Pool Decks In Milton Are Small, Stamped And Slick When Wet
Rubber surfacing turns a slick stamped pool surround into a surface that grips when it is soaked. Most Milton pools sit in yards built after 2000, in places like Beaty, Clarke and Willmott, where the deck is a narrow strip of stamped concrete between the water and the fence. Stamped concrete is sealed to keep its colour, and that sealer is glass under wet feet.
We grind the sealer off, then pour a rubber surfacing layer that fills the stamp pattern and leaves a flat, textured, seamless deck. Rubber surfacing also runs cooler than the stamped concrete it covers, so a July afternoon in a south-facing yard stops burning feet.
Freeze-Thaw Flakes A Pool Deck Faster In Milton Than On The Lakeshore
Rubber surfacing keeps water out of the top of the slab, which is where freeze-thaw damage starts. Milton sits inland under the Escarpment without the lake to soften January nights, and the town gets more snow and more thaw-and-refreeze days than the towns down on the lakeshore. A pool deck that is closed in October sits under wet snow for five months, freezing and thawing at the surface again and again.
Three or four winters in, the coping edge starts to scale and the stamp pattern loses its face. Rubber surfacing drains meltwater through instead of holding it in a skin on top, and the slab underneath stops losing a layer each spring.
What We Do On A Milton Pool Deck Rubber Surfacing Job
Prep comes first when a pool deck gets rubber surfacing: pressure washing, grinding off any sealer, filling spalled patches, and repairing whatever crack still moves. The deck has to be dry before the primer goes on, so a wet spring day pushes the pour to the next one.
Once the EPDM granules meet the binder in the mixer, the rubber surfacing is hand-troweled three-eighths of an inch thick, sometimes closer to half, snug against the coping and the house wall. Light colours get an aliphatic binder, which keeps them from ambering under sun. The deck takes bare feet the next morning and furniture after two days.