Plain gray patio or worn walkway? We pour stamped concrete in the color and pattern you pick, over a base we pack first.
At Caliber Little Rock Concrete Company, stamped concrete services in Little Rock AR mean we pour a patio, walk or other flat slab, then color it and press a pattern into it while it's wet so it looks like slate, brick or natural stone. Pour day goes quick. Most of the job is the prep before it and the cure after.
Most calls start with a plain gray slab you're tired of, or a bare patch of yard where a patio should be. Stamping is still flatwork, our word for the flat slabs around a house, so it needs the same solid base as any patio, with the color and pattern on top. The price moves with the size of the area, how much digging and base work your ground needs, whether old concrete has to come out first, and how many colors and how busy a pattern you pick.
The schedule turns on two things, the weather and whether your address needs a permit. I'll look at your spot and give you a figure for your own job at the estimate. If a plain broom finish, the rough texture that keeps a walk from getting slick, would serve you better in one spot, I'll tell you straight.
It's a short list, and I run it from the first look to the last walk. We're fully licensed and insured.
You call or send the form, and I come out to see the spot, talk through patterns, colors and the base, and give you a price for your job. I've run this business since 2020, so you hear it from the person who'll run your job.
Our own crew handles the dig, the forms and the pour. I'm there to check the base and forms before the truck comes, because once the concrete's down nobody can see what's under it.
When it's done, I walk it with you so you can look over the pattern, the joints and the edges before we leave. To get on the list, call (501) 274-1092 or send us the form.
We start with samples, because patches rarely match the original, so color and pattern get settled with you before anything gets poured. Then we pick the dates for the pour and the sealer together, away from freezing nights. After that it's dig, base, a plan for the water, pour, stamp and seal. The base is the one part I won't cut. It's buried on day one, so it's the first thing people want to trim from the budget, and a pretty pattern on weak dirt just cracks and sinks with it.
If the walk out to your new patio is plain or broken up, we can pour that too through our concrete sidewalk building work. When the slab inside your garage is the bigger problem, see our garage floor concrete page.
Most of the work happens before any concrete shows up. Here's the order.
We dig past the grass and loose dirt down to firm subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, then bring in base and pack it, because raked dirt settles and takes the slab down with it. This is also when we set the slope so water doesn't run back toward your house.
Forms hold the edges straight and the thickness even. Where the job calls for it we lay rebar, steel rods in a grid that help hold the slab together if it does crack.
We pour early in the day when we can, since midday heat dries the top too fast and leaves it weak and dusty later. Color goes in the mix or on top as a color hardener, a powder of cement, pigment and fine grit that also toughens the surface, and then the crew presses the pattern while it's soft enough to take it.
Control joints are shallow cuts that give the slab a straight place to crack instead of across your pattern, so we cut them on time. Then it cures, the wait while it gains strength before you use it, and sealer goes on later once it's dry.
Send your address, the rough size of the area and the look you're after, or call (501) 274-1092. We respond within one business day, and I'll come out to look at the spot and give you a free estimate at your property. There's no obligation.
(501) 274-1092Stamped concrete in Little Rock usually costs about $11 to $24 per square foot. That's the going range around here, not our price, and where your job lands depends on its size, the base work and the colors and pattern you pick. I'll give you a number for your own job when I come out.
Pour when a freeze isn't likely right afterward, and seal in late summer after a few dry days. National concrete industry guidance warns about pours in late fall, winter or early spring that could freeze while still soaked, and says the slab should be fairly dry before sealer goes on. The same guidance says to skip deicing chemicals the first winter, then use them in moderate amounts after that.
Yes. The City of Little Rock requires a floodplain development permit application before paving, grading or other development in the regulatory floodplain. I check with the city or county for your address, and we handle the permit paperwork when one is required.
They should hold a state home improvement license, and concrete is on the list of work it covers. Ask which kind they hold, because a Limited license covers only residential home improvement projects under $50,000, labor and material included. An Unlimited license covers residential projects of any size.
Before you plan a new patio, check your address on the city's flood map. If any part of your property or house falls in the floodplain, the rules cover the whole property, so a back patio well away from the low spot still counts.
Arkansas also has plenty of expansive clay, dirt that swells when it's wet and shrinks when it dries, and it can break up what's built on it when the work ignores it. A lot of that gets handled in the prep before the pour, which is where we put our time on lots like that. We're based in Little Rock and work across the cities around it in central Arkansas, including North Little Rock, Sherwood, Maumelle, Bryant, Benton and Cabot. If you don't see your city on the site, call and ask.
If you've seen a patio or walk you liked, mention it when you call (501) 274-1092 or fill out the form, so I can bring samples close to it.
If you've got a slab you're tired of looking at, give us a call and we'll talk it through.
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