Concrete contractor in Winchester, NV - solid slabs for established homes

The County requires a permit to build, alter, repair or demolish a building or structure, and its permit rules don't settle every driveway or patio, so we check your job before we schedule anything. When a permit is needed, the owner or an authorized agent gets it before work starts, and we handle that paperwork for you.

Yes, Nevada requires every contractor to be licensed before contracting, and that includes bidding, offering to do the work or negotiating a price. It covers subcontractors and specialty contractors too, and each license carries a monetary limit, the largest contract its holder can take on for a single client. We're licensed and fully insured.

The Postal Service uses "Las Vegas, NV" as the place name for the ZIP codes that cover Winchester, so a Las Vegas mailing address can still be a Winchester home. Winchester runs roughly from Sahara Avenue south to Desert Inn Road and from Boulder Highway west to the railroad tracks, with a few pieces west of Interstate 15. It's one reason we check which office covers your address before anything gets scheduled.

It comes down to the size of the driveway, how much old concrete has to come out and how much base work the ground needs, so I give you a figure once I've measured. A plain broom finish, the light texture that gives tires and shoes grip, costs less than stamped or colored work, and widening into the yard adds cutting and digging. The base is the one place I'd tell you not to cut, because it's buried on day one and it decides whether the slab settles later.

Start with the base, because most old slabs crack and sink when they were poured on dirt that was raked level instead of dug out and packed. We dig out the subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, pack a firm base and cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the concrete a straight line to crack along. Concrete can still crack, but done this way the cracks usually stay in the joints we chose.

You can walk on it well before you can drive on it, because concrete keeps gaining strength for days after the pour while it cures, and a car weighs a lot more than you do. The wait depends on the weather and the job, so I give you the day for foot traffic and the day for your car once it's poured, and until then you'll want to park on the street.