Your home's property provides you with value and utility with the ability to further enjoy your home and its outside areas. When the weather is nice outside, you can spend time on your backyard concrete patio entertaining friends, or you can use your patio area for working on your vehicles or outdoor equipment. There are some additional upgrades you can add to your property and its surrounding areas with the use of concrete. Here are some tips to help you use the convenience of ready-mix concrete to update and secure your property and yard.

Add Extra Parking

One of the best ways you can immediately improve your property is by adding an additional parking site on the side of your home or alongside your driveway, which you can use for an RV or another vehicle. When your property has an extra concrete pad, its value increases if you are considering selling it because it will provide a place to park a camping trailer, motor home, or boat. And because it is off to the side of your regular parking spot, you will then have the extra parking areas you need when guests come to visit.

Be sure to plan to install the concrete pad slightly thicker than a traditional two-inch concrete slab. Because it will provide parking for a heavier vehicle, the slab will need to be anywhere from three to four inches in thickness. When you order your concrete, be sure to let them know you need it poured in a thicker slab so they can calculate the correct yardage. Also, be sure to remove enough soil from the site so the concrete frames allow for the full thickness within the soil.

Install Concrete Curbing

Concrete curbing in your yard can provide improved appearance and control within your landscaping areas and their borders. When you want to control your lawn growth and keep it out of your bedding areas, for example, a concrete curb will create a durable and long-lasting border. 

You can also add in concrete curbing along the base of your chain link fence line. By adding this update, you can help control weed and lawn overgrowth below your chain link fence. As an added benefit, your chain link fence will not have the extra gap along its foundation where pets can escape the security of your yard.

To learn more about your options, contact a company like Mershon Concrete. 

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