Concrete contractor serving the southwest Twin Cities metro

We work out of Carver across the Twin Cities metro, weighted toward the southwest side. That takes in Carver and Scott counties, most of Hennepin and much of Dakota, including Chaska, Chanhassen, Victoria, Shakopee, Prior Lake, Savage, Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Edina and the towns around them, and it takes in Minneapolis and the north metro. Thirty towns have their own page here. If yours is not one of them, call 612-221-2181 and ask.

Our pour season is March to mid-October. Outside that window the ground and the temperature start working against the pour: the subgrade gets harder to prepare, and a fresh slab has to be protected to gain strength before it freezes, which costs real money. It can be done and it does get done on build schedules that demand it. We quote and schedule year round, and the flatwork happens inside that season.

Earlier than most people expect. The pour season is short and it books in the order it was sold, so December through March is when we walk properties, work out specifications and set the following season's calendar. If your driveway is failing now, getting it quoted in that stretch is how you get poured early in the season rather than waiting months for an opening.

Footings have to bear at least 42 inches below finished grade. That is the Zone II minimum in Minnesota Rules 1303.1600, and it is a bearing depth, meaning where the bottom of the footing sits, not cover over reinforcing steel. Absent an engineer's design based on soil mechanics it applies to anything carrying a house, an addition, an attached garage or a stoop. Freestanding decks and small light frame accessory buildings have their own exceptions in the rule, and a patio or a driveway slab is not a footing and never needed frost depth.

The old slab gets broken out and hauled off the property, the subgrade is cut to depth and any soft spots corrected, then compacted aggregate base goes in and grade is set so water leaves the building. After that it is forming, rebar on a grid, the pour and finish, and control joints cut on time, roughly ten to twelve feet apart on a four inch slab and to about a quarter of its depth. Skipping the base and repouring on what is already there is why some driveways crack twice.

On site, with samples. Pattern families like ashlar, slate, seamless stone and wood plank read very differently depending on how big the patio is and how much you see at once. Color is premixed into the concrete, so the slab is one solid color all the way through. We would rather you see the color on a real sample than pick from a chart, and a border is usually the cheapest thing that lifts the whole patio.

Usually, and it is a large part of why we can take jobs other crews pass on. We run our own trailer mounted line pump, so concrete goes through hose around the house, through a gate, down a walkout or into a basement, and the mixer truck stays at the street instead of on your lawn. Hose needs a route on the ground. If a pour genuinely has to be placed up over a roof, that is a boom pump job and we will say so.