Concrete Playground Repair

Playgrounds don’t tend to have a lot of vehicular traffic, but do have a lot of precious foot traffic. Cracks in the concrete need to be repaired quickly and easily. Polyurethane repairs can be done in most any weather. Provided the concrete playground repair area can be dried before you begin, there is no need to worry about temperatures. FlexSet can be ordered with a catalyst for use in cold weather. With FlexSet, your concrete playground repair will set up in under an hour regardless of humidity or cold.

Hairline Cracks
Sealing cracks on a concrete playground repair area can be done simply using Concrete Welder, available in a cartridge format. Make sure the crack is clean and free of moisture. Open cartridge and squeeze Concrete Welder directly into the crack. Use a scraper or straight-edge to smooth the Concrete Welder out. Sprinkle sand onto filled crack. Wipe up any excess material and allow to dry for 30 minutes. Now the crack is filled and ready for use.

Large Cracks
To repair a crack in concrete playground repair area that is quickly widening, use Roklin’s FlexSet Concrete Repair Product. FlexSet provides a fast-setting repair that will be a stronger concrete crack repair with almost no interruption of playtime.

First ensure that the damaged concrete playground repair area is clean and dry. Sweep or blow out cracks so there is no loose debris. If the cracks are more than 2 inches deep, place the aggregate provided in the FlexSet package to fill in the deeper area of the crack, without going above the damaged area. Using FlexSet, carefully pour contents of bottle “a” into provided 5-gallon bucket then add special sand. Next, shake bottle “b” thoroughly and pour into sand mixture. Mix with a paddle-mixer, using a drill. (In colder months or when there is little time for the repair, catalyst can be supplied as an additive to speed the reaction.)

When mixture is completely wet, pour FlexSet onto damaged concrete and use a trowel or lute to smooth material into cracks. When repaired area becomes smooth, toss topping sand by hand over repaired area to create a uniform look and feel. The concrete playground can be re-opened in less than an hour.