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Concrete Repair in Hudson

Concrete Repair in Hudson, Wisconsin.

Concrete repair for commercial property in Hudson. A lifted walk panel at the entrance, a curb face the plow took off, an approach broken up where the trucks come in. Cut out at the joints and poured back flush.

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A freshly poured broom-finished concrete entrance walk at a commercial building, butted against the older concrete alongside it and the asphalt lot beyond, coned off.
4.7 Google ratingFrom 21 reviews
4,500 PSI Exterior mixTied rebar where it carries vehicles
1/4 inch Vertical change allowed2010 ADA Standards 303.2
20 days On a city sidewalk orderWis. Stat. 66.0907(3)(d)

Working in Hudson

Hudson city code keeps anyone but the Public Works Department from opening or breaking the surface of a street, curb and gutter or sidewalk without a permit, and the city's form for it is the Application to Break. The city has a 2026 sidewalk and curb replacement project scheduled for September and October, and the engineer's report for it carries the preliminary assessment calculations. Sidewalk snow and ice is the owner's within 24 hours after the snowfall stops, and if it does not get done the city clears it, bills for it, and puts an unpaid bill on the annual tax roll. Carmichael Road at Exit 2 holds the retail corridor and the St. Croix County Government Center, and the hospital campus is off the same exit on Stageline Road.

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A new broom-finished concrete driveway poured out to the street, cones across the street end and the crew truck at the curb
A driveway poured new, out to the street
Two crew working a curb and gutter pour, radius forms and rebar in place against an existing concrete sidewalk
Curb and gutter poured back against the existing walk
A new concrete apron and jointed walk poured up to a garage door, butted against the asphalt drive alongside it
An apron poured back and the asphalt tied in at the edge

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How concrete fails in a Wisconsin winter

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.

What Decides the Price in Hudson

Concrete repair is measured in a different unit for every part of a property, so the bands below are the units this work is priced in rather than sizes of job. What sets the number in each one is how much has to come out and what is found under it.

Sidewalk panels and entrance walks

Per panel

Measured on site

  • Whole panels cut at the existing joints, not a piece out of the middle
  • Poured back flush with the panels on either side of it

Curb and gutter

Per linear foot

Measured on site

  • Broken curb face and gutter replaced in sections
  • Radius work formed to the island instead of run straight

Driveway approaches and entrance aprons

Per approach

Measured on site

  • The apron from the lot or the drive out to the gutter line
  • Concrete where the street already has curb and gutter

Pads and slabs

Per section

Measured on site

  • One failed section out at its joints, the sound concrete around it left alone
  • The base under it repaired before anything goes back

Catch basin collars

Per structure

Measured on site

  • The concrete ring around a storm grate, poured back to grade
  • Sized to spread the load off the structure and onto the subgrade

What moves it: how many panels or feet come out, how deep the base repair goes under them, whether the section carries vehicles or only feet, what a concrete truck can reach, and how much asphalt has to be tied back in at the edge. Breaking the old concrete out and hauling it away is its own line on the estimate.

How We Do Concrete Repair in Hudson

Saw cut, removal, base repair, forms and steel, the pour, and the joint at the edge.

Walk it and mark what comes out

Concrete moves at its joints, so the repair is decided in whole panels and whole sections. We mark what has failed and what the failed piece is sitting on, and you see the line before anything gets cut.

Saw cut at the joints

A clean vertical cut on an existing joint, full depth. Breaking concrete out on a ragged line leaves the next slab with no edge to bear against, which is where the repair opens up first.

Break it out and haul it away

The old concrete comes out full depth and goes on the truck. What is under it is usually the reason it failed, and it is not visible until then.

Repair and compact the base

Wet or washed-out material taken out, replaced and compacted. Concrete poured on soft ground cracks on a schedule set by the ground rather than by the concrete, and a panel replaced without touching the base lifts again.

Form against what stays

Formed to grade so water runs where it ran before, and poured tight against the concrete on either side. Radius forms on curb work, rebar tied in where it carries vehicles.

Pour, finish and seal the joint

Placed, screeded, floated and broom finished to match what it sits against. Where the repair meets asphalt, the asphalt gets cut tight to the new edge, compacted, and the joint sealed.

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Questions We Get in Hudson

What Hudson calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
We're in Hudson. Is that outside what you cover?
No. It's about 66 miles straight out I-94, right around an hour, and for commercial lots we come. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.
What counts as a trip hazard on a sidewalk?
The federal figure is a quarter of an inch. Under the 2010 ADA Standards, section 303.2, a vertical change in level up to a quarter inch is allowed as it is; section 303.3 says a change between a quarter inch and half an inch has to be beveled at no steeper than 1:2; and section 303.4 says anything over half an inch has to be ramped. That is the accessibility standard, and it is not the same thing as a city's repair criterion. Wisconsin cities work from Wis. Stat. 66.0907, which lets the city order a walk replaced when it is unsafe, defective or insufficient, and puts no inch figure on it at all. So a walk can be well inside the federal number and still get an order. Most people picture a trip hazard as something closer to an inch, and a quarter of an inch is where the federal standard starts asking for edge treatment.
Who is responsible for the sidewalk in front of a building?
In Wisconsin the abutting property owner is, and the procedure is the same in every city because they all work off one statute. Wis. Stat. 66.0907 lets the board of public works order a sidewalk that is unsafe, defective or insufficient to be repaired or replaced, and serves that order on the owner. Under 66.0907(3)(d), if the owner leaves it for 20 days after being served, the city may have the work done at the owner's expense. So the letter is not a suggestion and it has a date on it. If you have one, send us a photo of the walk and tell us the date on the order.
Can a lifted sidewalk panel be leveled instead of replaced?
What we do is take the panel out and pour a new one. The panel gets cut at its existing joints, broken out full depth, the base under it repaired and compacted, and the new panel poured tight against the panels on either side. The reason the base matters is that a panel almost never lifts on its own. Water got under it, froze and pushed it up, or a root did. Whatever moved it is still under there, and it is the part you cannot see from the surface.
The plow broke the curb nose. Does the whole curb line have to come out?
No. Curb and gutter is replaced in sections, cut back to sound concrete on both sides of the damage, so a broken nose on an island does not mean the length of the lot. What is worth looking at while the section is open is the joint behind the curb. Once frost has tipped the curb face out of plumb, that joint is open, and the asphalt along the curb line is where the lot starts to go.
Do we need a permit for the approach at the street?
That is the city's call and every city in the Chippewa Valley has a rule about it, because the approach sits in the public right-of-way rather than on your property. In Eau Claire, ordinance 13.10.020 says nobody excavates or installs anything in a street, alley or public place without a permit from the engineering department first. Eau Claire also defines the piece itself, at 16.36.080(A)(1): the drive apron is the connection between a driveway and the traveled portion of the street, including any sidewalk area next to it. Under 16.36.080(C) it has to be concrete where the street has curb and gutter. Chippewa Falls and Altoona each require a permit for driveway work in the right-of-way too, and Chippewa Falls is strict about who the permit can be issued to. Ask the city before anybody cuts concrete in the right-of-way.
How long before new concrete takes traffic?
It depends on the mix, and that is worth asking about on any pour. Foot traffic comes back first and heavy trucks last. The full set of cure windows, and the 4,500 PSI exterior mix that shortens them, is on the concrete page.

The Lots and Surfaces in Hudson

Hudson is the county seat of St. Croix County, a city of about 15,000 on the St. Croix River where I-94 crosses into Minnesota. It's about 66 miles west of Eau Claire, right around an hour. The interstate gives the city four ways in: Exit 2 at Carmichael Road, both WIS 35 interchanges, and the US 12 and County U exit. The city is inside the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, and it's the last Wisconsin exit before the bridge.

Two things sit on Carmichael Road, the retail and the county. Exit 2 puts a Home Depot right at the interchange, with Prairie View Center, a multi-tenant retail and office property, up at Vine Street, and the St. Croix County Government Center and Courthouse is on the same road and has been expanded. Hudson Hospital and Clinic is a 25-bed critical access hospital on Stageline Road off that same exit, with two more buildings on the campus. Hudson High School is on Vine Street with about 1,700 students, and UW-River Falls runs a satellite campus in town.

The industry is out at Hanley Road and WI 35. St. Croix Business Park started there in the mid-nineties and markets large parcels for employment centers and distribution warehouses, and it holds a 640,000 square foot distribution center on about 64 acres at the corner of WI 35 and Hanley Road. Phillips-Medisize has its North American headquarters here, in a 180,000 square foot plant on the old St. Croix Meadows site. The older industrial pavement is on Industrial Street, about a mile off the interstate.

Where we work in Hudson

  • The Carmichael Road corridor
  • St. Croix Business Park
  • Hanley Road
  • Industrial Street
  • Stageline Road

Around Hudson: The I-94 crossing over the St. Croix River, St. Croix County Government Center on Carmichael Road, The Phipps Center for the Arts, The Octagon House Museum, The site of the original Little Free Library.

15,031 people, 2024 Census estimate.

The glacial deposits under St. Croix County run from nothing at all where bedrock comes up to more than 450 feet in the buried valleys, with 5 to 150 feet the usual. They get deeper toward the west end of the county, which is the end Hudson is on.

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