Driveways, slabs, walkways and decorative concrete, formed and finished — in Mesa and all around it.
Concrete gives you one window and no second chance at it. Once the truck starts turning, the slab is being screeded, floated, edged, jointed and finished against a clock that runs faster every degree the day heats up — which in an Arizona summer is why pours start early and why everything is staged before the truck arrives, not after.
Primos Landscaping pours driveways, slabs, walkways and pads across the East Valley, plain broom-finished or stamped and coloured, with the forms, the grade and the reinforcing decided before any concrete is ordered.
The work before the pour is what shows up years later. Subgrade gets cut and compacted so the slab is bearing evenly instead of bridging soft spots, forms are set to line and to the fall the surface needs, and reinforcing goes in sized to the job — a driveway that parks vehicles is not the same slab as a shed pad. Thickness follows the same logic. Then the pour itself: concrete placed and struck off with a straightedge, bull-floated while it is still open, and then left alone until the bleed water is gone, because troweling water back into the surface is how a slab ends up dusting and flaking later. Edges get run, and control joints are cut at spacing — concrete cracks, and the only real question is whether it cracks along a line somebody chose or across the middle of the slab. Finish is chosen for use: a broom finish across a driveway or walkway for grip, a power trowel where a hard smooth surface is wanted, or stamped and coloured with a release for a patio meant to look like stone. Then curing, which is the step summer punishes hardest — a slab poured in June that is allowed to dry out fast instead of being kept damp gives up strength it never gets back.
The ground is cut and compacted, forms go in to line and fall, and reinforcing is placed for what the slab has to carry.
Concrete goes in and gets struck off with a straightedge and bull-floated while the surface is still open.
Once the bleed water is gone, the surface is finished broom, trowel or stamped, edges run and control joints cut.
The slab is kept damp through curing, forms come out, and the surrounding rock and dirt are put back.
The East Valley is not one yard — a 1970s Mesa lot on old flood irrigation, a Gilbert build from 2005 and a San Tan Valley lot on raw desert are three different jobs.
Tell us what the yard needs — pavers, turf, concrete, a sprinkler zone that stopped, a palm nobody has touched in years — and send photos on WhatsApp if it is easier. We work in English and Spanish.
Call (480) 352-0711