Bricks, Masonry, Asphalt and Concrete - New concrete pour with a dip :(

Hi all!

We're in the middle of some outdoor renovations including a concrete patio that butts up against the foundation of the house. Our Contractor poured our back patio on tuesday. We had some rain on wednesday and it turns out that there is a shallow spot on the deck right up against the foundation of the house. This is the only spot that puddled, the rest of the desk is perfect.

We reported it to our contractor, who I don't think was real happy to hear about it. I don't know if he's been by to see it yet. We really can not have a puddling spot right up against the house.

What sort of soultions could he suggest that I can find acceptable? Can you add a bit of concrete to the low spot and not have it crack later? Is this a remove/repour situation?

Thanks!
Chris.

A patched with some type of over-layment product would stand out unless they were to do the whole patio. They maybe be able to remove the section of the patio if it was poured in sections with some type of Construction joint. A Construction joint added to the patio after the fact maybe acceptable that would be up to you. Then there is, have a professional decorative Concrete company apply and over-layment application to the patio. A channel drain cut in to the patio at the point where the patio meets the foundation could help would be hard to know though without knowing just how the water is puddling.

These things can be fixed without removing the patio just depends on how hard nosed you want to be. Personally and this is just me have them remove the patio. :mad:

edit: Of course any type of alteration made to the patio would be the responsibility of the contractor and you should not have to pay any additional money for any thing they do. Be it Decorative or structural.

Thank you for your input.

Here's the solution that we worked with the contractor. He poured the deck (17'x25') in one big pour with no seams. He was going to then cut in an expansion joint with a saw after it had dried. Originally there was going to be one seam down the center of the long side. We decided to add a second expansion joint to divide the deck into quadrants. The contractor will completely remove the quadrant with the dip and repour that one section.

His original suggestion was to cut the bad part out, drive pins into the remaining deck and repour the one square. We weren't real big on that idea. It sounded as if I could easily wind up with a crack in the shape of the repoured square!

We're pretty happy with the solution. Hopefully it will look okay when he's done.