Apex Concrete

Concrete contractor in Springfield, OH

Springfield's neighbourhoods have been built and rebuilt for well over a century, so what matters under a home driveway here is usually what is buried, not what shows.

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

Breaking out a failed section of concrete for replacement.

What tear-out finds under an old lot

Dig up a driveway in one of the older Springfield neighbourhoods and the ground beneath it is often not native soil at all: cinders, brick rubble, foundation stone, the remains of whatever stood there before. Fill like that is uneven in density, which is exactly what makes a slab crack in a wandering line instead of at a joint. There is no way to know before excavating, so on a century-old property the base gets assessed once the old concrete is out and the cost of the unknown is talked through before concrete is ordered. Where fill runs deep, undercutting and replacing it with compacted stone is the difference between a concrete replacement in Springfield lasting twenty years and lasting five.

A finished concrete driveway at a family home.

Alley garages and rear slabs

Much of the older grid is alley-served, and the alley is often the only route to a detached garage slab or a rear parking pad: utility poles down one side, fences down the other, nowhere to turn a loaded truck. Pumping or buggying from the street is the normal answer and it gets planned rather than improvised. Along Buck Creek and the Mad River a mapped floodplain runs through parts of the city, so a new slab near the water is checked against the flood map at design. Front walks and porch steps on these streets are frequently the original pour, and replacing one means matching a height and a profile the house already sets.

A finished patio alongside a house, edged with planting.
A finished concrete walkway running between planted beds.
A concrete slab being screeded flat during the pour.

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