Concrete work we take on

No vertical work — no walls, no steps built as masonry, no foundations, no structural repair. No asphalt, no pavers, and no resurfacing overlay sold as a substitute for replacing a slab that is moving. If your problem is one of those we will tell you on the phone rather than after a site visit, and we will usually tell you who does it properly.

Most jobs are not a single item on this list. A driveway replacement normally carries an apron at the street end and often a walkway to the front door, and those get poured in the same mobilisation because the mixer is already there and the crew is already formed up. Splitting them across two visits means paying the setup twice. When you call, describe the whole area you are unhappy with rather than the single worst part — it is frequently cheaper to do more at once than less.

Every quote states the same six things: slab thickness, base material and compacted depth, reinforcement type, control joint spacing and cutting method, disposal, and the cure window before you can drive on it. That is not a marketing position, it is the minimum information needed to compare one quote against another. A number without those six attached is not a price, it is a guess with a decimal point.

Across every category on this page the failure mode is the same, and it is almost never the concrete itself. It is what the concrete is sitting on. Uncompacted fill settles, water gets into an unsealed joint and washes the fines out from underneath, and a slab that has lost its support cracks under a load it was designed to carry easily. That is why base preparation is the line item we will not cut, and why we would rather lose a job on price than win it by leaving that out.