Warranty Questions Checklist for Draper, UT
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Warranty Questions Checklist Concrete warranties are usually short and narrow. These are the eight things to pin down
Warranty Questions Checklist
Concrete warranties are usually short and narrow. These are the eight things to pin down before you sign, because the exclusions matter more than the headline term.
- Workmanship warranty length in writing, and what triggers it
- Whether it covers the base and subgrade, or only the concrete surface
- What counts as a defect: cracks over a stated width, spalling, scaling, heaving, settling
- Whether hairline shrinkage cracks are excluded, since some cracking is designed in
- How long the warranty runs from the pour, and whether it transfers if you sell
- Who pays for removal and disposal if the repair means breaking out concrete
- Whether sealing is a condition of keeping the warranty, and how often they require it
- Whether de-icing salt during the first winter voids the warranty
The mechanism to watch is freeze-thaw: water gets into the surface, freezes, expands and pops the surface off as spalling, and salt accelerates it. A warranty that excludes salt damage in a climate that salts its roads is excluding the most likely failure. Sources: published 2026 installed-cost and specification data - Concrete Network, CostPerProject, HomeGPT, Buildermuse, AllTheCalc (concrete driveway costs); AnyCoster Utah 2026 and Salt Lake City concrete pricing 2026 (Utah/Salt Lake Valley installed rates); generalcontractorssaltlake.com 2026 (Salt Lake City ready-mix prices by PSI); LawnStarter 2026 (concrete removal); dgfloors 2026 and HomeGuide 2026 (sealing); MetalAmerica 2026 (leveling and mudjacking); homewyse 2026; ACI 209/308/332 and Portland Cement Association guidance on strength gain, curing and entrained air; For Construction Pros and NRMCA CIP 6 (control joint spacing); Bankrate home equity loan survey, October 2026, and PermitDeck 2026 (financing); Bankrate/Curve resale data and localconcretecontractor.com 2026 (driveway resale recovery); Draper City Consolidated Fee Schedule (Resolution 26-29, July 2026) and Draper City Code 11-6-050 (permits).
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