Old patio cracked, sinking or pooling water by the back door? We start with solid ground and pour a patio that drains.
Concrete patio construction in Post Falls means building a new slab beside your house on dug-out, packed ground, sloped so rain runs away from your foundation. We do it here and in the cities around it on both sides of the Idaho and Washington line.
Most calls start with a patio that's cracked, sunk toward the back door or holding water, or a bare patch of yard you're tired of mowing around. The job is tearing out what's there, packing the subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, setting the slope and pouring. Some folks add a concrete sidewalk out to the driveway or ask about stamped concrete, and we can go over either at the same visit.
The size, any old slab to haul out, how close the truck can get and how much the ground needs fixing move the price most, while the weather and the ground set the schedule. The city's Building Division handles plan review, issues permits and does inspections, so before we schedule I check with them and handle the application for our part when they say one's needed. Your estimate gives you the number for your spot.
Call (208) 981-9070 or use the form, and we set up a time for me to come out. I look at every job myself, so you're talking with the person who'll be there on pour day.
I walk the area with you, ask how you'll use the patio and what's underneath it now, and look at where the water runs. Then I put together your estimate, so you've got a real number for your spot before anybody digs.
We check with the city about permits and plan the pour around the weather and the ground. City inspections don't come with a set morning or afternoon slot, so we have the job ready that morning, and the city asks for the pour time so its inspectors can try to work within it.
I'm on site with our crew through the pour and the finish, and we clean up before we leave. Then the slab needs to cure, which is the wait while it gains strength, so we'll tell you when it's ready for chairs and a grill.
The base is where patios usually go wrong, because dirt that's only raked level settles later and takes the slab down with it. We dig out the soft stuff and pack the ground firm, then set the slope so water heads away from your house instead of toward the foundation. That slope is planned from the first string line, with the low edge farthest from the house.
We'd rather not pour in the midday heat, because concrete that dries too fast can end up with a weak, dusty top. We also cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a planned place to crack, before the concrete sets up hard, since late or skipped joints leave cracks wherever they please. Concrete does crack, so the goal is cracks in the lines we picked.
What a patio job with us covers:
If your patio has a few thin cracks but still sits flat and drains away from the house, a repair may be all it needs. When it's sunk, tilted toward the foundation or broken into pieces, the trouble is usually the ground under it, and patching the top won't change that. In that case I'll tell you to tear it out and start over, because a new surface on a bad base just fails again.
Size is the biggest piece, then whether we're hauling out an old slab, how far the truck can get to the spot and how much digging and packing the ground needs. A roof over it adds planning too. When the budget's tight, the base is the first thing people want to trim, since nobody sees it on day one. I'd rather you make the patio a little smaller, because the base is the part you can't fix later without starting over.
I started this business in Post Falls in 2020 after teaching myself on my own projects and learning the rest beside crews who'd been at it for years. I come out to look at every patio myself, and I'm on site with our crew for the work, so the person you talked with is the one watching your pour.
I'll walk you through what's under your patio and where the water goes, because that's the part nobody sees once it's down. I want you to know your job well enough to ask good questions, of us or anybody else you're talking to, and if something isn't settled yet, I'll check on it instead of guessing. Our work is backed by our satisfaction guarantee, so call (208) 981-9070 when you're ready to talk it over.
Pour days fill up around the weather, so call (208) 981-9070 early and we'll set a time to look at your spot.
Send the rough size, the spot by the house, whether it'll be covered and your season. We reply within one business day to book my visit, and the estimate is free with no obligation.
In the Coeur d'Alene area, a concrete patio usually costs about $7 to $15 per square foot installed, and that's the going rate around here, not a quote from us. Where yours lands depends on the size, the tear-out and the ground work we covered above. Your own number comes from the estimate after I see the spot.
Yes, Idaho requires contractor registration for anyone taking on a construction job over $2,000 in materials and labor, unless an exemption applies. It's worth asking any contractor about it, because one who needs registration and works without it can't get a building permit. State rules also have a general contractor give you a disclosure statement before signing a contract over $2,000 on your home, and we're licensed and insured.
Small construction tolerances and normal surface changes over time cause them, and a few shallow puddles, often called birdbaths, should be expected even on a sloped slab. We pitch the patio away from the house, the way guidance calls for on patio slabs within 10 feet of the foundation, and we'll tell you up front that a little standing water after a rain is normal.
A fall pour can work, but it needs a plan for the first week. One ready-mix supplier's guide says cooler temperatures slow how fast concrete gains strength, which affects how it holds up through the early freeze and thaw cycles, and it calls keeping the concrete warm enough for the first 7 days imperative. We plan the pour around the weather and the ground, and I'll go over that first week with you before we set a date.
Use sand instead of deicers on icy days during the patio's first winter, which is what flatwork guidance calls for. That keeps deicing products off the young surface, so it's worth having a bag of sand on hand before the first freeze.
City zoning keeps covered patios and similar open structures attached to a house out of the required minimum side and rear yard setbacks. So a roofed patio plan starts with where those yard lines fall on your lot, and we'll look at that with you at the estimate and check with the city before we schedule.
We're based in Post Falls and build patios in Coeur d'Alene, Spokane Valley and the other cities below. Pick yours, or give us a call if you don't see it.
