Apex Concrete

Concrete contractor in Tipp City, OH

Tipp City splits between low ground inside the Taylorsville retarding basin and the drier shelf east of I-75, and a home's concrete is built differently on each side of that line.

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

Breaking out a failed section of concrete for replacement.

Basin ground and the shelf above

The Great Miami below Tipp City runs into flood storage the Conservancy District built to fill on purpose, so the low-lying yards are expected to take water occasionally. Slabs down there get an air-entrained mix, a base that drains sideways to daylight instead of trapping water beneath the panel, and joints laid out so movement goes where it was planned. East of I-75 the problem inverts: the newer subdivisions sit on ordinary silty clay that will not drain at all, and the stone base does all of the work. A Tipp City patio or driveway that heaves along one edge is almost always telling you which of those two conditions was ignored.

A finished concrete driveway at a family home.

Historic blocks and newer subdivisions

The canal-era blocks downtown are a designated historic district, so a visible finish there is a design question before it is a concrete question — colour and texture get settled with physical samples ahead of the pour, not defended after it. Those homes have short front walks, stone or brick stoops, and rear drives reached off the alley. The 1990s-and-later streets east of the interstate have wide attached-garage aprons and back patios now old enough to need repair or full replacement. The work runs across both: driveways, walks, steps, garage and shed slabs, and stamped or broom-finished patios suited to whichever end of town the house sits on.

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.

Also serving near Tipp City

Crews working Tipp City cover the rest of Miami County the same week.