Concrete Repair in Baldwin, Wisconsin.

Under the authority in Wis. Stat. 66.0907(6) the Village of Baldwin keeps the sidewalks inside village limits in repair, so a public walk in front of a Baldwin building is the village's to fix rather than the owner's. When the Director of Public Works finds a walk unsafe, defective or insufficient, notice goes to the abutting landowners under 66.0907 and the village advertises the work for bids. A driveway is a different matter, and Chapter 271 of the village code takes a permit before anyone constructs, reconstructs, alters or enlarges one, with a drawing showing the dimensions and the materials. Snow and ice on a sidewalk is the owner's inside 24 hours of a snow event, and the village sends one notice a season before it starts ticketing or charging for the removal. The commercial frontage here is concentrated at Exit 19, where a truck stop and three fuel stops come off US 63, and along Cedar Street through the village center.

Four things take concrete apart here, and each one goes after a different part of a property. A sidewalk panel sits on saturated ground or over a root. The water under it freezes, expands and lifts the panel. In spring the ground thaws and settles, and the panel does not go all the way back down with it, so what was flush in October is a lip in April. Then a plow blade catches that lip every storm for five months and breaks the leading edge off it. A curb takes the plow head on. The blade rides up the gutter, catches the curb face and takes the nose off in chunks. Salted slush sits in the gutter longer than anywhere else on the lot, because the gutter is where everything on the lot drains to, so the gutter is where the surface scales first. De-icer does the same thing to flat concrete. Chloride pulls water into the surface and runs more freeze and thaw cycles through it in a season than the weather would on its own. The mortar skin comes off in flakes and the aggregate stands proud. The approach at the street is a joint between two slabs that belong to different people. The street sits on a road section and a deep base; the drive sits on whatever was there. Frost gets under the shallower one first, the apron cracks along the gutter line, and that crack takes water into the base under both of them.