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Patios and steps in West Valley City, UT
Patios, porches, and entry steps, built for a Utah freeze-thaw winter.
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Most of the covered porches and front stoops in the Granger and Hunter neighborhoods were poured with the house, which means they have taken sixty odd winters of freeze and thaw already. Before exterior tile goes on one, the installer is reading the slab: how it has cracked, whether the cracks still move, and which way water runs off it, because a lot of those old stoops have settled back toward the door. Newer patios out past 5600 West are usually sound but were poured for a barbecue, not for tile.
What this covers
- Patio and porch floors over concrete
- Entry steps and exterior stair treads
- Tile over an existing slab or a raised deck
- Exterior-rated porcelain and stone
- Drainage slope and waterproofing detail
- Replacing tile that has lifted or spalled
What affects the scope
Every tile job is different, and the independent installer who does the work sets their own price. These are the things they will usually need to know before they can estimate:
- The square footage and whether it is a ground-level slab or a raised structure
- The condition of the slab underneath, including existing cracks and how they move
- Whether the surface slopes away from the house, and whether it has to be corrected
- Whether a waterproofing or uncoupling membrane is called for under the tile
- The tile itself, since exterior use is about water absorption and slip resistance
- What comes off first, and why the last surface failed
Worth asking any installer directly: are you licensed and insured for this work, what waterproofing system do you use, what is your estimate and what does it include, when could you start, and what happens if something is not right afterwards? Related reading: What does tile installation actually cost?
Patios and steps across West Valley City
Requests come from across Granger, Hunter, Chesterfield, and the neighborhoods around Valley Fair Mall and the Maverik Center, along with the newer streets running west toward 5600 and 6400 West.
Questions
Frequently asked
How much does outdoor tile cost in West Valley City?
On a post-war stoop the condition of the concrete usually drives it, since cracks that still move have to be isolated and a surface that drains the wrong way has to be corrected before anything is set, and the exterior rated tile and setting materials are the other half of the picture. Taylorsville Tile Co. does not set prices. If an independent local installer is available for your job, that installer gives you their own estimate and you agree it directly with them before any work starts.
The front stoop on this West Valley City house slopes back toward the door. Can it still be tiled?
Not as it sits. Tile does not fix drainage, it follows whatever is under it, and a surface that sends water at the house in a freeze and thaw climate will push water into the assembly and under the threshold until the bond lets go. The fix is to correct the fall first, either with a sloped exterior mortar bed built over the slab or by dealing with the settlement itself, and only then to tile. An installer who skips that step is selling the same failure back.
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