Sault Ste. Marie Rubber Surfacing
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario ยท Algoma
Sault Ste. Marie Rubber Surfacing pours rubber surfacing on pool decks, garage floors, front steps, gym floors and playgrounds, working for households, schools, daycares and businesses across Sault Ste. Marie, Garden River, Echo Bay, Goulais River, Prince Township and Bruce Mines. From the first wash to the last of the cure, the job you book with us is fully insured. Nobody pays for the visit, and the quote that comes out of it is on paper: granule, inches, footage, dollars.
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Say which surface you want covered and about how large it is, and we will call to set a time. Or call +1 705-805-5867.
We pour rubber surfacing and nothing else, so the preparation gets the attention it needs. Before a bag of granules is opened, the old surface is ground or washed under pressure, anything loose comes off, the moving cracks get repaired, and the slab is primed. When a rubber surface lets go, the cause is nearly always this stage, not the trowel.
Every quote we hand over is written. Granule, binder, depth in inches, square feet measured, total owing: all five are on it. More on how we work is on the about page; a visit gets booked on the contact page. From the first wash to the last of the cure, the job you book with us is fully insured.
Six surfaces, one material, poured over what you already have.
Pool deck rubber surfacing in Sault Ste. Marie goes down over whatever the deck is now, concrete, pavers or wood, so the deck drains, grips wet feet and stays cool through the short Algoma swim season. We trowel the rubber surfacing to a depth of three-eighths of an inch to half an inch, bridging the cracks and sealing the coping edge. From the first wash to the last of the cure, the job you book with us is fully insured.
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Rubber surfacing on a Sault Ste. Marie driveway or garage floor is laid over the concrete or asphalt already there, so salt brine, slush and tire grit stop pitting the slab underneath. Garage floors get rubber surfacing at 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch; driveways get 3/8 to 1/2. From the first wash to the last of the cure, the job you book with us is fully insured.
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Playground rubber surfacing in Sault Ste. Marie is poured over a compacted stone base or existing concrete, as deep as the equipment's fall height calls for, at schools, daycares, parks and backyards across Algoma. Our playground rubber surfacing is two layers, black recycled cushion underneath and coloured EPDM on top, seamless from edge to edge. From the first wash to the last of the cure, the job you book with us is fully insured.
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Rubber surfacing on a Sault Ste. Marie patio, on a walkway or on a flight of steps covers the existing concrete, pavers, stamped concrete or wood, so the surface drains, grips in ice and hides the cracks and worn nosings of an older slab. We trowel the rubber surfacing on at 3/8 to 1/2 of an inch and wrap every step edge. From the first wash to the last of the cure, the job you book with us is fully insured.
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Gym and fitness rubber surfacing in Sault Ste. Marie is poured over a concrete slab in a basement, garage, studio, clinic or training room, at 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch, for a seamless floor that shrugs off dropped weight, keeps machines quiet and dries off a wet boot. The rubber surfacing is black recycled granule with colour troweled in where it is wanted. From the first wash to the last of the cure, the job you book with us is fully insured.
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Commercial and equestrian rubber surfacing in Sault Ste. Marie is poured on ramps, entrances, walkways, splash pads, patios, rooftop terraces, and barn and arena aisles, for businesses, clinics, seniors' residences, schools and horse owners across Algoma. We pour rubber surfacing over concrete, asphalt or a compacted base and schedule the work around your hours and your animals. From the first wash to the last of the cure, the job you book with us is fully insured.
View Commercial and Equestrian SurfacingWater passes down through rubber surfacing, so it never pools on top and turns into a skin of ice.
Wet or dry, the surface keeps its grip, which counts for a lot on a July pool deck and on the front steps in a November sleet.
Concrete is hard and rubber surfacing is not, so a fall on a playground or a slip on a step does less damage.
A poured rubber surface has no joints, so there is nowhere for weeds to root, nothing to trip over, and no edge to catch a shovel.
Rubber surfacing runs cooler underfoot than concrete or stone in full sun, which children and dogs notice first.
Salt does not eat rubber surfacing the way it eats concrete, so winter treatment does not shorten its life.
Rubber surfacing goes over the existing slab, which means nothing is demolished, no bin is ordered, and no new concrete has to cure.
Colour is mixed in through the granule, not painted on, and a traffic path cannot wear it away.
We drive out, take the measurements, look for sealer and cracks, and note the steps and edges. The quote arrives in writing afterwards: what rubber, how thick, how many feet, how much.
Rubber surfacing gives a slab that spends five months under snow a surface that drains instead of holding water. The Sault gets about eleven feet of snow a year, much of it in squalls that come off Lake Superior when a cold northwest wind crosses open water. That snow gets shoveled, salted and piled on decks, steps and driveways all winter, then it melts in March and April over ground that is still frozen.
Meltwater that cannot soak into frozen clay sits on concrete and refreezes after dark. Each cycle of that opens a pore or a crack a little wider, which is why so many slabs in Korah, Steelton and the east side are scaling by the time they are twenty years old. Rubber surfacing is porous, so water passes down through it and drains off the slab, and the rubber itself flexes with the freeze instead of cracking.
Rubber surfacing turns a cracked, hot, slippery pool deck into one that drains, grips and stays cool for the short swim season. Backyard pools around the Sault open in June and close by early September, and the deck spends the other nine months under snow and ice. Concrete that has been through thirty of those winters is usually scaling at the coping and cracked at the corners.
We pour pool deck rubber surfacing directly over that concrete, at 3/8 to 1/2 of an inch, with the cracks bridged and the edges sealed. The deck comes back seamless, and bare feet stop noticing the heat and the grit.
Rubber surfacing keeps a garage floor from pitting the way salt brine pits bare concrete. A car parked inside after a drive up Great Northern Road drips brine and slush on the same patch of floor every night from November to April. On an older slab in Steelton or Bayview that brine has already found the pores, and the surface flakes a little more each spring.
Our garage and driveway rubber surfacing uses a black recycled rubber granule, poured anywhere from 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch, which gives grip under wet tires and a floor that a shovel or a broom clears easily. The rubber does not care about salt, and the seamless surface keeps brine off the concrete underneath.
How deep playground rubber surfacing gets poured depends on the equipment above it, not on a stock product depth. The tallest deck, or the top bar of the swing, decides how much cushion sits under it, which is why a playground pour lands anywhere from 1.5 inches up to 4 inches and beyond, while a patio gets less than half an inch.
Loose-fill mulch at a Sault daycare or schoolyard scatters under the swings and thins out exactly where a child lands, and it holds meltwater in April. Poured playground safety surfacing stays where it was placed, drains, and can be walked on by a stroller or a wheelchair.
Rubber surfacing on front steps and walkways bridges the hairline cracks that clay heave opens every winter and covers the worn edges that make steps dangerous in ice. Most of the built-up city sits on glacial-lake clay, which soaks up water, expands in a freeze and drops again in the thaw. A set of poured steps from the 1950s on the east side has usually cracked at the riser and lost its nosing to fifty winters of shovels.
Our patio, step and walkway rubber surfacing goes over the existing steps and walk, wraps the nosing, and leaves a tread that holds off ice in a way a smooth concrete step never will. If a step is still moving, we fix that first, because rubber surfacing hides a crack but cannot stop one.
Rubber surfacing in a basement or garage gym gives a seamless floor that absorbs a dropped dumbbell and dries off a wet boot without staining. Roll-out mats curl at the seams, slide on a smooth slab and trap water underneath. A poured floor of 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch is bonded to the concrete, quiet under a treadmill and easy to mop.
We install gym and fitness rubber surfacing in home gyms, hockey training rooms, clinic exercise areas and studio spaces around the Sault, usually in black recycled rubber with a coloured line or logo troweled in where it is wanted.
Rubber surfacing gives ramps, entrances, walkways and horse barns a surface that grips when wet and does not crack under freeze-thaw. A ramp at a clinic on Great Northern Road, a walkway at a seniors' residence, or a splash pad at a park all take the same lake-effect winter as a backyard, and they take far more feet. In a barn or arena aisle out toward Goulais River or Echo Bay, poured rubber keeps a shod horse from slipping on concrete and is easier on its legs than bare slab.
We schedule our rubber surfacing for commercial and equestrian sites around opening hours and around the animals, and the quote reads exactly like a house quote: granule, depth, square feet and price, in writing.
Rubber surfacing needs bare, clean, dry concrete, and we do not pour until it has it. A slab that was sealed, painted or coated at some point looks fine, but the binder bonds to the sealer rather than to the concrete, and the whole sheet lifts within a season or two. The same happens on a dusty slab, or on one the last rain has not yet dried out of.
That is why most jobs open with a pressure washer or a grinder rather than a trowel. If a pool deck in Pointe des Chenes or a driveway in Prince Township has an unknown coating on it, we grind it off. Rubber surfacing that is poured on a properly prepared base is the surface that outlasts the quote.
Rubber surfacing needs the slab dry, air of ten degrees or better with more warmth on the way, and a dry forecast while it cures, which in the Sault means roughly mid-May to early October. May nights here still drop near freezing, and by October they do again. A job booked in February gets a June date, and a job booked in August may be the last pour of the year.
We book in the order calls come in, and we tell you the week we expect to be there. Rubber surfacing takes one to two days on most homes, walks the next morning, and takes a car after about two or three days.
Across the Algoma area, a pool deck, patio, walkway, flight of steps or garage floor that is already in place and gets rubber surfacing commonly lands somewhere from eight dollars a square foot to sixteen, while a playground runs about fifteen to thirty or more, the extra being the extra depth. Where a job lands in that range comes down to which granule, which binder, how deep, how much grinding the old surface needs and how many edges and steps there are. A minimum applies to small jobs, since the crew, the mixer and the material travel a long way to get here.
The only price that matters is the one on your written quote, and the site visit that produces it costs you nothing. Call, and we will look at the surface and measure it.
We come look at the surface, tape it, and mail a quote: rubber type, inches of depth, feet measured, dollars owed.
The first morning goes to grinding or pressure washing the old surface, clearing anything loose, and repairing cracks that have not stopped moving.
We prime the clean, dry slab so the binder has something to grip.
The polyurethane binder meets the granules in a mixer beside the slab, and from there the batch goes onto the floor by hand trowel, at the inches promised on the quote, with edges and step nosings wrapped as we go.
The surface cures overnight, walks the following day, and is ready for vehicles and heavy use once 48 to 72 hours have passed.
Pool decks, steps, playgrounds, garage floors and gyms poured across the Sault and Algoma.
The city is home ground for Sault Ste. Marie Rubber Surfacing: Steelton and Bayview by the steel plant, Korah and the P-Patch, the east side along Trunk Road, Cedar Heights and Fort Creek up Great Northern Road, and Pointe des Chenes and Pointe Louise out at the airport end. We take the bypass east to Garden River, Echo Bay and Bruce Mines, Highway 17 north to Goulais River, and Highway 550 west through Prince Township to Gros Cap.
Rubber surfacing in the Sault is a summer trade with a lot of ground to cover, so we group jobs by area where we can. If you are a full hour out along the North Channel, say so when you call and we will pair your visit with a neighbour's.
The calendar for rubber surfacing in the Sault fills from the first warm week in May. Call +1 705-805-5867 and get on it.
Yes. Rubber surfacing flexes with the freeze and drains through itself, so it does not scale or spall the way concrete does under eleven feet of snow a year. A shovel with a plastic edge clears it, salt is fine if you want it, and it comes out of April looking the way it went into November.
Yes, if the concrete is sound and the cracks have stopped moving. Because rubber surfacing flexes, it spans hairline cracks and cracks that have settled. One that is still opening, or a slab that is heaving, has to be fixed first, and we will tell you that at the site visit.
A patio, pool deck, walkway, step or driveway gets 3/8 to 1/2 of an inch. A playground gets 1.5 inches at the low end and 4 inches or more at the high end, with the equipment height deciding the number. A garage or gym floor lands between the two, at 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch.
By the next day it takes feet. Cars, patio furniture and heavy use wait for the 48 to 72 hour mark, and a bit past it when nights run cool. We will give you the hour when we finish.
Over an existing surface, jobs in this region commonly run between eight and sixteen dollars a square foot for a deck, patio, steps or garage, and a playground runs fifteen to thirty or more. The number that counts is on the written quote that comes out of the free visit.
Fill in what you know and we will phone you to set up the visit. We insist on nothing beyond your name and a way to reach you. If you would rather talk, the number is +1 705-805-5867.
