New pours and full replacements built on a compacted base and reinforced to carry vehicle weight through Colorado winters.
Your driveway takes more abuse than any other slab on your property: vehicle weight, road salt, snowplows and constant freeze-thaw. A driveway that lasts starts under the surface, with a properly graded and compacted base.
We pour new driveways and replace failing ones across Denver, in plain broom, colored or stamped finishes to match your home.
Same driveway, same angle. Cracked and settled slab taken out and repoured.
A failed drive at a brick ranch, torn out and replaced end to end.
Keep it clean with a broom finish, add integral color, go with exposed aggregate for grip, or match a stamped border to your patio and walkway for a designed look from curb to door.
Concrete costs more up front than asphalt but lasts far longer, handles sun without softening and needs less maintenance. Over the life of the driveway it's usually the cheaper choice.
The stock is old. The ranch tracts that fill Arvada, Lakewood and Englewood went up mostly between 1950 and 1975. Those driveways were poured to the standards of the day, often thinner than we would pour now and with less reinforcement. Fifty to seventy years later they are not failing because anything went wrong. They are failing because they are finished.
Clay soil moves. Expansive clay swells with water and shrinks without it. A driveway placed on undisturbed clay with a thin base rides that movement and cracks along it. This is the single biggest reason two driveways poured the same week on the same street end up in completely different condition.
Mag chloride hits the apron first. Salt brine comes off the street on your tires and drips where you slow down and turn in. The first ten feet of a Denver driveway and the apron at the street almost always look a decade older than the rest, and that is why.
Then freeze-thaw finishes the job. Once salt has opened up the surface, water gets in, freezes and lifts the top layer off. That is the flaking you see, and it accelerates once it starts.
Older Denver lots have their own problem. The bungalow neighbourhoods have narrow original drives running back to a detached garage off the alley. Access is tight, the runs are long and skinny, and a replacement there is a different job than a two-car pad in Broomfield.
We'll measure, talk through your options and hand you a fixed written price. No pressure, no hidden charges.
Wait at least 7 days before parking a vehicle, and avoid heavy loads until about 28 days when the concrete reaches full strength.
Four inches is standard for cars; we go thicker where trucks or RVs are parked. The right base under it matters as much as the slab.
Yes, if the damage is localized we can cut and replace sections. If the base has failed across the driveway, a full replacement lasts longer.
Get a free on-site quote this week. Honest pricing, no pressure, work backed by a warranty.
