Ricardo with Affordable Concrete & Construction did an excellent job on our project. From the…read morebeginning, he was honest, professional, and clearly passionate about his work. His crew was respectful, hardworking, and showed great attention to detail throughout the entire process. The project was completed on time, and they went above and beyond to make sure everything was done right. The quality of the concrete work exceeded my expectations, and the entire experience was smooth and stress-free. If you're looking for a reliable concrete contractor for patios, driveways, or any concrete work, I highly recommend Ricardo and his team. It's hard to find this level of dedication and service these days. I will definitely be calling them again for future projects.

Terrible experience with Ricardo and Affordable Concrete. I…read morehad met with Ricardo and I explained what i needed done. I stressed to keep rain runoff away from existing patio slab. I ended up getting exactly what i did NOT want. (See photo) When brought to his attention, Ricardo stated that he used a laser level and that me and my wife personally reviewed and approved using our own level. What is NOT true about this statement is the section of new concrete with yellow arrow (see photo) was not personally reviewed nor approved for slope by my wife and I. What is true is that 2 different sections of Ricardo work were checked and found to have an issue with the slope. All of this detail should have been checked by Ricardo, not my wife and I. Ricardo accepts no responsibility for his mistakes and because i was present throughout the job I should have caught this mistake, flagged him and called time out. Almost to say it was my fault. I fully regret hiring this company especially for the amount of money i paid. Almost 12,000.00 dollars. Be careful who you hire, do your homework and most importantly get every little detail in writing. These types of mistakes should not happen. A professional company should consider and apply any and all City of San Antonio Codes to eliminate any discrepancies or mistakes such as water runoff. Affordable Concrete kept my wife and I busy as there were other issues that needed addressing as well. Be careful with who you hire! My response to Ricardo. You are correct, you had no control over my existing slab. You did however have full control on how the concrete you installed slopes. It is the installation and slope of your work that is diverting water onto the existing slab. That is how the water in my photo got there. It is not complicated so please quite trying to spin reality. Its your product, you should own it. I can take a garden hose and show you a video if you like. Just let me know. Also, I will not be deleting my Google review. Maybe some edits but nothing else.

Updated from June 2025. Once again it took effort to have him come onsite for a better estimate…read moreinstead of via Yelp. Poor communication, no follow up, and finally after effort on my part he finally came by. He asked I send him pics of the pavers and gravel I may want, which I did, but never heard from him. My email stated going forward we will only communicate via email as text messages are not good documentation for a $3K project (it is what he gave me without seeing the project). A week has past and no response. I had another very bad experience last year with another concrete person and Ramos seemed to follow the same path, so I am backing off. The $3K did not include materials. It is not a big job, and I have done this myself in past homes. As you can see in his response below that he never intended to follow-up yet lead me to believe he would send an estimate and to send him pictures. Why say that with no intention to follow-up. amazing how a negative review gets immediate attention.

If you need concrete work call Ramos Concrete, you can't go wrong. Great price, great work…read more 1000% recommendation! These guys are great, they helped me figure out my final design and made great recommendations to make it look amazing. They show up on time and do what they say they are going to do, such a rare occurrence with contractors.

They did a great job for my backyard remodeling project. Very responsive, a fair cost estimate, and…read moretheir team stayed in contact with me throughout the entire project. Would definitely recommend REC and look forward to working with them again.

Hired REC Construction for lawncare. They were very affordable, always on time and extremely…read moredependable. Will definitely hire REC Construction again in the future!

I'm we wanted to extend our backyard patio and they made our dreams come true! We are very pleased…read morewith the results. The workers were friendly and on time.

Quality and work ethic the best. I highly recommend this company. They did a great job at my house…read morei value there time and job experience that they provide to me.

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The wife gave my mom a sob story about needing the money for their kids so she paid the balance…read morebefore the entire project was completed. The guy never came back! He skipped out with the money. Oh and they blocked all communication with my mom and her number so she couldn't even call them.

My wife and I just bought a home in April of this year and decided to have some updates done to the…read moreproperty. One of the first things we decided to do was extend our concrete patio to cover a dirt patch. We looked online and found Advanced Concrete, and after seeing mostly good reviews decided to hire him. We got scheduled for the work and ended up liking the results. The only issue we had with this work is that they dumped concrete waste in the back corner of our backyard. We have multiple dogs and had been looking for the best solutions to keep the floor clean and manageable. After looking at the possibilities, we decided that stained concrete floors would be the best option. Having already used this company for the patio, we decided to retain their services and get all our floors replaced (we had a mixture of floor types). We got scheduled and were told it would take an estimated 7 days to complete as well as haul off the concrete from the backyard. Now, I understand an estimate is an ESTIMATE. However after a week had gone by watching them on our security cameras come in after 10am and leave by 2pm, we were told that they needed more time. At this point in time, the old floors were not all the way up and there was a big pile of trash in the living room. We gave them more time as there wasn't really anything we could do about it. I eventually was able to come in during the day to find out what the issue was. The contractor assured us that they would get the trash out asap as well as work overnight to stay on the new time frame (in total it took 2 weeks with weekends). We got a call Friday after work that the AC isn't working and it's too humid for the concrete to dry properly, although they already began to lay the floors. I rushed over to find out not only had they not ventilated like they said they would but- This was not the first day they AC wasn't working. After looking at our smart AC information it was running over 18 hrs for 3 days in a row with it set at 80 degrees. The AC filter was so packed with dust from them not ventilating that dust poured off. They never informed us that a new AC filter was needed. They had also tried to set the AC to 70 degrees one day but we caught that and had that corrected. After finally being done with the floors we came home to- Tape everywhere 100's of nails sticking out where they removed baseboards Dust everywhere Floor stain on walls Old baseboards with nails sticking out in backyard And the backyard concrete STILL THERE after they assured they would clean that up from when they did the patio work The main area that needed work was the entryway that was built up on subfloor and was beginning to crack. After a couple of visits on recurring weekends, they poured concrete and patched it to the rest of the concrete (additional work we paid for). However, it looks horrible and the contractor knows it. While they were patching I pointed out they still haven't gotten the backyard concrete, to which he replied "Yes we did" and "We don't have a trailer to haul anything else, but we'll get it next weekend". The next weekend it was "Yes we did" and "We don't have shovels". I provided them shovels and they filled up a wheelbarrow full of concrete. We have a lock and camera on the gate/backyard so they NEVER got anything before that. Additionally, on multiple occasions I overheard the laborers insulting us as well as calling my wife a b**** (they never met her). The contractor is nice in person, but his work is backed up by shotty performance and subpar results. Minutes after the last time they left, I noticed a spot that was missed. He told me they used all of the concrete only for me to find a bucket half full of the concrete later that day behind our trash cans. 3 last minute cancellations later, we finally told him not to bother as we will have another company do the fix for us. The company who will now be doing the fix has done other A+ work and commented that normally they would not take a job with the previous work being done so poorly.

The staff is courteous and provided a high quality proposal that delivered what we were looking for…read moreat a fair cost. We ultimately decided against the project due to it being a "nice to have and we might occasionally use" project.

Service was awesome and my deck is beautiful. I would recommend!!!…read more The price was fare.

Alan replied one year later and stated apparently I'm not a customer he wanted to do business with,…read morehmm he sent his people out to give a quote so he apparently wanted my business but then he and his people dropped the ball. If after coming out they decided that they didn't want my business I would've thought the professional thing to do would to just say thanks for the inquiry but this is a project we're not able or willing to do. I've also noticed that it seems when someone gives him a negative review he can't find their information. Just based on his responses if I were a customer considering this company I'd reconsider after looking at his responses doesn't take responsibility for his actions.

***PLEASE READ BEFORE HIRING FREEDOM***We hired Freedom Outdoor Living to expand our back patio and…read morebuild a pergola. While there are aspects of the project that we feel they did a good job with (mainly the pergola), we feel it's important to warn other potential customers of the issues we have experienced working with them. First, this company uses subcontractors, and unfortunately, many times they didn't show up at all to perform the work they were scheduled to do or performed the work incorrectly. This led to significant delays throughout the project and was extremely frustrating. It put us in the position of constantly following up to ensure the work was done and done right. As an example, the concrete steps we asked them to build were initially very narrow and a safety hazard. We asked them to correct that. Our pergola was not built correctly according to the design, and we had to ask them to correct that as well. The railings around the patio were installed incorrectly, and again we had to ask them to correct this. We understood that the stain of the existing patio may never perfectly match the new concrete patio but the colors are not even close. Dominic was our main point of contact with Freedom and was apologetic every time this occurred (which was frequently) and let us know the excuses the subcontractors provided. They did make these corrections, but what I'm not sure Dominic (and Allen) with Freedom understand is that this is absolutely a reflection on their company when they hire subcontractors that either unreliable, incompetent, just "don't care," or all of the above. Unfortunately, they had already stained our concrete steps so when they did fix the prior sloppy work, the stain didn't match the remaining patio. The biggest complaint that we have with them is that once the entire project was complete (in April 2023), within a month the concrete overlay that they had put on our patio to match the extended patio we built (which it never did) started to deteriorate in a section of the patio. (We now know from speaking with others who have knowledge of concrete work that this overlay was not installed correctly from the beginning). We immediately informed them of the issue and 3 months later (after repeated texts) they repaired the section of damaged overlay without restaining. In other words, we had a large white patch of concrete on our brown stained patio for another 2-3 months. Again, after repeated texts and excuses, they finally let us know they would be sending someone out to stain the patched area of concrete. We had asked them to ensure that the patched area matched the remaining concrete and asked them to fix the issue with the entire patio being multiple different shades of stain. To this they asked us to either pay $3800 to correct the poor staining all done on our patio by THEIR contractors or only stain the patched area of concrete for free. We absolutely refuse to pay Freedom more for THEIR work that was not done right to begin with and agreed for them to only stain the patched area (with the expectation that it would, at least, match the existing patio). Of course, it doesn't and looks awful. I included a picture here so you can see how bad this looks. We are now left with a concrete patio that is 4 different shades of brown and is an eyesore. We have texted Allen and Dominic multiple times to ask that they do the right thing and restain our patio so that all of THEIR work is one color. What is very disappointing is they are not even responding to us anymore. There is no sense of wanting to do the right thing for their customer or even taking pride in the work they are doing. It is very disheartening that after trying to be understanding with them throughout all the delays/failures in the project once they got their money they really didn't seem to care. Allan/Dominic/Freedom Outdoor Living, if you are reading this and would like to correct your staining work on our patio and make this right, we would gladly welcome it and be happy to amend this review.

They responded to my request for a quote quickly. We wanted a complete landscaping project,…read moreincluding a sprinkler system and a deck. Unfortunately, they only do the landscape portion, so we hired another company for the deck. They don't do sprinkler systems, either. In the end, we went with another company that could do the landscaping and the in-ground sprinklers together in the same project. If it was landscaping only, I would have been happy to try them. Kellye came out to our house even though it's an hour from where she is as soon as she could, took measurements and answered all the questions that we had at the time and listened carefully to what we wanted. I would certainly recommend considering them when you want to get bids on a landscape job.

This company is for high end jobs. They are thorough and helpful. I would recommend them to anyone…read morelooking for professional landscaping.