Concrete Patios in Doral, FL

We pour concrete patios and patio extensions for homeowners in Doral, Florida, in back yards, side yards and screened enclosures. You end up with a level outdoor slab that sheds water away from the house, doesn't turn into a puddle after an afternoon storm, and gives you usable space out of the grass.

What a patio pour involves

We strip the sod and topsoil, because organic material under a slab rots and leaves a void. The base gets built back with compacted rock, forms set the shape and the fall away from the house, and steel or fiber reinforcement goes in depending on the span. Then the pour, the hand finish, and control joints cut on a grid. Slope is the part people underestimate. A patio needs roughly a quarter inch of fall per foot, and it has to run away from your slab door, not toward it.

When a patio is worth pouring

The usual trigger is a yard you can't use. Grass that stays soggy for days, a screened enclosure sitting on cracked original concrete, pavers that have gone wavy as the sand under them washed out, or a back door that opens onto dirt. New construction and additions are the other half: once a room goes on, the slab outside it usually needs to grow too. Families also pour them for a grill area or a covered seating spot that stays clean in the rain.

Why patios crack and settle

A patio sits on the least compacted ground on the property. Back yards here were filled and graded last, often with whatever was left over, and that fill keeps consolidating for years. Add a shallow water table and roof runoff dumping along the back wall of the house, and the sand under a slab edge migrates away until the concrete is spanning open space. Patios also get poured too thin by builders trying to save a yard of concrete, and a 3-inch slab with no joints will map-crack within a couple of seasons. Ficus and black olive roots do the rest on older lots.

What affects the price

Square footage, how much demolition is involved, and access more than anything else. A back yard behind a 36-inch gate means the concrete arrives by wheelbarrow or pump instead of straight down the chute, and that's labor hours. Beyond that: how much base has to be dug out and replaced, thickness, whether drainage has to be routed to a specific point, and the finish you choose. Broom finish is the baseline. A pattern pressed into the surface costs more and takes an extra day.

Patio or pool deck?

They're different pours with different rules. The deck that wraps a pool has to meet slip resistance, heat and barrier requirements a plain patio doesn't, and the water chemistry attacks the surface. If your project touches the pool coping, it's a pool deck job. If it's a slab out in the yard or off the back door, it's a patio, and it's poured by the same crew that pours driveways.

Patio questions

Get a patio estimate

Call (786) 686-2124 or send the form. We'll measure the yard, look at where the water goes, and give you a written price.