A Good Rubber Job And A Bad One Look The Same At First
Rubber resurfacing looks similar whether it was installed properly or not, and the difference does not usually show up until a season or two in, when a poorly bonded surface starts to peel at the edges or a poorly mixed batch fades unevenly. The difference is almost always in what happened before the rubber went down: whether the slab was actually sound, whether it was cleaned and primed properly, and whether the mix was measured rather than eyeballed.
Materials We Use
Two base materials make up most of what we install. Black recycled rubber, known in the trade as SBR, is the lower-cost option and the standard choice for driveways, garage floors and barn aisles, where appearance matters less than durability. Coloured rubber, known as EPDM, holds its colour far longer in direct sun and is the standard choice for pool decks, playgrounds and patios, where the surface is on display. Most jobs use one or the other, and some use both together, a coloured wear layer poured over a black base.
Where We Work
Belleville is home base, but the rubber resurfacing work runs the length of the Bay of Quinte: Quinte West and Trenton to the west, Napanee to the east, Prince Edward County across the water, and Stirling-Rawdon and the country north of the city. A farm property outside Belleville is no more of an outlying call than a driveway downtown.
How A Price Gets Put Together
We do not quote a rate over the phone. Somebody comes out, measures the area, checks the slab for movement, moisture and drainage, and puts a fixed price in writing based on what that specific surface needs. A cracked pool deck and a settled one are not the same job, even at the same square footage, and the quote reflects that rather than treating every surface the same.