Ever since the flooring underlayment thread, I had been looking for cheap 1/8” CCF pad ideas. I didn’t want to buy a whole roll of Floor Muffler, and the pieces given to me by a friend who does flooring were far heavier than the stuff in the thread.
I was in the 99 Cents Only store yesterday looking for a Mothers Day gift for my wife :) and came across this pad. Its listed as a “Tour Mat” and appears to be the same type foam as the blue Walmart pads, but with a reflective surface laminated onto it. The advertised size is 70.8”x 23.6”x.16”. It was $1.99 (In a 99 Cents Only store…. the audacity!!!), so I grabbed 3 of them.
The only other 1/8” CCF pad that I have to compare to is a Gossamer Gear Thinlight. I measured them both:
Tour Mat: 70” x 23”
GG Thinlight: 54 ¾” x 18 ¾”
Then I weighed them:
Tour Mat: 4.2 oz (just the mat after removing the packaging and elastic bands)
GG Thinlight: 2.8 oz
Being that the Tour Mat is more than a foot longer and roughly 5” wider, the weight per square inch is very close (.0026 to .0027). I’ll probably cut one down to identical size and weigh it as well. Durability wise, it seems that the Tour Mat would be a bit more durable and puncture resistant, although that is without any real testing, I am just going off of the use of the GG pad. I’m not sure if the reflective surface actually helps in heat retention, but it can’t hurt. My plan is to trim it down a bit and use it as a footprint for the Thermarest X-Lite, and can be pressed into service as a ¼” torso pad (when folded over) in the event of a catastrophic failure of the X-Lite.
