Stamped concrete services in Camarillo CA - a patterned slab that holds its color

Most people who call us have a plain gray slab they're tired of, or a stamped one that's gone dull, and they want to know what a new one takes before anyone breaks ground. The price moves with the size of the area, how much old concrete comes out, how much digging and base work the ground needs, and how busy a pattern and color you pick, while the schedule turns on the weather on pour day, any permit the job needs and the cure time before sealing. Your written estimate gives you your own number, and if you're starting from bare yard, our concrete patio construction page covers the slab itself.

We start by checking where water runs across your yard, so the new slab falls away from the house instead of toward it. Then we dig out and pack the subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, because a base that's only raked level settles with the dirt and takes your pattern down with it. We set forms and lay rebar, the steel inside that keeps cracks tight, then pour early in the day so midday heat doesn't leave a weak, dusty top. While the concrete is still soft we work in the color and press the pattern, and we cut control joints, planned grooves that give the slab a place to crack, along lines that fit the pattern so any crack stays small and lands where we chose. The seal coat waits until the concrete has had time to cure, the slow hardening it does over its first weeks, and I'll talk you through resealing later on. If the budget gets tight, I'll trim the pattern before I trim the base, because nobody sees the base on day one, but you'll live with a thin one every year after.

Stamped work usually sits beside plain concrete, so we often build the pieces around it too. We handle concrete sidewalk building for the walk out to a new patio, and garage floor concrete when the slab inside your garage is cracked or sinking.

The City of Camarillo requires a grading permit before anyone does any grading, with a separate permit for each site, so a stamped patio that means reshaping part of the yard can need one before we dig. Whether your job counts is something we check with the city, which takes permit plans only online. When a job needs a permit, we handle the paperwork and plan the schedule around it, and if you'd rather pull it yourself, I'll walk you through what they'll ask for.

Here, and on the stamped work we do in Oxnard and Thousand Oaks, the usual call is a plain backyard slab someone wants to dress up, or an older stamped surface gone pale because it was never resealed. Either way, we look at what's under the old concrete before we promise anything about what goes on top.