
Driveways
New driveways, and tear-out-and-replace on the ones that have finally given up. We haul the old one away and rebuild the base, because the base is why it failed.
What we do
Twelve things, done by the same crew that quoted them. Everything we pour goes over a base we compacted ourselves, and on a tear-out job the haul-off and disposal are in the number we give you, rather than added after the fact.

New driveways, and tear-out-and-replace on the ones that have finally given up. We haul the old one away and rebuild the base, because the base is why it failed.

Patios, walkways, entries and stoops, from a plain broom finish to exposed aggregate. Poured over a base we built ourselves, with the fall worked out before the forms go up.

Footings, stem walls and slab-on-grade for houses, additions, shops and outbuildings — dug, formed, poured and finished by one crew, on the framer's schedule.

Site cuts, grading, base rock and compaction, with our own machines and operators. This is the half of a concrete job most concrete companies hand to somebody else.

An interior floor is a different pour from a patio, and the difference is underneath the concrete. Garage slabs, shop and barn floors, and outbuilding slabs specified for the load that will actually live on them.

Not every worn-out patio needs replacing. Cleaning, stain removal and color work can bring a sound slab back for a fraction of what a tear-out costs.

French drains, footing and curtain drains, catch basins and regrading. If water is standing where it should not be, the fix is almost always upstream of where you are seeing it.

A detached ADU needs the ground cut and compacted, footings and a stem wall poured to inspection, and water, sewer and power trenched out from the house. Most contractors do one of those three. We do all of them, with our own crew.

Old concrete out, debris hauled away, and the ground graded back to a surface you can build on. Most of our tear-outs are the first stage of a job we are also pouring, so the site is left ready for what comes next rather than simply cleared.

Water, sewer, power, gas and conduit trenched, bedded, backfilled and compacted. The line to a shop, a well, a new house or an ADU is one more thing you do not have to sub out.

Public and commercial flatwork poured to a written spec, with the street kept open and the business kept trading. There is an inspector, a submittal and a traffic plan, and most residential concrete crews are not set up for any of the three.

Large slabs, building pads and industrial pours — held to the same standard as a backyard patio: thorough, professional, no corners cut. We keep the excavation, the base and the concrete under one contract, so one team is accountable for the ground and for everything that goes on top of it. Big job or small, every project gets our full attention from the first cut to the final finish.
Why 5 Rivers
Customers don't have to coordinate several different contractors when we can handle the work ourselves. We self-perform the excavation, the foundation and the flatwork, so the job that is normally three contractors and three schedules is one contract — and the person who compacted your base is the person who has to live with what gets poured on top of it.
5 Rivers Concrete & Excavation is family owned and based in Dundee. Patrick has been doing this work for over 25 years and the company has been in business since 2018. The people who quote your job are the people who do it, and they drive past it afterwards.
We show up, communicate, and stand behind our work. If something we controlled goes wrong, we come back and put it right. Concrete develops hairline cracks — that is physics, not a defect — and we will tell you the difference before we pour rather than after.
We usually respond the same day. Most contractors lose the job by never calling back, and the first one to answer wins a striking share of the time. Call or text (503) 840-8634 and you will get a person, not a queue.
Tell us what you are looking at and we will come and measure it. No obligation, no pressure, and a written itemised quote rather than a number on the back of a card. We usually respond the same day.
Call (503) 840-8634