Concrete Sidewalk Building in Pembroke Pines FL - an even walk to your front door

Most people call us when the old walk has cracked and lifted into a trip hazard, or when there's still a worn dirt path where a walk should be. The price mostly moves with how long and wide the walk is, whether an old slab has to come out first and how many places it meets the driveway, the house or the street, and the schedule turns on the city permit, the weather on pour day and the wait while the concrete cures. We're based in Pembroke Pines and work across the cities around it in Broward and Miami-Dade, so if your concrete driveway needs work too, we can look at both on one visit. At the estimate I walk the job with you and explain what's in the price, so you know your own figure before you decide anything.

On the walk, the big question is where your new sidewalk meets the driveway, the house or the street, so I mark those spots with you and show you where the joints will go. If the route reaches a swale or the city sidewalk, we sort out the city side first, before anyone digs. Then we dig out the path and pack the subgrade, the soil the slab sits on, because a base that's only raked level settles with the dirt and takes the walk down with it. When a budget gets tight, the base is the first thing people want to trim because nobody sees it on day one, and it's the last place I'd cut. We set the forms so the walk falls away from your house instead of toward it, then pour and give it a broom finish, a light brushed texture that gives your shoes grip when it's wet. We cut the control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a planned place to crack, while the concrete is still young enough for a crack to follow the line, and we let it cure, the waiting stretch while it gains strength, before we clean up and hand it over.

A sidewalk is flatwork, our word for slabs laid on the ground, so it often comes up alongside other jobs. If the walk starts at your garage, it's a good time to look at garage floor concrete while we're already set up, and if you'd like more than a plain gray walk, decorative concrete can add color or a pattern to it.

The city's Engineering Division issues engineering permits for construction on private property, public rights-of-way and easements, and sidewalks are on its list, so even a walk that stays on your own lot is worth planning with a permit in mind. Where the walk runs changes what else the city wants. If it ties into the existing city sidewalk or curb out front, that change needs a separate permit unless the Engineering Division approves otherwise, and city code makes it unlawful to reshape or pave a swale, the low grassy strip between your yard and the street, without a permit from the Building and Zoning Department. When your job needs a permit, we take care of the application and the paperwork the city asks for as part of the work, and if it's unclear, we check with the city's building office before anything starts.

Most walks we build here run from a driveway to the front door or out to the city sidewalk, so the work usually comes down to how cleanly those tie-ins are planned. We see the same layouts on jobs in Miramar and Cooper City, and we mark the joints there the same way, with you, before the pour.