Concrete patio construction in Montrose CO - a slab that drains away from your house

Most people call us when the old patio has cracked, dropped at one corner or started sending water toward the house, or when there's a bare patch of yard they'd like to sit on. The price moves with the size, whether there's an old slab to break out and haul off, how much digging the ground needs and the finish you pick, and the schedule turns mostly on weather, curing time and what the office covering your address asks for. When I come out, I explain what I see and go over your own estimate line by line before you decide anything.

Before anything gets poured, I draw your patio out on paper with the slope and the control joints marked, which are cuts we make on purpose so the slab cracks along a line we chose instead of wherever it wants. Then our crew digs out the soft soil, packs a firm subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, sets the forms and the rebar, steel that holds the slab together, and pours early enough to stay ahead of the afternoon heat. We give it a broom finish, a light texture so it isn't slick when wet, cut the joints on time, and before we leave I walk you through curing, the wait while the concrete holds its moisture and gains strength, and what to skip that first winter. If the budget has to give somewhere, I'd rather trim the finish than the base, because nobody sees the base on day one but it decides whether the slab stays flat, and you can't fix it later without tearing the patio out.

A patio often ties into other work. If you want the look of stone or brick, our stamped concrete services press a pattern into the same slab, and concrete sidewalk building gives you a clean path to the patio from the driveway or a side gate.

Whether a patio needs a permit isn't settled by what the city lists, so we check before we schedule. The city's Building Services at City Hall handles permits for accessory structures, fences, residential construction and temporary structures, and its list doesn't name concrete patios, while the county runs its own Building Division. We find out which office covers your address and what it asks for, and where a permit is needed, we help you sort out the paperwork and keep you posted.

The ground is the other thing that shapes a patio here. Swelling clay is Colorado's biggest geologic hazard, and letting it dry out too much before a pour adds to the trouble, so we watch the moisture in the ground on pour day and dig down to firm soil instead of raking dirt level. We slope the patio so water runs away from the slab and your house, because concrete that sits soaked and then freezes is the kind that flakes. We see the same clay on jobs around Montrose and Delta, and it gets the same care.