About our Menlo Park concrete company
We pour driveways, patios, steps, walls and foundations in Menlo Park and the cities around it. I write the plan for every job, and the ground under your concrete gets our closest attention.

Who we are
I learned concrete young, pouring driveways, patios and foundations on other people's crews. Then I spent years away from the trade. When I came back and started Hallmark Menlo Park Concrete in 2023, I found that what I cared about most were the steps people rush, like the ground, the forms and the measurements.
We're based in Menlo Park and work in the cities around it, from San Mateo down to Cupertino and beyond. We're known for careful flatwork, the trade's word for slabs you walk and drive on, and for foundations that sit level and send water where it should go. We're licensed and fully insured, and the full list of our work is on the home page.

- Business
- Hallmark Menlo Park Concrete
- Based in
- Menlo Park, CA 94025
- Phone
- (650) 582-0556
- Hours
- Mon–Fri: 8 AM–9 PM, Sat–Sun: 6 AM–9 PM
- Service area
- Menlo Park, CA
- Palo Alto, CA
- Redwood City, CA
- San Mateo, CA
- Sunnyvale, CA
- North Fair Oaks, CA
- East Palo Alto, CA
- Stanford, CA
- Mountain View, CA
- Cupertino, CA
- Atherton, CA
- San Carlos, CA
How we run a job
- The person who estimates runs the job. Send a note through our contact page and I'll come look and write the estimate myself. Then I run the job on site with our crew.
- The ground under it comes first. We dig out and pack the subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, because raked dirt settles. If money's tight, I'd trim the finish, not the base.
- Cracks and cure times, told up front. Concrete can crack a little, so we cut control joints, grooves that steer the cracks, and tell you in writing how long to stay off it.
- City requirements checked before a date. We find out which office covers your address and what it asks for, and when a job needs a permit, we don't start until it's in place.
What we build
- Concrete driveway building A new driveway from the ground up, dug out, packed, formed and poured. It's the call when the old one is cracked, sinking or pooling water.
- Concrete patio construction When the old patio has gone uneven or chipped, or you just want somewhere level to sit, we build a new slab that drains away from the house.
- Stamped concrete services Concrete pressed with a pattern while it's still soft, so a patio, walkway or pool deck looks like stone or brick without the loose pieces.
- Concrete sidewalk building Walkways and front paths that have lifted or cracked into trip edges. We pour new ones with a broom finish, a light texture that keeps feet from slipping.
- Garage floor concrete A new slab for a garage whose floor is cracked, sunken or stained past saving. It has to carry a car, so the base matters even more here.
- Decorative concrete Color, texture and finishes beyond plain gray, for when the concrete is part of how the yard looks and not just something to walk on.
- Concrete retaining walls Concrete walls that hold back a slope or level a yard. Taller walls and walls holding up a load take more planning, and sometimes a permit.
- Concrete floor installation Indoor concrete floors for workshops, additions and outbuildings. We set the base and forms carefully, because a floor inside has to sit flat under everything you put on it.
- Concrete pool decks The deck around a pool takes splashing, bare feet and standing water, so we slope it to shed water and give it a finish that's safe underfoot.
- Concrete steps construction When old steps have cracked or settled, we form and pour new ones at a front door, porch or yard, with even steps that are easy to climb.
- Slab foundation building The flat concrete base a house, addition, ADU or garage sits on. It starts with checked ground and measured forms, because everything above depends on it.
- Foundation installation Foundations for new homes, additions and larger outbuildings, laid out to the drawings and poured once the permit for your address is in place.
- Concrete parking lot building Concrete lots for small businesses, churches and apartment buildings, where the slab has to take steady traffic and the water has to go somewhere.
- Concrete footings Footings are the buried concrete under posts, walls and decks that carries their weight down to firm ground, so they're poured before anything goes up.
- Foundation raising If a floor slopes, doors stick or a slab has sunk, foundation raising lifts the settled section back toward level. We look first to find out why it moved.
- Concrete cutting Sawing openings in slabs and walls for a new door, a pipe or a repair, and cutting control joints in fresh slabs. A saw leaves a straight, clean edge.
Examples of driveways, patios and foundations
From driveways and patios to steps, walls and foundations, look through these example photos to see what concrete work can look like.