Our Services
Full-service concrete and masonry contractor for residential and commercial properties throughout Queens, NY.
Concrete Driveways
A poured concrete driveway is the longest-lasting, lowest-maintenance driveway material you can install. Done right, a concrete driveway in Queens will easily outlast 30+ years of New York winters, salt, and daily use.
We start with proper excavation and a compacted base, install rebar or wire mesh reinforcement, and pour 4,000 PSI concrete with control joints in the right places to prevent random cracking. Finishes range from broom (most popular for traction) to stamped or stained for a premium look.
Driveway Services Include:
- ✓ New driveway installation (residential and commercial)
- ✓ Driveway replacement and tear-out
- ✓ Apron and curb cut work (DOT permits handled)
- ✓ Broom finish, smooth trowel, or decorative finishes
- ✓ Stamped concrete patterns and integral color
- ✓ Reinforcement with rebar or fiber mesh
- ✓ Control joint cutting for crack prevention
- ✓ Sealer application for weather protection
Why Concrete?
- ★ Lasts 30+ years with minimal maintenance
- ★ Handles NYC freeze-thaw cycles when poured properly
- ★ Adds significant resale value to your home
- ★ Available in dozens of finish and color options
- ★ Stronger than asphalt — won't deform under heavy vehicles
- ★ Cleaner appearance over time vs. asphalt
Patio Finish Options
- ✓ Broom finish for slip resistance and value
- ✓ Stamped patterns: slate, flagstone, brick, wood plank
- ✓ Integral color and acid-stained finishes
- ✓ Exposed aggregate for textured natural look
- ✓ Smooth trowel for modern minimal aesthetic
- ✓ Salt finish for subtle texture and grip
Concrete Patios
A custom concrete patio turns a backyard into an outdoor living space. We pour patios for grilling areas, dining spaces, pool surrounds, and entertainment zones throughout Queens — sized and shaped exactly to your yard.
Concrete patios cost less than pavers or natural stone but offer just as much design flexibility. Stamped patterns and integral color can mimic flagstone, slate, or brick at a fraction of the cost, and a single monolithic pour means no weeds growing through joints.
Patio Applications:
- ✓ Backyard entertaining patios
- ✓ Pool deck and surround pours
- ✓ Outdoor kitchen and grill area slabs
- ✓ Front yard sitting patios and porches
- ✓ Side yard utility pads and pathways
- ✓ Step-down terraced patio designs
- ✓ Patio extensions and additions
- ✓ Decorative borders and inlays
Sidewalks & Walkways
If NYC DOT flagged your sidewalk for replacement, you have a limited window before they hire a contractor and bill you. We replace sidewalks to NYC DOT specifications, pull the permits, schedule inspections, and get the work passed the first time.
Beyond DOT-mandated replacements, we install custom front walkways, side-yard paths, garden walkways, and decorative entry paths in plain or stamped concrete. Every walkway is poured at the right thickness with the right base for the application.
Sidewalk & Walkway Services:
- ✓ NYC DOT sidewalk violation repairs
- ✓ Full sidewalk replacement to code
- ✓ New front walkway installation
- ✓ Side and rear yard walkways
- ✓ Garden and stepping-stone path pours
- ✓ ADA-compliant ramp installations
- ✓ Permit pulling and DOT inspection coordination
- ✓ Curb cut installation and repair
Got a DOT Violation?
If you received a NYC DOT sidewalk violation notice, you typically have 75 days to repair it yourself before the city hires a contractor at significantly higher cost.
We've handled hundreds of NYC DOT sidewalk replacements throughout Queens. We know exactly what passes inspection and what doesn't.
Bring us your violation notice and we'll come out, measure, give you a written estimate, pull the permit, and replace the sidewalk on time.
Call now to get your sidewalk handled:
(347) 555-0143Popular Stamp Patterns
- ✓ Ashlar slate (most popular for patios)
- ✓ Random flagstone (irregular, natural look)
- ✓ Running bond brick (classic walkways)
- ✓ Cobblestone (European driveway aesthetic)
- ✓ Wood plank (modern, on-trend pattern)
- ✓ Roman slate (elegant, formal feel)
Stamped & Decorative Concrete
Stamped concrete gives you the look of natural stone, brick, or wood at roughly half the cost of the real thing. Done by an experienced crew, a stamped patio or driveway is virtually indistinguishable from real flagstone or pavers.
We use professional-grade stamps, color hardeners, and release agents to create rich, multi-tone finishes. Then we seal everything with a quality acrylic sealer that brings out the color and protects against UV fading and water absorption.
Decorative Concrete Options:
- ✓ Stamped patterns (slate, flagstone, brick, wood)
- ✓ Integral color (mixed in concrete)
- ✓ Color hardener for richer surface tone
- ✓ Acid staining for variegated, marbled effects
- ✓ Exposed aggregate (decorative stones revealed)
- ✓ Sawcut score lines and decorative borders
- ✓ Multi-color and accent banding
- ✓ Sealer for color depth and protection
Concrete Foundations
Foundation work is where concrete really matters. A bad pour shows up as cracks, settling, and water issues for the life of the building. We pour footings, slabs, and full foundations to NYC Building Code with the right rebar, the right PSI, and proper curing.
From garage slabs and shed pads to full home additions and new construction foundations, we work directly with your architect and engineer to make sure what's in the drawings is what gets poured.
Foundation Services:
- ✓ New construction foundation pours
- ✓ Home addition footings and slabs
- ✓ Garage slabs and footings
- ✓ Shed and accessory structure pads
- ✓ Basement and crawlspace floor slabs
- ✓ Stoop and porch foundations
- ✓ Pier and column footings
- ✓ Foundation repair and underpinning
What Sets Our Foundation Work Apart
- ★ NYC Building Code compliance and inspections
- ★ Proper rebar placement (not just thrown in)
- ★ 4,000+ PSI mix designs for residential work
- ★ Correct curing to prevent shrinkage cracks
- ★ Coordination with your architect and engineer
- ★ Damp-proofing and drainage where needed
Materials We Work In
- ✓ Standard red and modular brick
- ✓ Bluestone (treads, copings, caps)
- ✓ Granite cobblestone and Belgian block
- ✓ Limestone and travertine veneer
- ✓ Cultured (manufactured) stone
- ✓ Natural fieldstone and flagstone
Brick & Stone Masonry
Queens has some of the most beautiful brick row houses, brownstone-style fronts, and stone-veneer homes in the city. We do full masonry work to keep them looking sharp — brick laying, tuck pointing, stone veneer installation, and full restoration of aging facades.
Bad mortar joints let water into your walls, and water causes problems that get expensive fast. We grind out failed mortar, repoint with the right mix for your brick type, and color-match so the repair blends with the existing wall.
Masonry Services:
- ✓ Brick laying for new walls and additions
- ✓ Tuck pointing and mortar joint repair
- ✓ Stone veneer installation (natural and cultured)
- ✓ Brick face restoration and rebuilds
- ✓ Window sill and lintel replacement
- ✓ Brick cleaning and acid washing
- ✓ Brick caulking and waterproofing
- ✓ Decorative brick patterns and arches
Retaining Walls
A failed retaining wall is one of the most expensive landscape problems you can have. The good news: a properly built retaining wall lasts decades. The bad news: most failed walls were built without proper drainage, footings, or reinforcement.
We build retaining walls in poured concrete, segmental block (like Versa-Lok or Allan Block), or natural stone — engineered for the height and the load. That means a real footing, drainage gravel and pipe behind the wall, and reinforcement (geogrid or rebar) where needed.
Retaining Wall Services:
- ✓ Poured concrete retaining walls
- ✓ Segmental block walls (Versa-Lok, Allan Block, etc.)
- ✓ Natural stone and boulder walls
- ✓ Tiered and terraced wall systems
- ✓ Drainage system installation behind walls
- ✓ Geogrid reinforcement for taller walls
- ✓ Replacement of failed wall systems
- ✓ Garden bed and landscape wall installation
Why Walls Fail (And How We Prevent It)
- ★ No drainage behind wall — water builds up and pushes
- ★ Inadequate footing for wall height and soil load
- ★ Missing reinforcement on walls over 4 feet
- ★ Poor base prep — wall settles unevenly
- ★ Wrong block or stone for the application
- ★ No geogrid where engineering required it
Stoop & Step Options
- ✓ Plain poured concrete (clean, modern)
- ✓ Brick-faced stoop with concrete core
- ✓ Bluestone treads on concrete substructure
- ✓ Stamped concrete treads with custom risers
- ✓ Wrought iron railing installation
- ✓ Slip-resistant broom or rock-salt finish
Concrete Steps & Stoops
A crumbling front stoop is one of the most visible problems on a Queens row house or single-family home. We replace and rebuild stoops, install new steps, and resurface tired entries to bring the front of your house back to looking sharp.
All our steps are built with proper riser heights and tread depths so they're code-compliant and comfortable to use. Slip-resistant finishes are standard, and we can integrate brick facing, bluestone treads, or any decorative element you want.
Step & Stoop Work:
- ✓ Front entry stoop replacement
- ✓ Side-entrance step installation
- ✓ Brick-faced stoop construction
- ✓ Bluestone tread installation
- ✓ Step crack and chip repair
- ✓ Stoop resurfacing and overlay
- ✓ Railing installation and replacement
- ✓ Wide-tread basement and garage steps
Chimney Repair & Restoration
Chimneys take more weather than any other part of your house — rain, freeze-thaw, wind, sun, all year long. When mortar joints fail, water gets in. Once water gets in, deterioration accelerates fast. The longer you wait, the more it costs.
We do everything from a quick crown repair and chimney cap installation to full top-down chimney rebuilds. We work safely on roofs and we know what flashing, parging, and waterproofing details actually keep water out long-term.
Chimney Services:
- ✓ Brick repointing and tuck pointing
- ✓ Crown repair and rebuilds
- ✓ Chimney cap installation
- ✓ Top-down chimney rebuilds
- ✓ Flashing repair and replacement
- ✓ Parging (smooth coating on bricks)
- ✓ Chimney waterproofing
- ✓ Liner inspection coordination
Warning Signs to Watch For
⚠️ White stains (efflorescence) on bricks — water is moving through the masonry
⚠️ Crumbling mortar joints visible from the ground
⚠️ Cracked or missing crown at top of chimney
⚠️ Water stains on ceiling near chimney chase
⚠️ Tilting or leaning chimney structure
⚠️ Bricks falling onto roof or yard
Catching it early saves thousands. Call:
(347) 555-0143Paver Materials We Install
- ✓ Concrete pavers (Cambridge, Belgard, Nicolock)
- ✓ Clay brick pavers (classic and modular)
- ✓ Bluestone (irregular and dimensional)
- ✓ Granite cobblestone
- ✓ Travertine and limestone
- ✓ Permeable paver systems for drainage
Pavers & Hardscaping
Pavers offer flexibility that poured concrete can't match: individual units that can be lifted and reset if you ever need to access something underneath, and patterns and color combinations that are virtually unlimited.
The key to pavers that don't shift, sink, or pop weeds is the base prep — most paver failures trace back to skipped base work. We install proper compacted gravel base, leveling sand, and polymeric joint sand on every job.
Paver Applications:
- ✓ Paver driveways and aprons
- ✓ Paver patios and pool decks
- ✓ Walkways and front entries
- ✓ Stoop and step facing in pavers
- ✓ Decorative borders and inlays
- ✓ Fire pit and seating wall integration
- ✓ Permeable paver installations
- ✓ Replacement of failed paver systems
Concrete Repair & Resurfacing
Sometimes you don't need a full tear-out and replacement. If your driveway, patio, or walkway has surface damage but the slab itself is sound, a resurfacing overlay can give you another 15-20 years for a fraction of the cost of a new pour.
- ✓ Crack injection and structural repair
- ✓ Cementitious overlay resurfacing
- ✓ Spall and pop-out patching
- ✓ Slab leveling (mudjacking and polyjack)
- ✓ Decorative overlay finishes
- ✓ Pool deck resurfacing
- ✓ Garage floor coating prep
- ✓ Joint and expansion repair
Waterproofing & Sealing
Water is concrete and masonry's biggest enemy. Foundation seepage, basement leaks, and unprotected concrete surfaces all shorten the life of your home. Proper waterproofing and sealing pay off many times over.
- ✓ Foundation waterproofing (exterior and interior)
- ✓ Basement floor and wall coatings
- ✓ French drain installation
- ✓ Driveway and patio sealer applications
- ✓ Brick and stone water repellent
- ✓ Stamped concrete sealing for color
- ✓ Membrane installation under hardscaping
- ✓ Below-grade waterproofing systems
Ready to Get Started?
Free on-site estimates anywhere in Queens. We'll come measure, walk through your options, and give you a fair written quote.