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If your patio and walkways came with the house and have never been finished, you are starting from the easiest position there is. A newer slab is flat, sound and carries none of the old sealer an established property collects, so preparation is lighter and the color you choose is the color you get. What newer concrete does need is time, and Chandler houses are often ready for it sooner than their owners think. Every exterior floor we lay here is finished in UV stable polyaspartic once the slab is ready to take it. ROC 358358, and we are licensed, bonded and insured.
Call (602) 820-7739A broom finish is a construction surface rather than a floor, and it does its job perfectly well until you start asking more of the space. The texture that keeps it from being slippery in the wet also holds dirt in every groove, which is why sweeping never quite finishes the job and why the patio looks dusty again a day after you clean it. It is porous as well, so the first grease mark off the grill or ring off a planter goes into the slab rather than sitting on top of it, and it stays. Closing that surface is what turns it into something you mop.
You also get to make a decision the builder made for you. At the moment the color of your outdoor concrete is whatever came off the truck, and it rarely sits well against the render and the roof once the planting is in. The color layer is settled at the quote and the texture with it, so a path you cross barefoot in July can be finished smoother than a ramp you want grip on. Those two choices are worth taking your time over, because they are what you look at every day, and they are decided before we start rather than on the morning. Our Phoenix page sets out the full exterior build, stage by stage.
This is the one question with a hard answer, and it is why a new build occasionally has to wait. Fresh concrete carries moisture for weeks after the pour, and that moisture has to leave before anything closes the surface over it, or the floor lifts later from underneath rather than from use. So we check the slab for moisture instead of counting days off a calendar, and you are told either that yours is ready or when to call us back. Asking costs you nothing at the quote stage and it protects the floor you are about to pay for. Call (602) 820-7739 or fill in the quote form and we will check what you have.
Three stages on every exterior concrete coating in Chandler, AZ, and the first one decides the other two.
We mechanically grind, profile and vacuum the concrete with diamond tooling, which takes off the weathered top layer along with any old sealer. Exterior slabs almost always carry one, and a coating laid over an existing sealer has nothing to bond to. That preparation runs under every interior floor we lay: the four layers of an epoxy floor build, in order.
Cracks, spalled edges and pitted areas are cut out, filled and ground flush. Control joints are honored rather than filled over, so the slab can still move where it was designed to move instead of cracking somewhere new.
Then the system itself: a polyaspartic base, the color layer, and two coats of UV stable polyaspartic over the top, with anti-slip aggregate broadcast in where it was specified. A polyaspartic build goes down in a day, which on a driveway is the difference between one afternoon without the car and a week of it.
If you want to protect your concrete floor from damage, improve safety, and keep your space looking its best, give us a call or fill in our FREE quote form.
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