Plain gray slab looking tired or worn? We add color, texture and pattern to new concrete or to the slab you already have.
Decorative concrete in Little Rock is concrete finished to look good as well as work, using color, stain, dye, stamped texture, exposed stone or polishing, either on a new pour or on a bonded overlay over the slab you already have.
Most calls start with a slab that works fine but looks tired. It's gray and plain, or worn and blotchy, and the homeowner wants it to look like slate, brick or stone instead. The first thing to settle is whether your old concrete is good enough to finish over or should come out, and I'll tell you straight which one your slab needs.
Price moves with the size of the area, whether we tear out or overlay, how much digging the base needs and how many colors and patterns you want. Steel in the slab adds to it too. The schedule turns on the same things, because a new pour has to harden before color goes on and a stained surface needs time closed off. I'll give you the number for your job when I come out and look.
It's a short path from your call to a finished slab, and you deal with the same person from the first look to the last walk-through.
I've run this business since 2020, and I come to your house to look at the slab, talk through colors and textures and give you the estimate in person. You'll know at that first visit whether I think an overlay will work or the old concrete needs to come out.
Our crew handles the dig, the forms and the pour, and I run the job on site. I check the base before the truck shows up, because that's the part nobody sees once the concrete's down.
We're fully licensed and insured. When the job's done, I walk it with you before we call it finished. Your satisfaction, guaranteed.
I start by looking at what's there. If your old slab is sound, an overlay can save tearing it out, and I'll tell you up front if old cracks are likely to show through. If it needs to come out, or you're starting from bare ground, we dig out the soft dirt, pack a firm subgrade, which is the ground the slab sits on, and set the forms so water runs away from the house. Then we pour, color and texture it, and we help you pick a texture for each spot, rougher where people walk with wet feet and smoother where you want easy cleaning. If the budget's tight, I'd rather drop a fancy pattern than skimp on the base, because a nice finish on a weak base is money wasted.
A decorative patio on a slope often needs concrete retaining walls to hold the ground behind it, and we build those too. Inside a house or shop, a stained or polished look starts with a good slab, so we also do concrete floor installation.
Here's the order the work goes in, and why each step comes where it does.
Before we dig, we mark where the slab goes, which way it'll drain and where each color or texture lands. A slab that sends water toward the house is a mistake no finish can fix.
We take out the loose dirt and pack the base firm instead of raking it level, because raked dirt settles and takes the slab down with it. I check it before the truck comes.
We plan the pour so the finishing isn't done in midday heat, which leaves a weak, dusty top later. Then we cut control joints, shallow cuts that give the slab a place to crack in a straight line instead of wherever it wants.
Curing is the wait while the concrete hardens enough to take use, and dye goes on once it's fully cured. After the color comes the sealer, and we'll tell you when the area is ready for feet and furniture.
Tell us the rough size of the area, what's on it now and the look you're after. We'll get back to you within one business day, and I'll come out, look at the slab and give you a free estimate with no obligation.
(501) 274-1092A stamped concrete patio in Little Rock usually costs about $8 to $17 per square foot. That's what the market around here charges for a stamped patio, not our quote, so I'll give you your own number when I come out.
Often, yes, if the slab is sound. A decorative overlay is a bonded layer of cement-based material that goes over existing concrete to renew, level or restore it, though one overlay maker warns that random cracks in the old slab can show through after it cures, even when they're repaired first. If you're staining the old slab instead, an industry guide says to confirm it's sound and judge whether its joints and cracks are acceptable first, so ask how yours will look.
At least 3 days, according to one industry guide, and it should be kept safe from spills until it's sealed. Plan the job for a stretch when you can leave the area alone, so a dropped drink or a leak doesn't mark the fresh stain.
A rough finish grips better, and one sealer maker names broom finish, the fine ridges pulled across fresh concrete with a broom, as giving the best grip underfoot. The same maker says rough finishes are slightly harder to clean, while smooth ones clean easier but grip less.
Arkansas has a lot of expansive clay, ground that shrinks and swells as it dries out and soaks up water, and when builders don't plan for it, structures like houses can break apart. Many of those problems can be handled before construction starts, which is why we put our time into the dig and the base, and it's fair to ask any contractor how they'll handle the ground under your slab.
If any part of the work reaches into the public right-of-way along the street, the city's Traffic Engineering office is the one that permits it. For the rest, I check with the city or county office for your address about what your job needs, and we handle the permit paperwork when one is required. The state issues two home improvement licenses, a Limited one for residential jobs under $50,000 counting labor and material and an Unlimited one for jobs of any size, so ask whoever you hire which one they hold. We're based in Little Rock and work across the cities around it in central Arkansas, and if you don't see your city on the site, call and ask.
We pick up (501) 274-1092 until 10 PM on weekdays and 9 PM on weekends, so you can call after work or send the form whenever it suits you.
If you're torn between refinishing your old slab and pouring new, tell us what you've got and we'll talk it through.
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