Why Concrete?

 
If concrete costs more than asphalt, why pour concrete? How do concrete driveways and patios compare with asphalt?

These are valid questions and questions that have solid answers.

  1. Concrete is more durable than asphalt.
  2. Assuming both are installed and maintained properly, concrete driveways and patios can last 10 to 20 years longer than asphalt. Even then, Asphalt will need more frequent repairs than concrete. Regular sealing will go a long way in keeping concrete holding up and looking nice for decades. This amounts to savings for you.

  3. Concrete can withstand heat and can be protected against the cold.
  4. In areas where summers get hot, asphalt can become sticky or gooey. At 108 degree weather, asphalt, which gets hotter than the air, can rise to 160 degrees. Hot enough to get soft and also burn your feet. While in that condition if someone drives over it can become disfigured. Concrete, on the other hand, can withstand those high temperature, but…. it does not like the extreme cold. The good news is that, reinforced with steel rods or mesh, concrete has increases tensile strength during freezing and, again, sealing will prevent salt, de-icing chemicals and freezing water from breaking down your concrete. Thus, a more lasting product.

  5. Concrete lends itself to more variety.
  6. Asphalt is black with the sun turning it gray over time. That’s all. Concrete has lots of options. It can be colored with pretty much any color you choose. Concrete can also be stamped to look like colored brick, shiny stones, waxed tiles, rough cobble, sandy slate even your choice of wood. It can also be built up to make steps, sitting walls, fire pits, a barbecue and whatever your imagination can conceive.

In short, the features that make concrete so appealing is that it is durable and that can be shaped and colored in any way desired.

Best Denver Concrete of Sage Solutions

Serving the Denver Metro area and throughout the state of Colorado, Sage Solutions are the professionals to turn to when you need a professional concrete pour, repair or sealing. Whether you need a new driveway, want a stamped patio, or a firepit, we will tailor our work to meet your requirements. Call us at 303-900-5889 or email us at Service@SageQualitySolutions.com or hit the contact tab at the top, then scroll down and fill in the blanks to contact us online.

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For $195 plus parts (if needed) we run through a checklist to clean, adjust, and service your gas fireplace. Our service is warrantied for 90 days – meaning we’ll return for free if the same problem arises. All parts come with a one year warranty. Have a second fireplace in your home?  Cleaning and servicing additional fireplaces is just $175. Our technicians will arrive sometime during the 2 hour appointment window. The repair typically takes 45 minutes to an hour. Book Now
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Lawn Sprinkler Repair
Our Service: You may call or complete our online form to request an appointment. We are available to take your call Monday through Friday between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. If we are on another call and you leave a message, we will quickly return  your call. Our service technicians work from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday and sometimes Sunday. We will book a 2-hour arrival window. After the repairs are completed, we invite you to physically observe that everything we did meets your expectations. If satisfied, the technician will create the invoice on site and then collect payment. We accept cash, check, or a payment via credit card. Click this link to see and understand our pricing. After We Leave: You will have already verified that everything is operating as it should; however, that does not mean you can forget about your lawn, trees, and bushes. Like any mechanical system, problems can arise unexpectedly or things can be missed. As such, it is imperative that someone monitor the health of the lawn, trees, and bushes after we leave. If you observe stress in any of the aforementioned items, you should begin hand watering and then call us to schedule another appointment. Warranty: We will warranty all parts against poor workmanship or manufacturing defect that we install up until the first freeze. Our technicians will do their absolute best to resolve all sprinkler system related issues. Please confirm everything is working well and that you are 100% satisfied before allowing the technician to leave. Things to double check include: good zone coverage, reasonable clock settings, no leaks a the back-flow, or manifold. The technician will gladly walk you through the aforementioned areas and help you understand how to adjust your clock. A return visit (if needed) will be treated as a new service call to keep our pricing low. So, double checking the work is a win win for everyone. We do not warranty your grass, bushes, trees or any living thing.  It is the homeowner’s responsibility to physically inspect their vegetation periodically and to identify any problems. As the summer goes on, you will likely notice that some areas of your lawn will begin to need more water. Please be sure the technician shows you how to make changes to your programmed settings. If you are not comfortable making changes, you are welcomed to call us for another service call. It is just important to remember that we do not live on the property and that we cannot know if there is a new or existing problem after we leave. This is why it is so important that the home owner study the health of their vegetation to ensure all is good. Manually testing the system periodically during the day is an excellent idea, too. This will help you identify problems before they become serious. Sometimes leaks in a system can manifest themselves in different ways. For example, a leaky manifold right next to the home can in rare cases send water into the basement. It is the homeowners responsibility to notice problems like this in a timely manner before extensive damage occurs. This can be done by periodically inspecting the manifold box and/or basement. If we are found to be at fault, we will refund up to everything that was paid for the service. Drip Systems: It’s pretty easy to identify a zone in your lawn not working. When manually testing your system, you can physically observe that heads are popping up and that the spray pattern is appropriate. Monitoring the drip system isn’t quite as easy. Generally, you can confirm that it is going on if you hear air being pushed out emitters and by also finding a few emitters and confirming that water is being pushed out. That being said, it would be very difficult for us or anyone to confirm that every emitter is performing correctly. Typically, there are 3-4 emitters per tree and it is above the soil and below the landscaping fabric and rocks or wood chips. As such, easily getting to and inspecting them all would be very difficult and time consuming. That being said, we are happy to do this if you want to pay for this type of service. We would charge $90/hr. High Water Bills: Quite often we are called out after a customer receives an unusually high water bill. We are quite good at finding and fixing this type of problem. That being said, please don’t wait until your next water bill to ensure we nailed it. A typical lawn on a hot day needs 125 gallons per every 1,000 square feet. Other sources state the lawn needs around .6 gallons per square foot. A typical lawn, will use about 2,000 gallons on a watering day. So, have the technician show you your water meter, which is normally rounded to the nearest thousand. Make note of the reading in the evening and then check it again in the morning after your lawn has been watered. If you used 5,000 gallons when we were expecting only 2,000 gallons to be used, we still have a problem. In this case, we will come back and search for additional possible problems. Since we do not live on the property, in no case can we take responsibility for your water bill. Please work with the technician to enable you to quickly determine if all is well after we leave. As a side note, we typically resolve problems like this on our first attempt. Winterization: Hundreds and perhaps thousands of customers use our service to winterize their sprinkler system each year. Our process to winterize your sprinkler system entails utilizing a gas powered air compressor to push all the water out each zone and to the bleed valve at the basement shut-off valve. We invite you to physically observe this procedure of removing all the water from your system. In rare cases, people will find freeze damage to their system in the Spring. This can occur if someone inadvertently turns on the water to your sprinkler system during the winter or if the main shut-off to your sprinkler system has a very slow leak. The latter problem can refill your system over several months assuming it is a slow leak. The best way to detect this type of problem is to periodically inspect bleed-valves on your back-flow throughout the winter. There should be no sign of water after our winterization process. Our Appointment: In peak months (April/May/June) customers often have to wait 2-3 weeks for us to arrive. Upon arrival, we don’t know if the job will take 30 minutes or four hours. Our goal is to arrive early in the 2-hour arrival window and leave before the arrival window is closed. Unfortunately, sometimes the job takes much longer, which can then cause us to need to reschedule subsequent appointments. In general, we like to try and finish what we started. To minimize the impact on other customers we do our best to save some windows each week in the event a customer needs to be rescheduled. We know that nobody wants to be rescheduled, so we do our best to prevent this from happening.

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