Esd bench mat. How much coverage

[diydidi]

Hi.
I have just finished building a new workbench. The top measuring 2000mm x 900mm.
I would like to purchase some ESD rubber matting for the work top. My question is, how much covering will be enough? These mats are expensive here in S. Africa. Is it a good thing to cover the whole top, or more practical to do only a section??

[tom66]

Re: Esd bench mat. How much coverage

At our workplace, the mat only covers the area where we work on prototypes and customer RMAs. It's convenient to put the keyboard and monitor on top of it, so we only have a small 1m^2 or so part.