Sidewalks, Approaches & Curbs

This is the work that happens at the front of a building rather than behind a house: sidewalks, driveway approaches, curb and gutter tie-ins, and the flatwork that joins a private property to a public street. It is a genuinely different discipline from a back patio. There is a written specification rather than a preference, an inspector who will hold you to it, mix designs and submittals, and almost always a plan for keeping people and vehicles moving safely past an open excavation. Doing that properly once is what makes a contractor eligible to be asked again, which is why we take it seriously out of proportion to the size of the pours. The part that matters most to the person paying for it is usually not the concrete at all — it is whether they can keep trading while it happens. On a downtown Newberg storefront job we took out a cracked and patched public sidewalk and rebuilt it in broom-finished concrete with tooled joints, with cones and traffic control up and the shop open through the whole of it. Phasing the work, keeping a safe route past the excavation and pouring when it costs the business least are decisions to settle before the schedule is set, not after. Tell us your busy hours early and they will shape the plan.

What is included

• Sidewalks, driveway approaches, curb and gutter tie-ins to a written spec
• Traffic control and a safe route past the work, planned before the schedule is set
• Phased so the business stays open — the day it reopens is usually the number that matters