Sunny Days.

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Their own photographs.

Every picture here came off Sunny Days’ own gallery. None of it is stock and none of it is a catalogue shot. The captions describe what is in the frame and nothing else.

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A stamped concrete driveway in a large ashlar pattern running up to a red brick house, meeting a plain gray driveway beyond it with a block wall down one side

Stamped driveway in ashlar

Stamped Concrete

A large ashlar stamp, colored and sealed, meeting the plain gray drive it replaced. The low wall down the left-hand side is holding the lawn above it off the drive.

A wide stamped concrete driveway in a large ashlar pattern, wet and dark, running past a brick pier with traffic cones still set out along its edge

Stamped drive, wet and sealed

Stamped Concrete

The same stamp family on a wider frontage, photographed wet so the pattern reads. Cones still out, which is what the first few days after a seal look like.

A stamped and colored concrete patio finished along the back of a red brick ranch house, with a raised step up to the back door

Back patio, finished

Color & Stain

Stamped, colored and sealed, with a raised landing squared to the back door. The ground in front of it had not been made good when this was taken.

A freshly poured gray concrete patio behind a red brick ranch house with timber forms still pinned around it and offcuts and tools scattered across the bare ground

The same patio, the day it was poured

Patios

The same job as the frame above, several days earlier: flat gray concrete, forms still on, and a yard full of the mess that produces it. Both are in the set, which is why both are here.

A wet stamped concrete walk curving away beside a house, with a single course of red brick laid flat along its outer edge and fresh mulch beyond it

Stamped walk with a brick edge

Brick Borders

A stamped field with a laid brick band following the curve. The brick is real fired brick rather than a brick-pattern stamp, which is the difference you can see at this distance.

A curved stamped concrete patio laid around a round stone fire pit, with the soil either side not yet made good and a truck parked beyond

Fire pit patio

Stamped Concrete

A curved stamped patio set around a stone fire pit, poured as one continuous slab. The curve is formed, not cut.

Pale concrete paths meeting at a planted bed, each one edged with a single course of red brick laid flat and following the curve

Brick-bordered paths

Brick Borders

Two concrete runs meeting at a bed, each with a flat brick band around it. The band is what turns the junction into a shape rather than a join.

A back garden patio of pale gray concrete with a red brick band laid around its edge, curving away past a blue canopy and a brick wall at the top of the slope

Bordered patio on a slope

Patios

The same job from further back: a concrete field with a brick band, cut into a slope with an older brick wall holding the bank behind it.

A large rectangular concrete slab finished smooth in an open back yard, timber forms still pinned around it and a gravel base showing in the foreground

Finished slab in an open yard

Slabs & Floors

A large pad poured on a gravel base with the forms still on. Someone is still working the far edge, which is what the last pass across a slab looks like.

A new concrete floor finished inside a garage with tools hung along the back wall, a stone-faced column at the opening and a strip of lawn outside

Garage floor

Slabs & Floors

A garage floor poured inside the existing building, finished flat and run out to the door opening. The stone column at the entrance is not theirs; the floor is.

A concrete front walk and landing leading to a pink front door on a brick and gray-sided house, with fresh straw spread over the bare ground either side

Front walk and landing

Walkways & Sidewalks

A front walk with a landing at the door, poured wide enough for two people. The straw is seeding, which is what a finished job looks like before the grass comes back.

A fresh concrete walk curving away across a site, a worker brooming the far end of it, with a drain grate and a power tool lying on the ground beside it

Walk being finished

Walkways & Sidewalks

The same trade mid-job: a curved walk being broomed for grip while it is still green. Brooming happens in a window of about an hour, which is why a concrete crew works to the weather rather than to a diary.

A gray block retaining wall running along the side of a shed, with gravel filled in behind it and raw red clay in the foreground

Block wall beside a shed

Retaining Walls

A low block wall holding a cut back from the side of a shed, with drain stone filled in behind the face. The stone is the half of the job you stop being able to see.

A gray block retaining wall built along a timber fence line with gravel laid against its base and fresh soil graded flat behind it

Block wall against a fence line

Retaining Walls

A wall built hard against a boundary fence, with the ground behind it brought back up to level in lifts.

A new concrete porch along the front of a red brick house with timber props braced against it and the ground in front still open

Porch under construction

Steps, Stoops & Porches

A front porch slab poured across the face of a brick house, propped while it cured. The props come off, the slab stays.

The outside face of a block foundation wall coated black with waterproofing down to the footing, with a worker standing in the open trench in front of it

Foundation waterproofing

Foundation Repair

The outside face of a foundation coated and ready for backfill. This is the half of a wet-basement job that stops being visible the moment the trench is filled.

A new concrete sidewalk poured along the front of a glass-fronted building still under construction, with a worker finishing it at the far end

Storefront sidewalk

Walkways & Sidewalks

Commercial flatwork: a sidewalk run along a storefront that is still a building site, poured to the line of the columns.

A new concrete ramp with a flared edge poured against an existing parking surface at the end of a building, with a machine working behind it

Ramp at a building entrance

Walkways & Sidewalks

A ramped entrance poured against existing asphalt, with the flare formed rather than cut. The blue marks are layout, not damage.

A loading dock whose stained and crumbling block base has been capped with a new concrete deck, with a worker standing behind it and scrap timber underneath

Loading dock pad

Repair & Resurfacing

A dock deck recast on top of a base that had broken up. Repair rather than replacement, which is the right answer when what failed is the top and not the ground.

A large interior concrete floor finished smooth and dark inside a commercial space with a glazed wall along one side

Interior floor, finished dark

Slabs & Floors

A commercial floor troweled smooth rather than broomed, because nothing is going to rain on it. The dark tone is the finish, not a coating.

About these captions

No prices, no timelines, no names.

A photograph cannot tell you what a job cost or how long it took, and nothing on record says either. So this page does not guess. What it can tell you is what was built and how, and that is what the captions do.

There is no before and after pair anywhere on this site, and that is not an oversight. A wipe between two frames needs both shot from one camera position, and nothing in the set is. What is on the home page instead is one patio photographed with the color release still on it and again after the sealer: the same slab, one wash apart.

Yours would be the next one on this page.

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