Cracked, chipped or uneven concrete around your pool? We tell you whether to resurface or replace, then build a deck that meets the coping cleanly.
We build and resurface concrete pool decks in Azusa, CA. A pool deck is the flat concrete around your pool, poured up against the coping, which is the cap along the pool's edge. Done right, you get an even surface to walk on that works with the pool instead of pushing on it.
Most people call us when the deck has cracks running toward the water, chipped edges or a section that's sunk just enough to catch a toe. The price moves with the size of the deck, whether the old concrete has to be broken out and hauled away, how easy it is to get a crew into your backyard and what we find once the old slab is up. The schedule turns on the permit check, the weather on pour day and the curing time the concrete needs before you're back on it, and the estimate gives you the numbers for your own deck. Before work starts, we check with the city on whether a permit is needed. If the deck runs into a concrete patio, I can look at both on the same visit.
I come out to look at your deck and write the estimate myself, so the person who quotes the job is the person who answers for it. Our own crew does the work, and I'm on site running it the whole way.
I learned concrete on new construction crews, pouring footings and slabs on empty lots. In 2013 I started this business to work on homes people already live in, where the pool, the sprinklers, the trees and the dog that wants to help all have to come through fine.
We're fully licensed and insured. Around a pool we cover the water and protect the plants and coping before anything gets broken out, and we leave the yard clean when we go. To set up a visit, call (626) 540-1248 or use the form.
We get back to you within one business day, and the estimate is free with no obligation. Send the deck's rough square footage and a few photos of it, and I'll come out, look at the old concrete and write the estimate myself.
Azusa's Building Division requires a permit to put up or alter any structure, and its list of exempt work names walks up to 30 inches above grade but not pool decks, so whether your deck needs a permit is the city's call. For a ruling on your deck, call Azusa's Building Division at (626) 812-5234, and check with the Planning Division first on whether the project needs Design Review, because that review has to be finished before the permit application goes in. Work that's exempt from a building permit can still need its own plumbing, electrical or mechanical permit, which matters if deck lights or drain lines have to move. Before work starts, we check with the office that covers your address, and when a permit is needed, we pull it and handle the paperwork.
We're based in Azusa and work in the cities around it, from Glendora and Covina to Pasadena and Pomona. Most pool deck calls we get around here are backyard pools behind houses that have been lived in a while, with old concrete, grown trees and side yards a wheelbarrow barely fits through, so we plan the tear-out and the pour around getting in and out without wrecking the lawn.
A concrete pool deck in the Los Angeles area usually costs about $6.50 to $13 per square foot installed. Where yours lands depends on the deck's size, whether old concrete comes out first and how hard the backyard is to reach. Your firm price comes from the estimate I write after seeing the deck.
Have a contractor look at the slab before you choose, because resurfacing only works when the old concrete is a good candidate. Resurfacing lays a new concrete coating over the existing deck, and on the right deck it's a cost-effective way to refresh the surface and fix small flaws. If the deck has sunk or the cracks keep moving, a coating won't hold them still.
Ask the city's Building Division, since Azusa requires a permit to alter any structure and its exempt list doesn't name pool decks. Check on Design Review with the Planning Division first, as the permit section above explains. When a permit is needed, we pull it.
The gap lets the deck move without cracking the coping and the bond beam, the stiff concrete band along the top of the pool wall. One coping maker's guide calls for a gap with flexible sealant there, poured concrete decks included, and says to wait at least 30 days after the pour before caulking it. The same guide says to check the joint every year and replace the caulk when it cracks, pulls away or wears out, since most flexible caulks last five to ten years.
Heat is the usual culprit, because fresh concrete in hot weather can stiffen too early and crack as it shrinks or as its temperature swings. Hot-weather guidance says to shield new concrete from sun and wind with shade cloth, windbreaks, burlap or misting so it doesn't lose moisture too fast. It's fair to ask any crew how they'll handle a hot pour day.
California's C-8 Concrete Contractor class covers contractors who form, pour, finish and install flat concrete work, which includes a pool deck. Ask any contractor you're considering which license class they hold for the deck work.
