Backyard Patios
Backyard patios
The patio is the outdoor room you use most. We size it for how you actually live — the table, the grill, the fire pit — and build it on the same standard as everything we pour.
A backyard patio we poured — broom finish, control joints in, forms still on. Next step: forms out, then dirt and sod to the edge.
Our standard, under every patio
- Site prep before the truck shows up — we plastic off your siding on every project, so concrete splatter never has to be cleaned up later. We have seen jobs where that cleanup was simply forgotten — and the splatter stayed.
- A compacted gravel base — a minimum 4-inch gravel base under the slab, so the concrete sits on something stable instead of raw dirt.
- Minimum 3.5-inch thickness — formed and reinforced as required for a slab that carries furniture, grills, and foot traffic for decades.
- Your choice of finish — classic broom finish, exposed aggregate, or stamped and stained.
- Control joints — concrete moves; the joints tell it where to do it, instead of letting a random crack pick the spot.
- Full cleanup — forms out, debris gone, the work area cleaned of construction debris when we leave.
- Dirt and sod after the forms come out — once the forms are pulled, we backfill the border with dirt and lay sod right up to the edge of the new concrete. The yard is finished when we leave — no landscaping left on your plate.
- One-year Concrete Flatwork Limited Warranty — concrete flatwork carries its own written warranty, in your contract, not a handshake.
Section view · illustration only, not to scale.
The best time to fix your drainage is now. While the ground is open, we can run hidden drain lines from your gutters underneath the new slab — downspout water disappears into buried pipe and comes out away from the house, instead of dumping across your new concrete. Once the concrete is down, that chance is gone. More on gutter drainage.