Concrete Contractor in Sunnyside, WA - Driveways and Slabs Built on a Solid Base
United Yakima Concrete is a concrete contractor pouring driveways, patios, sidewalks, garage floors and foundations for homes and small businesses in Sunnyside, WA. I come out to look at each job myself, and our crew does the work.
- Licensed and fully insured.
- Free in-person estimates.
- We respond within 1 business day.
Sunnyside homes and the concrete jobs they bring
Our calls in Sunnyside cover a wide range. Older houses near downtown often have a driveway that's one narrow strip and a front walk that has heaved. Newer homes toward the edges of the city want a patio, a wider pad or a slab for a shop. Small businesses here call too, mostly for parking, walks and shop floors. It's the same kind of work we do down the road in Grandview and back up the valley in Toppenish.
That mix shapes the job. An older lot can mean a tight squeeze past the house for our equipment and an old slab to break out before we pour anything. A newer lot often sits on loose fill that has to come out or be compacted before it can carry concrete.
Concrete services we offer in Sunnyside
Concrete driveway building
Lots here often hold a work truck, a trailer and the family car. We pour driveways thick enough and wide enough for that load, on a packed base.
Concrete patio construction
Most backyards here have room for a real patio. We size it for a grill and a table, or thicken it under a hot tub.
Stamped concrete services
Stamped concrete gives a patio or front walk the look of stone or brick. Unlike pavers, it has no gaps for weeds to fill in a watered yard.
Concrete sidewalk building
Older front walks in Sunnyside heave until someone trips. We replace the bad sections or the whole run with a broom finish, a light dragged texture for grip.
Garage floor concrete
Garage and shop floors here take work trucks and farm equipment. We pour them on a packed base and slope them toward the door so water drains out.
Decorative concrete
On an older Sunnyside house, a colored or pebble-finish entry walk freshens the front without new siding or paint. We settle the color and texture before the pour.
Concrete retaining walls
Where a yard steps down to a ditch, a field or the neighbor's lot, a concrete retaining wall holds the soil back and keeps it off your driveway.
Concrete floor installation
Farm shops, storage buildings and small businesses around Sunnyside need floors that stay flat for racks, forklifts and equipment. We pour interior floors level and cut the joints early.
Concrete pool decks
A pool deck takes bare feet and splashed water all summer. We give it a textured finish for grip and slope it so the water drains off.
Concrete steps construction
Porch and back-door steps on older houses crack and pull away from the wall. We form and pour new ones with every step the same height.
Slab foundation building
Plenty of Sunnyside lots have room for a new shop or garage. A slab foundation pours the floor and footing together, on ground we've packed hard first.
Foundation installation
If you're adding onto an older house or building new, we form and pour the foundation walls and footings that carry it, built to your plans.
Concrete parking lot building
Shops and small businesses in Sunnyside need parking that takes traffic and delivery trucks without breaking up at the entrance. We plan the drainage before we form it.
Concrete footings
Every post, wall or porch needs something solid under it. We dig and pour footings for decks, carports and additions to the depth the job calls for.
Foundation raising
When an older house settles and the doors stick or the walls crack, we find what's going on underneath, then raise and support the foundation where it dropped.
Concrete cutting
Need a doorway in a concrete wall, a trench for a new line or a cracked section taken out? We saw-cut clean so the rest of the slab stays put.
Get a free written estimate for your Sunnyside concrete job
Send the form and we'll get back to you within one business day to set up a time. I come out to measure and look the job over, and the written estimate is free with no obligation.
Call (509) 452-5002- Based in
- Yakima, WA 98901
- Hours
- Mon–Fri: 6 AM–10 PM, Sat–Sun: 8 AM–10 PM
Working in Sunnyside: permits, pricing and pour days
Inside Sunnyside city limits, building permits come from the city's Building Division. The owner, or someone acting for them, has to have any required permit before the work starts. Some addresses around Sunnyside fall under Yakima County instead, so I check which office covers yours and what it asks for on your job. Certain driveways, walks and low walls are on the city's no-permit list and others aren't. When a permit is needed, the pour date waits on it. We handle the permit paperwork for our part of the job, and I tell you plainly where things stand before we set that date. We're licensed and fully insured.
We're a concrete contractor based in Yakima, WA, and Sunnyside is a straight run down I-82. We plan pour days so the concrete truck and our crew get there early, before the afternoon heat. That's how we plan pours everywhere we work, from Ellensburg down to Grandview, because concrete poured in midday heat sets too fast on top and can turn weak and dusty later. The price moves with the size and thickness of the slab, whether an old one has to be broken out and hauled off, how much digging and base the ground needs, and the finish you pick. The schedule depends on any permit, the weather on pour day and the curing time afterward. Your written estimate spells out the mix, the prep and what's included, so you can see where the money goes.
Why Sunnyside concrete cracks, sinks and holds water
A lot of the older driveways and walks we look at in Sunnyside were poured thin on dirt that was raked level instead of dug out and packed. As that dirt settled, the slabs went with it. They cracked across and tipped toward the house. We break those out to firm ground and pack a gravel base. Where the load calls for it, we add rebar, steel bars that keep a cracked slab from pulling apart. We also cut control joints early. These are shallow grooves that give the concrete a straight line to crack along instead of wherever it likes.
Water does the rest. Irrigated yards here get watered hard, and plenty of lots sit next to fields or ditches. A slab that drains toward the foundation or sits in sprinkler runoff starts washing out the ground under itself. I check where the water runs before we set forms, and we pitch the slab to carry the water away from the house.
How a concrete job goes when you call us in Sunnyside
Here's how a job runs from your first call to the day you can use the new slab, and who you'll deal with at each step.
Call or send the form
Call (509) 452-5002 or send the form, and we'll get back to you to set up a time for me to come out. We answer the phone until 10 PM every day, weekends included.
I come out and measure
I measure, look over the ground and ask how you'll use the concrete, so the thickness and base fit the job. Then you get a written estimate with the mix, the prep and what's included spelled out, so you know what you're paying for.
We handle permits and prep
Once you say go, we sort out the permit side, and our crew digs out, packs the base and builds the forms. If the city needs a permit, the pour date waits until it's issued.
Pour, finish and clean up
I'm on site for the pour while our crew finishes the surface and cuts the joints. We clean up before we leave and block off the new slab while it cures, which is the quiet time concrete needs to gain strength.
Questions about concrete work in Sunnyside, WA
Call (509) 452-5002Not always. The city's list of work that doesn't need a building permit includes driveways and sidewalks no more than 30 inches above grade. The driveway can't sit over a basement or a room below, and it can't be part of an accessible route, which is a path built for wheelchair use. I check those details for your address before we set a pour date.
A retaining wall can skip the building permit if it's no more than 4 feet tall, measured from the bottom of the footing to the top of the wall. It also has to sit at least as far from property lines and buildings as it is tall. The ground behind it has to stay fairly flat or slope gently, with nothing like a driveway or a building adding weight to the soil it holds. If your wall goes past any of those limits, it's a permit question for the city, and I check it before we form anything.
Start at the city's Forms & Permits page. It has all of the city's permit applications online and links to the city's online permitting program. If you're hiring us, we take care of the paperwork for our part of the work.
Sunnyside works under the Washington State building codes and the state energy code, and the city's Building Division inspects work against them. A job on the city's no-permit list still has to meet the code and the city's other rules. That's why we build an exempt driveway or walk the same way we'd build a permitted one.
Most of what you pay for on a Sunnyside driveway is the work under it. That means breaking out and hauling the old slab, then digging out and packing the base. The size and the finish on top come after that. If the budget's tight, I'd keep the base and go with a plain broom finish over a stamped one, because a fancy surface on a weak base cracks and sinks like the old one did. Your written estimate gives the number for your driveway.
You're off it from the day we break out the old slab until the new one has cured long enough to carry a car. You can walk on it well before you can drive on it. I'll give you both dates on pour day, because driving on new concrete too soon is one of the easiest ways to crack it.
Yakima, WA
Get your Sunnyside concrete job on the calendar
Call (509) 452-5002 or send the form, and I'll tell you straight whether your old slab is worth saving or needs to come out.