Concrete Repair in Durand, Wisconsin.

Durand's snow rule on a public walk is a standing duty rather than a clock. The code requires the owner or occupant of any lot fronting or abutting a sidewalk to keep it free and clear of snow and ice, with no hours attached to it. The construction and repair provisions themselves sit in Title 11 of the 2006 city code, which the online code expressly leaves in force and does not reprint, so the standard for a frontage here is asked for at City Hall rather than looked up. What a Durand owner can read is the state clock: Wis. Stat. 66.0907 lets the city order an unsafe, defective or insufficient walk repaired or replaced, gives the owner 20 days after notice, and puts the cost on the tax roll as a special charge if the city ends up doing the work. WIS 25 comes into Durand and runs with US 10, so an entrance onto that route is a state highway approach under Wis. Stat. 86.07(2)(a) and Trans 231 rather than a city question alone, and the courthouse, the county offices and the hospital give a city of under two thousand more public frontage than most towns this size carry.

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.