Data and methods
Where do the cost ranges on this site come from?
As of September 10, 2026, every cost range is compiled from published Sarasota-area pricing pages read on that date: paver cleaning and sealing rates from Sarasota sealing companies, installed paver and travertine rates from Sarasota paver contractors, overlay and driveway rates from regional concrete contractors, and national cost aggregators for cross-checks. Each guide lists the sources it used. Nothing is a quote.
From the first quarter of 2027 the Sarasota Concrete Cost Index replaces those third-party ranges with the provider's own completed jobs: installed price per square foot by service, material and locality, with the sample size, the period and the limitations stated in the release. The index is published as a table and as JSON under a CC BY 4.0 license so anyone can cite or reuse it with attribution.
How will the pool deck surface temperatures be measured?
Nine surfaces (gray broom concrete, light broom concrete, cool-deck overlay, gray concrete paver, light concrete paver, tumbled travertine, shellstone, honed marble and 2 cm porcelain) will be read with a calibrated infrared thermometer at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on one clear July day and one clear January day in Sarasota, with air temperature, sky and shade recorded.
Samples are placed side by side on the same base, fully sun-exposed, dry, and read three times each with the emissivity set for masonry; the median is published. Measurement dates are set for January 2027 and July 2027. The raw readings go to the study page and to a JSON file the day they exist. Until then the page shows the protocol, not numbers.
Where do the flood, permit and lighting facts come from?
From the codes and offices themselves: Sarasota County Code chapters 22, 54 and 98 and Appendix A zoning, the Sarasota County Property Appraiser's 50 percent rule page, FEMA's substantial improvement guidance, Charlotte County's residential permit pages, the Town of Longboat Key's marine turtle pages, and the FDEP model lighting ordinance. Where a city portal blocked automated reading, the page says so.
Each permit page ends with the office, the portal and the phone number so you can confirm the current fee and form. Fees change by resolution; the page states the date it was last checked.
How is the site kept honest about the provider?
By leaving blanks. The footer says Insured. There is no license number, address, rating, review count or years-in-business figure on the site because none has been documented for this trade name. Each of those appears only when the owner supplies the document, and the audit file that ships with the site lists every placeholder still open.
See the editorial standards and the about page.
Corrections policy
Three kinds of error are possible on a site like this, and each has a different remedy. A regulatory summary that has gone stale is corrected on the page and noted in the changelog with the date it was re-checked against the source. A price range that no longer reflects the market is replaced at the next quarterly review, or sooner if a reader shows it is wrong. A factual error is corrected immediately and the change is described rather than quietly overwritten.
What will not happen is a silent edit. The date at the foot of each page is the date the content was last reviewed against its sources, and when a material change is made the changelog line says what changed. If a figure on this site is ever used in a dispute, the version history is the record.
Last reviewed September 10, 2026 by the Sarasota Concrete editorial team (author name pending owner input).