Apex Concrete

Concrete contractor in Clayton, OH

Clayton covers a lot of former township farmland, where a home's driveway is a real piece of construction rather than a short strip of concrete beside the garage.

Apex Concrete pours across Montgomery County and gives you a fixed written price after measuring the actual space in Clayton — not a guess over the phone.

A concrete slab being screeded flat during the pour.

Farm ground and buried drainage tile

Most of Clayton was cultivated before it was platted, and agricultural drainage tile is still in the ground with a good deal of it still working. Cutting a line during excavation sends water somewhere nobody planned for, and it usually surfaces as a wet spot two seasons later rather than on the day. Above the tile sit the heavy silty clays of the till plain — slow to drain, quick to heave through a freeze-thaw winter — so base depth and how well the stone is compacted carry more of the load on a Clayton driveway than slab thickness ever does.

Breaking out a failed section of concrete for replacement.

Long drives change the arithmetic

A rural-length driveway is not a scaled-up suburban one. It is several truckloads instead of one, it needs a turnaround sized for the vehicles that actually use the property, and it usually needs its own drainage crossings rather than sheet flow toward the road. It also needs a plan for how the household gets in and out while it cures, which is the part most often forgotten on a property with one way in. Where the drive meets a county or township road, the approach and its culvert belong to the road authority, and that is settled before any forms go in.

A stamped concrete walkway in a cut-stone pattern.
A finished patio alongside a house, edged with planting.
A finished concrete walkway running between planted beds.

Also serving near Clayton

Crews working Clayton cover the rest of Montgomery County the same week.