Process
Our Concrete Process
Four steps, in an order that never changes. The ground gets read before a number exists, the plan goes on paper before the truck is ordered, and the job ends with both of us standing on it.
Walk & Read
What Communion does
Jose walks your lot with you and reads the slope — where water arrives, where it wants to go, and what the ground under the surface is doing. On Fresno's lot-to-lot ground, this walk is where the whole job is actually decided.
What you do
Show us the project, point out what bothers you (ponding, cracks, water at the wall), and answer one honest question: what's the heaviest thing that will sit on this concrete?
Plan the Slope
What Communion does
You receive a written scope: what's being poured, at what thickness, with what finish, on what slope — and where the water ends up. The slope-and-drainage plan is a standard section, not an add-on.
What you do
Read it, ask anything, and sign off before the truck is ordered. Decisions on finish and layout happen here — changing them after pour day isn't a change, it's a redo.
Pour It Right
What Communion does
Tear-out and grading where needed, base compacted, forms set to the written plan and checked against it, then the pour and finish. You get photos through the job as work progresses.
What you do
Cars out of the work area, sprinklers off near the pour, kids and pets clear on pour day. The scope lists the specifics for your job.
Walk It With You
What Communion does
A final walk-around together — the finished work checked against the paper, cure dates for your specific pour, and care instructions for the first weeks.
What you do
Walk it, question it, and keep the plan. The first storm is your inspection, and you hold the checklist it should match.
Communication, kept honest.
We work by appointment, Friday through Sunday — so that's the rhythm your updates follow. You get photos through your job as the work progresses, and your questions go to Jose directly. We won't promise "daily updates" from a weekend operation; we promise you'll never have to interpret silence.
If something on your job changes — weather, ground surprises after tear-out, a scheduling shift — you hear it from Jose with the plan for handling it, not after the fact.
The pitfalls, and where the process catches them
Drainage done wrong — caught at step one, on the lot walk, and locked at step two, in writing. This is the mistake you can't see on pour day, so it has to be prevented before pour day. What it looks like when it isn't.
Scope creep and surprise charges — caught at step two. The written scope says what's included; if tear-out reveals something the walk couldn't see, the conversation happens before the work, with the reasoning.
The half-poured job going quiet — prevented by structure: owner-run, weekend blocks scheduled in the scope, photos through the job.
Early damage to new concrete — caught at step four. Cure dates and care instructions come at the walk-around, and the timeline is explained honestly.
Step one is free. Book the lot walk.
Request a free on-site estimate. Jose walks your lot, reads the slope, and gives you a written plan before anything is poured. No pressure, no obligation.
(559) 206-3347 · communionconcrete@outlook.com · By appointment, Friday–Sunday