Concrete Patios in Kansas City, MO

Patio slabs in Kansas City fail for the same reason driveways do: the clay soil beneath them moves, and most original pours from the 1960s and 1970s were not built with enough base depth to resist that movement. As those homes pass the 50-year mark in KC's established neighborhoods, the patios that came with them are heaving, cracking, and draining toward the house instead of away from it. A replacement pour that does not address the drainage slope and base compaction will develop the same problems within a decade.

In Midtown and Westport, we work on properties where original patio slabs were poured against the house foundation with zero slope away. That design flaw shows up as water pooling against the foundation, the base saturating, and the clay beneath the slab cycling through seasonal movement. We remove those slabs, regrade the subbase, and pour with a minimum quarter-inch-per-foot slope away from the structure.

Control joint layout on a patio matters as much as on a driveway. We plan joint locations before the pour to give the slab defined places to relieve stress rather than random cracking. Decorative finishes — broom, salt, exposed aggregate, stamped — are available on any patio pour, all built on the same subgrade standards regardless of surface choice.