New concrete steps and a sidewalk for a home in Vernon, Texas. The areas were graded and formed, the steps were built to comfortable, even rises at the back doors, and the sidewalk was poured and finished with a clean broom surface that wraps the home for safe, everyday access.
Scope of Work
- Grading & forming
- Step forming
- Reinforced pour
- Broom finish
How This Project Came Together
This Vernon home needed two connected concrete elements built at once — new steps at the back doors and a sidewalk wrapping the house between them — rather than two separate small jobs handled on different days. Getting both right meant the steps had to land at a comfortable, even rise at each doorway while the sidewalk held one consistent grade the whole way around the home.
The crew graded and formed both areas, then built step forms at each back door to a comfortable, even rise before the sidewalk was formed and reinforced to wrap between them. Everything was poured and finished with a broom surface for safe footing, with the steps and sidewalk brought to grade together rather than as disconnected pieces.
Challenge
Steps at a doorway have far less room for error than an open sidewalk run — the rise from one step to the next has to stay consistent within a fraction of an inch, or the steps feel wrong underfoot every time someone uses that door. Tying that precision into a sidewalk that also has to hold a steady grade around the whole house, on this region's shifting clay soil, meant treating the two elements as one connected system instead of two separate pours.
Solution
The crew set each set of steps to the exact doorway threshold height first, then worked the sidewalk grade out from those fixed points rather than the other way around, so the walkway met each set of steps cleanly instead of forcing a step height to match wherever the sidewalk happened to land. Broom texture was kept consistent across both elements so the finished surfaces read as one continuous job.
Result
The steps land even and comfortable at both back doors, and the sidewalk wraps the home at a steady grade connecting them — safe, everyday access with no low spots or awkward step heights anywhere in the run. Both elements went in as one connected job rather than two separate patches around the property, finished together instead of on two different schedules.
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