that scrape on contact and provide anti-fatigue underfoot, and Safety Scrape Rubber Mats for maximum traction in wet, oily, or sloped conditions.
Rubber Exterior Mats
The all-weather workhorses, spanning utility to premium aesthetic. Solid or perforated rubber construction holds up to UV, freeze/thaw cycling, oil and chemical exposure, and the constant flexing that exterior placements demand.
Includes Vinyl Link Mat with multi-color patterning for high-end exterior entries where design matters alongside function, Design Links as the premium modular architectural option, Safety Scrape Rubber Mats for utility-focused traction priorities, and Spaghetti Mats as a specialty wet-area construction for pool decks, locker rooms, and shower transitions.
Drainage & Moisture-Management Mats
Handles the wet side of the exterior threshold through four different mechanisms. Waterhog Elite Herringbone Mats use bi-level construction that routes water below the walking surface. Super Berber Matting holds moisture in dense looped pile while keeping the entrance presentable.
Coir Matting absorbs incidental moisture through natural coconut-husk fiber with a vinyl-backed construction that prevents leak-through. Brush Hog Mats use raised-nub surface elevation to keep the walking surface above the trapped debris and moisture. Each handles a different moisture scenario from continuous-wet to incidental damp.
How to Narrow Down From All Sixteen Options
Three questions get most buyers to the right sub-sub-cat. First, what's the dominant problem at your entrance? Heavy debris (mud, gravel, snow, grit) sends you to scraper and traction. Sustained or intermittent moisture sends you to drainage and moisture management. General all-weather commercial durability with the option of design integration sends you to rubber exterior.
Second, what role does the mat play visually? Customer-facing main entries at high-end commercial buildings need design-capable matting like Vinyl Link Mat, Design Links, or the herringbone-faced Waterhog Elite — utility constructions read as back-of-house at those placements. Service entries, loading docks, and operations-focused thresholds work fine with utility-first options across all three categories.
Third, what's the maintenance cadence the placement can actually support? Continuous-wet placements need constructions that handle longer intervals between lift-and-dry cycles — bi-level Waterhog options hold up best to that.
ISSA field data shows 12 times more dirt enters during wet weather, which is why getting the construction matched to the actual conditions matters more at the outdoor threshold than almost anywhere else in the building. NFSI tracks slip-and-fall incidents at building entrances as a leading commercial liability source, and wrong-construction outdoor matting is one of the most consistent contributing factors at wet thresholds.
Why Mats Inc.
The sixteen outdoor mats in the grid above represent decades of culling — constructions that didn't survive UV, freeze/thaw, oil exposure, sustained weather, or the visual standards of customer-facing commercial entries retired from the catalog over the years. The ones that stayed are the ones we'd put outside our own front door, including at the customer-facing presentation entries where the mat is part of the brand impression alongside the dirt control.
Spec consultation available if you want a second opinion before committing to a multi-entrance program.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the difference between scraper, rubber, and drainage outdoor matting?
Answered by Dustin Thompson, Owner & CEO, Mats Inc.
Each handles a different primary problem at the exterior threshold. Scraper matting deals with heavy debris — molded cleats, rubber fingers, or coarse surfaces that dislodge mud, gravel, snow, and grit from the shoe through mechanical action.
Rubber exterior matting handles all-weather durability and ranges from utility (Safety Scrape) through patterned aesthetic (Vinyl Link Mat) through premium architectural (Design Links) — same rubber-construction durability underneath, different visual treatments.
Drainage and moisture-management matting handles wet conditions through four different mechanisms (bi-level channeling, dense-pile absorption, natural fiber absorption, raised-nub surface elevation).
Most commercial entries actually need more than one — pairing a scraper at the exterior with a moisture-managing mat at the threshold and an indoor mat past the door gives you the full debris-and-moisture coverage from outside to inside.
Which outdoor matting fits a customer-facing entry versus back-of-house?
Answered by Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing, Mats Inc.
Customer-facing main entries at high-end commercial buildings need design-capable constructions that read as intentional rather than utility-only. Vinyl Link Mat with multi-color patterning, Design Links for premium architectural integration, and Waterhog Elite Herringbone with its refined herringbone surface all fit at hospitality entries, premium retail storefronts, corporate main lobbies, and architectural exteriors.
Branded outdoor options — Super Scrape Rubber Logo Mats, Berber Logo Mats, Waterhog Mat with Printed Logo — combine commercial-grade exterior performance with brand presentation at the threshold, which matters because the first impression a visitor builds of a brand happens at the exterior door, not the lobby.
Service entries, loading docks, industrial doorways, and back-of-house thresholds work fine with utility-first options like Safety Scrape Rubber Mats, Mat-A-Dor, or Brush Hog where function dominates and presentation isn't the limiting factor.
I have multiple outdoor entrances with different conditions — how should I think about specifying for each?
Answered by Dustin Thompson, Owner & CEO, Mats Inc.
Walk each entrance and group them by dominant condition. Customer-facing main entries get one specification (typically branded or design-capable construction). High-debris service entries get another (aggressive scraper construction). Wet-condition entries — pool decks, food service exteriors, locker room transitions — get the moisture-management constructions matched to the saturation level.
Multi-entrance procurement works better when each entrance is spec'd for what it's actually doing rather than forcing the same mat across all doors. The exception is brand consistency at customer-facing main entries — those should match across the portfolio for visual reinforcement even when the entrance conditions vary somewhat. Service entries and back-of-house thresholds at each location can be spec'd independently to local conditions without compromising the brand-facing program.
Can outdoor matting be branded with our logo?
Answered by Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing, Mats Inc.
Yes, with options across multiple construction types — which is unusual for outdoor matting since most logo mats use carpet faces that won't survive exterior conditions. Super Scrape Rubber Logo Mats combine aggressive cleated scraping with a molded logo in all-rubber construction, which gives you scraping function plus brand presentation at the threshold.
Waterhog Mat with Printed Logo brings the bi-level Waterhog moisture-management construction together with high-resolution logo printing, fitting at customer-facing entries that also need moisture handling. Berber Logo Mats use dense Berber face with embedded branding — best suited for covered exterior placements where UV exposure is moderate.
For high-end customer-facing exteriors, branded matting at the door reinforces brand identity in a way that no interior mat can match, because the exterior threshold is where the brand impression actually begins.
How long do outdoor mats last across the categories?
Answered by Dustin Thompson, Owner & CEO, Mats Inc.
Three to five years at moderate-traffic commercial entries, two to three years at the busiest high-volume entrances, across most outdoor constructions. Rubber-faced options (Safety Scrape, Mat-A-Dor, Super Scrape) tend toward the upper end because rubber compound chemistry handles UV and freeze/thaw exposure well. Bi-level Waterhog options often hit the upper end because the channels reduce backing exposure to standing water. Natural-fiber Coir has the shortest service life under sustained wet exposure because natural fiber breaks down faster than synthetic alternatives.
What ends the lifespan early is usually wrong-construction-for-the-placement, undersizing, or skipped maintenance — none of which are about the mat itself. Lift outdoor mats monthly to clear accumulated grit from beneath and let the substrate dry, and most constructions hit their upper-end service range.
For multi-location operations, how should outdoor matting be coordinated across sites?
Answered by Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing, Mats Inc.
Tiered specification works better than picking one outdoor mat for every entrance across the portfolio. Customer-facing main entries at every location benefit from visual consistency — the same branded mat, the same design-capable construction, or the same premium architectural option across all main exteriors creates immediate brand signal that the operation is intentional and consistent.
Service entries, loading docks, and back-of-house thresholds at each location can use utility-focused constructions matched to local conditions rather than the visual standard of the main entry. The pattern most multi-location programs settle into is one premium or branded option at every customer-facing main entrance, plus traffic-and-condition-appropriate utility options at the operational entries. We can help scope a multi-location outdoor matting program around your specific portfolio and brand strategy.
By Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing, Mats Inc.
