Broom Finish Concrete Augusta, GA

What broom finish concrete means in Augusta

The slab is floated flat and then dragged with a broom while the surface is still plastic, leaving fine parallel grooves. Those grooves are the texture your foot grips.

Stroke direction runs across the direction of travel and across the fall, so water crosses the grooves rather than running along them. A driveway broomed the wrong way channels water down the ridges to the garage door.

Broom finish is what most Augusta driveways and walks get, and in this climate the reason is drainage rather than ice: the grooves move a sudden two inches of rain off the slab instead of letting it sheet.

How broom finish concrete is put on

Timing is the whole skill. Too early and the broom tears the surface and brings up paste. Too late and it barely marks it, leaving a slab that looks textured and is slick when wet.

Broom coarseness sets the depth. A soft broom gives a light texture that is comfortable barefoot on a pool deck. A stiff broom gives a heavy texture that grips on a sloped driveway and is unpleasant to kneel on.

Edges and joints get tooled before brooming, so the broom pass runs over them and the surface reads as continuous rather than as panels with a smooth border.

What broom finish concrete costs in Augusta, GA

Broom finish is the baseline against which every other finish is priced. It adds nothing to a plain pour beyond the finishing labour that would happen anyway.

It adds nothing over a plain pour beyond finishing labour, which is why it remains the baseline in the $6–$10 per square foot driveway range.

Where broom finish concrete goes wrong in GA

The mistake is brooming a slab that was overworked with a power trowel first. Troweling brings paste and water to the surface, and a broom texture on top of that weak skin wears off in a couple of years and leaves a smooth slab.

A power-trowelled slab broomed on top of a weak paste layer wears smooth here within a couple of humid summers, and then it is slick under a rain shower.

Where we do broom finish concrete

We cover Augusta, Columbia County and the South Carolina side of the CSRA, including and 34 more areas.

Questions we get asked about broom finish concrete

Is a broom finish slippery?

Not if the texture was cut at the right time and runs across the direction of travel. A light broom on a slab that was floated too long can be.

Which direction should the broom run?

Across the direction people walk and across the slope, so water crosses the grooves instead of running along them.

Can a broom finish be changed later?

It can be ground and coated or overlaid. Grinding off a texture to get a smooth slab is not usually worth doing.

Get a price for your broom finish concrete

Call (762) 320-6343 and we will come out, measure, and leave you a written quote. There is no charge for the visit and no obligation afterwards.