May 18, 2024

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Concrete, Your Workhorse Paving Product!

Concrete, Your Workhorse Paving Product!

Simple, clean and cost effective! Most people today feel that those words express exactly what they desire in their busy lives. When it comes to their new patio or walkway, they may be inspired and dream starry eyed scrolling through the vast array of Pinterest images exhibiting costly options for patios and walkways. Beautiful indeed, but will those options fit one’s desired budget range?

Not necessarily flamboyant or an image that takes one’s breath away, but a properly constructed standard gray concrete patio or walkway is the truly the work horse of all paving material options. It is exceptionally strong, can be designed into virtually any desirable shape, fits most budgets and properly installed, can last a lifetime.

Elegant furnishings combined with tasteful decor such as colorful containerized flowers will draw your guest’s admiration allowing your understated patio to contribute quietly to the overall feel of the space.

So, before you check standard gray concrete off of your option list for your new patio or walkway, consider meeting with one of our experts and see how this possibility may maximize your landscape investment for this season.

TIP: Simple gray concrete patios and walkways can be enhanced through simple installation accents, typically without additional cost. By utilizing uniquely spaced control joints Control joints are those “lines” one sees in concrete that are an attempt to control where a crack ideally occurs. You can also turn the control joints 45 degrees to the home. The simple, safe standard broom finish can be alternated between the larger slab sections if desired. The outside edge portion can take on a different look than the interior of the patio itself acting as a banding effect that adds an elegant touch.

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