Stamped concrete services in Liberal KS - even color across the whole slab

Most people who call us have a cracked old slab or a bare yard, and they want something nicer than a plain concrete patio with a broom finish, the light brushed texture that keeps feet from slipping. The price moves with the size of the area, the pattern, how many colors you want and how much digging out the ground needs before we pour. How long you're without the space depends mostly on the weather and on curing, the wait while the slab hardens before it can take weight. Your own figure comes in the written estimate I send after I've seen the site, and it explains what we'd do and why.

I tell you two things before we start. A badly cracked stamped section is hard to match later, and the surface needs resealing every few years. If it still suits you after that, we dig out to firm ground and pack the subgrade, the soil and base the slab sits on, set rebar, the steel that holds the slab together if it does crack, and check where water will run so the slab falls away from your house. We time the pour so we aren't stamping in midday heat, spread the color evenly so the look stays consistent across the slab, press the pattern, and cut control joints, planned lines that give cracks a straight path to follow instead of wandering across the pattern. Then we seal it once it has cured. The base is the part nobody sees on the first day and the first thing people ask to cut from the budget, and I'd rather drop a border or a second color, because a pattern only looks good as long as the slab under it stays flat.

Stamped work often sits beside plainer concrete, so we also do concrete sidewalk building when a path needs to tie in, and garage floor concrete when the work carries on into the garage.

The City of Liberal requires permits for a range of building and construction work, and its permit applications include one for concrete. The list doesn't settle which patios, walks or driveways need one, so we don't guess. We check with the city's Building and Code Enforcement Department about your project, take care of the permit when one is required, and let you know what we learn.

Liberal also asks for its own contractor license for work in the city and the area just outside its limits that it covers, separate from a Seward County license. Its concrete contractor class covers driveways, sidewalks and slabs that don't hold up a building, and it leaves concrete porches out. The city also requires contractors to carry at least $500,000 in general liability insurance with the city listed as certificate holder, so it's worth asking any crew about both. Most of our stamped calls in Liberal and the cities around it are back patios and front walks beside ranch and newer homes, and you can read more about our concrete work in Liberal.