Patio cracked, sinking or slick when the hose is running? We pour a new concrete slab with a finish picked so your feet stay put.
Concrete patio construction in Balch Springs means our crew sets forms, the wood or metal molds that hold the shape, lays steel inside them and pours the concrete in, so you end up with a flat, square outdoor slab built to fit your yard.
Most people who call Balch Springs Concrete about a patio have an old one that's cracked, chipping or sunk at one corner, or a bare patch of yard they're tired of mowing around. We're based in Balch Springs and work across the cities around it, including Mesquite, Garland, Forney and Lancaster. The price moves with the size of the patio, the finish you pick, whether there's old concrete to break out and haul off, and how easily the truck can reach the back of the house. The schedule turns mostly on the weather on pour day and, when the job has a permit, on the city's inspection. When I come out, I measure the job and write down what the price covers, so you can see where your money goes.
The city issues permits for driveway, approach and flatwork jobs, and its permit list names those, not patios, so I don't assume either way on your job. We check with the city's permits and inspections office each time, and if your patio needs a permit, we file it, book the inspections and set the pour date around them.
Here's who does what, from the first visit to the day the forms come off. I started this business in 2023 after years of learning concrete next to my dad, and I still run it hands-on.
Once you reach us, I come out to measure and look the site over with you, and I do every estimate myself instead of sending someone else. It's the time to show me where the table and grill go and how you use the yard.
You get a written estimate that spells out what the price covers, and once you say yes, we take care of the permit side and set the pour date around the inspection. We're licensed and insured.
I'm on the job with our crew from the forms through the pour and the cleanup, so the person who walked your yard at the estimate is the one watching the concrete go in. Your satisfaction, guaranteed. Call (214) 286-6733 when you're ready to get on the schedule.
Most folks want a patio that isn't slick when the hose is running, so I talk about the finish before we set a single form, and I often steer people toward a broom finish, a light texture dragged across the fresh concrete that gives your feet something to grip. Once we've settled the size, shape and finish, we set the forms and the steel, and I check the forms twice and measure again before I call the truck, because a mistake inside the forms gets poured in for good. When the concrete shows up, we keep the mix stiff instead of adding water to make it easier to place, which is harder on the crew and better for your slab.
A patio often isn't the only piece of the job. If you'd like pattern and color instead of a plain broom texture, our stamped concrete services cover that, and if you want a path from the patio out to the driveway or the gate, we handle it as part of our concrete sidewalk building work.
The work itself goes in four steps, and each one sets up the next.
If there's an old slab, we break it up and haul it away first, because pouring over cracked concrete just gives the old cracks a new place to show up. That leaves us a clean start for the new layout.
We set the forms and lay the rebar, the steel bars that hold the slab together if it cracks. When the job has a permit, we hold the pour until the city has looked at both.
On pour day we place and level the concrete, put on the finish you picked and cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a straight line to crack along as it shrinks. We cut them on time, because joints cut late or skipped are how cracks end up in places nobody chose.
Curing is the wait while the concrete hardens and gains strength, and we keep the surface from drying out too fast during it so the top doesn't turn weak and dusty. We pick up and haul off the leftover material, and I'll tell you when the patio's ready to use.
Send a few lines about the patio you have in mind and we'll reply within one business day. The estimate is free, in person and obligation-free, and it starts with me coming out to measure and look the site over with you, then putting what the price covers in writing.
(214) 286-6733A concrete patio in the Dallas area usually costs about $6.50 to $13 per square foot. That's what the work tends to run around here, not a quote from us, and plain broom work sits toward the low end while extras like a stamped pattern or tearing out an old slab push it up. Your own number comes from the written estimate after I've measured.
A coarse broom finish is the safer pick for a patio that gets wet. One building materials guide reports that a hard steel-troweled finish, the smooth, slick surface you see on a lot of garage floors, is hazardous on outdoor patios when wet, and that a broom finish is far less slippery. If a hose, a sprinkler or a pool is close by, ask for a broom finish.
A calm, humid day is better for a pour than a windy, sunny one. Hot-weather guidance for concrete says wind and sun call for stricter precautions than a still, muggy day, even at the same air temperature, and crews may pick a time of day or night when the weather cooperates. So expect a little give in your start time.
If your patio is permitted as flatwork, yes. Under the city's flatwork permit conditions, the forms and steel have to be inspected before any concrete goes in, so the pour date waits on that inspection, and the address and permit have to stay posted at the job site the whole time. When your job needs a permit, we book the inspection and plan the pour around it.
Balch Springs is part of the Blackland Prairie, the band of ground that runs from north of Dallas down to San Antonio, and its clay shrinks and swells a lot as it dries out and soaks back up. That ground keeps moving under a patio through every wet spell and dry spell, so it's fair to ask any contractor, us included, how the patio plan deals with it. I'll tell you what I see at your house and what I can't know until the old slab is out.
That moving ground is a big part of why we keep the mix stiff. Concrete industry guidance says less water for the same amount of cement makes stronger concrete, and that a slab shrinks in direct proportion to the water in the mix, so a wet, easy mix gives you more shrinking on top of ground that's already shifting. Ask how a bid keeps the water down, and you'll get a straight answer from me.
Call (214) 286-6733 or use the form with your address, a rough size and the finish you're leaning toward, so the first visit can get straight to measuring.
If you're still deciding between a broom finish and something fancier, send a message and I'll talk it through with you.
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