Concrete Patios

Concrete Patios in Burlington, WI

Patios, walkways and sitting areas poured across Burlington and Racine County. Broom, exposed aggregate, colour or stamped, chalked onto your lawn before a price is agreed. Written price, no charge.

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A garden with nowhere flat to sit is a garden you walk past. A patio fixes that for less money than almost any other change you can make to a house, and once it is down it asks nothing of you except a sweep in spring.

What the job covers

• A patio sized to the furniture you actually own and use.
• The finish you picked, priced next to the alternatives before you commit to any of them.
• Walkways linking the drive, the side gate and the back door without a muddy shortcut across the lawn.
• Steps and a landing where the garden sits lower than the house.
• An enlargement, where what you have was always slightly too small.

Three steps

What you are actually buying

• A size you chose standing in it. Chalk on grass has settled more of these decisions than any drawing we have ever handed anybody.
• Paperwork handled where there is any. Most garden slabs need very little, and when a permit or an inspection does apply, filing and attending are our job.
• Flatwork, and only flatwork. No roof, no screen room, no built-in grill. Mention a future one at the estimate, because it changes how the slab is laid out.

What we work out before we price it

A patio estimate here is mostly a water survey with a tape measure in it. Five things get established while we are standing in the garden, and each of them can change the job.

• Where the ground currently sends rain. Every garden already drains somewhere. Putting a hard surface in the middle of it redirects part of that, and the time to know where is before, not after.
• What the downspouts are doing. A downspout discharging where the slab is going has to be dealt with as part of the job. Left alone, it undermines the new patio from the edge inward.
• How much fall there is to work with. A patio has to run water off itself, away from the house, and into somewhere that can take it. Where the garden is flat, that third part is the constraint rather than the first two.
• Whether the ground is made up. Soil brought in and levelled when the house was built behaves differently under a slab from ground that has always been there, and it needs more preparation rather than less.
• What is growing nearby. Roots and a slab edge are a slow argument that the roots generally win, so the position sometimes shifts by a foot or two.

Why this gets so much attention

Because water is what finishes a patio off, and it does it from underneath where nobody is looking.

A slab that sheds properly and sits on ground that drains will take the winters here without complaint. One that holds water at an edge, or sits over material that stays saturated, is going through many more freeze cycles than its neighbour two doors down, and the surface does the work each time. That is why two patios of identical specification can look completely different at year twelve.

It also explains why we would rather spend an extra half hour in your garden than shave the same time off the preparation. The part of a patio you can see is the part that was easy.

Towns we pour in

Out of Burlington toward Waterford and Rochester, across to Union Grove, south to Lyons, and round the Browns Lake and Bohners Lake shore. Garden work depends far less on municipal boundaries than driveway work, but ground and access change property to property, which is why the estimate happens on site.

The detail, written out

Our numbers are set out in full here:

• what a patio costs, tier by tier
• how concrete, pavers and a deck each go wrong
• what sits underneath any slab price

Driveway on the list as well? We price concrete driveway work on the same call-out.