Sudbury Rubber Surfacing
Sudbury, Ontario ยท The Nickel City
Sudbury Rubber Surfacing lays poured-in-place rubber surfacing across pool decks and garage floors, driveways and patios, steps, playgrounds and gym floors, working for homeowners, schools, daycares and property managers right across Greater Sudbury. Every job is fully insured before the first tool comes off the truck. A free site visit opens each job and a written quote closes the visit; that quote spells out product, depth, square footage and total, so nothing is left to guess at.
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Tell us which surface needs covering and its rough size, and a free visit gets booked. Or call +1 705-805-5827.
We do one trade, poured rubber surfacing, and do it across the whole of Greater Sudbury, from Lively to Capreol. The rubber is mixed on site, troweled by hand over whatever surface is already there, and left to cure into one seamless sheet with no joints, no edges to lift and no cracks to fill next spring.
The quote you receive is written, itemized and free. It tells you which granule and binder, how deep in inches, how many square feet, and the cost. Every job is fully insured before the first tool comes off the truck. If you want to see how the work is planned before you book, read about the company or get in touch and ask for a site visit.
Six rubber surfacing services cover every slab, deck and yard in Greater Sudbury.
We pour cushioned, slip-resistant rubber surfacing over concrete and paver pool decks throughout Greater Sudbury. The old deck stays as the base, the cracks and spalling disappear under the pour, and the new surface stays cool and grippy when wet. Every job is fully insured before the first tool comes off the truck.
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We pour dense, salt-proof rubber surfacing over pitted garage floors and cracked driveways across Greater Sudbury. The slab or asphalt you have stays in place, the pits and flaking are covered, and the new floor takes tires, snowblowers and dripping brine without breaking down. Every job is fully insured before the first tool comes off the truck.
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We install poured-in-place playground rubber surfacing at schools, daycares, churches, parks and in backyards across Greater Sudbury. The equipment's fall height fixes the depth; the surface drains, stays put, and comes in whatever colours and patterns the school or family picks. Every job is fully insured before the first tool comes off the truck.
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We resurface patios, front steps, porches, landings and walkways with slip-resistant, seamless rubber surfacing anywhere in Greater Sudbury. The concrete, pavers or wood underneath stays as the base, and the new surface drains, grips and covers every crack. Every job is fully insured before the first tool comes off the truck.
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We pour seamless rubber surfacing floors for home gyms, garage gyms, basement workout rooms, school weight rooms and commercial fitness studios across Greater Sudbury. The floor absorbs dropped weights, deadens noise, has no mat edges to curl and mops clean. Every job is fully insured before the first tool comes off the truck.
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We pour rubber surfacing for horse barn aisles and wash bays, daycare yards, seniors' residences, hotel and store entrances, church steps and splash pads across Greater Sudbury. The surface drains, grips when wet, quiets hooves and footsteps, and takes years of salt and traffic. Every job is fully insured before the first tool comes off the truck.
View Commercial and Equestrian SurfacingRubber surfacing is porous, so spring meltwater and salt brine drain through it instead of sitting on top and refreezing.
Rubber surfacing stays slip resistant when it is wet, which matters on a pool deck in July and on front steps in March.
Rubber surfacing bridges the hairline and static cracks that Sudbury slabs pick up, because the finished sheet flexes instead of snapping.
The surface stays noticeably cooler on bare feet than concrete or stone does on a humid Sudbury afternoon.
The finished sheet has no seams, so weeds have no joints to grow in, there are no trip edges and no interlock to reset every year.
It is a soft landing for children, older knees and dropped dumbbells alike.
Rubber surfacing is laid straight onto the surface you own today, so the old concrete, asphalt or pavers stay put and act as the base.
It shovels cleanly and shrugs off road salt in a way that concrete never does.
The surface is pressure washed, and where there is old sealer, paint or a glossy finish it is ground off, because rubber surfacing only bonds to clean, bare material.
Cracks are cut out and filled, loose patches are removed, and a crack that still shifts from year to year gets a proper repair before anything is poured on top.
A primer is rolled on so the rubber surfacing grips the base, and the granules and polyurethane binder are mixed on site to the colour and thickness on your quote.
The mix is spread and hand-troweled to the depth in the quote, working from the far edge back to the exit so the whole area is finished in one continuous pour.
Overnight the rubber surfacing is firm enough to walk on; vehicles wait a further two or three days. Most home jobs in Sudbury wrap up in one or two days.
Pool decks, garages, playgrounds, steps and barn aisles poured across Greater Sudbury and the Valley.
We measure the surface, check it for sealer, moisture and moving cracks, and set the thickness with you. The written quote follows and covers everything from preparation to the final trowel.
We put a porous rubber surface over slabs that have been spalled by that cycle, and the new surface lets water drain through instead of holding it. Sudbury winters are not a weekly freeze and thaw the way southern Ontario gets; here the ground and the concrete stay frozen from December into March. Then the thaw arrives in a rush, meltwater and salt brine sit on a slab that is still frozen an inch down, and the top layer pops off in flakes.
Rubber surfacing does not trap water. The binder holds the granules apart just enough for melt to pass through to the base, and the rubber itself does not care whether it freezes. That is why a pitted driveway or garage floor in New Sudbury can be covered rather than torn out.
We cover cracked, hot and slippery pool decks with a cushioned rubber surfacing layer, three-eighths to one half of an inch of it. Most backyard pools in Greater Sudbury sit in the South End and New Sudbury, on decks that were poured decades ago and have spent thirty or more winters under snow. The concrete is spalled in patches, the control joints have opened up, and the surface is rough enough to take skin off a knee.
One pour fixes all three problems. It is soft, it is slip resistant when wet, and it is markedly cooler than concrete in direct sun. Read more on the pool deck rubber surfacing page.
We pour a dense black rubber surfacing layer over garage floors that have been eaten by road salt dripping off two vehicles a night for twenty years. Much of the old city is built on Canadian Shield rock with a thin skin of fill over it, so the slab sits cold and damp all winter and the brine has nowhere to go but into the concrete.
A rubber surfacing floor in a garage is usually poured in SBR granules to a depth of anywhere from three-eighths up to three-quarters of an inch, and it takes tire chains, snowblowers and dropped tools without marking. The old pits and flaking are covered for good, and salt does not attack rubber the way it attacks cement.
We install poured playground surfacing where the equipment's fall height decides how deep the pour goes, usually an inch and a half at the shallow end and four inches or more at the deep end. Greater Sudbury has more than two hundred municipal playgrounds and dozens of school yards run by the Rainbow and Sudbury Catholic boards, and a great many of them are still on loose mulch or pea gravel.
Loose fill scatters, goes thin beneath the swings and freezes into a solid slab in January. Poured rubber surfacing does none of that. It stays where it was troweled, drains through, and is the same depth under the slide in March as it was in June. Details are on the playground safety surfacing page.
We resurface steps, landings and walkways with a slip-resistant rubber surfacing layer that lets meltwater drain through rather than glaze on top. A concrete step in Minnow Lake or the Flour Mill holds a thin film of water at dusk, the temperature drops, and by morning the step is a sheet of ice under a dusting of snow.
The surface is porous, so that film drains away, and it stays grippy when it is wet. Steps, porches and the path from the driveway to the door are all covered on the rubber surfacing on steps, walkways and patios page.
We pour over patios that have cracked because half the slab sits on bedrock and the other half sits on frost-prone fill. That is a common arrangement on the hilly lots off Long Lake Road, Ramsey Lake Road and around Copper Cliff, where the builders poured concrete onto whatever the lot offered. One half of the slab does not move in winter; the other half lifts an inch. The crack that results is the kind rubber surfacing bridges without trouble, as long as it has stopped growing.
If a crack is still moving from season to season, the slab is repaired or cut first. Then the rubber goes down in one pour and the patio reads as one unbroken piece.
We install rubber surfacing in basement gyms, garage gyms and commercial fitness rooms across Greater Sudbury, usually in black SBR with coloured EPDM lines or logos if wanted. A dropped kettlebell on a bare slab rings through the whole house; on three-quarters of an inch worth of poured rubber surfacing it lands with a thud and the slab is untouched.
There are no mat edges on a seamless floor, nothing to curl and nothing to trap sweat, and a mop cleans it. See the rubber surfacing for gyms and fitness rooms page.
We pour rubber surfacing for horse barns around Hanmer and Whitefish, for daycare yards, for seniors' residences, hotel walkways, church steps and store entrances anywhere inside Greater Sudbury. A horse standing on a concrete aisle all day is hard on its legs; the same horse on rubber surfacing stands quieter and slips less on a wet floor.
Commercial entrances take the worst of the salt and the foot traffic, and rubber surfacing takes both without pitting. Read the barn and commercial rubber surfacing page for the full range.
We offer two granule types and explain the difference on the site visit. EPDM is virgin rubber, dyed through the whole granule rather than coated, and sun does not fade it; it is what you see on the top layer of a tan pool deck or a blue splash pad. SBR comes from shredded tires, so it is black only, cheaper by the bag, and the sensible pick for a garage, a gym or a cushion layer under coloured EPDM on a playground.
The binder counts for as much as the granule does. An aliphatic binder costs more but will not amber a light colour in the sun. A pale tan poured with the cheaper aromatic binder can yellow over a few summers, and the quote will always say which binder is being used.
We pour only when the surface is dry and the temperature is about ten degrees and climbing, which in Greater Sudbury means roughly late April through October. The rubber needs a dry cure, so a wet week in a rainy October or a cold snap in May can push a job by a few days.
Booking early matters. Rubber surfacing jobs in Sudbury stack up in June and July when the pools open, and a spring site visit gets you a written quote and a place in the calendar before the rush.
We price every job from the site visit, not from a chart. Around here, an existing pool deck, patio, walkway or garage floor takes rubber surfacing for something like eight dollars a square foot at the low end and sixteen at the high end; a playground is fifteen to thirty dollars or more, the pour being several times deeper. A minimum charge is built in for small jobs.
The written quote is the only real number. It states product, binder, depth in inches, square footage and total. If a surface needs grinding, crack repair or a moving slab dealt with first, that is spelled out too.
We pour over concrete, asphalt, interlock and pavers, stamped concrete, wood decks, compacted stone base and even worn-out old rubber. The base is the surface you already own, left in place, and that is the reason rubber surfacing costs less than tearing out a slab and pouring new.
What the base cannot be is sealed, painted, oily, wet or crumbling. When a rubber surfacing job fails, the failure nearly always started in the base: rubber poured over old sealer peels, rubber poured over a dusty slab lifts, and rubber poured too thin wears through at the door. How well the base is prepared fixes how long the surface lives, and that is why it takes up most of the first day.
We work everywhere inside the City of Greater Sudbury boundary, which since the 2001 amalgamation runs from Whitefish and Lively in the west to Coniston and Wahnapitae in the east, and north through Azilda, Chelmsford, Val Caron and Hanmer to Capreol. Rubber surfacing crews cover the old city neighbourhoods of the South End, New Sudbury, Minnow Lake, the Donovan, the Flour Mill, Gatchell, the West End and Copper Cliff, and the Valley communities on the flatter, deeper soils inside the Nickel Basin.
Chelmsford and Hanmer are each about twenty-five minutes from downtown, Garson, Azilda and Coniston about fifteen, and Lively about twenty. Rubber surfacing site visits are booked by area so that a morning in Val Caron can take in Hanmer and Azilda too.
Call +1 705-805-5827 and a free visit is booked anywhere in Greater Sudbury. The written quote arrives with the product, thickness, area and price on one page.
Pool decks, patios and walkways normally get rubber surfacing ten to twelve millimetres deep, which is three-eighths of an inch to half an inch. That depth covers spalling and hairline cracks, gives a cushioned, slip-resistant walking surface, and keeps the deck level with the coping and the door thresholds.
Yes, as long as the slab is sound and not sealed or painted. A salt-pitted garage floor in Sudbury is one of the most common jobs, and the rubber surfacing goes down over the pits once the slab has been ground and cleaned. Any oil stains have to be removed first because rubber will not bond through them.
No. Rubber surfacing is flexible, so it moves with the slab through the deep Sudbury freeze and the spring thaw without splitting. The one thing it cannot do is hold together a crack that grows wider every year, so that kind of crack is repaired before the pour.
Foot traffic is fine the next day. Vehicles, furniture and heavy use wait two full days and sometimes three, depending on how warm and dry the weather is. Cooler, damper days late in the Sudbury season stretch the cure a little.
No. The site visit is free and the quote that follows is written, itemized and free too. It names the granule, the binder, the thickness in inches, the area in square feet and the total price, so two quotes can be compared line by line.
Describe the surface as best you can; we phone you to set the visit. The form sends with just a name and a number. If talking is simpler, the number is +1 705-805-5827.
