Downtown-based concrete crews pouring driveways, patios, slabs, and foundations built to survive central Ohio winters. Free written estimates — call (380) 600-8953.
Six services, one crew, all of it flatwork and formed concrete for homes and small commercial properties across the metro.
Central Ohio runs a driveway through roughly 50 freeze-thaw cycles a winter, then salts it. We pour air-entrained 4,000 PSI concrete over a compacted stone base so yours doesn't flake apart by year five.
Franklin County clay holds water and heaves in January. We build patios that shed water away from your foundation and crack where we tell them to, not where they feel like it.
The public sidewalk across your frontage belongs to you in Columbus, notices and all. We replace flagged squares to city spec and pour private walks that stay level.
Garage floors, shed pads, hot tub bases, and addition slabs. Thickness and steel get matched to the load sitting on top, because a pad holding a loaded pickup isn't a pad holding a mower.
Footings for additions, garages, porches, and decks, poured below the 32-inch frost line so winter can't lift what you built. Formed foundation walls too.
Salt-scaled surfaces, cracks, sunken sections. Some slabs are worth saving and some aren't, and you'll get that verdict in writing before anyone quotes a tear-out.
Call (380) 600-8953 or send the form. Someone real gets back to you within 24 hours.
We walk the property, check grade and access, and hand you a written price that names the spec. Not a range that grows once the forms are set.
Forms set, concrete placed and finished, joints cut, site swept. You get a written cure timeline: when to walk on it, when to park on it.
Finishing is timing, and timing is experience. Our crews have poured through plenty of central Ohio spring and fall.
Liability and workers' comp on every job site. Certificates on request.
PSI, air entrainment, thickness, reinforcement, base depth. In writing, before you sign.
No charge, no obligation, and no quoting your driveway off a satellite photo.
Columbus Concrete Contractor works out of 10 N High St downtown, across from the Statehouse, which puts us close to nearly everything inside 270. We pour in the Short North, Italian Village, Victorian Village, Harrison West, German Village, Merion Village, the Brewery District, Olde Towne East, Franklinton, Grandview Heights, Clintonville, Bexley, Whitehall, the Hilltop, Linden, Northland, Worthington, Upper Arlington, Dublin, Hilliard, Westerville, Gahanna, New Albany, Reynoldsburg, Grove City, Canal Winchester, Pickerington, and Powell. If you're in the Columbus metro, you're in our service area.
Late February in the alley behind a Victorian Village double, and the parking pad has finally given up. It went in sometime in the nineties, four inches of concrete straight onto whatever was there, and now the middle has broken into three pieces that rock when you drive over them. Meltwater collects in the low one. The gate sticks because the pad heaved into it. And there's no easy fix, because the alley is nine feet wide and no mixer truck is getting a chute anywhere near the back of that lot.
That's a normal Tuesday for us.
Columbus Concrete Contractor works out of 10 N High St, and a lot of what we pour sits in places trucks can't reach. Alley-access carriage pads in the Short North. Fenced courtyards in German Village where every yard of concrete rides a buggy through a gate. Narrow side yards on Olde Towne East doubles. Access shapes the job here more than most contractors admit in a bid, and pretending otherwise is how a crew ends up half-poured with a truck timing out at the curb.
The climate shapes the rest of it. Central Ohio runs concrete through something like 50 freeze-thaw cycles a winter. Water soaks into the slab, freezes, expands roughly nine percent, and levers the concrete apart from inside, then repeats the next night. Layer city salt on top and you get the flaking, pitted surfaces you see all over the metro. That damage has a name, scaling, and it's preventable with air-entrained concrete, which carries billions of microscopic air voids that give freezing water somewhere to go. We spec 4,000 PSI air-entrained for exterior work as a matter of course.
Underneath, Franklin County sits on glacial till, which mostly means dense clay. Clay traps water against the bottom of a slab, heaves when that water freezes, and pulls away during a dry August. Down along the Scioto and Olentangy the soils change to old river terrace material, sandier and better draining in spots, worse and more variable in others, and the flat ground near the rivers holds water in ways the higher neighborhoods don't. Urban lots add their own surprises: old cinder fill, buried foundations from buildings torn down decades ago, abandoned coal chutes. We've dug into all of it, usually about ten minutes after somebody said the site looked simple.
That's the ground we build on, every job, from a Concrete Patio Installation in Clintonville to Concrete Foundations and Footings for an addition in Bexley.
Some concrete is a surface. Some of it holds up a building, and that work doesn't forgive shortcuts. Franklin County's frost line sits at 32 inches, so any footing carrying a structure has to bear below that depth. Miss it and the first hard winter lifts a corner, the block cracks, the door frame racks, and now you're paying twice for something that was a shovel depth away from being right.
Concrete Foundations and Footings covers additions, detached garages, porches, deck piers, and formed foundation walls for basements and crawl spaces. Columbus is a basement town, which means hydrostatic pressure is a live issue in a way it never is in the Sun Belt. Wet clay pressing against a wall is a real load, and drainage around new foundation work belongs in the plan from day one, not in a repair estimate three years later.
Concrete Slab Installation starts with a question that separates real bids from guesses: what's going on top of this? A garage floor storing a work truck and a lift needs thickness and rebar a shed pad doesn't. A hot tub full of water pushes past 5,000 pounds. Pricing those the same means one of them got built wrong.
And timing counts. Pouring season in central Ohio runs roughly April into early November. We can pour cold with blankets and accelerators when a project genuinely can't wait, but concrete placed carelessly near freezing never develops its strength, and no finish covers that up later. Sometimes the honest answer is to wait two weeks.
It depends on square footage first, then on everything under and around it. Anyone giving you a firm number without standing on the property is guessing with your money.
Size and thickness set the floor. A two-car driveway uses a great deal more material than a front walk, and slabs carrying vehicles need more depth and more steel than slabs carrying patio chairs. Demolition comes next, because most Columbus work is replacement: sawing, breaking out, and hauling off an old slab is real labor before a single yard of new concrete arrives.
Then site conditions, which is where downtown and the older neighborhoods separate from the suburbs. Truck access decides a lot. A driveway the mixer can chute directly is efficient. A rear courtyard reached through a gate, or a pad off a Short North alley, means buggies or a pump, and that's crew hours. Clay that needs deeper excavation and more stone adds cost. Grade corrections so water finally leaves the building add cost. Buried debris nobody knew about adds cost, which is why our estimates say what happens if we hit it instead of leaving that blank.
Finish moves the top end. Broom finish is the workhorse. Color, stamping, and exposed aggregate add material and finishing labor. Permits, where the work needs them, pass through at cost.
The estimate is free, it's written, and nothing starts until you approve it.
Here's how the six services actually play out around the city. Concrete Driveway Installation is heaviest in the postwar neighborhoods, where original drives poured for 1950s cars are meeting modern trucks and losing, plus widening work where a single-car ribbon can't serve a two-car household. Concrete Patio Installation turns clay-mud backyards in Westerville, Grove City, and Hilliard into usable space, graded so storms drain away from the house.
Concrete Sidewalk and Walkway work stays busy in the tree-lined streets, where mature silver maples and oaks lift squares an inch at a time until the city flags them, and the notice lands with the property owner. Concrete Slab Installation covers garage floors, shed and workshop pads, and hot tub bases. Concrete Foundations and Footings handles the structural end, from deck piers to full addition footings. And Concrete Repair and Resurfacing is where we tell people the truth about what they already own, including the times that truth saves them a replacement they were braced to pay for.
Ask what's under the concrete, and get the answer written down. Base depth, compaction, concrete PSI, air entrainment, reinforcement type and where it sits in the slab. A bid that says nothing but "4 inches of concrete" is hiding its savings underground, where you'll never see them and always feel them.
Ask about joints. Control joint spacing and depth decide where a slab cracks. Skip them or cut them shallow and the concrete picks its own line, usually straight across the middle.
Ask about access, honestly, especially downtown and in German Village or the Short North, because a crew that hasn't planned the buggy route hasn't planned the pour. Confirm liability and workers' comp coverage. Ask who pulls permits for driveway approaches and structural footings. And if your property sits in German Village, Italian Village, Victorian Village, or another district with design review, exterior work visible from the street may need commission approval before anyone breaks ground. A local contractor should bring that up before you do.
Ready for a straight answer and a written price? Call (380) 600-8953.
Estimates usually get scheduled within a few days. Work lands on the calendar within a few weeks depending on the season, and spring fills fastest, so calling early helps.
Yes. We measure the property, check the site, and hand you a written price at no charge. You decide from there.
It comes down to size, thickness, demolition, access, site conditions, and finish. That's why we won't quote blind over the phone. The on-site estimate is free and in writing.
Yes. We carry liability and workers' compensation coverage, and certificates are available whenever you ask.
Roughly April through early November for normal pours. Cold-weather work is possible with blankets and accelerators when a job can't wait, and we'll tell you plainly when waiting produces a better slab.
The Columbus metro. Downtown and the near neighborhoods, plus Worthington, Upper Arlington, Dublin, Hilliard, Westerville, Gahanna, Bexley, Grove City, and out to the 270 suburbs.
Regularly. Alley pads, courtyards, and fenced backyards get poured by buggy or pump. We plan that route during the estimate so the crew isn't improvising with a truck on the clock.
Concrete shrinks as it cures, so some cracking is physics rather than failure. Compacted base, correct thickness, and control joints cut on time keep cracks tight and put them where we planned.
Seal it, yes. And keep deicing salt off entirely the first winter, sand instead. New concrete is at its most vulnerable to scaling in year one.
Tell us what you're planning and we'll take it from there. Send the form or call (380) 600-8953.
One call covers it, from the first measurement to the last joint cut.