We pour down to 40°F and rising — hot water batched at the plant, thermal blankets on the cure, and a thermometer log kept for the first seventy-two hours. Below that we re-book rather than sell you a frozen slab.
Services & rates
Rates — per square foot
Measured off your lot and held for sixty days. Aggregate, stamping, jointing and the first seal live inside the per-foot number — the only extra we have ever charged is rock we could not see, and we telephone before we dig it.
Exposed aggregate$15.75
river gravel or crushed basalt seeded, washed and sealed at day 28
Stamped, ashlar or cobble$14–$16
powder release antiqued · matte or wet-look seal
Broom-finish drives$9.90
5-inch slab · joint map included, never an extra
Walkways & steps$11.50
salt-finish treads · rail cores set before the pour
Cure & seal program$1.35
30%-solids acrylic · triennial visit we schedule
Since 1999
The snowline ledger
How a field gets built
Thaw, sample, pour, seal
Four movements, the same on every slab above the snowline — the season is short, so the sequence is not negotiable. The warranty runs five years and the reseal calendar runs forever.
The thaw measure
Grades shot off the frost line, subbase proof-rolled, and a written per-square-foot number left with you — good for sixty days, no visit fee.
The sample square
Two feet by two feet poured in YOUR aggregate or pigment, cured beside the site and judged wetted, in daylight, before the field is batched.
The pour window
Hot water in the mix above 40°F, one continuous placement, and control joints on the 2× map sawed within twelve hours of the finish.
The seal visit
Day twenty-eight: washed, cured under blankets if the nights bite, sealed 30%-solids acrylic and booked for its triennial return before we leave.
Every other outfit in the hollow quoted us a May start and delivered a shrug. Glacier Field poured in the October window with blankets and a thermometer log, and the aggregate drive has taken four winters of studded tyres without a whisper of spall.
Recent work
The fields
Six jobs from around the hollow — aggregate, stamped and plain broom, each a different finish doing its job in its own light. Every owner will let you walk the slab; we would rather you did.
They kept a thermometer log for three days after the pour and left a copy with the invoice. I have bought houses with less paperwork than that slab.
The sample square settled the aggregate argument in ten minutes — river gravel against basalt, wetted, on our own ground. The drive is the one guests photograph, in a town with a glacier in it.
Third reseal visit, and they called US. The sealer calendar is the whole difference between a patio and a chore with a receipt.
Cold, color, cost
Asked around every stove
Liquid or powder release — which and why?
Powder, on our stamped work: it antiques the pattern’s grain with a secondary color and costs a wash at day three. Liquid release is faster and cleaner for plain texturing, but it leaves no color in the grain — and the grain is where the stone look lives.
Does the joint rule change on aggregate?
No — saw to a quarter of the slab’s depth, spaced no more than twice the thickness in feet, cut within twelve hours. Aggregate hides a crack no better than broom does; geometry is the only thing that ever did.
How does a cold-weather pour actually work?
Hot water batched at the plant, thermal blankets over the finish for the first three nights, and a thermometer log we keep and copy to you. Below 40°F and falling we re-book — a frozen pour is a warranty claim we would have manufactured ourselves.
What is in the cure-and-seal?
A 30%-solids acrylic applied at day twenty-eight — it locks the wash-water of the cure in AND wears as the sacrificial coat against studded tyres and de-icer. It renews every third year on a calendar we keep.
Aggregate or stamped — how do we choose?
Aggregate forgives a leaf and a dropped glass; stamped reads more like stone and costs the same range. Pour the sample square in both and judge them wetted, in your own light — the extra week is cheaper than the wrong decade.
Five years, freeze-thaw included
If a joint spalls, the aggregate sheds or the sealer fails inside five years, we repair it free — materials and labor. The snowline tests everything; so do we, and only one of us publishes the result.
office@glacierfield.example · Rime Hollow · pours April–November, measures year-round
Beat the thaw, or join it.
Send rough dimensions and a photo — the per-square-foot estimate comes back the same day, and the thaw-window measure books in call order. The phone is answered by someone who pours.