4 Top Benefits of Rubber Wheel Stops

When they think about wheel stops, many people will automatically envision a concrete or metal stop. In fact, rubber wheel stops are becoming an increasingly popular alternative for many business owners and property managers. In this article, we will examine four of the top benefits of using a rubber wheel stop at your location.

1. An Environmentally Friendly Alternative

Almost all rubber wheel stops are made from 100% recycled rubber that is sourced from a wide variety of places. This rubber could have ended up in a landfill, but instead, it’s ground up and then moulded into a wheel stop. If you believe in protecting the environment and/or if you would like to boost your green credentials with your customer base rubber stops are a great way to go.

2. Simple to Install with Basic Tools

Even a larger rubber wheel stop can be maneuvered into place and then fixed to the road surface by a single worker using basic tools. In comparison, a concrete wheel stop weighs a tremendous amount; multiple workers are needed to get in into position and cement will be needed for pouring. Even after all this effort, a concrete wheel stop will need time to cure before it’s safe to use and installing them can be ponderous at best. Rubber wheel stops are so easy to install that it’s even viable to use them in a temporary application. They are simple to deploy quickly, and then you can collect them when they are not needed any longer.

3. Tough and Durable

A concrete wheel stop can chip and crack, over time water can get into these cracks and during a freeze, they may split apart entirely. Rubber products don’t behave in this manner when they are exposed to temperature extremes. Rubber wheel stops are tremendously resilient to all kinds of bumps, scrapes and weather changes. If they are dyed to match a colour scheme or to provide a reflective surface the colours don’t fade over time. Many other stops rely on painted surfaces or tape to provide a similar function, but the colours will fade, and tape can easily wear and tear over time.

4. Flexible Surface Coverage

Although a surface may look flat in reality it isn’t, in a perfect world everything would be symmetrical and even, but we have to deal with real world construction problems. A typical surface will have, cracks, bumps, and splits that will result in an uneven surface for fixing a wheel stop. Concrete and steel wheel stops are not flexible, they are rigid straight objects and fitting them to an uneven surface can present a real challenge. The surface may have to be altered; this will involve more work and increase the cost of the project. A rubber wheel stop is far more flexible, and it can be moulded to the surface to cover up small imperfections. This makes them far easier to mount and less susceptible to damage during the installations process.

If you’re in the market for rubber wheel stops for your location contact Image Bollards, and we will be happy offer you the benefit of our extensive experience.

Supply and install high quality security bollards around Australia, we supply wide range of bollards including steel bollards, removable, along with rubber wheel stops.