Front Steps In The Sault Ice Over Because Smooth Concrete Holds Water
Rubber surfacing on front steps gives a tread that drains and grips, so the sheet of ice that forms on a smooth concrete step after a January thaw does not form. Steps on a 1950s house in Steelton or on the east side have been shoveled, salted and chipped for seventy winters, and the nosing is usually rounded off or broken. A visitor coming up from Queen Street in a sleet finds that out the hard way.
Rubber surfacing wraps the nosing, gives every riser a clean edge again, and keeps its texture in wet and cold. Salt does it no harm, and a plastic-edged shovel leaves it clean.
Patios And Walkways On Clay Crack, Tilt And Grow Weeds At The Joints
Rubber surfacing turns a cracked, tilted patio or a paver walk with weeds in every joint into one seamless surface that rides the ground's movement instead of fighting it. The glacial-lake clay under most of the city heaves in frost and settles in thaw, and a patio in Korah or Bayview that has done that for thirty years is a map of hairline cracks and lifted corners. Pavers spread at the joints and the sand washes out, and rubber surfacing is the one fix that does not start with a bin.
Rubber surfacing bridges the static cracks and the paver joints, so there is no line for weeds to root in and no edge to trip on. Where a slab is still moving, we fix that first, because the rubber can hide a crack but cannot hold a slab down.
What Goes Into Rubber Surfacing On A Patio, Walkway Or Steps
We pour rubber surfacing on the patio, walkway or steps as they stand, once they have been pressure washed or ground to bare, clean, dry material and cleared of sealer, paint or moss. Static cracks are filled, moving ones are repaired, and the slab is primed. Granules and binder are blended beside the job and spread by hand trowel to the depth written into the quote, with a finished edge at the grass, the driveway and every riser.
Colour comes from EPDM granules that carry it right through, so a grey walk or a tan patio does not wear back to black in the traffic path. Most patio, walk and step rubber surfacing jobs in the Sault finish inside a day and take feet the next morning.