Price a driveway, patio, or walkway by area, finish, slab thickness, and reinforcement using Bay Area 2026 installed rates. Tear-out of an existing slab is included as an option.
Every result is a planning estimate, not a quote or an engineering determination. Real pricing depends on soil conditions, access, existing structure, engineering requirements, and your jurisdiction’s current fee schedule. For structural questions we coordinate with a licensed engineer — we do not perform engineering ourselves. Get a site-specific estimate before committing to a budget.
Square footage sets the scale, but it rarely explains why two 600 sq ft driveways are quoted $9,000 apart. Four things do most of the work:
The most common miss is drainage. Concrete that drains toward the house instead of away from it will eventually put water against your foundation, and correcting slope after the pour means demo. Plan the fall — roughly a quarter inch per foot — before anyone orders concrete.
The second miss is joint layout. Control joints are not decoration; they tell the slab where to crack. Panels should be roughly square and spaced about 24 to 30 times the slab thickness in inches, so a 4 in slab wants joints every 8 to 10 feet. Skip them and the slab picks its own line.
Finally, if your driveway meets a public sidewalk or needs a new curb cut, that portion is city work with its own encroachment permit, inspection, and specification. Budget it separately — it is not folded into a per square foot flatwork rate.
See how we approach concrete flatwork and driveways, or if this pour is part of a larger build, start with new home foundations.
Four inches over compacted base handles ordinary passenger cars. Go to five or six inches if you park an RV, a work truck, or expect delivery and dumpster traffic. The extra concrete is far cheaper than replacing a slab that cracked under a load it was never built for.
It costs roughly 60 to 80 percent more installed and needs resealing every two to three years to keep its color. If you want the look of pavers or stone without the joints and weeds, it delivers. If the driveway is purely functional, broom finish with a clean joint layout looks sharp and costs much less to own.
Replacing an existing driveway in the same footprint often does not require a building permit, but a new curb cut, a change to the sidewalk, or added impervious area usually does, and stormwater rules vary by city. We confirm the requirements with your jurisdiction before we schedule the pour.
Walk on it after about 24 to 48 hours, park a passenger car after 7 days, and wait a full 28 days for heavy vehicles. Concrete keeps gaining strength for weeks after it looks finished, and early heavy loads are a common cause of cracking.
Tell us what you're building — a new home, an ADU, an addition — and we'll get back to you with next steps, usually within one business day.
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