Need to cut down to 4x4, 1" mat. What have you used successfully? Would it hurt the blade on a circular saw?

are you referring to the rubber
mats built like a truck mudflap?
use a stanley utility knife with a
good blade and score one side as
deep as possible down your line, then
flip it over and pull up on one side
and it will bend where it was scored
on the underside and cut down that line.

i'd think it would get the blade on your saw
too hot and ruin it, maybe the saw too.

The saw won't cut it. The best thing to do is go to a hardware store and get what's called a belt or carpet knife. We use them at work cutting 1/2-3/4" conveyor belt with no problem

Used a worm drive circular saw with a combination (rip/crosscut) carbide tipped blade to cut livestock mats for our tower blind....no problems, worked great!

One tip, as you cut the material, try to not let the saw kerf close up, has a tendency to bind the blade and tougher to feed the saw. Another trick is to temporarily screw the mat on both sides of the cut line to a piece of wood for support, then make the cut through both the wood & rubber....keeps the saw kerf from closing back. When finished cutting remove the screws...rubber is self healing, hole will disappear.

Just use a utility knife and repeatedly score your line. Here's a tip: a line of WD-40 down your line will make the cutting go even faster.

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I file my sharp before using

Do you like this for reducing noise over carpet or the advantage of brushing out the mud?

Three or four years ago, I did indeed burn up a circular saw trying to cut some 1" mats to fit some dog runs. I decided the solution was to get a handsaw and have at it.

But one of my Latino workers, an immigrant from El Salvador (legal, with a green card), procured a serrated steak knife, just like one you'd use on your rib-eye. As I watched slack-jawed, he calmly sawed away with the steak knife and cut the mats to fit with hardly any effort at all.

This is the same guy that, when I brought my Weed Eater to work to do some edging around the property, just shook his head, retrieved a machete out of his truck, and edged the whole place with some expert chopping. After he finished, he pulled out a bastard file, touched up the machete blade, and returned it to his truck.

Sometimes the ancient, time-tested methods trump the modern ways.....

I have not used these mats before but I have seen them recommended on here many times. My bet is there are more quiet than carpet over plywood and allow me to use a rolling chair at the same time. I'm also hoping it will provide insulation for the floor as well at 1" thick.

They are great in blinds. Quiet and don't soak dirt up like carpet. Chairs roll on them easy.

we put rubber 1" flooring in all our box blinds to keep the noise down, plus the chairs roll easier on it versus carpet and yes you can sweep them out pretty easy.
we use a NEW curved blabde utility knife and it works wells.....you may have to score it first then simply work it a few times across the scored line and you should be ble to cut it fairly easily.
we have used the 1" heavy rubber mats from Tractor Supply or actual rubber flooring material used in the weight rooms at workout facilities

Box cutter long straight edge ( i used my metal 48 inch level) and WD-40. Spray the WD-40 along the line you want to cut. The blade glides through with the aid of the WD-40. Learned it here on the forum. Was skeptical but it worked

A jigsaw works good. With a wood (crosscut/ course )blade. I went to Harbor Freight and got a cheap jigsaw there.