Concrete Patios
Concrete Patios in Oak Creek, WI
Patio contractor for patios, walkways and sitting areas poured across Oak Creek and the south suburbs. Broom, exposed aggregate, coloured or stamped, marked out on your grass before you commit to a size. Free estimate, on your property.
Most back gardens around here have one usable summer surface, and for a lot of houses that is a strip of lawn that turns to mud in June. A patio is the cheapest way to make the back of the house somewhere you actually sit - big enough for the table, level enough for the chairs, and built so it still looks right after five winters.
What you get
- A patio sized to the furniture you own, not to a number somebody guessed from the back door.
- The finish you picked - broom, exposed aggregate, colour or a stamped pattern, priced honestly against each other before you commit.
- Walkways and paths tying the drive, the side gate and the back step together so nobody is crossing wet grass.
- Steps and a landing where the ground falls away from the house.
- An extension to a patio that was always slightly too small.
How it works
1. Tell us the shape of it
A minute on the form. Photos of the space help more than measurements, and a rough sketch on your phone is plenty to start with.
2. We come out and lay it out
We mark the footprint on the ground so you can stand in it, sort out where water is meant to go, and put a written price in your hand before we leave.
3. We pour and finish it
Ground prepared, forms set, slab placed and finished the way you chose, joints cut where they were planned, and the garden left tidy behind us.
Why homeowners here call us
- You see the outline before you buy it. Marking the real footprint on the grass settles arguments about size faster than any drawing.
- Where permits apply, we deal with them. Most back-garden slabs are straightforward, and where a permit or an inspection is needed we file it and turn up for it.
- We pour concrete, and only that. No pergola, no screen room, no outdoor kitchen carcass. Knowing one is coming changes how we set the slab out, so tell us early.
Sizing it so you do not regret it
The commonest thing people would change about a patio is not the finish and not the colour. It is that they built it smaller than they needed and knew within a month.
That happens because a rectangle looks generous chalked onto an empty lawn and stops looking generous the moment furniture stands on it. A table needs the space the table occupies, plus the distance every chair travels backward when somebody gets up, plus a route behind those chairs that does not involve stepping onto wet grass.
Which is the whole reason we mark an outline and ask you to walk around inside it. Carry a chair out and sit in the middle of it before agreeing anything. Extending a patio later means a second visit, a second set of joints and a colour that will not match. Adding two feet at the outline stage costs next to nothing by comparison.
Where a patio meets everything else
Slabs rarely fail in the middle. They go wrong at the edges, and a patio has more edges than anything else we pour.
- The house wall. The level has to leave the wall alone and let water get away from it, and that single constraint shapes the rest of the slab.
- The back door. The drop from the threshold is fixed by the house, so the patio works to it rather than the reverse.
- The lawn. Ground finishing above a slab edge holds water against it all winter. Finishing well below it leaves the edge exposed and easy to catch with a mower.
- Whatever is already there. An existing path or drive sets a level and a joint line whether or not anyone intended it to.
Where we pour
Oak Creek first, then Greendale, Greenfield and Hales Corners inland, Cudahy and South Milwaukee along the lake side, and Franklin out west. Back-garden work rarely turns on which city you are in the way driveway work does, but drainage and access change street to street, which is why we come and look.
Pouring in a neighbouring city? Start with Franklin, Cudahy, South Milwaukee and Greendale.
Reading up first
If you would rather see the numbers before anyone comes out, these are ours, worked through properly:
- what a patio costs, finish by finish
- what sits underneath any slab price
- how concrete compares with pavers and with a deck
Doing the front of the house in the same season? Our concrete driveway work is the other half of most of these jobs.
What people ask first
What finishes can I actually choose from?
Broom is the plain, grippy, hard-wearing default. Above that sits exposed aggregate, then colour, then stamped work that borrows the look of stone or plank. They are the same slab underneath; what changes is the day of finishing labour on top. We will walk you through what each one looks like weathered, not just new.
Will a new patio crack?
Every slab moves. The question is whether the movement was planned for, which is what the joints are for and why they get laid out before anything is poured rather than chosen afterwards.
Do you build the roof or the room on top?
No. We pour the flatwork. If a cover, a screen room or an outdoor kitchen is coming later, tell us at the estimate so the slab is sized and positioned for it, and bring in a builder for the structure itself.
How long until we can use it?
Foot traffic comes back quickly, furniture a little later, and we will give you the actual dates for your pour on the day rather than a rule of thumb. Anything heavy waits longer.
Where do you build patios?
Around Oak Creek and its neighbours: Greendale, Greenfield, Hales Corners, then Cudahy, South Milwaukee and Franklin. Just outside that? Ask - the answer is often still yes.
Free on-site estimate
A few quick questions, then a local concrete contractor gets in touch to arrange a free on-site estimate. "Only pricing it up for now" is a fine answer.
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