About

Sacramento Concrete is a concrete contractor working across Sacramento and the cities around it. The work covers new concrete and old concrete alike: pouring driveways, patios, walkways, foundations, slabs, retaining walls and pool decks, and repairing or resurfacing concrete that has cracked, settled, spalled or simply worn out. Some of it is residential, a single driveway or a back patio at a time. The rest is commercial flatwork for property managers, builders and general contractors who need a pad, a sidewalk or a parking apron poured to spec.

A concrete driveway is the job we are asked about most. Most residential driveways here land between $6 and $12 per square foot, poured four inches thick over a compacted base with rebar or fiber reinforcement, and thickened at the edges where a truck or an RV will sit. What moves the number is rarely the square footage on its own. Tearing out and hauling away a failed slab, a steep approach, a narrow side yard the truck cannot reach, a driveway that has to drain away from a garage rather than toward it — those are the things that change the price, and they are what a site visit is for.

Patios and walkways are lighter work structurally but fussier to get right. Plain broom-finished patios generally run between $8 and $16 per square foot and stamped work between $14 and $22, depending on the pattern, the color and how much hand detail the edges need. A walkway that ponds water after a storm, or a patio that pitches back toward the house, is a slope problem rather than a concrete problem, and it is cheaper to solve on paper before the forms go down than to grind out afterward.

Foundations and structural slabs are a different order of job. Footing depth, rebar size and spacing, vapor barrier, and the inspection sequence are all set by the plans and the local building department, and none of it is worth improvising. Garage slabs, shop floors, shed pads and room additions all sit in this category. So do retaining walls, where drainage behind the wall matters more than the wall itself — a wall without gravel backfill and a drain line is holding back water as well as soil, and water always wins.

Not every slab needs replacing. Concrete repair covers lifted sections, spalled surfaces, corner breaks and joints that have opened up, and resurfacing can put a sound but ugly slab back into service for a fraction of what a tear-out costs. The honest answer sometimes runs the other way: once a slab is broken into several pieces that move independently, or the base underneath it has washed out, anything laid over the top will crack in the same places within a season. Which of those two you are looking at is something to decide standing on the concrete, not from a photograph.

Decorative finishes — stamped concrete, stained concrete and pool decks — are the same slab underneath, built to the same standards, with the surface treated while the concrete is still workable or after it has cured. Pool surrounds carry an extra requirement: the finish has to stay walkable wet and cool enough for bare feet in a Sacramento July, which rules out some of the smoother finishes that look fine in a catalog.

Concrete in the Sacramento Valley lives through long dry summers over expansive clay soils and wet winters that swell them back up, and that cycle is what cracks slabs here. Very little of it is avoidable and all of it is manageable: a properly compacted base, the right thickness for whatever will park on it, reinforcement sized to the job, and control joints cut early and spaced correctly so the slab cracks along the lines that were cut for it instead of across the middle. Every slab develops hairline cracks eventually. What gets controlled is where they show up and whether they matter.

Every estimate is free, measured at the property rather than guessed at over the phone, and arrives as one written page listing demolition, base, reinforcement, thickness, finish, the start window and the total. If something unexpected turns up underground — an old slab under the current one, a buried line, soft fill — the change gets approved before any of it is spent. There is no fee for the visit and no obligation to book afterward.

The service area runs across Sacramento County and out into Placer, Yolo and El Dorado. That covers Roseville, Davis, Rancho Cordova, Folsom, Lincoln, Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Carmichael, Fair Oaks and Auburn, along with the neighborhoods in between them. Drive time rather than distance is what sets the edge of the map: staying close is what keeps a pour, the ready-mix schedule and the finishing window inside a single working day. If your address is near the edge of that area, ask — the answer is usually yes, and it costs nothing to find out.

To get a price, send the project details through the free estimate form, or look through the full list of services and the cities we cover first.