Non-Slip Grip Rug Pads — Polymer, Not PVC

If you searched for a PVC pad because you want thin and grippy, this is the same job done with a safer material — the polymer mesh grips hard floors without the plasticizers that can react with floor finishes.

Our grip pads — Extra Grip and Comfort Grip — are a thin polymer-coated polyester mesh that holds rugs flat and still on hard floors. No bulk, no PVC, nothing to stick to your finish or break down over time. Every pad is cut to your exact rug size for free.

The honest answer first

If you searched for a PVC rug pad, you should know what you're actually looking at on this page: neither of our grip pads is PVC. The Extra Grip and Comfort Grip pads are a polymer-coated polyester mesh — a woven polyester base with a grippy polymer coating — not vinyl. We'd rather tell you that up front than let the page title do the talking. Shoppers land here because they want the thing PVC pads are usually bought for: a thin layer that holds a rug in place on a hard floor. That job, our grip pads do. If you specifically need PVC itself, these aren't it.

Extra Grip or Comfort Grip?

The Extra Grip is the minimalist: a thin mesh pad whose only job is hold, with almost no added height — the one for entryways, and for rugs under doors that need every bit of clearance. The Comfort Grip keeps the same grip idea and adds a cushioned layer, so it suits runners and living areas where you also stand a lot and a bare mesh feels too thin. Both are covered in more detail on the non-slip rug pad page, alongside the rest of the grip range.

Where thin grip pads work best

Grip pads earn their keep where rugs get pushed around: entryways with daily foot traffic, hallways and runners, kitchens, and under lightweight rugs that curl at the corners. Because they're thin, the rug keeps a low profile and doors swing over it freely. What a thin grip pad doesn't do is cushion or protect the way felt does — there's simply not much material there. For a rug that needs hold and floor protection, a felt-and-rubber pad is the better build; for pure hold at minimum height, this is it.

When you don't need a grip pad at all

Worth saying: not every rug needs grip. A large, heavy rug, or one anchored by a sofa and table, may never move an inch — in that case a grip pad adds nothing and felt, which cushions and protects, is the better spend. Grip pads are for rugs that demonstrably wander, creep or curl: light rugs, small rugs, runners, and anything in a traffic path. They're also hard-floor pads — on top of carpet, a rug's movement comes from the carpet pile flexing underneath, and no thin pad fixes that.

Cut to your rug, covered for a decade

Both pads are custom-cut to your rug's exact size, finished about an inch smaller on every side so the pad stays hidden and the rug's edges lie flat instead of tenting over a pad edge. Orders ship free within 1–2 business days, and every pad is backed by a 10-year warranty.