Concrete Driveways

Concrete Driveways in Burlington, WI

New pours, full replacements and bay repairs through Burlington and Racine County. The DPW permit is ours to pull, the kerb is opened the way the city allows, and the old concrete goes on our truck. Written price, no charge.

Get a written price

Most people find out what their driveway is made of the year it starts failing. Until then it is just the thing you park on. The difference between a surface that lasts two decades and one that is patchy by year five is almost never the concrete itself - it is what was done to the ground underneath, and whether the bit at the street was built the way the city requires.

What the job covers

• A driveway from scratch, replacing gravel or surfacing bare ground.
• Tear-out and replacement, with the old slab removed and taken away.
• The apron and the kerb opening, permitted through Public Works and built by a method the city actually allows.
• Bay replacement, for a single failed section with sound concrete around it.
• Extra hardstanding - widening, a turnaround, or a pad for a trailer or a second vehicle.

Three steps

What you are actually buying

• Permit filed, inspection attended, both by us. Anything touching the kerb, gutter, footpath or apron needs one here, and the city is specific about how the work is done.
• Ground prepared rather than covered over. Stone depth and how many passes it took are invisible the day we finish and decide everything that comes after.
• We pour, and that is the whole list. A sound slab that has only sunk is a lifting job for a different trade at a fraction of the cost, and you will hear it from us.

Which permit band you land in

The city requires a permit for driveway and sidewalk replacement, and the thing worth knowing before anybody quotes is that the fee is banded by depth rather than by how much concrete is involved.

The work	Band
Slab out, slab back at the same level	Surface work, the lower band
Excavating beneath the pavement	The upper band, with a deposit
Twelve inches down or more	The upper band, same deposit

It matters because a drive that looks like a straight like-for-like swap can cross into the second band the moment the ground beneath it turns out to want correcting. We establish which band a job sits in before quoting rather than afterwards. Both the fees and the two methods the city will actually permit at the kerb are in the DPW permit and the two legal ways to open a kerb.

Where the water goes afterwards

A drive is usually the biggest hard surface on a property, so replacing one changes where a serious volume of water ends up. That is a design decision, and it either gets made before the forms go down or it does not get made.

Three things are settled at the estimate. Which way the slab sheds, and whether that carries water toward the street or toward the garage threshold. What the downspouts nearest the drive discharge onto, because a downspout emptying along the edge of new concrete is the commonest reason a drive fails in one specific place rather than generally. And what happens at the low end, where your slab meets the gutter and the city's drainage takes it from there.

None of it adds much while the ground is open, and all of it is expensive to revisit later.

Towns we pour in

Burlington is home. From there we run out to Union Grove and Waterford, down through Rochester and Lyons, and around Browns Lake and Bohners Lake. What changes between them is whose rules cover the strip at the street, which is why that gets settled before a price is written.

The detail, written out

If you want the reading before the conversation, it is all here:

• what a driveway costs here, and how the city bands the permit
• whether yours needs replacing or repairing
• the two legal ways to open a kerb here, and the DPW permit
• concrete or asphalt, tested claim by claim

Thinking about the back of the house too? We price concrete patio work on the same call-out.