Barrie Rubber Surfacing
Barrie, Ontario ยท On Kempenfelt Bay
Barrie Rubber Surfacing offers poured rubber surfacing for garage floors, driveways, pool decks, front steps, patios, playgrounds and commercial floors throughout Barrie and the townships around it. The work is insured from start to finish. We measure the surface at your property and give you one written price before the job is booked.
Call +1 705-805-4240.
Say which surface needs doing and about how big it is. We measure it and leave a written specification behind. Or call +1 705-805-4240.
Barrie gets more snow than almost any other city its size in southern Ontario, because it sits downwind of Georgian Bay in the snowbelt. That means more salt, more plowing, more sand and more freeze-thaw on every outdoor slab than a Toronto driveway ever sees, and a surface that would last twenty years in Mississauga can fail here in ten. We prepare and pour for the winter Barrie actually gets, and we say so on the about page.
We do not quote from a rate card. A garage floor in Allandale that was poured in 1965 and a garage floor in Painswick that was poured in 2005 need different preparation, and the written quote spells out what each one gets, what thickness of rubber goes on, and what it costs.
One service for each kind of surface. Pick the closest and we will take it from there.
A Barrie pool deck spends four months wet and seven months frozen, and Barrie Rubber Surfacing covers that concrete or interlock with poured rubber surfacing that seals the cracks, keeps its grip when soaked, and rides out the winter without splitting. The old deck is not removed. It becomes the base, which is why the work takes days rather than weeks. The work is insured from start to finish.
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More salt and sand come home on a Barrie car than almost anywhere in the province, and Barrie Rubber Surfacing seals the garage floor and driveway it all drips onto with poured rubber surfacing. The pitted concrete is not broken out; it is cleaned, repaired and covered, and the finished floor gives a tire grip on a January morning. The work is insured from start to finish.
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For daycares, schools, churches, parks and backyards around Barrie, Barrie Rubber Surfacing lays seamless poured rubber under play equipment, with the depth decided by the highest platform a child can reach. It cushions a fall, it drains, and unlike wood chips it is still there in April at the same depth it was poured in September. The work is insured from start to finish.
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Front steps, waterfront stairs, interlock patios and concrete walkways across Barrie get a new textured surface from Barrie Rubber Surfacing without a single paver or slab being removed. Poured rubber surfacing bonds over the old surface as one seamless piece, and most jobs are finished in a day. The work is insured from start to finish.
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Basement workout rooms, condo fitness rooms, studios and garage gyms across Barrie get a seamless poured rubber floor from Barrie Rubber Surfacing that takes a dropped barbell without cracking the slab and keeps the noise from carrying up the stairs. The work is insured from start to finish.
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Shop doorways, clinic ramps, terraces, retirement homes and horse barns around Barrie get a textured, seamless rubber surfacing from Barrie Rubber Surfacing, poured in phases so the building never has to close. It holds its grip wet, icy or muddy, and it hoses clean. The work is insured from start to finish.
View Commercial and Equestrian SurfacingNothing gets demolished. The rubber goes over the concrete that is already there, and the slab under a Barrie garage or pool deck simply becomes the base.
Grip comes with the material. Poured rubber holds a boot on an iced step and a bare foot on a wet deck without any extra coating.
It bends instead of breaking. A slab here moves through dozens of freeze-thaw cycles a winter, and cured rubber moves with it where a hard overlay would split.
The colour cannot wear off, because it is inside every granule rather than painted across the top.
Turnaround is short. A garage floor poured on Tuesday is parked on by Thursday.
The rubber is mostly recycled tires, which keeps them out of the landfill and keeps new stone in the ground.
What went in is written down: product, thickness and square footage on every quote, so a floor can be checked against its paperwork years later.
A short visit shows us what a photo cannot. The slab gets checked, the surface gets measured, and a written specification stays with you. There is no cost for either.
A car parked in a Barrie garage between December and March carries in more salt, sand and slush every night than a car parked almost anywhere else in the province, and it all drips onto the same patch of concrete. That is why garage floor and driveway rubber surfacing is our most common call. The rubber seals the slab, the brine stays on top, and the sand sweeps out in April.
A backyard pool in Holly or Painswick spends four months being splashed and seven months being frozen, and the concrete deck takes both. Our pool deck rubber surfacing seals the cracks around the coping, gives wet feet a surface that grips, and flexes through the winter instead of spalling the way bare concrete does.
Concrete steps facing north or shaded by a porch roof hold ice from the first freeze in November to the last one in April. Rubber surfacing for steps, walkways and patios puts a textured face on every tread that a boot can hold, and since it is poured in one piece rather than laid in tiles, frost heave has no edge to lift.
Wood chips blow around, pea gravel scatters, and both need topping up every spring after the snow melts. Our playground safety surfacing is poured to a depth that matches the equipment above it, and it keeps that depth right where a child comes down, whether the site is a daycare on Bayfield Street or a park in the south end.
The houses built across south Barrie in the last twenty years have basement slabs that are just thick enough for a finished floor and not thick enough for a dropped barbell. Our poured rubber gym and fitness flooring takes the impact and spreads it, keeps the noise off the stairs, and gives a bench leg or a toe no seam to catch.
A store or clinic entrance on Bayfield, Mapleview or Dunlop Street sees thousands of wet, salty boots come through the door each winter week, and worn concrete at a doorway is where a slip turns into a claim. Commercial and equestrian rubber surfacing lays down a textured, seamless surface at the entrance and on the ramp, and it can be poured in phases so the business never closes.
The land climbs away from Kempenfelt Bay toward Ardagh and Holly, and a lot of driveways on that side of the city run at a grade that turns to a slide the moment it ices. Rubber surfacing gives a sloped driveway a textured face with real grip, and it is one of the few surfaces that helps a car get up a hill in January rather than looking good and doing nothing.
Snow off Georgian Bay lands wet and heavy, melts on the first mild afternoon, and refreezes that night. Every one of those cycles pushes water a little further into a crack in a slab, and Barrie goes through more of them than a city further from the bay. Rubber surfacing seals the surface so water stops getting in, and it flexes through the cycle instead of cracking with the slab.
A garage floor that was painted or sealed years ago will not hold rubber surfacing: the rubber sticks to the paint, and the paint lets go of the slab. A test at the visit shows whether it is there, and grinding it off becomes a line on the quote. It is an extra line on the quote and it is the difference between a floor that lasts and a floor that peels in a year.
Black recycled rubber costs less and is the right material for a garage floor, a driveway or a barn aisle, and nobody minds how it looks. Coloured rubber costs more and keeps its colour in sun, so it goes on pool decks, patios and playgrounds. Many jobs get a coloured top over a black base.
A visit first. The surface gets measured and the slab gets checked for cracks, heave, drainage and any old paint or sealer.
Then a decision on colour, finish and thickness, all of which go on the written quote with the price.
Preparation day: cleaning, patching the broken spots, grinding off any coating, and priming.
Pour day: rubber and binder get mixed on the truck and troweled by hand to the thickness on the quote.
One to two days of curing, after which the surface takes feet, tires or hooves.
Garage floors, pool decks, park paths and barn aisles from Barrie and the townships around it.
Barrie Rubber Surfacing works every part of the city, from the older streets of Allandale and the east end near the waterfront out to Painswick, Holly and Ardagh in the south and west, and up through Cundles, Letitia Heights and Sunnidale on the north side. Innisfil, Springwater, Oro-Medonte and Essa are all inside our regular range, so a cottage deck at Big Bay Point or a barn aisle near Midhurst is not an out-of-town call.
The visit and the written price are free no matter where the job is. Our services page lists everything we install, or contact us to fix a time.
Send the form or call +1 705-805-4240. We measure the surface, match the rubber and the thickness to it, and write one fixed price.
Price follows three things: the size of the surface, the state it is in, and the preparation it needs before rubber can go on. A clean slab that only needs priming and a painted slab that needs grinding are different prices at the same square footage, so we do not quote by the foot over the phone. We measure the surface, work out what it needs, and write one fixed price. There is no charge for the visit.
Almost always, provided the cracks have finished moving. Rubber surfacing is designed to bridge hairline cracks and flaking. A crack that is still widening every spring says the ground under the slab has not settled, and that gets sorted before anything goes on top.
Years of them, if the deck was prepared properly. The preparation matters more than the rubber, which is why we spend most of the job on it. What to expect for a specific deck is something we say at the visit rather than guess at here.
Concrete, stamped concrete, interlock and asphalt, as long as they are sound and clean. Nothing is lifted or removed; the rubber bonds across the whole surface as one piece.
The next day for feet, and two days for cars or heavy use, on most jobs. A thick playground pour may need a little longer, and the timing is confirmed before the job starts.
The better we understand the surface ahead of time, the better the first visit goes. Strictly, we only need a name and a number. To talk instead, the number is +1 705-805-4240.
