Concrete Patios & Walkways in Clarksville, TN

Patios, Walkways and Pool Decks

This work falls into three kinds of jobs:

• Backyard patios. Room for a table, a grill or a fire pit, usually right off a back door.
• Front walkways. The path from the driveway or street to your door, and the first surface a guest walks on.
• Pool decks. The concrete around an in-ground pool, where bare feet and splashing water are part of the design problem.

Replacing an old patio or walk

If the old one is cracked or sunken, we break out the existing concrete and haul it away before we pour. If you need a slab for a shed or a garage instead, that's our foundations and slabs work.

Lay It Out for How You'll Use It

Size a patio around the furniture, not the yard. A table with the chairs pushed back, a grill with room to stand at it, and a path around both can take more space than you'd expect. Mark the outline with a garden hose or string and live with it for a few days before you settle on a size.

For a walkway, think about what travels it: two people side by side, a wheeled trash can, a dolly on moving day. Every square foot shows up in the price, so size it to your routine rather than to fill space.

Plan the joints with the layout. NRMCA recommends a maximum control joint spacing of 24 to 36 times the slab thickness, about 10 feet on a 4-inch slab, a limit of 15 feet, and panels no more than 1.5 times as long as they are wide^[1]. We place control joints at the correct spacing, and on a patio it pays to line them up with doors, steps and corners so they look deliberate.

Broom, Exposed Aggregate or Stamped

Broom finish

Dragging a broom across the fresh surface leaves fine ridges that give shoes some grip. It's the plain, practical choice for walks and steps that get wet.

Exposed aggregate

The surface paste is washed off before it hardens to uncover the stone in the mix. You get a pebbled texture where the color and shape of the stone show through.

Stamped

Pressed with a stone, slate or brick pattern and colored with integral pigment or acid stain. It costs more than a broom finish and comes with its own sealing and repair tradeoffs, which our stamped concrete page lays out.

Moving Water Away From the House

A patio or walk against your house should carry rain away from the foundation, not toward it. We grade and compact the site, set a compacted stone base sized to the soil and the load, and plan drainage so the slab doesn't pool water. Pool decks get the same drainage planning, so water doesn't pool where people walk barefoot.

There's plenty of water to manage. Clarksville averages roughly 47 to 54 inches of precipitation a year, depending on the weather station^[2]. On Montgomery County's smoother uplands, the USDA soil survey of the county describes typically 2 to 3 feet of wind-blown silt sitting on reddish clay^[3]. The survey also notes, as a general point rather than a rating for any one local soil, that soils which shrink and swell as they dry and wet cause much damage to foundations, roads and other structures^[4]. Keeping water moving off and away from the slab is one simple precaution.

Curing and Sealing

We'll tell you the cure time, not just the day we pour. By our guidance, a new patio or walk can handle foot traffic after 24–48 hours and keeps curing for about 28 days. NRMCA says curing should start right after finishing and typically continue 3 to 7 days with the concrete kept above 50°F, and that concrete left to dry out can lose as much as half its potential strength^[5].

Sealing slows water and stains from soaking in. Our guidance is to seal every 2–3 years and clean spills before they stain. Around a pool or on a shady walk, keep in mind that grip additives in a sealer reduce slipping but don't make a surface non-slip, and sealed concrete with ice on it is still slippery^[6].

Patio and Walkway Prices

Patios and walkways run a ballpark $10–$14 per square foot. The instant estimate turns your measurements into a range; the final price is confirmed at a free on-site visit, where soil conditions, access and site prep can change it.

• Size. The ballpark is priced per square foot, so a larger patio or longer walk costs more.
• Access and prep. A narrow gate, a long carry from the street, a sloped yard or soft ground can change the total.
• Old concrete. Breaking out and removing an existing patio or walk adds to the price.
• Reinforcement. Rebar or fiber adds to the price.
• Finish. Stamped or decorative work moves into a higher ballpark, around $14–$20 per square foot.

Itemized up front

Every estimate is broken out line by line before the pour, and there are no change orders you didn't sign off on.

Get a Patio or Walkway Ballpark

Choose Patio / Walkway in the instant estimate and enter the length and width to see a ballpark range. Send the request, and Chris or Grant follows up by call or text, not a call center, with a real reply within 1 business hour. The on-site estimate is free. The work is done by our own finish crews, not subcontractors, across Clarksville and Middle Tennessee plus Hopkinsville and Bowling Green, Kentucky.