Front Entries & Walkways
The first thing anyone sees. Entries, porches, and walkways finished with texture, colour, and a border that carries out to the drive.
What it is
An entry is a small area doing a large job. It is the piece of concrete every visitor stands on, it is in every photograph of the front of the house, and it is usually the most weathered surface on the property because it takes sun, rain, and foot traffic in a space too small to hide anything.
Entries and walkways take the same systems as a driveway, scaled down and detailed up. Because the area is small, the cost of a decorative treatment is modest and the proportion of the job spent on detail — borders, banding, colour work — is much higher. This is where a stepped or twisted border earns its keep: it draws the eye along the path and visually widens a narrow walk.
We usually recommend doing the entry, walkway, and driveway together, or at least designing them together, so the border and colour run continuously from the street to the door instead of stopping at an arbitrary joint.
Where it's best
- Weathered, stained, or patched front entries and porches
- Narrow walkways that need visual width from banding and borders
- Carrying a driveway design continuously up to the front door
- Screened lanais and rear entries that take constant sun
How we install it
Front Entries & Walkways goes down in four stages, always in this order, and each one gets the cure time the manufacturer specifies rather than the time a schedule would prefer. Compressing or skipping a stage is the single most common reason a coating fails early, so the sequence below is the job — not a summary of it.
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Grind and repair
The entry is ground back to sound concrete, with edges and step nosings given particular attention because that is where failures start.
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Texture or overlay
A textured finish or stamped overlay is placed depending on the look you want, worked carefully around thresholds, posts, and step returns.
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Border and banding
Single, double, or twisted borders are cut and taped, following the path out toward the drive so the design reads as one piece.
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Colour and seal
Colour is layered for depth, then sealed with a UV-stable finish and the slip-resistance level suited to a surface that gets rained on.
Frequently asked questions
Is a small entry worth doing on its own?
Will the entry be slippery when it rains?
Can you do the steps as well?
Other systems
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