Concrete Driveways

Concrete Driveways in Pleasant Prairie, WI

New drives, full replacements and single-bay repairs through Pleasant Prairie and Kenosha County. Licensing and permits are ours to handle, and the old slab leaves with us. Free site visit, then an itemised figure.

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Nobody buys a driveway because they want one. They buy it because the old one has started shedding lumps, or because the gravel has finally lost the argument with winter. What you are actually paying for is fifteen or twenty years of not thinking about it again, and that comes almost entirely from what happens before the concrete shows up.

What you get

• A drive laid where there was none - over gravel, over grass, or on a plot that has never had one.
• The whole thing replaced, from breaking out to the final broom pass.
• The approach at the road, built to whichever authority owns it, permitted and signed off.
• A single bay lifted and re-laid where the rest of the slab has years in it.
• Extra hardstanding - a wider drive, a turning space, somewhere for the boat or the second vehicle.

How it works

Why people here use us

• We handle the licensing and the permit. We also establish which authority your approach belongs to before quoting, because that answer changes the paperwork.
• What goes under the slab is specified, not assumed. Nearly every drive we are called to replace early was failed by its base rather than its concrete.
• Pouring is all we do. If your slab is intact and has merely dropped, lifting it back is cheaper and it is a different trade. You will hear that at the visit.

Designing a drive around how you actually use it

Most driveways get replaced at exactly the size and shape of the one that failed, which is a decision nobody consciously made. Since the ground is open anyway, it is worth an hour of thought.

• Which way you leave. Backing out onto a road is a choice, not a fact. A turning area is usually a modest addition to a slab you are already paying to replace, and it changes the drive every single day.
• Where a second vehicle actually stands. Not where there happens to be space now, but where it can be parked without blocking the first one in.
• The bins, and the trailer. Both spend most of the year standing still somewhere, and both are better on concrete you chose than on grass that gives way.
• The route to the front door. Whether people walk down the drive and cut across the lawn is a layout problem, and it is cheapest to solve while forms are going in.
• Where snow ends up. Everything cleared off a drive has to go somewhere, and a drive with nowhere to put it fills up by February.

None of these add much to a replacement. All of them are expensive as a second project, and a drive poured to the old outline forecloses every one of them for the next twenty years.

Who licenses the work at your kerb

The approach is public land, and around here the authority over it changes within a short distance, which is why it gets settled before any figure is written.

On the Village side the requirement is explicit. A contractor working in the right-of-way is licensed for it, carries a surety bond and carries liability cover, and the permit follows those rather than the other way round. That is a useful question to put to every bidder, because it is answered instantly by a firm that works here and vaguely by one that does not.

What we will not do is tell you the position for an address we have not checked. The rules differ across that boundary and we would rather establish yours than generalise.

Where we work

Pleasant Prairie is the base. From there the work runs north into Kenosha and Somers, west through Bristol and Paddock Lake, and on to Salem Lakes and Twin Lakes. The village boundary and the city boundary both cut through that area, and since the approach is public land, which side you are on decides whose rules apply to it.

Before you speak to anybody

If you would rather have the detail in front of you first, it is written up here, and it is the same detail we would go through standing on your drive:

• what a drive costs here, and the village rules attached to the approach
• repair, resurface or start again
• what a replacement adds up to, component by component
• the Village approach rules, and the road profile that changes the design
• concrete against asphalt, honestly compared

Garden due some attention as well? Our concrete patio work gets quoted on the same trip.