Oshawa Rubber Surfacing
Oshawa, Ontario ยท Durham Region
Oshawa Rubber Surfacing lays rubber surfacing, poured in place, on garage floors, pool decks, playgrounds, front steps, patios and gym floors, for schools, condo boards, businesses and homeowners in Oshawa, Courtice, Bowmanville and the rest of Clarington. Our insurance is full, and it covers every pour we make. Looking at the slab costs nothing, and the quote that comes after it puts granule, depth, square footage and total on paper, so the figure you read is the figure you pay.
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Type in which surface needs rubber and expect a call to set the free visit. Or call +1 365-298-4129.
Each of these goes down on top of what is there now, and nothing gets torn out.
Pool deck rubber surfacing from us goes on top of the concrete, pavers or wood decking that already rings a backyard, condo or public pool in Oshawa. The finished deck grips when it is wet, stays cooler than concrete in the sun and is soft enough to take a fall. Our insurance is full, and it covers every pour we make.
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Rubber surfacing for a pitted, dusting or salt-eaten driveway or garage floor in Oshawa goes on in plain black SBR or with an EPDM colour blend. The result is a seamless, draining floor that shrugs off brine, shovels and tires for years. Our insurance is full, and it covers every pour we make.
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Daycares, schools, churches, parks and condo play areas in Oshawa come to us for playground rubber surfacing, poured to a depth decided by how far a child could drop from the equipment. The finished surface is seamless, bright and drains after a rain. Our insurance is full, and it covers every pour we make.
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Patios, walkways and steps at homes and businesses across Oshawa get rubber surfacing from us laid over whatever they have, whether pavers, stamped or plain concrete or a wood deck, in one seamless, draining layer. Steps get the treads and risers covered so the nosing is protected. Our insurance is full, and it covers every pour we make.
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Home basements, condo fitness rooms, studios and commercial gyms across Oshawa get gym rubber surfacing from us in plain black SBR or with an EPDM fleck, poured to a depth that suits the weights being dropped. The floor is seamless, quiet and grips a wet shoe. Our insurance is full, and it covers every pour we make.
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Storefronts, entrance ramps, rooftop terraces, seniors' residences, splash pads and the wash stalls and barn aisles of horse farms around Oshawa, Columbus and Clarington all get commercial and equestrian rubber surfacing from us. The surface grips under weight, drains and takes years of traffic. Our insurance is full, and it covers every pour we make.
View Commercial and Equestrian SurfacingLine up a free visit and the quote after it spells out granule, depth, square footage and dollars, all in writing. Dial +1 365-298-4129 or send the form below.
Oshawa Rubber Surfacing prepares the base properly before a single granule goes down, because the preparation is what decides how long rubber surfacing lasts. We pressure wash or grind, repair moving cracks, prime and only then mix and trowel. Granule, binder and depth are each itemized on the quote, which lets you hold it against any other quote line for line.
Our insurance is full, and it covers every pour we make. There is no charge to come out and look, and the invoice matches the quote to the dollar. The about page explains how we work in more detail, and the contact page is where the visit gets booked.
Wet rubber surfacing still grips, and on a pool deck or a shaded flight of steps that is the whole reason for it.
Rain and meltwater sink down through rubber surfacing rather than pooling on top and turning to ice.
In July sun, rubber surfacing is noticeably cooler under a bare foot than concrete or stone.
With no joints anywhere, weeds have nowhere to root and feet have no edge to catch.
A fall onto rubber surfacing is a softer landing than a fall onto concrete, for a toddler or a grandparent.
Road salt and snow shovels do not eat away at rubber surfacing the way they eat away at concrete.
Nothing is torn out or hauled away, and there is no waiting weeks for a new pour to cure, because the old slab stays where it is.
Colour runs all the way through EPDM granules, so a scuff does not show a different colour underneath.
We come out, measure, and look the slab over for sealer, damp and cracks that still move. Within a few days you have a written quote listing what gets poured, how thick, over what area and at what price.
Rubber surfacing is troweled straight onto the slab that exists, so the concrete, asphalt, pavers or wood already there does not go anywhere; it becomes the base. Nothing is demolished, no bin lands in the driveway, and there is no fresh concrete to wait on. On site, rubber granules get blended with a polyurethane binder, spread by hand to whatever depth the surface calls for, and left alone to cure.
In Oshawa that matters because most of the slabs we see were poured for the GM-era bungalows south of King Street or the split-levels of Eastdale and Donevan, and they are worn rather than broken. Rubber surfacing bridges hairline cracks, hides pitting and gives the old slab a fresh, seamless top that drains and grips.
Rubber surfacing turns a slick pool deck into a surface that grips wet feet, and we pour it right over the concrete or pavers already around the pool. The backyard pools of Pinecrest, Northglen and the ravine lots of McLaughlin mostly sit on broom-finished concrete that has been worn smooth by twenty summers of chlorinated water and sunscreen.
The lake-edge winter makes it worse. Water sits in the low spots of the deck, freezes, thaws, and freezes again through a January that hovers around zero, and the surface flakes. Pool deck rubber surfacing is porous, so the water goes through it, and it is soft enough that a slip is a bruise instead of a broken wrist.
Rubber surfacing puts a dense black or charcoal top over a garage floor that salt has pitted, and brine, shovels and tires leave it alone. The 1950s and 1960s garage slabs in Lakeview, Vanier and Centennial were poured thin over the old lakebed clay, and every winter the car drips brine onto them, where it sinks in, turns to ice and blows the surface apart.
In Oshawa a garage floor rubber surfacing job usually fits in a single day. Grinding, filling the pits, priming and then troweling the rubber on at roughly half an inch is the whole sequence. It drains, it does not dust, and it is far quieter than a bare slab when a tool hits it.
Playground rubber surfacing is a deep pour, because how far a child can drop from the equipment dictates the thickness, and we build that depth in two layers rather than guessing. Black SBR goes down first as the cushion, then a coloured EPDM cap is troweled across it, soft where it counts and bright where the kids see it.
Daycares, church yards and school boards across Oshawa and Clarington have watched loose mulch scatter out from under the swings by October and leave bare dirt where children land. Playground rubber surfacing does not move, does not need topping up and drains after a storm off the lake.
Rubber surfacing gives a shaded front step a surface that grips even when the rest of the walk is glazed, and we pour it over the concrete, brick or wood step that is there now. On a north-facing porch in O'Neill or a ravine lot in Samac the sun never reaches the steps in January, so meltwater refreezes on them every afternoon.
That meltwater drops down through the rubber instead of lying on top of it, and since the surface is warmer and rougher than concrete, ice cannot get the same grip on it. Step and walkway rubber surfacing can be run up the risers as well as across the treads, so the nosing is protected too.
Rubber surfacing covers a heaved patio in one seamless layer, so the joints that opened up over the years disappear. South of King Street the ground is silty clay left by an old lake, and it hangs onto water. Freeze that water and the slab rises a fraction of an inch; thaw it and the slab settles back, and each winter every joint and control cut ends up a little wider.
Because rubber surfacing flexes, it rides that small seasonal movement without splitting. A crack that is still working gets cut open and filled ahead of the pour, because rubber over a live crack hides it without holding it. Hairline and static cracks are simply spanned by the rubber surfacing.
Rubber surfacing turns a bare basement or commercial gym floor into a surface that absorbs the drop of a dumbbell and grips a sweaty shoe. We pour it in black SBR for a plain rubber gym floor or with an EPDM fleck for colour.
Home gyms in the finished basements of Taunton and Kedron, studio spaces near Ontario Tech and Durham College and the fitness rooms in condo buildings along Simcoe Street all have the same problem, which is a concrete floor that is cold, hard and noisy. Gym and fitness rubber surfacing goes down at three-eighths of an inch, rising to three-quarters where the free weights land, and because it is one seamless piece there is no mat edge anywhere to curl.
Rubber surfacing holds up under a horse in shoes, a pallet jack or a delivery truck, and we pour it in the wash stalls and aisles of horse farms toward Columbus and Raglan as readily as on a store entrance on King Street. A horse on wet concrete is a horse waiting to slip, and a rubber aisle is quieter, warmer and easier on legs.
For a business, commercial and equestrian rubber surfacing goes on entrance ramps, walkways, rooftop terraces, seniors' residence courtyards and daycare yards, wherever the people walking on it deserve a softer, grippier surface than the concrete they have now.
Rubber surfacing will only bond to bare, clean material, so we grind off old sealer, paint and cure compound before priming. A slab that looks clean can still be coated, and rubber poured over a coating comes up in sheets within a year or two.
The same is true of a damp slab. On the old lakebed south of the 401 the water table sits high, and a garage floor that feels dry at breakfast can be wicking moisture up from below by afternoon. We meter the slab for it, and the primer waits until the reading says dry.
Rubber surfacing is held together by a polyurethane binder, and that binder comes in two kinds, aromatic and aliphatic. Aromatic costs less and does the job on a dark garage floor or a shaded walkway. In full sun it slowly ambers, so a light grey or tan pool deck can go yellow at the edges over a few summers.
We quote an aliphatic binder on sun-exposed light colours so the surface stays the colour you picked. The quote names which binder is included, because the difference in price is real and you should know what you are paying for.
Every rubber surfacing quote we write says which of the two granules goes in which layer. Wherever colour shows, the top is EPDM: a virgin rubber, dyed through the whole granule, that keeps its shade in the sun. Wherever black will do, or under a coloured cap as the cushion, it is SBR, which comes from shredded tires and costs less while giving more bounce.
A pool deck in Windfields is usually all EPDM at about three-eighths of an inch. A playground is SBR to depth with an EPDM cap. A garage in Vanier is often plain SBR. The mix changes the price, which is why the quote spells it out.
Rubber surfacing wants a slab sitting at about 10 degrees with the temperature climbing, a surface that is dry, and a forecast with no rain until the cure is done, which in Oshawa means a season from late April until the lake starts throwing cold rain in late October. The north end above Taunton Road starts a week or two later than the lakeshore and finishes a little sooner.
We book the spring quickly, so a site visit over the winter gets the job on the calendar early. One or two days finishes most home jobs, with feet on the surface the following morning.
It starts with a visit: we measure, and we inspect the slab for sealer, paint, oil and cracks that still move. A quote then lands in your inbox with granule, depth, square footage and cost written on it.
Morning one is spent washing or grinding the surface, opening and filling whatever cracks are live, and then waiting for the moisture meter to say the slab is dry.
The base is primed so the binder bonds to the concrete, asphalt or wood underneath instead of sitting on top of dust.
Small batches of granules and binder come out of the mixer one after another and get troweled by hand, edge to edge and without a seam, to the depth the quote promised.
Overnight the rubber surfacing cures, by morning it takes a footstep, and by the second or third day it takes a car or heavy use.
Call Oshawa Rubber Surfacing at +1 365-298-4129 to book a free site visit. The written quote follows within days.
Garage floors, pool decks, playgrounds, front steps, gym floors and commercial ramps, all poured across Oshawa and Clarington.
There is no part of the city Oshawa Rubber Surfacing does not reach, from the lakeshore streets of Lakeview up Simcoe Street through Vanier, Centennial, McLaughlin and Samac to Windfields, Kedron, Northglen, Taunton and the farms around Columbus and Raglan. East of Townline Road we cover Courtice, Bowmanville and the rest of Clarington.
Rubber surfacing is the same product whether the slab is a 1955 garage floor in Lakeview or a 2022 pool deck in Kedron, but the prep changes with the slab, which is the reason for the free look before the quote.
We come out, measure, and look the slab over for sealer, damp and cracks that still move. Within a few days you have a written quote listing what gets poured, how thick, over what area and at what price.
Yes, as long as the pavers are stable and not rocking. Rubber surfacing is troweled over the pavers and their joints in one layer, so the seams disappear and the weeds have nowhere to grow. Loose pavers are reset first.
Roughly three-eighths of an inch, up to half an inch, is what a pool deck gets, and the same goes for a patio, walkway or driveway. Garage and gym rubber surfacing runs heavier, as much as three-quarters of an inch, and a playground is deeper still, because the drop from the equipment fixes its depth.
Decks, patios, steps and garages in Durham Region usually price out at $8 to $16 a square foot for rubber surfacing laid over the slab that is there. A playground, with all its extra depth, runs $15 to $30 a square foot and can go higher. Small areas have a minimum charge. The figure that counts is the one on the written quote you get after the free visit.
No. Road salt eats concrete by getting into its pores and freezing, but rubber surfacing is a flexible, bonded layer that salt does not attack. A plastic-edged shovel is easiest on it in winter.
The next day. In warm weather rubber surfacing sets overnight, and anything heavier than feet, such as cars or furniture, holds off roughly 48 to 72 hours.
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