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Concrete in Cottage Grove

Concrete in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.

Dumpster pads, dock aprons, curb and gutter for commercial properties in Cottage Grove. 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.
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4,500 PSI Exterior mixTied rebar where it carries trucks
3 days Back in serviceOn a dock apron we poured

Working in Cottage Grove

Dock aprons and trailer pads are the concrete work here, and they're where an industrial property's pavement is decided. Where a trailer's landing gear sets down, or where a truck's front axle stops at a compactor, that point load is what tears asphalt apart in a couple of seasons, so it gets poured instead. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar. The asphalt around the pour gets tied back in as part of the same work.

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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 Cottage Grove

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 Cottage Grove

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 Cottage Grove

What Cottage Grove calls us about, answered straight.

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How far out is this for you?
Cottage Grove is about 84 miles from Eau Claire and roughly an hour and a half: I-94 west, then south on Highway 61. For commercial lots we come out. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.
Our dock approach is coming apart. Is that an asphalt fix or a concrete one?
Where a trailer sets down and its landing gear lands in the same spot every day, concrete is the right material and asphalt isn't, and that's a pour rather than a patch. Where the failure is out in the truck court instead, it's asphalt: saw-cut back to sound material, the base dug out and rebuilt. Which one you have gets settled by walking it.
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 Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove is in Washington County, about 43,000 people, served by US 61, US 10 and I-494. From Eau Claire it's about 84 miles and roughly an hour and a half, west on I-94 and then south on 61. The city puts its business park 11 miles off I-94 and a bit over six miles from I-494.

This is the industrial end of the corridor. The Cottage Grove Business Park is off Highway 61 at the Jamaica exit, four-lane frontage, lots divisible down to an acre and rail-served sites on the CP line, and the city's own list of firms out there runs from Airgas and United Rentals to Renewal by Andersen, Tradehome Shoes, the USPS and Up North Plastics. Werner Electric's headquarters and regional distribution center is on 95th Street South, a 122,000 square foot building on 20 acres that has since been expanded. 3M has run chemical operations here since 1947.

The newest ground is bigger still. Cottage Grove Logistics Park is a 253-acre site with nine industrial buildings planned, about 3.4 million square feet, with direct access to Highway 61, I-494 and I-94. Innovation Village is another 223 acres along 61, opened up by the 100th Street extension and a bridge over the CPKC railroad and aimed at logistics and distribution. The retail corridor is East Point Douglas Road South, with Cottage Grove Plaza and Gateway Center on it and a Walmart built on part of the old drive-in site; the rest of that ground is 73 developable commercial acres at Innovation Road. Three clinics serve the city, and the public campus is City Hall and public safety on Ravine Parkway with the HERO Center training campus and range next to it.

Where we work in Cottage Grove

  • Cottage Grove Business Park
  • Cottage Grove Logistics Park
  • Innovation Village
  • East Point Douglas Road South
  • Ravine Parkway South

Around Cottage Grove: Ravine Regional Park, The HERO Center on 85th Street South, Park Grove Library on Hemingway Avenue, River Oaks municipal golf course, Cottage Grove Plaza on East Point Douglas Road.

42,760 people, 2024 Census estimate.

The Mississippi valley outwash runs through here, sand and gravel that filled the valley and was later cut into flat terraces between 800 and 820 feet, and the valley widens near Cottage Grove. State building rules put the frost footing depth at 42 inches in Washington County.

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