Older Pool Decks In Whitby Are Slick, Hot And Chipped At The Coping
We cover a worn pool deck in rubber surfacing somewhere between three-eighths and half an inch deep so it grips wet feet, stays cooler in sun and hides the chips. The pools in Blue Grass Meadows, Rolling Acres and the south of Pringle Creek were dug in the 1970s through the 1990s, and their broom-finished concrete has been through thirty or forty lakeshore winters. The edges beside the coping are spalled, and the surface polishes smooth right where children run.
Rubber surfacing solves all three at once. It is porous, so water that splashes out sinks through instead of sitting in a film. It is rubber, so it is not a hard landing. And it is poured, so the chips and low spots disappear under it.
A Lakeshore Pool Deck Freezes And Thaws More Than It Stays Frozen
We pour a rubber surfacing that moves with the slab, because a pool deck here does not sit frozen all winter. The lake keeps daytime highs near zero through January and February while nights fall below, so meltwater soaks into the concrete and refreezes again and again. That cycle is what pops the surface off the coping and opens the control joints.
Rubber surfacing lets that water fall through itself and flexes with the slab underneath. A joint that opens a hair each spring stays bridged. The rubber surfacing does not glaze with ice in March, and pool chemicals do not stain it.
What We Do On A Pool Deck
Whitby Rubber Surfacing begins pool deck rubber surfacing work by pressure washing, grinding away any sealer, and repairing whichever cracks still move. Coping, skimmer lids and drains are masked, then the clean, dry concrete is primed.
Mixing happens at the pool; the rubber surfacing then gets hand-troweled to the depth on the quote. Coloured EPDM is used for the whole deck, in a light tan, grey or blue blend that stays cooler in sun, and a pale colour gets an aliphatic binder so the sun cannot amber it. The edge along the coping is shaped so water runs into the pool or the drain and never under the rubber surfacing. Swimmers are back on it the next day.