Apex Concrete

Concrete contractor in Oxford, OH

Oxford is hill country by southwest Ohio standards, cut by Four Mile Creek, and both the slope and the university calendar shape how residential concrete work gets done here.

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

A finished concrete driveway at a family home.

Till, outwash and lake silt over limestone

The last ice advance left an unusually mixed cover here — glacial till, outwash gravel and lake silts laid down in standing water, all sitting on interbedded Ordovician limestone and shale. The three behave differently under a slab, and on a hillside lot an excavation can cross more than one of them in twenty feet. The lake silts are the ones to watch, since they hold water and lose strength saturated. Slope is the second constraint. A concrete driveway in Oxford climbing to an attached garage needs its cross-fall and joint layout planned so surface water leaves at the sides rather than running the full length to the door and freezing there.

A stamped concrete walkway in a cut-stone pattern.

Working around a college town's rhythm

Move-in weekend and commencement fill the streets near campus, and the older blocks close to Uptown have little on-street room for a truck at the best of times. Work in those neighbourhoods is scheduled to the academic calendar and the quieter weeks rather than to whatever date happens to be open. Permits are issued by the city, and the historic Uptown blocks bring appearance review alongside the code review. The work splits along the two housing stocks Oxford has: replacement drives and walks at century-old homes on the hills, and patios, steps and garage slabs in the newer subdivisions out toward the bypass.

A finished concrete walkway running between planted beds.
A concrete slab being screeded flat during the pour.
Breaking out a failed section of concrete for replacement.

Also serving near Oxford

Crews working Oxford cover the rest of Butler County the same week.