Driveways
A driveway is a structure, not a surface.
What holds a drive up is the compacted base and the reinforcement inside the slab. We price those first and the finish second — the other way around is how driveways end up cracked in five years.
Illustrative photo — not this company's work.
How a driveway gets built
Five stages, and you know which one you are in
From the first cut to a driveable slab is usually a week and a half — most of which is the concrete curing while nobody is on site.
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01
Day 1
Tear-out
The old slab is broken out and hauled off, the pad is cut to grade and the sub-base is compacted in lifts until it stops moving under the plate.
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02
Day 1–2
Forms & steel
Forms go to the finished elevation with the fall built in and the apron tied to the street cut. Rebar sits on chairs at mid-slab, where it can do something.
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03
Pour day
Placement
Trucks back to back so the drive goes in as one placement — no cold joint down the middle of a slab that is meant to look like one piece.
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04
Same day
Finish & joints
Edges tooled, joints cut on the layout drawn before the pour, then the broom pass across the direction of travel once the bleed water is gone.
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05
Day 3–28
Cure
Curing compound keeps the water in the slab. Walk it after 24 hours, park on it after 7 days, and keep the dumpster off it until it has its 28.
Driveway spec
What we build a drive to
Typical residential values. Yours are fixed in writing after the site visit — soil, drainage and what parks on it decide the rest.
- 4,000 psi
- Mix strength on a standard residential drive
- 4 in
- Standard slab for cars and light trucks
- 5–6 in
- Where an RV, trailer or delivery truck parks
- 4–6 in
- Compacted road-base under the slab
- #4 @ 16 in
- Rebar grid on heavy-load drives
- 10 ft
- Maximum control-joint spacing on a 4 in slab
What a finished drive looks like
Same sequence, different houses
Illustrative photos — not this company's work. On the live build these are your own driveways.
Driveway questions
Before you sign anything
How long am I without the driveway?
Plan on about 8 days: two for tear-out and forms, one for the pour, then 7 days of cure before a car goes back on it. We can usually leave a parking strip usable while the rest is out.
Do I need rebar, or is fiber enough?
Fiber mesh controls shrinkage cracking in the surface. Rebar holds the slab together once a crack has formed and carries load across it. For a car-only drive on firm sub-grade, fiber plus proper joints is honest work. For heavy vehicles or soft coastal-plain sand, steel earns its cost.
Can you match the existing concrete?
Close, not identical. New concrete cures lighter and darkens over a year or two, and no two loads of aggregate are the same. Where a match matters, we design the joint line so the change of color reads as a deliberate edge instead of a patch.
Next step
Measure the drive with us.
Half an hour on site gets you the square footage, the slab spec, the joint layout and a written price — no charge and no follow-up calls you did not ask for.