Apex Concrete

Concrete contractor in Germantown, OH

Germantown sits in the Twin Creek valley with enough real relief that grade, not finish, decides most of what a patio or driveway here has to be.

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

A finished patio alongside a house, edged with planting.

Valley slopes and stepped patios

Twin Creek has cut genuine relief into this corner of the county, and a lot on the valley side comes with a slope no amount of concrete will argue with. A Germantown patio on that ground is stepped into level bays with a retaining edge at each change rather than poured as one tilted plane, and that retaining is sized for the water pressure behind it, not only the soil. A driveway on the same fall wants its surface water intercepted partway down instead of allowed to gather speed over the full length. Nearer the creek the material turns alluvial and softer, and the base is built up to suit.

A finished concrete walkway running between planted beds.

A narrow nineteenth-century town centre

The old core is a compact grid with houses close to the walk and streets never sized for modern equipment, so how concrete gets placed and how long a lane is occupied are settled at the estimate rather than discovered on pour day. In those blocks the finish and the edge detail on a front walk or stoop are agreed before anything is ordered, because a replacement that does not match its neighbours is obvious from the street. Permits run through the city. Out on the newer streets up the valley side it is ordinary residential work with far better access.

Breaking out a failed section of concrete for replacement.
A finished concrete driveway at a family home.
A stamped concrete walkway in a cut-stone pattern.

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