Concrete & paver contractor.
Longboat Key, Florida.

Real 2026 numbers for Longboat Key and the rest of Manatee/Sarasota Counties: poured concrete driveways and patios with a broom finish run roughly $8–$14 per square foot; stamped or decorative concrete $12–$20; concrete pool decks $10–$16; resurfacing existing slabs $5–$12; and sealing $1–$3. Pavers cost more for the upgrade in look and repairability — paver driveways and patios land around $14–$26 per square foot, and travertine or paver pool decks $16–$32. What moves your number in Longboat Key is the base prep (sandy or soft soil that needs extra excavation and compaction adds cost), demo and haul-off of an old slab, drainage and slope work, and the finish or paver you choose. You get a written, line-itemized estimate within 24 hours of the on-site measure — no ‘starting at’ pricing, no surprise change orders.

For a typical Longboat Key home: a poured driveway runs about a few working days — demo and haul-off, base prep, forming, and the pour — then concrete needs to cure before you drive on it (we’ll give you the exact window before anyone parks on it). A paver driveway, patio, or pool deck usually takes 2–4 days from excavation through base compaction, laying, edge restraints, and polymeric joint sand. Stamped and decorative concrete adds a little time for the stamping, color, and sealing steps. Whole-home hardscape projects in larger homes around Bay Isles and Country Club Shores run longer. The real schedule lives in your written quote, not in this paragraph.

Yes. Our crew is based in east Bradenton, in the 34212 ZIP bordering Lakewood Ranch — minutes from most of Longboat Key, not driving in from another county. We pour concrete and lay pavers across Manatee/Sarasota Counties every week, so we know the soil, the drainage, the HOA / ARC rules, and the community access protocols at Bay Isles, Country Club Shores, and Longboat Key Club. The same crew that measures your Longboat Key project is the crew that pours and paves it, start to finish.

Longboat Key estates sit feet from the Gulf and bay, so corrosion-resistant reinforcement, generous concrete cover, and meticulous sealing are baseline requirements against relentless salt-air scaling. The bigger picture: high-end travertine and paver pool decks plus sealed paver driveways on waterfront estates. That dictates how deep we excavate, how much base we bring in and compact, where the control and expansion joints go, and how we slope the surface for drainage. The same square footage in two different Longboat Key neighborhoods can need very different prep — an older home near Tangerine Bay may have soft or organic soil that has to be cut out and replaced, while a newer build in Bay Isles sits on engineered fill. We assess all of that at the on-site measure, because the base prep nobody sees is what stops the crack you would have seen.

Yes. Most of the gated and master-planned communities in Longboat Key (including Bay Isles, Country Club Shores, and Longboat Key Club) run an architectural review committee with rules on driveway material, paver color and pattern, and concrete finish. We build to what passes, document the spec, and can prepare and submit the ARC package so your project clears review the first time. Give us the gate code and the community’s guidelines and we’ll work within them — color samples, joint and border details, and all.

Sometimes — it depends on the size of the job and our current schedule. Smaller pours and paver jobs can often start within the week of a signed estimate, especially in the slower, drier stretches of the year. Larger driveways, pool decks, and multi-surface hardscape projects typically book a few weeks out. Florida weather is the other variable: we schedule pours around the rainy-season afternoon storms and protect fresh concrete while it cures. We’ll give you a real start date in the quote, not a vague ‘we’ll get to it.’