Concrete

Cracked concrete is usually a base problem, not a concrete problem. Poured over soft or unconsolidated ground, a slab settles unevenly and splits — and no finish saves it after that. We excavate, build and compact the sub-base, set forms to a fall that drains away from the house, place reinforcement, then pour, screed, float, and finish. Control joints go in at sensible spacing so the slab cracks where we decided rather than where it chooses, and edges are tooled rather than left raw. Broom, salt, and exposed-aggregate finishes, walkways, patios, driveways, landings, and steps — plus the footings and mow strips that sit under the rest of a landscape build. Around here that also means keeping heavy clay and mature tree roots in mind, both of which will move a slab that ignored them.