Apex Concrete

Concrete contractor in St. Paris, OH

Lots around St. Paris are large and rural, the subsoil goes back to dense till clay west of the valley, and most drives here run long enough to need their own drainage plan.

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

A finished patio alongside a house, edged with planting.

Till clay and long village drives

West of the Mad River valley the gravel gives out and the subsoil is till again — dense, silty, slow to take water, and inclined to hold it near the surface after a wet spring. Concrete poured straight onto that moves with the season, so the stone base under a St. Paris patio or driveway is doing structural work rather than acting as a levelling course. The other variable is length and slope. A rural drive that runs a few hundred feet and gains grade will send its runoff to the low end, which is usually the garage apron, so the crown and the outfall get set before the forms go in. That is the difference between a drive that lasts and one that scales at the bottom.

A finished concrete walkway running between planted beds.

Septic fields, culverts and the work itself

Most property outside the village is on a septic system, and the leach field is the thing nobody remembers until a mixer is already on the lawn. A drive or a parking pad over the laterals will crush them, so the layout gets checked against the health-department record first. Where a new entrance meets a township or county road, the apron and its culvert go through the county engineer; inside the corporation limit, St. Paris handles zoning and permits itself. The work is homeowner flatwork start to finish — concrete driveway replacement in St. Paris, poured patios and sidewalks, steps and stoops, garage, shed and barn-side slabs, and repair of aging concrete that has started to break apart at the joints.

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.

Also serving near St. Paris

Crews working St. Paris cover the rest of Champaign County the same week.