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Concrete in Baldwin

Concrete in Baldwin, Wisconsin.

Dumpster pads, dock aprons, curb and gutter for commercial properties in Baldwin. Poured at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar, and the asphalt around it tied back in.

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About 50 minutes west of Eau Claire on I-94. The estimate is free.

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.
4.7 Google ratingFrom 21 reviews
4,500 PSI Exterior mixTied rebar where it carries trucks
3 days Back in serviceOn a dock apron we poured

Working in Baldwin

Dumpster pads behind the Cedar Street stores, dock aprons at the plants on VandeBerg and Evergreen Street, curb and gutter around the hospital campus. A pad gets sized for the front axle of a loaded refuse truck rather than for the container standing on it. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar, and the asphalt around them gets keyed back in.

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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 Baldwin

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.

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 Baldwin

Base, forms, steel, pour, finish, and the asphalt tied 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 cut tight to the new edge, compacted, joint sealed.

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Questions We Get in Baldwin

What Baldwin calls us about, answered straight.

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Baldwin's 50 minutes out. Do you come this far for a lot?
For commercial lots, yes. It's about 49 miles straight out I-94 to Exit 19, right around 50 minutes. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.
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.

The Lots and Surfaces in Baldwin

Baldwin is a village of about 4,400 in St. Croix County, sitting at I-94 Exit 19 where US 63 crosses the interstate. It's about 49 miles west of Eau Claire and about 48 miles east of Minneapolis, and the county it's in is counted as part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro. US 12 and US 63 run through the village on top of the interstate. The county seat is Hudson, further west on I-94.

The industrial ground here has names on it. The I-94 Industrial Park and Baldwin East, a commercial and light industrial park, are the two the village markets, and TID No. 7 is a 258-acre mixed-use district at the south end created in 2007 to bring industrial and commercial development in. The plants are where the big private lots are: Vital Plastics runs injection molding out of about 70,000 square feet across two buildings on VandeBerg Street, Skycoat does powder coating, e-coating and wet painting on Evergreen Street, and Donaldson has a Baldwin plant.

The rest of the commercial surface is the interchange and the hospital. Exit 19 carries a truck stop and three more fuel and convenience stops, plus a pair of hotels off Baldwin Plaza Drive. Western Wisconsin Health is a 25-bed hospital on Bergslien Street just off the interstate, and it runs clinics in Roberts and Spring Valley too. In the village itself the stores are along Cedar Street, and the school district keeps Greenfield Elementary and Baldwin-Woodville Area High School here, with the middle school over in Woodville.

Where we work in Baldwin

  • I-94 Industrial Park
  • Baldwin East
  • TID No. 7 at the south end of the village
  • The Exit 19 interchange

Around Baldwin: I-94 Exit 19 at US 63, Western Wisconsin Health on Bergslien Street, The 1905 Red Church outside the village, Nilssen's Foods on Cedar Street, Baldwin-Woodville Area High School on 13th Avenue.

4,352 people, 2024 Census estimate.

St. Croix County is glacial ground: moraine running from clay through to boulders across most of the eastern county, and an outwash plain of stratified gravel, sand, silt and clay in the southwestern corner. Which one is under a lot changes what the frost does to it.

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