A Nanaimo Garage Slab Never Dries Between October And April
Rubber surfacing puts a skin over the slab that does not care how wet the cars are when they come in. Winter on the island is not about road salt the way it is inland; it is about a car dripping rain and road grit onto concrete every evening for months. The water sits in the pores, the surface dusts and pits, and in an Arctic outflow week that trapped water freezes and pops the top off the slab.
A rubber surfacing floor drains that water and flexes through the freeze. Wet tires grip rubber surfacing, and a dropped socket wrench bounces instead of chipping the concrete.
Nanaimo Driveways On Slopes Are Slick When They Are Wet
Rubber surfacing gives a sloped driveway in Brechin Hill, Departure Bay or Cinnabar Valley a textured face that a wet shoe or a wet tire can hold. A smooth broom-finished driveway on a grade is fine in August and a hazard in a November downpour, and the mossy edge along the shaded side is worse.
The rubber surfacing is poured over the existing concrete, asphalt or pavers, so the slope, the drainage and the apron all stay as they are. Moss does not film over porous, granular rubber surfacing the way it does over smooth concrete.
Cracks And Oil Have To Be Dealt With Before The Rubber Goes Down
Rubber surfacing bridges hairline and static cracks but not a crack that is still moving, and it will not bond to oil, sealer or paint, so the first day on a driveway or garage job is preparation. We pressure wash or grind, degrease the parking spots, cut and fill any live crack, let the slab dry, and prime. A driveway rubber surfacing job that skips that day is a driveway that lifts in a year.
Vehicles can park on the finished rubber surfacing after about forty-eight to seventy-two hours, so we plan the pour so you are only out of the garage for a long weekend.