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Concrete in Black River Falls

Concrete in Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

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

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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 Black River Falls

Dumpster pads behind the hotels and the retail off Exit 116, dock aprons in the industrial park, curb and gutter around the hospital campus. A dock apron carries a trailer's landing gear, which is a point load standing in one place for hours rather than a rolling one, and that's what breaks an apron poured like a sidewalk. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar, and the asphalt around the pour gets keyed back in so the joint doesn't open the first winter.

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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 Black River Falls

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 Black River Falls

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 Black River Falls

What Black River Falls calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
How far southeast will you come for a lot?
Black River Falls is about 51 miles down I-94 from Eau Claire, right around 50 minutes, 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.
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 Black River Falls

Black River Falls is the seat of Jackson County, a city of about 3,600 sitting on Exits 115 and 116 of I-94, roughly 51 road miles southeast of Eau Claire. Highway 54 runs east from the interstate past the industrial park and the casino property, and that stretch carries most of the newer commercial surface in town. The Ho-Chunk Nation has its headquarters here.

The Black River Falls Industrial Park sits against Highway 54 and I-94, more than 100 acres with water, sewer and rail, and the city counts more than 15 businesses in it. Land O' Lakes, Nelson Global, Meisters Forest Products, Regal Beloit and Antler King are on the city's tenant list. The state has 75.89 contiguous acres in the park certified as buildable, industrially zoned and rail served, with no wetlands and nothing in a floodplain.

The other large surfaces are the casino property on Highway 54 east, where the Ho-Chunk Nation's expansion added hotel rooms, a rebuilt bingo hall, new roadways, a high-capacity loading dock and more parking, and Black River Memorial Hospital on West Adams Street, which runs with the Krohn Clinic as Black River Health. Three hotels sit at the Exit 116 interchange, and the retail the city lists off the interstate includes Black River Plaza, a Kwik Trip, an Arby's, an O'Reilly, a Theisen's and a Chrysler dealer. Jackson County, the school district and the hospital are named among the largest employers in town.

Where we work in Black River Falls

  • Black River Falls Industrial Park
  • Highway 54 east
  • The Exit 116 interchange
  • Downtown

Around Black River Falls: Ho-Chunk Gaming Black River Falls on Highway 54, Black River Memorial Hospital on West Adams Street, Black River State Forest, Lake Arbutus, The old Union High School building.

3,563 people, 2024 Census estimate.

Jackson County is listed with Wisconsin's Central Plain, a flat sandy stretch at 700 to 800 feet, part of which was the bed of Glacial Lake Wisconsin.

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