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Concrete in Augusta

Concrete in Augusta, Wisconsin.

Concrete flatwork, aprons and curb in Augusta. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar, priced and scheduled with the asphalt.

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About 25 minutes southeast of Eau Claire on Highway 12. Free estimates, and a straight read on whether it needs doing yet.

A poured concrete apron running from a parking lot up to a loading dock door on a metal industrial building, with the asphalt tied in along its edge.
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What a Concrete Job Looks Like in Augusta

Lincoln Street is the commercial spine, carrying Highway 12 east and west through town, with the bank, the hardware store, the pharmacy, the clinic and most of the food and drink strung along it. Stone Street is the secondary cluster.

Industrial Drive at the west end is where the square footage is. Augusta has a genuine industrial base for a town of 1,567, including the plant where Bush's baked beans were first made, and that's loading dock and truck yard surface rather than parking lot. It fails differently and it gets specified differently.

Concrete specifically in Augusta

Dock aprons and pads on the industrial side, where the loading is real and a residential-thickness pour would not survive a winter of trailers. In the old core it's mostly garage aprons that have settled away from an asphalt drive over sixty or seventy years. On ground that holds water the way this does, the first question is usually whether the slab dropped or the asphalt beside it did, and those are different fixes.

The Driveways and Lots in Augusta

Augusta sits in southeastern Eau Claire County where Highway 12 runs east and Highway 27 crosses it, about ten miles north of the interstate. Bridge Creek and Diamond Valley Creek run through town, both trout water, which is a nicer way of saying there's more groundwater under this town than under most.

Augusta has the oldest building profile of any town in the southern half of the service area. A third of its houses were built before 1940, more than three quarters before 1980, and just seven units went up in the entire 2010s.

So the honest starting question here is rarely what color sealer. It's whether the drive under it's still worth protecting. On a good number of Augusta drives it very much is, because a well-built old surface outlasts a badly built new one. On others the base gave out years ago and no coating changes that.

Augusta

We work the whole village rather than a named handful of neighborhoods.

Around Augusta: Lincoln Street, Dells Mill, Augusta Wildlife Area.

Standard 48-inch frost depth, with more shallow groundwater than the norm because of the two creeks. Wet subgrade heaves harder than dry subgrade does.

From our jobs

Job Photos

A fresh asphalt drive lane running up to a loading dock door at an industrial building, new yellow lines beside it
The approach paved up to the dock
A freshly poured concrete walk across the front of a commercial building, coned off, with the bollards set
A storefront walk poured and coned off
Two crew working a curb and gutter pour, radius forms and rebar in place
Curb and gutter: radius forms and rebar, on a Best Buy storefront
A freshly poured concrete walk running past steel bollards at a commercial storefront, coned off
A storefront walk poured around the bollards
A new concrete driveway running to a single garage at a blue house, caution tape across the street end
A driveway replaced, start to finish
A new concrete driveway poured down the side of a house, crossing the public sidewalk, cones at the street end
A driveway poured down the side of the house

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The joint between concrete and asphalt

Concrete and asphalt move differently. Concrete is rigid and moves at its joints; asphalt is flexible and moves everywhere. Where they meet, that difference has to be absorbed, and if it's not, the joint opens. Once it's open, water goes straight into the base under both of them. This is why so many lots fail first at the dock apron, the dumpster pad and the garage apron. Not because those slabs were bad, but because two different the line where they met was nobody's. We pour the concrete and lay the asphalt against it, so that joint belongs to the job.

What Decides the Price in Augusta

Flatwork prices per square foot and is easy to quote from measurements. Structural work like curb or a dock apron is quoted per project, because the forming is most of the labor and it doesn't scale with area.

Residential flatwork

Driveways, sidewalks, patios

Measured on site

  • Per square foot, broom finish, base prepared
  • Removal of the old surface priced separately

Garage or dock apron

Per project

Measured on site

  • Thicker slab, tied rebar, asphalt tied back in

Dumpster pad

Per pad

Measured on site

  • Heavy slab, because a loaded truck on a hot day is the worst case
  • Sized to the truck, not to the dumpster

Curb and gutter

Per linear foot

Measured on site

  • Straight run at the low end, radius work at the high end

What moves it: thickness, reinforcement, how much has to come out first, access for a truck, and whether the asphalt around it needs tying back in. Removal and haulaway is a real line and gets quoted rather than buried.

How the Work Goes in Augusta

Base, forms, steel, pour, finish, and the asphalt keyed back in against it.

Take out what's there

Broken slab out and hauled away, down to whatever the new pour needs to sit on.

Prepare and compact the base

Graded and compacted. Concrete poured on soft ground cracks on a schedule set by the ground, not by the concrete.

Form and reinforce

Formed to grade so water runs where it should, and reinforced where the span and the loading call for it. Radius forms for curb work.

Pour and finish

Placed, screeded, floated and broom finished. Control joints cut where the slab is going to crack, so that it cracks there instead of somewhere visible.

Tie the asphalt back in

The step most concrete contractors leave to somebody else. Asphalt keyed to the new edge, compacted, joint sealed.

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Questions We Get in Augusta

What Augusta calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
The ground here is wet. Does that change what we should do?
It changes what matters. Augusta has two creeks through it and shallower groundwater than most towns we work in, and wet subgrade heaves harder in a freeze than dry subgrade does. That makes crack sealing worth more here than average, because keeping surface water out of an already damp base is the whole game.
Can you work the Industrial Drive properties, or is that a different contractor?
Same contractor, different job. Dock aprons and truck yards take loading that a parking lot never sees, so they fail as rutting along a repeated wheel path and as edge break-up rather than as a hole in the middle. Those are full-depth repairs and they want walking before a number goes on paper. Start that conversation ahead of the season rather than during it.
Is Augusta far enough out that the drive costs us something?
Augusta is about twenty-five minutes southeast on Highway 12 and it is inside the area we work rather than at the edge of it. The estimate is free, and the number you approve is the number you pay.
How much does a concrete driveway cost?
Thickness, reinforcement and access are what move it. A slab that has to carry vehicles is thicker than one that carries feet, steel adds cost and adds life, and a pour a truck cannot reach has to be barrowed, which is labour. Removing the old surface is quoted separately rather than hidden in the rate, so you can see what each part costs.
Concrete or asphalt for a driveway?
Concrete costs roughly two to three times as much up front and lasts longer with less maintenance. Asphalt is cheaper, goes down faster, handles frost movement better, and needs sealing every two to three years. Which one suits comes down to the loading, the frost and the budget.
Do you do curb and gutter?
Yes, including radius work, formed and poured to spec. It is priced by the linear foot, and a curve costs more than a straight run because the forms have to be built to the radius.
Why do dumpster pads fail so often?
Because they're usually sized to the dumpster instead of to the truck. The worst loading a pad ever sees is the front axle of a loaded refuse truck on a hot day, and a slab poured for the container alone isn't built for that.
How long before we can use new concrete?
It depends on the mix, and that is worth asking about rather than assuming. On a standard pour: foot traffic in 24 to 48 hours, vehicles after about seven days, heavy trucks at 28 days for a full-strength cure. Where the schedule will not take seven days, we spec a 4,500 PSI exterior mix instead. One of those is a loading dock apron we poured with tied rebar in a working parking lot: customers were driving on it three days later. Whichever mix your job gets, the window goes in the scope up front so you can plan around it before the pour.
Do you subcontract the concrete out?
The concrete and the asphalt around it are priced and sequenced together, so the joint between them is somebody's responsibility rather than nobody's.

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