Concrete Patios in Salt Lake City, UT

It will, provided the slab is designed around winter. Start with air-entrained concrete, whose microscopic bubbles give freezing water somewhere to go, then add a slope so snowmelt drains instead of sitting, and control joints to manage cracking. Keep de-icing salt off the slab its first winter and shovel near the door instead of salting it. Once cured, a penetrating sealer adds another layer of defense.

Sometimes one, sometimes neither. A patio poured at grade in your own backyard often skips the building permit, but every city sets its own rules, so it gets checked before work starts. Plenty of newer subdivisions have an HOA that wants to see size, color or stamp pattern first. Either way, 811 is called so buried utility lines are marked before anyone digs.

It depends on a handful of things: square footage, the finish (broom, exposed aggregate, colored or stamped), how much digging and base work the yard needs, whether an old slab has to be broken out and hauled away, and how easy it is to get concrete into the backyard. Steps, curves and a pump truck for a tight yard add to it. The estimate is free and walks through each piece.

Salt Lake City and 35 towns around it, including Millcreek, Holladay, Murray, Cottonwood Heights, Sandy, Draper, West Jordan, South Jordan, Herriman, Lehi, American Fork, Orem, Provo, Tooele and Stansbury Park. The full list lives on our service areas page.

Most patios take two or three days of work on site: digging and forms, then the pour, then joints and cleanup, with stamped finishes adding a visit to seal. Spring through early fall is the usual window. In July and August, pours start early in the morning so the finishing wraps up before the afternoon heat.

Bigger than the slab most houses come with. Give a six-seat dining set about 120 square feet once the chairs slide back, add a grill zone a few feet deep, and leave a walking lane around the furniture. If you want lounge chairs or a fire table too, think in terms of two connected areas rather than one square.

Often, yes. An extension is drilled and doweled into the old slab with steel so the two pieces stay level, and the seam between them is treated as a design line. The catch is color, since fresh gray concrete will not match a slab that has weathered for years. Many people choose a border, a stamped addition or a resurfaced finish across both.