Concrete patio construction in Pembroke Pines FL - rain runs away from your house

Most people call us when the back door opens onto muddy grass, sunken pavers or an old slab that cracked and holds puddles. The price mostly comes down to the size and thickness of the slab, how much digging and base work your yard needs, whether footings are required and the finish you pick, since a plain textured finish costs less than a stamped pattern. The schedule turns on the city's permit, the weather and curing, which is the wait while new concrete gains strength before it takes your weight. When I walk the job with you, I explain what's in the price so you know what you're paying for.

Before I sketch anything, I check your lot lines and the height of your floor, because a patio has to sit right against the house and still send rain away from it. Our crew then digs out and packs the subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, because a slab only stays as flat as what's under it. We set the forms with the slope built in, lay rebar, the steel inside that holds the slab together if it does crack, and pour early in the day so midday heat doesn't dry the top too fast and leave it weak and dusty. Then I help you pick a finish that grips when it's wet, often a broom finish, which is fine ridges dragged across the fresh surface so shoes have something to hold. We cut control joints, straight grooves that give the slab a place to crack where we chose instead of across the middle, and then leave it to cure.

If you want a pattern on top, our stamped concrete services press one into the wet slab, but on a tight budget I'd take a plain finish over a rushed base, because the base is buried on day one and it's the part that decides whether the patio stays flat. Plenty of patios also need a way in, so we can pour a concrete sidewalk from the driveway or side gate, and you reach the patio without crossing wet grass.

In Pembroke Pines, the city's rules set the height before we set a single form. Where there's no slab now, its listed requirements put a new one six inches below your home's finished floor, sloped to drain toward the back, so that decides how high the patio meets your back door and which way the water runs off it. The city's Engineering Division issues engineering permits for construction on private property, and when your patio needs one, we handle the application and the paperwork the city asks for as part of the work. If it isn't clear for your job, we check with the city before anything starts.

That slope matters here because the city says Pembroke Pines properties can flood, especially low-lying neighborhoods during long stretches of heavy rain. We see a lot of older patios that sit flat or tip back toward the house, the same thing we run into on jobs in Miramar and Davie, so where your water goes now is the first thing I look at.