Courts for the backyard.
Overlays for the concrete
you already have.
NorCal Surfaces builds pickleball and basketball courts, and covers cracked driveways, hot pool decks, and stained garage floors with Rubber Stone, Vuba Stone, and epoxy flake. Based in Butte County, working across Northern California.
Four reasons it goes over the concrete you already have
Rubber Stone is a poured rubber overlay. It is the surface we install most, on pool decks, driveways, barn aisles, and the walkways at senior living communities, and these are the four things every one of those customers asked about first.
Permeable
Water drains through it instead of sheeting across it and standing in the low spots. No puddles on the walkway, no slick spot by the gate.
Cooler
Rubber does not bank heat the way a slab does. A pool deck or patio stays walkable barefoot through a North State afternoon.
Non-slip
A textured, high-traction finish that keeps its grip when it is wet, which is exactly when a pool deck, wash rack, or front walk needs it.
No demolition
It goes over existing concrete, asphalt, pavers, and tile. Cracks and trip lips disappear under one continuous surface, and there is no jackhammer, no dumpster, and no new pour.
Services we offer
Game courts, Rubber Stone, Vuba Stone, and epoxy flake garage floors.
One slab, two sports
A pickleball court and a basketball half court fit on the same 30-by-50 pad. The trick is in the lines, and in deciding which sport the court is really for.
Pick the lead sport
Most families play one sport more than the other. That one gets full-strength white lines. The other gets ghost lines, painted a few shades off the court color so they are there when you want them and quiet when you do not.
Pick the colors
The playing area, the out-of-bounds, and the kitchen can each be their own color. Two-tone is the classic look. Three-tone makes the non-volley zone obvious to new players.
Pick what goes on it
A net with posts set in sleeves so it comes out for basketball. A hoop on the baseline, adjustable or fixed. If you want fencing or lights later, we lay out the pad with them in mind.
| Court | Lines | Pad we recommend |
|---|---|---|
Pickleball The out-of-bounds margin is where you actually stand to serve and chase lobs. Tight lots can work with 24 × 54. | 20' × 44' | 30' × 60' |
Basketball half court Fits a high-school key and a clipped three-point arc. Wider pads give you the corners. | Key, arc, and free-throw line | 30' × 50' |
Pickleball + basketball The most common backyard build right now. Hoop on one baseline, net across the middle, both line sets on one surface. | 20' × 44' inside the half court | 30' × 60' |
Already have a court? A faded surface gets pressure washed, crack filled, recoated in acrylic color, and re-lined. That is a few days of work, not a demolition.
Three pours, one deck
The pool deck we see most often was poured in stages. A patio in the eighties, a walkway added when the pool went in, a slab by the shed someone did themselves. Three colors of gray, three sets of cracks, and by two in the afternoon none of it is walkable barefoot.
Rubber Stone goes over all of it at once. The seams disappear under one continuous surface, the cracks are filled and covered, and the color is whatever blend you pick from the chart. Two days later you have one deck, and it is cool and soft underfoot.
Vuba Stone is the same idea with a different material: crushed marble and pebble in a clear resin, troweled smooth. It reads as stone, not rubber, and it is permeable, which makes it the pick for driveways and anywhere water needs somewhere to go.
Walk on it in a day or two
Mixed and hand troweled on site. Most residential pool decks are one day of work and a short cure.
Five-year warranty
Rubber Stone is installed by authorized dealers only, and the manufacturer backs the installed product.
Twenty-plus colors
Single colors and two- and three-color blends. Lighter blends run coolest on a pool deck.
Vuba Stone for driveways
Resin-bound stone that reads as stone, not rubber, and drains roughly twenty gallons a square foot a minute.
Built for more than backyards
What the surfaces look like
Our own courts and Vuba Stone, and product photos from the Rubber Stone manufacturer.
Court and Vuba Stone photos are our own work. Rubber Stone product photos courtesy of E.W. Industries.
Flake floors that clean with a hose
Epoxy flake chip is four layers on a properly ground slab. It hides oil, tire marks, and the stain from the water heater, and it makes the garage a room instead of a place you park.
- 1GrindDiamond-grind the slab so the coating bonds to concrete, not to whatever was on it.
- 2PrimeEpoxy primer, worked into the pores. Cracks and spalls get filled first.
- 3FlakeFull broadcast of vinyl chips to refusal. You pick the blend; there are dozens.
- 4SealScrape, vacuum, and a clear topcoat. Hot tires and dropped wrenches bounce off it.
Twenty years of courts, and a product worth becoming a dealer for
The people behind NorCal Surfaces got their start about twenty years ago installing for Sport Court, and courts have been the core of the work ever since. Pickleball changed the shape of that business: most calls now are for a pickleball court, or for a basketball court that also needs to be one.
The overlays came later. Rubber Stone has been around since the late 1980s and has more than a hundred dealers across North America, and when the territory for Shasta County opened up, NorCal Surfaces took it. Vuba Stone and epoxy flake followed, because the same customer with a hot pool deck usually has a cracked driveway and a garage floor they are tired of looking at.
NorCal Surfaces is based in Butte County and works all of Northern California.
Services, in detail
All of Northern California
Based in Butte County. Courts, overlays, and garage floors go anywhere on this list and a fair way past it. Rubber Stone territories are exclusive, and Shasta County is ours.
Butte County
Glenn County
Colusa County
Yuba County
Plumas County
North State
Sacramento Valley
Foothills
Tell us about the slab
Where it is, what is on it now, and what you want it to be. Photos help if you have them. We will call back to set up a look and get you a number.