Apex Concrete

Concrete contractor in Versailles, OH

Versailles sits on some of the flattest, tightest ground in the region, where a quarter inch of fall per foot is not a detail but the entire design of a slab.

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

A finished concrete driveway at a family home.

Almost no natural fall to work with

North Darke County is close to level, and the clay is dense enough that water sits on top of it rather than soaking in. On a lot with barely any natural grade you cannot simply slope a patio away from the house and let gravity sort it out downhill, because there is no downhill. The work gets deliberate instead. Pick the outlet first, build the fall to it across the slab, then give the stone base a path to the same place. Get that wrong and a concrete patio in Versailles is not merely wet, it is the low spot for the whole yard, and the joints show it first.

A stamped concrete walkway in a cut-stone pattern.

Village approvals and heavily tiled ground

Versailles runs its own zoning and right-of-way at village scale, which means fewer steps than a city but a schedule set by when the office and the inspector are actually available, so permits are filed well ahead of a pour. Beyond the village limit the addresses are township, and access comes off county roads with the culvert permit that implies. Tile is the constant out here, much of it old and undocumented, and locating it before an excavation costs far less than repairing a neighbour's drainage after one. The everyday work is replacement driveways, front walks, steps, and garage or shed slabs on lots that were built flat to begin with.

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 Versailles

Crews working Versailles cover the rest of Darke County the same week.