Garage Floors In Whitby Scale Because Salt Brine Freezes On Them All Winter
We pour a black SBR rubber surfacing over a scaled garage floor so the brine that drips off the car lands on rubber, not on concrete. Winters here hover at the freezing mark for weeks, so the slush that comes in off Thickson Road and the 401 melts on the floor, soaks into the concrete and freezes again that night. After enough of those nights the surface flakes off in coins and the pits hold grit.
Rubber surfacing is not scaled by salt. It drains, it does not hold a puddle, and it can be hosed out in spring like any garage floor.
A Driveway Rubber Surfacing Layer Goes Over Asphalt Or Concrete
We resurface driveways in Whitby with about half an inch of rubber surfacing over the existing asphalt or concrete, once any moving crack has been fixed. Driveways on the clay plain south of Rossland Road heave a little every winter, and the asphalt cracks in the same lines each spring. Driveways up in Brooklin and Taunton North sit on sand that drains, but the nights are colder and the snow stays longer.
Rubber surfacing bridges static cracks and drains meltwater, so the drive does not ice over in a sheet. A car can park on it after two or three days. Rubber surfacing is quieter under tires than pavers and does not shift.
What We Do On A Garage Floor Or Driveway
Whitby Rubber Surfacing grinds or pressure washes the floor, strips paint or sealer, and repairs live cracks. Once dry, the surface is primed, then the rubber surfacing is mixed at the job and troweled between three-eighths and three-quarters of an inch deep on a garage floor, or around half an inch on a driveway.
A garage floor is usually black SBR, with an EPDM fleck if the owner wants some colour in it. The edge at the garage door is protected with a threshold so the rubber surfacing is not caught by a shovel or a tire. Most garage floors are done in one day and take a car after two to three days.