Concrete Contractors in Dayton, OH

Dayton has more old concrete than anywhere else in the Miami Valley, which is why homeowners searching for concrete contractors in Dayton usually need a front walk, porch steps, a narrow driveway or a detached garage floor redone rather than a brand-new subdivision pour. The city peaked at 262,332 residents in 1960 and counted 137,644 in 2020, with 68,899 housing units. Much of that housing was built when the city was far larger, and the flatwork around it has had decades to settle and break.

Who owns the walk in front of your house

The Dayton Daily News has reported that property owners in Dayton are responsible for the curb, sidewalk and driveway approach abutting their property. For years the city inspected and marked repairs, then billed owners who did not act, but budget cuts ended that program and a planned 2016 restart did not happen. More recently the city set aside part of its federal COVID relief money to replace roughly 240,000 square feet of sidewalk in neighborhoods such as Five Oaks, Miami Chapel, Edgemont and Wolf Creek. If your block is not in that work, the walk is still yours to fix, and that is where we come in.

Historic neighborhoods need careful forming

Wikipedia lists ten historic neighborhoods in the city, including the Oregon District, Wright Dunbar, Dayton View, Grafton Hill, McPherson Town, Webster Station, Huffman, Kenilworth, St. Anne's Hill and South Park. Houses there run from Queen Anne and Colonial Revival to Craftsman and Tudor Revival. On those lots the concrete is part of the street view: a stoop, a set of steps up from the walk, a ribbon of sidewalk between old trees. We take care to match broom direction and joint spacing to what is next door, protect old foundations and brick while we break out, and form steps so the rise is even from top to bottom.

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Three rivers and a lot of water

Dayton grew where the Great Miami, Stillwater and Mad rivers come together. The Great Dayton Flood of March 1913 led directly to the Miami Conservancy District and the dams and levees built after it. Today the threat is less dramatic but still real for concrete: about 41 inches of precipitation a year at the airport, a January mean low near 22 degrees, and roughly 4.5 nights a year below zero. Water that gets under a slab and freezes is what lifts walks and breaks steps away from the house. We set grade so water leaves the slab, place an air-entrained mix and cure it properly.

Typical Dayton jobs

Alley-access garage slabs, replacement porch steps, front walks with tree-root heaves, single-car driveways that need widening where the lot allows it, and backyard patios on narrow city lots. Some jobs are a single square; others are the whole run from the porch to the curb. We quote what is actually failing and leave sound concrete alone.

Before we pour

Any work in the public right-of-way, such as the walk, curb or approach, goes through the city. We check what your address needs before we schedule so the job does not get stopped halfway. Call (937) 971-5409 to set up a visit anywhere in Dayton.