Concrete Flatwork Poured by Our Summit Crew

There is a temptation in this trade to rush the small stuff, the condenser base, the strip of concrete between the garage and the fence, the little apron where the drive meets the street, because nobody photographs those pours. Our crew does not see it that way. A shed base that tips, a grill slab that holds a puddle or an apron that cracks into chunks after two winters is just as annoying as a failed patio, and it usually fails for the same reasons: thin concrete over soft dirt, no slope and no joints. So every flatwork job we take on in Summit gets the full routine. Sod and dark topsoil get shoveled out, a load of crushed limestone gets dumped and run flat with a plate tamper, and the forms go in with a gentle fall so water has somewhere to go. The concrete is screeded, bull-floated and finished with a broom for grip, the edges are rounded with an edger so they do not chip, and control joints are cut at the spacing the slab size needs. Small pours, done the way we would want them at our own houses.