Outdoor-living slabs designed around how you actually entertain — poured with deliberate falls, layout-matched joints, and finishes that stay comfortable through a Florida summer.
A poured concrete patio in west Orlando typically costs $8–$13 per square foot installed for broom finish and $15–$24 for stamped or decorative finishes. A 300-square-foot patio usually forms, pours, and cures over roughly a week — slope, joints, and drainage included, not extra.
A patio is the room your Florida house was missing, and it fails or succeeds on decisions made at the drawing stage. The first is drainage: our afternoon storms drop an inch of water in an hour, and a slab without a designed fall sends that water toward the one place it must never go — your slab edge and stem wall. Every patio we pour carries a deliberate pitch away from the house and the pool cage, and we hose-test it at handover while you watch. The second is scale: we lay out the footprint around your actual furniture and traffic paths, staked and strung on the ground for your sign-off, because a patio one dining chair too small is a mistake you live with for decades.
Finish is where a patio becomes architecture. Broom finish remains the honest budget choice — grippy, cool-toned, ARC-safe. Stamped textures in slate, flagstone, and wood-plank patterns bring stone character at a fraction of natural-stone labor, colored integrally and sealed against UV so the tone survives the sun. For renovations, decorative overlays resurface a sound-but-tired slab without demolition. And because patios anchor bigger outdoor plans, we form and pour the supporting cast in the same mobilization: fire-pit rings, grill pads, step transitions, and the connecting walks that tie it all back to the house. Everything on one proposal, one crew, one warranty.
| Option | Best for | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Broom finish | Lanais, everyday family patios | Grippy, cool-toned, budget-honest |
| Stamped slate / flagstone | Outdoor rooms with stone character | Integral color + release, UV-sealed |
| Wood-plank stamp | Modern & farmhouse architecture | Plank texture without the rot |
| Decorative overlay | Sound but dated existing slabs | New face, no demolition |
| Scope | Typical range | What’s included |
|---|---|---|
| Broom-finish patio slab | $8–$13 / sq ft | Reinforced, sloped & jointed |
| Stamped decorative patio | $15–$24 / sq ft | Pattern, color & sealer included |
| Decorative overlay (existing slab) | $9–$16 / sq ft | Surface prep included |
| Patio extension (doweled) | $9–$14 / sq ft | Tied to the existing slab |
| Steps & landings | $300–$900 each | Formed & finished to match |
| Fire-pit ring / grill pad | $700–$1,800 | Sized to the equipment |
| Connecting walkway | $9–$15 / sq ft | Matched finish & joints |
| UV-stable sealer | $1–$2.25 / sq ft | Protects stamp & color |
Eight phases, forty-eight checkpoints — applied in full on every concrete patios project. The base is photographed before it disappears, the drainage is hose-tested in front of you, and the warranty arrives in writing.
48 checkpoints · every project · no exceptions
Start from the furniture, not the budget. A café table and two chairs live comfortably in 10×10; a true dining-plus-lounge outdoor room wants 16×20 or better; an outdoor kitchen adds a working zone beyond that. Before we form anything we stake and string the exact footprint on your grass so you can walk it, place chairs on it, and feel the size in person — the fifteen-minute step that prevents the most common patio regret, which is always ‘we should have gone two feet bigger.’
We install both, so the answer is criteria, not preference. Pick stamped concrete when you want a continuous, weed-proof surface with stone character at a lower installed cost, and you accept that any future repair means color-matching a patch. Pick pavers when you want the ability to lift and relay a section invisibly — after root movement or a utility trench — and you accept joint maintenance every few years. On tight-access lots where a mixer can’t reach, pavers win by logistics. We will tell you which side your specific yard lands on during the consultation, and we genuinely do not care which one you choose — we warranty both.
A dark, smooth slab in full sun does; a well-chosen one doesn’t. Surface temperature is set by three choices we make together: color (lighter integral tones reflect meaningfully more heat), texture (broomed and stamped surfaces carry less contact area than steel-troweled ones), and shade planning around where the afternoon sun actually lands on your lot. If barefoot comfort is the priority — usually around pools — we will also show you the honest comparison against travertine and pavers, which run cooler by nature, so you pick with the full picture.
If the slab under it is structurally sound — yes, and it saves real money. A decorative overlay bonds a new wearing surface over sound concrete: stamped, colored, or smooth. The gate is the word sound. Stains, dullness, and surface scaling are overlay candidates; through-cracks, heaving, and settlement are not, because an overlay over movement just prints the same crack in a new color within a year. We check the slab for deflection and drainage before quoting either path, and we will not sell you an overlay your slab doesn’t qualify for.
A typical patio runs about a week of site time: a day of layout and excavation, a day of base and forming, the pour day, then joint cutting and — for decorative work — a day or two of color and seal. You can walk the slab after a day; give it a week before furniture and heavy planters. We keep the site contained as we go: forms pulled, washout contained, debris gone the same day it’s created. The precise schedule for your scope is printed in the proposal.
Broom finish runs $8–$13 per square foot installed; stamped decorative $15–$24; overlays on sound slabs $9–$16. A 300-square-foot broom patio typically lands between $2,400 and $3,900; the same footprint stamped, $4,500–$7,200. Steps, fire-pit rings, and connecting walks price as line items you can add or cut. The ranges are published here so you can budget before we ever meet — the written proposal turns them into one exact number.
We’re an owner-run local company and we don’t publish testimonials we can’t stand behind — so you won’t find invented five-star quotes here. What you will find is a written warranty, published pricing, and a crew that answers the phone. If we’ve built for you, your honest review is the most valuable thing you can leave behind.
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