Concrete Porch Contractors in Denver, CO

Your porch and front steps are the first thing guests touch and the last thing that should be crumbling. We build new concrete porches and steps and resurface tired ones, with slip-resistant, good-looking finishes.

Stamped, colored or broom-finished to match your entry and the rest of your concrete.

Porch work we do

• New porch slabs and front steps
• Resurfacing spalled or worn porch concrete
• Stamped and colored finishes to match your walkway
• Slip-resistant textures for safe footing

Safe steps that last

We build steps to even rise and run, slope the porch to drain, and seal the surface so Colorado freeze-thaw doesn't spall the edges.

Why the front edge always goes first

Look at a failing set of Denver steps and the damage is almost always concentrated on the nose, the front edge of each tread.

That edge has the least concrete covering whatever reinforcement is inside. It takes the direct impact of a shovel blade. It is where salt and slush collect and where meltwater runs off. And it is the first part to freeze and the first to thaw.

Once the nose starts spalling, the reinforcement behind it gets exposed, and steel that gets wet rusts and expands, which pushes more concrete off. It accelerates. A set of steps that looked cosmetically rough two winters ago is usually structurally compromised now.

The second common failure is settling where the porch or stoop meets the house. Bungalow and mid-century porches across Denver, Englewood and Arvada were poured without modern reinforcement and often on their own small footing. When that footing moves on clay soil, the porch pulls away from the house and opens a gap.

The third is loose handrails. Anchors set into a deteriorating tread face work themselves free. That is usually the thing that finally makes someone call, and by then the concrete has been going for a while.

Resurface or rebuild

Resurfacing works when the structure is sound and the damage is surface only: sound treads with no movement, spalling less than roughly half an inch deep, no exposed and rusting steel, and riser heights that are already consistent. A bonded overlay gives you a new surface for well under the cost of a rebuild. See resurfacing.

Rebuild is the answer when the steps have settled or separated from the house, when reinforcement is exposed and rusting, when a tread rocks or sounds hollow, when spalling has gone deep enough to change the tread dimensions, or when the risers are already uneven.

That last one is worth taking seriously. Inconsistent riser heights are a genuine fall hazard, because people climb stairs by rhythm rather than by looking. If deterioration has changed the tread heights, resurfacing them to different depths makes it worse rather than better. That is a rebuild.

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