Barn Aisle Rubber Surfacing Is Easier On Horses Than Concrete
We put rubber surfacing down the barn aisle, in the wash stall, the grooming bay and the tie area, so a horse stands on a cushioned, grippy floor instead of bare concrete. A horse standing in cross-ties on concrete for an hour is putting its weight on a floor with no give; on a wet concrete wash bay the same horse can slip and go down.
In a barn, poured rubber surfacing is usually black SBR, half an inch to three-quarters deep, seamless from stall front to stall front. Barn rubber surfacing drains, is quiet under shod hooves, and hoses off. Boarding and lesson barns on the rural fringe around Hanmer, Whitefish and Wahnapitae are the usual rubber surfacing customers.
Commercial Entrances In Sudbury Take Salt, Ice And Foot Traffic All Winter
We resurface the entrance ramps, steps and walkways of stores, clinics, hotels, churches and offices with rubber surfacing that does not pit from salt or glaze with ice. A concrete entrance on the Kingsway, on Regent Street or on Lasalle gets salted every day from December to March and has to be repaired every few years. The salt and the meltwater have nowhere to go on concrete.
Rubber surfacing drains, stays slip resistant when wet and is unbothered by salt. Rubber surfacing also softens the noise of foot traffic at a hotel entrance and gives a wheelchair or a walker a surface with grip on a ramp.
Daycares, Seniors' Residences And Splash Pads All Want The Same Rubber Surfacing Qualities
We pour rubber surfacing where a fall is more likely or more serious: daycare yards, patios at retirement residences, walkways at long-term care homes and the decks of splash pads. A daycare yard gets a thicker cushion layer sized to the play equipment. A seniors' patio gets a firmer, thinner rubber surfacing that a walker rolls across without effort but that is still softer than concrete to land on.
Splash pads and outdoor pool surrounds at community centres get a coloured EPDM top layer bound with aliphatic polyurethane so the blues and tans stay true in the sun.
We schedule commercial rubber surfacing around opening hours, pouring an entrance in sections so the door is never closed, or a barn aisle one stall at a time so the horses can come back in. The base is ground or washed, any coating is stripped, cracks are repaired and the surface primed. The mix is troweled out to the quoted depth, and by the next morning each section is open to foot traffic.
Larger yards are sized the same way as a playground, with the depth set by how far a child can fall from the equipment.