Walkway construction in Midland TX - a path you can walk without watching your feet

Maybe the old walk has cracked and one slab sits higher than the next, or there's never been a real path and the lawn has a dirt track worn across it. The price mostly turns on the path's length and width, pavers or poured concrete, and how much old concrete and dirt has to come out first. The schedule turns on getting the underground lines marked, any permit the city wants and, for a pour, the weather. If the drive needs work too, driveway pavers can match the new path, and your written estimate spells out exactly what's included.

We start by walking the route with you and settling on pavers or a poured path, because the right one depends on your yard and what runs under it. Then we lay out the line, dig it out, compact the soil and spread and compact a base layer, since that base is what keeps the path from sinking later. For pavers, we set edge restraints, the borders that keep the pavers from creeping sideways, then level the bedding sand with a straight board and set the pavers on it. For a pour, we set forms, place and finish the concrete and cut control joints, shallow grooves that tell the slab where to crack, because it's going to crack somewhere and it may as well do it in a straight line.

A path usually runs past something else in the yard. If you want a low brick wall along one side to edge a bed or screen the side yard, we can build it as part of the same job, and stone masonry like a planter or a column where the path ends is work we do too.

Midland's Code Administration issues residential building permits for new construction, additions, remodeling, repairs and detached accessory buildings, and walkways aren't on that list. That doesn't tell you your path needs no permit, so ask the city about your own project before work starts. When a job does call for a permit, we handle the paperwork with the city and wait for it before we start. The city also says most construction projects here need a licensed and bonded contractor registered with the city, and the same office registers contractors and verifies their licensing, so you can check anyone you're considering there.

On jobs around Midland we often find an old walk poured straight onto the dirt with no base under it, which is why it cracked and tipped. We tear those out and start over with a proper base, the same as on jobs in Odessa and Big Spring, where any permit question goes to that city or the county instead.