Stamped patios, driveways and flatwork across the Twin Cities metro. An owner run crew that pours the decorative work and the structural work, with our own line pump for the sites a mixer truck cannot reach.
Stamped patios are what we pour most. Done right, one turns the back of a house into the part of the property people spend their evenings on, and it still looks the way you chose it years later. The pattern and color are what you see. The base, the thickness, the jointing and the sealer are what decide how long you keep seeing it.
One crew for the decorative work, the structural work and getting concrete to where the truck cannot go.
Stamped patios in the patterns and colors you actually want, poured with the base, jointing and sealer that keep them looking right season after season.
Learn moreNew driveways and full tear out and replacement. Proper base, proper thickness, joints cut where they belong, so it does not crack the way the last one did.
Learn moreFoundation walls, footings and frost walls for new builds, additions and garages, formed and poured to the depth Minnesota code requires.
Learn moreBackyards, basements and anywhere the truck cannot back up to. Line pumping so the pour reaches the form instead of the wheelbarrow.
Learn moreWalks, front steps, stoops and garage aprons. The small pours people put off, done with the same base work and jointing as the big ones.
Learn moreCustom poured countertops, bar tops and vanities, taken on between flatwork jobs. Call to see what the schedule looks like.
Learn moreWe also pour pool decks, steps, sidewalks, garage aprons, floating slabs, exposed aggregate and tear out and replacement.
Randle quotes the work and the crew on your property answers to him. No call center, and no surprise about who shows up. Half the decisions that affect a finished slab get made on site with the trucks rolling, which is a reason to know who is standing there.
Patterns, colors and borders picked on site from real samples, over base work that would hold a driveway. The finish is only as good as what is under it, which is why the two halves are quoted together.
Compacted base in lifts, thickness matched to the load, and joints cut where the slab wants to move rather than where they are convenient. On anything with a footing under it, that footing bears at least 42 inches below finished grade, which is the Zone II minimum in Minnesota Rules 1303.1600.
We tell you what the site needs, what can wait, and where you honestly sit in the season. Estimates are free, they are written down, and they spell out base, thickness, reinforcement, finish and jointing so you can hold ours next to anybody else's.
We pour March to mid-October, and that window fills in the order it was booked. Homeowners who get quoted early pick their date. Homeowners who call mid season pick from what is left.
December through March is when we walk properties, work out specifications and set the following season's schedule. It is the quietest stretch of our year and the easiest time to get our full attention on your project.
March to mid-October. Stamped work has a narrower window inside that, because the slab has to set at a rate the crew can stamp against, and that rules out the hottest and the coldest ends of the season.
Call in June about a driveway and we will tell you honestly where you sit in the queue rather than promise a date we cannot hold. Call in January and you are choosing from an open calendar.
We run out of Carver and pour across the Twin Cities metro, weighted toward the southwest side where the shop is. Thirty towns have their own page on this site, and those are the ones we are in most often rather than a fence around the map.
If your town is not below, that is not a no. Call 612-221-2181 with the address and you will get a straight answer in about ten seconds, including if the honest answer is that somebody closer to you should do it.
A patio you have been thinking about for two summers, a driveway that finally cracked through, footings for an addition, or a pour nobody else can reach. Send the details and we will set a time to look at the site with you. Prefer to talk? Call or text 612-221-2181.
Call or text612-221-2181 See our workPatios, driveways, walls and poursWe work out of Carver across the Twin Cities metro, weighted toward the southwest side. That takes in Carver and Scott counties, most of Hennepin and much of Dakota, including Chaska, Chanhassen, Victoria, Shakopee, Prior Lake, Savage, Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Edina and the towns around them, and it takes in Minneapolis and the north metro. Thirty towns have their own page here. If yours is not one of them, call 612-221-2181 and ask.
Our pour season is March to mid-October. Outside that window the ground and the temperature start working against the pour: the subgrade gets harder to prepare, and a fresh slab has to be protected to gain strength before it freezes, which costs real money. It can be done and it does get done on build schedules that demand it. We quote and schedule year round, and the flatwork happens inside that season.
Earlier than most people expect. The pour season is short and it books in the order it was sold, so December through March is when we walk properties, work out specifications and set the following season's calendar. If your driveway is failing now, getting it quoted in that stretch is how you get poured early in the season rather than waiting months for an opening.
Footings have to bear at least 42 inches below finished grade. That is the Zone II minimum in Minnesota Rules 1303.1600, and it is a bearing depth, meaning where the bottom of the footing sits, not cover over reinforcing steel. Absent an engineer's design based on soil mechanics it applies to anything carrying a house, an addition, an attached garage or a stoop. Freestanding decks and small light frame accessory buildings have their own exceptions in the rule, and a patio or a driveway slab is not a footing and never needed frost depth.
The old slab gets broken out and hauled off the property, the subgrade is cut to depth and any soft spots corrected, then compacted aggregate base goes in and grade is set so water leaves the building. After that it is forming, reinforcement where the loads call for it, the pour and finish, and control joints cut on time, roughly ten to twelve feet apart on a four inch slab and to about a quarter of its depth. Skipping the base and repouring on what is already there is why some driveways crack twice.
On site, with samples. Pattern families like ashlar, slate, seamless stone and wood plank read very differently depending on how big the patio is and how much you see at once. Color is two decisions rather than one: a base color for the slab and a release color worked into the texture to give the pattern depth. We would rather you see the two together on a board than pick from a chart, and a contrasting border is usually the cheapest thing that lifts the whole patio.
Usually, and it is a large part of why we can take jobs other crews pass on. We run our own trailer mounted line pump, so concrete goes through hose around the house, through a gate, down a walkout or into a basement, and the mixer truck stays at the street instead of on your lawn. Hose needs a route on the ground. If a pour genuinely has to be placed up over a roof, that is a boom pump job and we will say so.
Tell us what you are planning, a patio, a driveway, a foundation or a pour you cannot reach. We will look at the site, explain what it actually needs, and give you a free written estimate.