Pool decks, driveways, garage floors, steps, patios, playgrounds, gym floors, barn aisles and commercial entrances: Sault Ste. Marie Rubber Surfacing puts poured-in-place rubber surfacing down on each of them, across the Sault and the surrounding townships. One trade is all we do, and we do it on top of whatever surface is already there. From the first wash to the last of the cure, the job you book with us is fully insured.
The business exists for a simple reason: concrete in this town does not survive its winters well, and tearing it out and pouring new concrete just starts the clock again. Rubber surfacing over the old slab drains, flexes and grips, and it turns a thirty-year-old deck into a surface that suits the next thirty.
When rubber surfacing fails, the preparation is nearly always where it went wrong, so that is where most of our time goes. The old surface gets ground, or washed under pressure, back to bare material. Sealer, paint, oil and dust: every one comes off, because the binder bonds to whatever is on top, and if that is a coat of sealer the whole sheet lifts within a season. Static cracks are filled, moving cracks are repaired, and a heaved slab is levelled or we tell you it should not be covered yet.
Only then is the slab primed and the rubber surfacing troweled on. In the Sault, that means we also wait for a dry slab and a warm forecast, which is a real constraint from mid-May to early October and not a formality.
Rubber surfacing is made from one of two granules and one of two binders, and the quote names which. EPDM is a virgin rubber whose colour runs the full depth of the granule instead of sitting on its skin, and sun does not bother it, so it is the top layer wherever colour shows: a pool deck, a walkway, a playground. SBR is ground-up tire rubber, black, less expensive and dense, so it goes under a playground as the cushion and across a garage or gym as the whole floor. A newer coloured granule, TPV, is used the way EPDM is.
The binder is a polyurethane, and there are two kinds. An aliphatic binder costs more and holds its colour in sun. An aromatic binder can amber a light colour over the years, which does not matter under a black garage floor but does matter on a pale pool deck facing south. We pick the pair that suits the surface and the light it gets, and the rubber surfacing quote spells it out.
Rubber surfacing jobs take us across the city, from Steelton and Bayview to Korah and the P-Patch, the east side off Trunk Road, the newer streets in Cedar Heights, and out to Pointe des Chenes and Pointe Louise. Beyond the city we cover Garden River and Echo Bay to the east, Bruce Mines along the North Channel, Goulais River to the north and Prince Township out to Gros Cap.
A lot of those addresses are on glacial-lake clay, which heaves in frost and settles in thaw, and every one of them gets about eleven feet of lake-effect snow a year. Poured rubber is among the few surfaces that suit both.
A rubber surfacing price starts with a free visit, during which we measure the area, check for sealer or paint, look at the cracks and note the steps and edges. From that comes a written quote listing granule and binder, inches of depth, the footage we taped and the total. In this region a deck, a patio, a set of steps or a garage commonly comes in at eight to sixteen dollars for the square foot, and a playground fifteen to thirty or beyond, with a minimum on small jobs because material and crew travel a long way to reach Algoma.
The quote is the price. If the slab turns out to need more grinding than expected, we tell you before we do it.
Rubber surfacing in Sault Ste. Marie is a short-season trade, and the calendar fills from the first warm week in May. The best time to call is before that. Read through our rubber surfacing services to see what each surface involves, then use the contact page or call +1 705-805-5867 to book a visit. We pick up six days a week, Sunday excepted, from 7:00am to 6:00pm.
Six surfaces across the Sault, Garden River, Echo Bay, Goulais River, Prince Township and Bruce Mines.
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.
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