Concrete Patios

Concrete Patios in Pleasant Prairie, WI

Patios, paths and sitting areas laid across Pleasant Prairie and Kenosha County. Plain broom through to stamped, shaped around what is already in your garden, with the outline pegged out before you decide.

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A patio is the one bit of garden work that changes how a house gets used. Somewhere flat and dry to put a table turns the back door into a room you actually go through, instead of one you look out of. It is also the cheapest square footage you will ever add to a property.

What you get

• A slab sized around real furniture, not a rectangle picked off a drawing.
• Your choice of finish - broom, exposed aggregate, colour or stamped - with each one costed against the others before you decide.
• Paths and connections joining the back door, the side gate and the drive so nobody crosses wet grass to get anywhere.
• Steps and a landing where the garden drops away from the house.
• More of what you have, where the existing patio was never quite big enough.

How it works

Why people here use us

• You stand in it before you buy it. Pegging the real outline settles the size question in about a minute, which no drawing has ever managed.
• Any paperwork it needs, we deal with. Most garden slabs are simple, and where a permit or an inspection does apply we file it and attend it.
• Flatwork only, and we say so up front. No pergola, no sunroom, no built-in kitchen. If one is coming later that changes how the slab is set out, so mention it early.

One slab, or several

A back garden is rarely one job. There is usually a sitting area, a route to it, somewhere the grill lives and somewhere the bins or the shed want a firm footing, and those tend to arrive as four separate conversations over several years.

Poured together they are one visit, one set of levels and one continuous drainage decision. Poured separately they are four mobilisations, four chances for the levels to disagree, and four slightly different colours.

That is not an argument for building everything at once. It is an argument for drawing everything at once, then building what the budget covers. Levels, falls and joint lines set by the first pour are inherited by everything that follows whether or not anybody meant them to be, so the cheap version of this is to decide them deliberately on day one.

What goes in before the concrete does

The one category of thing that cannot be added afterwards without breaking something you have just paid for.

• A conduit for lighting. Trivially cheap laid into an open trench and a genuine job once there is a slab over it.
• A sleeve across the patio. Anything that might one day have to cross the slab - a gas line to a grill, a supply to a shed, an irrigation run - wants a pipe in place now to pull it through later.
• Drainage, where the ground needs it. Not every patio does. The ones that do need it under the concrete, which is a one-time opportunity.
• The feed for a hot tub. If one is even possible later, say so, because it changes the slab thickness as well as what runs to it.

We ask about all four at the estimate. It takes two minutes and the answers occasionally save somebody from cutting open a slab they have only just paid for.

Where we work

Out from Pleasant Prairie into Bristol, Paddock Lake, Salem Lakes and Twin Lakes on one side, and Somers and Kenosha on the other. Garden work depends far less on which authority you fall under than driveway work does, but access and drainage differ house by house, which is the whole reason we come and look.

The numbers, if you want them first

Ours are set out properly here:

• what a patio costs, finish by finish
• what sits underneath any slab price
• choosing between concrete, pavers and timber by use

Front of the house on the list too? We quote concrete driveway work at the same visit.