Outdoor living, engineered for valley summers
Antelope-adjacent and central North Highlands homes served with full driveway tear-outs and reliable patio installs. Our concrete patios crew serves North Highlands and surrounding Sacramento neighborhoods with the same engineered specs, written warranty, and licensed crew we use on every Sacramento-metro pour.
20+
Years in Sacramento
500+
Projects Completed
4.9★
Customer Rating
2yr
Workmanship Warranty
Outdoor living, engineered for valley summers
Sacramento-metro specialty
About this service
A concrete patio gets the most foot traffic of anything in your backyard and the least attention from most contractors. The result is patios that pond water against the house, crack diagonally across the open span within 18 months, and look ten years old after one wet winter. Patios deserve the same engineering attention as a driveway — they just hide it under a softer finish.
We pour patios with a minimum 1/8 inch per foot slope away from the building, control joints set on a layout that respects the slab's length-to-width ratio (we never let a panel exceed 2.5:1), and a finish that matches how you'll use the space. Broom finish for casual seating, smooth steel-troweled for outdoor dining tables that don't wobble, exposed aggregate for grip and visual texture, or stamped for stone-look entertaining areas.
Drainage is what kills more patios than any other single factor in Sacramento. Winter rain that ponds against the foundation will, over enough cycles, work its way under the slab and eventually under the home. Every patio we build has positive drainage to a defined outlet — either daylighted away from the structure or tied into a French drain or area drain that we install as part of the scope.
Working in North Highlands
Every Sacramentoneighborhood has its own soil, drainage, and permitting realities. Here's what we've learned pouring concrete in North Highlands.
North Highlands developed around the original McClellan Air Force Base — a lot of post-war housing on tightly graded military-era lots with original concrete now 60+ years old. Sub-grade is typical Sacramento clay. Re-pour work here almost always finds under-spec sub-base and reinforcement compared to current code.
Unincorporated Sacramento County — County Community Development. McClellan Park's former-base land has some legacy environmental designations that occasionally affect digging depth on commercial work; we know which parcels need extra scoping. Most residential work is straightforward.
Driveway and walkway full-replacement on post-WWII housing dominates residential work. McClellan Park's redevelopment as a business park gives us a regular run of commercial slab, dock, and ADA approach jobs. Watt Avenue commercial corridor adds parking-lot and frontage work.
North Highlands neighborhoods we cover
5 areas · same crew, same spec
What's Included
These are the specifications and details we build in by default. Not upgrades. Not extras. Standard scope on every project.
Minimum 1/8-inch-per-foot slope from the building to a daylighted edge or area drain. We shoot grades with a laser level — no eyeball slopes that pond after the first winter.
Control joints are placed so no individual panel exceeds a 2.5:1 length-to-width ratio. That's the engineering rule that prevents the diagonal random crack across the middle of every cheap patio.
Broom finish for grip and casual use, smooth steel trowel for outdoor dining (no table wobble), exposed aggregate for pool decks, stamped for entertaining areas. We discuss before pricing.
Bullnose, chamfer, or radius edges. Saw-cut decorative borders. Bands of contrasting color or aggregate. Concrete patios don't have to look like sidewalks — we build them as a finished feature.
Area drains, French drains, and channel drains can be installed under or at the patio edge as part of the same project. One contractor, one permit, one warranty — not three.
If your patio includes a built-in grill, pizza oven, or firepit, we pour thickened-edge pads with appropriate reinforcement under those features so they don't settle independently of the surrounding slab.
Our Process
We walk the yard with you, identify the drainage outlet, mark furniture placements, and sketch the panel layout on site before any concrete is ordered.
Excavate to subgrade, install Class II base, compact to 95% RC, and rough-grade with the final slope shot in with a laser.
Set forms, install area drains and any embedded conduits (low-voltage lighting, gas line for firepit, etc.), tie reinforcement.
Place concrete, screed to forms, bull-float, edge, and finish per spec (broom, trowel, exposed, stamped). Control joints cut within 12 hours.
Curing compound applied. Sealer applied at 14–28 days depending on weather. We come back for the seal — it's not a separate trip you have to coordinate.
Technical Specifications
Most contractors won't publish their specs. Ours are below — what we build to, every time.
Concrete Patios FAQ
Specific to concrete patios in North Highlands, CA
Still have questions?
Call us directly — we're happy to answer anything about your concrete patios project.
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Sacramento County · Placer County · Yolo County
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