Whitby Rubber Surfacing
Whitby, Ontario ยท Durham Region
Pool decks, front steps, garage floors, patios, playgrounds and gym floors: Whitby Rubber Surfacing lays rubber surfacing on all of them, for homeowners, condo boards, schools and farms in Whitby, Brooklin, Ajax and Pickering. Every Whitby job we take is fully insured, start to finish. Across Durham Region a slab that is already in place is usually covered for $8 to $16 a square foot, and the written quote handed over after the visit sets down what will be poured, how thick, how many square feet, and the dollar figure.
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Say which surface needs covering and where it is, and a free site visit gets booked. Or call +1 289-307-8672.
Every job is quoted in writing once we have stood on the slab, and that visit is free. Product, depth, measured area, dollar figure: all four are on the paper before anything is mixed. There is no per-foot guess over the phone that becomes a different number on the day. Every Whitby job we take is fully insured, start to finish.
The phone is picked up Monday to Saturday, 7:00am through 6:00pm, by someone who can talk about your slab. How we go about a job is laid out on the about page, and the details of yours can go through the contact page.
Six services, every one poured on top of what is down now and priced from a visit in Whitby.
Around an in-ground pool, the concrete, pavers or stamped deck already in place becomes the base, and we trowel pool deck rubber surfacing onto it for a cooler, softer, slip-resistant finish. Every Whitby job we take is fully insured, start to finish.
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Salt-pitted garage floors and cracked drives, concrete or asphalt, get covered by our driveway and garage rubber surfacing, a skin that sheds water and will not scale. Every Whitby job we take is fully insured, start to finish. Whatever slab is down now is what the rubber surfacing gets poured onto.
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Backyards, daycares, schools, churches and parks get playground rubber surfacing from us: a deep cushion layer matched to the equipment under a coloured top. Every Whitby job we take is fully insured, start to finish. The finished playground is seamless, drains, and can be crossed in a wheelchair.
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Paths and steps in concrete, interlock, stone or wood get wrapped by our patio and step rubber surfacing in one continuous skin that sheds water and holds a boot through ice season. Every Whitby job we take is fully insured, start to finish. Whatever is down now stays put as the base.
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Home gyms, fitness studios, school weight rooms and arena dry-land areas get seamless gym rubber surfacing from us, glued down to the slab so it can never creep apart the way mats do. Every Whitby job we take is fully insured, start to finish. Black SBR is the standard, with colour if the room wants it.
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Condo terraces, school courtyards, splash pads, seniors' residences, daycare yards and horse barns from the harbour to the farms north of Brooklin all fall under commercial and equestrian rubber surfacing, and each one is measured and quoted in writing. Every Whitby job we take is fully insured, start to finish.
View Commercial and Equestrian SurfacingRubber surfacing grips wet or dry, so a pool deck or front step is not a fall waiting to happen.
Water passes down through the surface rather than collecting on top, which is why it does not glaze over in a Whitby freeze-thaw week.
In July sun rubber surfacing runs cooler than concrete or stone, and it is soft enough to kneel on.
There are no joints in the poured surface, so weeds have nowhere to root, nothing lifts into a trip edge, and no lines shift.
What was there before stays put under the rubber, which saves the cost and the mess of demolition.
Road salt does not scale rubber surfacing the way it scales concrete, and a plastic shovel clears it fine.
Rubber surfacing is quieter underfoot and under a dropped weight than any hard floor.
Colour goes all the way through an EPDM granule, so a scuff is the same colour as the top.
We come out, tape the area, and look at the slab for damp and movement. What you get is a quote in writing: rubber, depth, square footage, cost. The visit itself is free.
Concrete, asphalt and pavers get a coat of poured rubber surfacing that bends along with the slab rather than cracking beside it. Whitby sits on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and the lake keeps January and February daytime highs sitting right around the freezing mark. Nights drop below zero more than a hundred times a year, but only a handful of those nights are truly cold. That means a slab in Port Whitby or Lynde Creek thaws and refreezes week after week, and every pass drives meltwater and road salt a little deeper into the surface.
Because rubber surfacing is porous, meltwater passes down through it rather than sitting on top and freezing into a sheet. The polyurethane binder stays flexible below zero. A hairline crack in the concrete underneath stays hidden because the rubber bridges it and moves with it.
We pour rubber surfacing over the original concrete around an in-ground pool, so the deck that came with the house in 1985 becomes the base for a new one. Blue Grass Meadows and the south end of Pringle Creek were built out through the 1970s, 80s and 90s on wide lots, and those are the yards with the older pools. The broom-finished concrete around them is spalled at the edges, hot in July and slick when wet.
Our pool deck rubber surfacing is troweled on between three-eighths and half an inch deep, leaves no joints for weeds, and stays cooler underfoot than the concrete it covers. The coping is protected by an edge detail so water from the pool does not get under the rubber.
We pour a black SBR rubber surfacing over pitted garage slabs so salt and slush land on rubber instead of on concrete. Cars come in off Thickson Road and Rossland Road carrying brine that drips, pools and freezes on the floor. Concrete soaks it up, and after enough winters the surface flakes and the pits fill with grit.
A garage floor rubber surfacing job in Rolling Acres or Taunton North normally starts and finishes on the same day. The floor drains, does not scale, and can be swept or hosed like any other floor.
Our playground rubber surfacing goes down as two layers, a deep SBR cushion under a coloured EPDM top, and how far a child could fall from the equipment decides the depth of that cushion. A daycare toddler structure on Dundas Street calls for less than a climbing tower at a school in Williamsburg. The thickness is in the quote, and it changes with the equipment, not with the budget.
Loose-fill mulch scatters under swings and thins where children land the hardest. Poured playground safety surfacing stays the same depth in the landing zones for as long as it is down, and a wheelchair can cross it.
We resurface front steps, porches and walkways with a rubber surfacing that sheds water and holds a boot, so the first icy morning in November is not a fall. The century homes around Brock Street and the Four Corners have concrete or stone steps that have been patched many times, and each patch has its own edge. Water sits in those edges and freezes.
Our walkway and step rubber surfacing wraps each tread and riser in one continuous skin with a rounded nose. Snow shovels off it, salt does not eat it, and the steps look like one piece again.
We pour seamless rubber gym floors for home gyms, fitness studios and school weight rooms that take dropped plates without cracking the slab. A basement gym in Brooklin is usually a bare concrete floor with a few interlocking mats that slide apart. Poured rubber surfacing is glued down to the concrete, so nothing shifts, and it is deep enough to quiet a dropped dumbbell for the people upstairs.
For gym and fitness rubber surfacing we normally pour black SBR somewhere between three-eighths and three-quarters of an inch deep, with EPDM fleck or lane lines if the room wants them.
We pour rubber surfacing in horse barns, on rooftop terraces, in school courtyards and around splash pads across Whitby and Durham Region. The horse farms up around Ashburn and Myrtle need a wash stall or aisle floor where a wet, shod horse keeps its footing, and the new condo buildings in Port Whitby need a terrace that drains and stays quiet over the units below.
Both belong under commercial and equestrian rubber surfacing on this site, which also takes in the seniors' residence courtyard and the daycare yard between them. Each one is quoted from a site visit and a tape measure.
Concrete, asphalt, interlock, stamped concrete, wood decking, packed stone, tired old rubber: we install rubber surfacing straight on top of each of them. Nothing is torn out; the surface is cleaned, repaired where it moves, primed and covered. A job that could mean a week of demolition and a bin on the driveway is one or two days of troweling instead.
What is underneath must be solid, clean and dry, with no sealer or paint left on it. Cracks that are still opening get fixed before we pour. Cracks that stopped moving years ago are simply bridged.
We check how much a slab has moved before we pour rubber surfacing on it, because the ground under Whitby changes from south to north. South of the old Lake Iroquois shoreline the town sits on lake-bottom clay that holds water and lifts when frost gets into it. That is Port Whitby, Lynde Creek, downtown and the older streets of Pringle Creek. North of Brooklin toward Ashburn and Myrtle the ground is moraine sand and gravel, quick to drain but under colder nights and longer snow.
A slab on the clay moves more, so the cracks in it are more likely to be live and need repair before the pour. A slab on the sand moves less but sees harder frost. The site visit tells us which one we are dealing with.
We pour outdoors from about the last week of April until mid-October, when the surface is above ten degrees and dry. The last spring frost on the lakeshore is usually gone by the end of April, and the first fall frost lands around the middle of October. Brooklin and the farms north of it run a week or two shorter at each end.
Indoor rubber surfacing for garages, basements and barns goes in all year. Most outdoor jobs are booked from a spring site visit and poured in one or two days once the weather window opens.
Most jobs give a full day to preparing the slab, because that is where poured rubber surfacing either lasts or lets go. Rubber poured over an old acrylic sealer or a painted floor has nothing to grip and peels in sheets. Rubber laid on a slab that is damp or dusty bonds to the dust, not the concrete. Rubber poured too thin over a moving crack tears along the crack.
Put an aromatic binder under a pale colour and it ambers in full sun, so a pale pool deck in Whitby gets an aliphatic binder. Edges left square and unprotected lift first. Each of these is a preparation choice, and each one is written into our quote.
We use EPDM granules for any colour that shows and SBR granules for black bases and black floors. EPDM is new rubber with the colour running right through the granule, and sunlight does not fade it, so a tan walkway or a blue splash pad in Whitby looks the same in its tenth summer. SBR comes from ground-up tires; it is black, cheaper, and the right pick for a cushion layer or a garage floor.
Polyurethane holds the granules together, and it comes in aromatic and aliphatic forms. The aliphatic one costs more but never yellows. On a dark rubber surfacing it rarely matters; on a light one in open sun it always does, and we will say which one the quote is priced on.
We come out, tape the area, look for movement and moisture in the slab, and leave a quote in writing that lists what will be poured, how deep, how many square feet, and the cost.
The first morning goes to pressure washing or grinding what is there, stripping any sealer or paint, and fixing every crack that is still moving.
Once clean and dry, the surface is primed so the rubber surfacing grabs it, and the coping, drains and edges are masked.
Granules and polyurethane binder go into the mixer at the job, and the mix is troweled by hand to the depth on the quote, with the edges shaped so water runs off and not under.
Overnight the rubber surfacing cures. Feet are fine the next day; cars and heavy use wait two to three days.
Pool decks, steps, garages, playgrounds, gyms and barns finished in poured rubber surfacing across Whitby and Durham Region.
Whitby Rubber Surfacing works everywhere in the Town of Whitby, from the harbour and Heydenshore up through Downtown Whitby, Pringle Creek, Blue Grass Meadows, Lynde Creek, Williamsburg, Rolling Acres and Taunton North to Brooklin, Ashburn and Myrtle. Ajax is about ten minutes west along the 401, and Pickering is another ten past that.
The service area runs north past the 407 to the moraine farms where the horses are. A site visit anywhere in it is free, and the rubber surfacing quote that follows is written for that address.
Call us at +1 289-307-8672 and describe the surface. A free site visit follows, and then a rubber surfacing quote in writing.
Covering an existing pool deck, patio, garage floor or set of steps with rubber surfacing commonly costs $8 to $16 a square foot in Durham Region; thickness, colour, binder and how much slab preparation is needed all move it. Playgrounds cost more because they are poured much thicker. The written figure after our visit is the one that counts.
Yes, provided the cracks have gone quiet. Rubber surfacing flexes and bridges hairline and static cracks. One that widens every spring gets repaired first, and the quote says so.
Most residential rubber surfacing jobs in Whitby take one or two days, with the first day spent on preparation. Walk on it the following morning; park on it after two or three days.
It does. Rubber surfacing drains, flexes below zero, and is not scaled by road salt. Clear snow off it with a plastic-edged shovel, as you would anywhere.
EPDM granules come in a wide range of solid colours that mix together, so a rubber surfacing top layer can be tan, grey, blue, green, red or a mix. Black SBR is used for garages, gyms and cushion layers.
Describe the surface, its rough size and its condition, and we will phone to set up a free site visit. A name and a number are enough to send it. Phoning is fine too, and the number is +1 289-307-8672.
