Basics

Concrete basics for Burlington homeowners.

The basics of buying concrete work in Burlington: what jobs cost, what the permit covers, and what separates a slab that lasts from one that does not.

• Cost Concrete Patio Cost, One Square Foot at a Time A patio square foot taken apart into its seven layers, why labour is the bigger and wider half of the bill, and where two quotes actually differ.
• Cost Concrete Slab Cost in Racine County Published slab prices by size, plus the three questions every contractor asks before quoting and what each of your answers does to the number.
• Cost Concrete Driveway Cost in Burlington The four published price tiers and which one most homes need, plus the city rules governing how your driveway is allowed to meet the street.
• Decide When Does a Concrete Driveway Actually Need Replacing? Burlington code sets three measurable thresholds for replacing concrete. Take a tape measure to your driveway, apply the same test, then price what follows.
• Compare Concrete or Asphalt, by How Long You Are Staying Three ownership horizons and a different honest answer for each, built on resealing intervals and service life rather than the day-one price gap.
• Compare Concrete, Pavers or a Deck: How Each One Fails All three disappoint you eventually. Compared on what goes wrong, when it arrives and what it costs to put right, rather than on the brochures.
• Local There Are Exactly Two Legal Ways to Open a Kerb Here Burlington prescribes the method, not just the permit. The two permitted ways to open a kerb, the banned shortcut, and how to use both to compare bids.
• Cost What Tear-Out and Disposal Adds Everyone prices the new concrete. The line that separates two quotes is usually the one about getting the old concrete out.
• Compare Concrete or Pavers for a Driveway? Published figures for both, what pavers genuinely do better, and the question that settles it more often than price: how would you rather it fail?