Small imperfections, landscapers, weed eaters, chairs, the occasional dropped hard thing, etc. can all cause chips in your decking. We recommend you wait until all landscaping and other construction is completed before you call us for a chip repair.

All concrete will crack. It is a rigid structure that has to expand and contract with the extreme temperature ranges in Arizona. However, there is a legal limit to how much concrete is allowed to crack. Code states that hairline cracks are normal and expected but a crack cannot exceed the width of a dime. Cracks narrower than a dime cannot be repaired, they are too thin to fit a repair material in. If you can fit a dime in a crack it needs to be repaired. This "dime" rule doesn't apply to the expansion joints. They are designed to crack and the cracks in them are allowed to be bigger. The joints are intended to control the cracking of the deck and that is usually where the cracks occur. However, sometimes the deck decides on its own to crack where it wants to. There is no way to predict with 100% accuracy where a deck will crack.