Set up the backyard for slow evenings under the live oaks. We firm up a base in soft coastal-plain sand, carry structural fiber and welded wire mesh through the pour, and pitch the slab so a Lowcountry cloudburst has somewhere to go.
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Credibility comes from how it's built, not from promises. Here's the order of operations on every concrete patios job.
Savannah sits on coastal-plain sand that turns to pluff mud toward the marsh, with the water table riding high and shifting on the tide. Before a pour we cut, compact, and prove a base that will carry the slab flat, rather than trusting ground that can be loose in one spot and soft marsh muck a few feet on.
For a patio we reach for structural fiber mixed right into the batch and a layer of welded wire mesh run across the slab. There is no freeze to build against, and brackish salt drifts in off the tidal rivers, so reinforcement that cannot rust is the plain-sense pick. A dense rebar grid stays under structural and heavy-load slabs, not behind a backyard patio that has no use for the extra steel.
We tip the slab so a hard afternoon storm and any tidal backwater walk off and away from the house, because on ground this low and this flat it is standing water, never a cold snap, that quietly works a pour loose over the years.
We saw control joints along the line the slab will want to flex as the sand and marsh soils below wet and dry with the tide, so a crack tracks that scored line instead of wandering loose across the top.
The thick coastal humidity that hangs over Savannah changes how fast a fresh slab lets go of its water, so we pace the cure to that air rather than let the surface firm ahead of the body, then close the top against the salt.
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Prepped subgrade, reinforced and mixed to spec for the job, and proper curing. We build credibility through the process, not promises. On concrete patios, that starts with firming up soft coastal ground.
Pouring in the Lowcountry carries line items the national average skips, and most of them live in the ground: packing a base that holds over soft coastal sand and a high tidal water table, and shaping the grade so downpour and surge rain clear the slab. Broom-finish patios generally start somewhere around $8 to $14 a square foot, and stamped or decorative work closer to $14 to $22, before the base prep is figured in. The final figure rides on square footage, the finish you choose, and what the ground and the flood grade ask for. We price it after we have walked the lot, and we will not float a phone number we cannot stand behind.
Four inches handles a normal residential patio, which is plenty under chairs, a table, and everyday foot traffic, and we deepen the pour anywhere real weight is going to sit, a hot tub being the usual reason.
A backyard patio here gets structural fiber stirred through the concrete and welded wire mesh threaded across the slab, the routine coastal Georgia build for our no-freeze ground and the brackish salt that rides in off the rivers. The heavy steel rebar grid is held for structural and heavy-load slabs, since burying it under a patio only gives the salt air more metal to corrode.
When a slab moves in this town, the answer is underneath it. Coastal-plain sand and the pluff-mud soils near the marsh can carry a pour unevenly, especially over a tidal water table, so we settle it at the base: cut, compact a base that drains, lay in fiber and mesh, and saw joints so any movement stays on a line we picked. Nobody can promise concrete will never budge; we build so that when it does, it gives where we decided.
In Savannah you plan around the water table and the surge, not the temperature. We shape the slab and the ground around it so storm rain and tidal surge run off and clear of the house instead of pooling at the slab edge, and we set the base knowing the water table rides high and much of the city sits in a flood zone. Around here, the patio that sits in standing water is the one that goes first.
Broom is the practical call: textured, steady underfoot when the salt air leaves it damp, and easier on the budget. Stamped lands you a stone or brick look that reads right in a historic town, but it wants resealing on a rotation, and our hard coastal sun and steady salt humidity pull that rotation in sooner. We line the two up against how you truly plan to live on the space.
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