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Concrete in Durand

Concrete in Durand, Wisconsin.

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

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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 Durand

In stock this old the concrete apron has often settled away from the asphalt entirely, leaving a step at the garage. Replacing the drive without resetting that just rebuilds the same problem at a new height.

From our jobs

Job Photos

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, at a national retailer
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 trades laid two materials and 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 Durand

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 We Do Concrete in Durand

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 Durand

What Durand calls us about, answered straight.

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Do you come this far out for one driveway?
Yes. If a neighbor or two want theirs looked at, mention it when you call: several jobs on one trip come down per job.
We look after a county or civic lot. What does the accessible parking involve?
More than repainting where the old paint was. The stall width, the access aisle beside it, the route from the aisle to the door and the signage all have to be right rather than approximately right, and on a public lot they are the part somebody eventually checks. Durand carries a courthouse, county offices and a hospital for a city of under two thousand, so there is more of this here per head than almost anywhere else we work. We measure and lay it out rather than tracing what faded.
Does being down in the river valley change when you can work here?
It narrows the day rather than the season. Cold air settles in the Chippewa valley overnight, so an early-spring or late-fall job in Durand has fewer usable hours in it than the same date would on the flat ground upriver. It does not rule the work out. It does mean the date is worth settling early rather than assuming, especially at this end of the area.
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 wheelbarrowed, which is labor. 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.

The Driveways and Lots in Durand

Durand is the Pepin County seat, on the Chippewa River near where it runs down toward the Mississippi, and the southwest corner of what we cover. County seat is the operative fact: it carries a courthouse, county offices and a hospital for a population of about 1,900.

The commercial base here's county and civic rather than retail: courthouse, county offices, a hospital, schools, and the businesses that serve them. Those are steady lots with predictable use and real accessible-parking obligations, which is a different profile from a highway strip.

Durand is also the furthest point southwest we cover, so we batch work here rather than running single small jobs out and back. If you have neighbors thinking about it, say so when you call. Several drives on one trip is genuinely cheaper to deliver, and that shows up in the number.

Durand has the oldest housing stock of any town we work in. Fifty-six percent of it predates 1960 and roughly a quarter predates 1940. Fewer than fifty units in the entire city have been built since the year 2000, and only a handful went up in the whole of the 2010s.

That changes what an honest quote looks like here. A drive that's been in the ground since the fifties, over a base that predates any modern specification, is not automatically a sealing job. Sometimes it's. Sometimes the truthful answer is that sealer over a failed base is money spent on appearance, and we would rather tell you that than take it.

Durand

We work all of Durand rather than a named handful of neighborhoods.

Around Durand: Pepin County Courthouse, Chippewa River, Durand-Arkansaw schools.

1,873 people, 2024 Census estimate.

Standard 48-inch frost depth. River-valley position, so cold settles overnight and the shoulder seasons have a narrower working window than the flat ground upriver.

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Tell us what it looks like and we'll come measure it. You get a written price before anything starts.

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  • A photo of the problem helps, and it can go in the message
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