Concrete Contractors in Goodyear, AZ

We are concrete contractors in Goodyear, Arizona, and the desert decides a lot about how we build. The city lies in the Sonoran Desert about 17 miles west of downtown Phoenix. Wikipedia's climate figures for Goodyear give average highs of 103 degrees in June, 105 in July and 103 in August, and annual rain under 9 inches, with a good share of it falling in monsoon storms between July and early September. Every one of those numbers changes something about a pour: when the truck comes, how the slab is cured, which way it slopes and which finish will last.

Heat and the first hours of a slab

Fresh concrete hardens because cement reacts with the water in the mix. Sun, low humidity and wind can steal that water from the top of the slab before the reaction is done, leaving a soft skin that later powders, peels or shows a web of fine cracks. In hot months we counter that in several ways:

• The truck is booked for daybreak, before the ground and the air heat up
• Dry base material is wetted down so it does not drink from the mix
• Finishing is kept short and steady, with no extra water sprinkled on top
• Curing compound or a damp covering goes on as soon as the finish is complete

Cooler months allow a looser schedule, and your written quote says which approach your job gets.

Goodyear's housing is reaching middle age

Most Goodyear homes are young but no longer new. Point2Homes, summarizing Census survey data, lists a median construction year of 2007, with 38.5% of homes from the 2000s and 32.1% from the 2010s. Roughly 84% are detached single-family houses and about 78% are lived in by their owners. So the city has thousands of builder driveways, entry walks and back slabs that have now been through 15 to 25 summers. At that age the usual complaints are:

• Corner cracks near the garage that have opened up over time
• Back slabs that ended at the patio cover and never grew with the household
• Panels that dropped where a sprinkler or downspout kept the soil wet
• Dull, porous surfaces that were never sealed

A good share of this can be fixed or added onto. Where a section has truly failed, we say so and price the replacement.

What sits under the yard

Parts of the Sonoran Desert carry caliche, a cemented layer of calcium carbonate. According to Wikipedia it can be a few inches or several feet thick, it slows digging, and a continuous layer stops water from soaking in. We do not assume every lot has it, but when the excavator finds it we break out high spots so the base is an even depth, pull out any loose fill, and compact crushed rock over the subgrade. Then each slab gets a fall that sends storm water toward the yard or street, away from stucco, pool water and block walls.

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Six kinds of concrete work

• Concrete driveways: new pours, full replacement, and extra width for another car, a trailer or an RV.
• Concrete patios: builder-slab extensions, new back patios, and pads for a grill or fire pit.
• Stamped concrete: flagstone, slate, cobble and plank textures in earth tones that sit well with gravel and stucco.
• Pool decks: light, textured decks that drain away from the water and grip wet feet.
• Concrete slabs: bases for sheds, workshops, carports, RVs and A/C equipment.
• Concrete repair: crack sealing, resurfacing, lifting settled panels and swapping out broken ones.

City permits and HOA rules

The City of Goodyear keeps a homeowner permit FAQ, and a concrete slab or driveway in the front yard is on its list of projects that need a permit. A large part of the city sits inside master-planned communities such as Estrella, Palm Valley and PebbleCreek, and the same city page tells owners that their HOA's CC&Rs are theirs to know and follow. We look up the permit question for your specific project and leave room in the schedule for an HOA review, so neither one stalls the pour.

Line items on every quote

• Slab size and shape, sketched when that makes it clearer
• Thickness and reinforcement (rebar grid or wire mesh)
• Digging, base rock and compaction
• Removal and hauling of old concrete
• Finish, color and any pattern
• Where control joints go
• Sealer, when it is included
• Total price and expected schedule

If something found during excavation changes the work, it gets written up and priced for your OK first.

Inside Goodyear we work from Palm Valley and PebbleCreek on the north side down to Estrella below the Gila River. Nearby, we take on driveways, patios and repairs in Avondale, Litchfield Park, Tolleson, Citrus Park, Buckeye and its Verrado community, Waddell, Glendale and Arrowhead Ranch, Peoria, Surprise, El Mirage, Youngtown, Sun City, Sun City West, Laveen, Maryvale and Rainbow Valley. The work changes with the age of the houses: newer subdivisions mostly want wider driveways, bigger patios and pool decks, while older blocks closer to Phoenix more often need tired concrete taken out and replaced. Each town page covers the local details that shape a job there.