When my modular home was build about four years ago I could not afford to have the full porch addition put on the front so they just poured a concrete pad at the front door. About a year ago I contracted to have the porch added. They poured a concrete porch around the existing smaller pad, adding roof and vynal railings. About a year after installation I noticed new concrete section had settled leaving about a 3/8" drop around the old slab and around the edges of the old slab pieces of the new concrete broke. I finally got the sub-contractor to come out and look at it. He said his crew had made two errors on the job; first they should have drilled rebar into the old pad and extended them into the new pour to tie them together. Second the breakage was because they should have put a special joint where old and new met to prevent adhering and breaking with movement. Admitted problem was his and saying the only way it would look right was to cover it with brick pavers. Total picture is complicated because the contractor I negotiated the job with never fully paid the sub-contractor so he is obviously reluctant to sink any more money into it. Area is in building boom so can not get any one to come and do the small job etc. To make a long story short looks like other than a costly court battle nothing is going to be done. I have patched the broke areas with vynal patch concrete and this has held for two months. I had thought I might be able to just slope the height difference with same patching material so not too noticeable. Then paint porch concrete to get uniform color which is already stained with red clay soil anyway. How about opinions or other suggestions on a way to make it look better. Something a DIY could do.
TIA
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