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Concrete in Lake Elmo

Concrete in Lake Elmo, Minnesota.

Dumpster pads, dock aprons, curb and gutter for commercial properties in Lake Elmo. 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 Lake Elmo

Aprons and pads at the frontage buildings and the storage center, curb and gutter going in with the new commercial subdivisions off Inwood. Where a vehicle stands, turns or lands its weight in the same place every day, concrete is the right material and asphalt isn't. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar, and the asphalt around the pour gets tied back in as part of the same work.

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 Lake Elmo

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 Lake Elmo

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 Lake Elmo

What Lake Elmo calls us about, answered straight.

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How far is this from Eau Claire? Do you actually come out here?
About 75 miles and an hour and a half, straight out I-94. 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.
We're a single commercial building on the frontage. Is that too small to quote?
No. A small commercial lot gets walked and measured the same way a campus does, and you get quantities and a fixed number rather than a figure off a satellite picture.
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 Lake Elmo

Lake Elmo sits in Washington County with Highway 36 along its north edge and I-94 along the south, about 14,000 people and roughly 75 miles from Eau Claire. Much of the land inside the city limits is still farmland and the city keeps a rural look, so the commercial ground is in two places: the interstate frontage along Hudson Boulevard and Inwood, and the old village center on Lake Elmo Avenue. It's growing fast, and the city projects more than 21,000 people by 2040.

What commercial fabric there is clusters at the interstate. Lake Elmo Business Park is in the northeast quadrant of I-94 and Lake Elmo Avenue, offered as build-to-suit, lease or land, with frontage on a road carrying more than 80,000 vehicles a day. Inwood Commercial is a five-lot commercial subdivision finishing the Inwood master plan, and Bridgewater Village platted a bank and a preschool on Upper 40th Street. The medical center on Hudson Boulevard has an approved expansion, and a storage center on the same road runs drive-up units and outdoor vehicle parking.

The rest is the old village and the public land. Lake Elmo Avenue carries a short retail row rebuilt around a pizzeria, a creamery and a boutique. Lake Elmo Airport is a Metropolitan Airports Commission field with a fixed-base operator, aircraft maintenance, fueling and flight training, and it opened a new 3,500-foot runway. Three school districts split the city, 622, 832 and 834, with Lake Elmo Elementary and Oak-Land Middle School inside the limits. The city is also putting in new wells, connecting homes to city water and designing a treatment plant under the PFAS settlement, which means trenched and restored pavement in places.

Where we work in Lake Elmo

  • Hudson Boulevard North
  • Lake Elmo Avenue North
  • Lake Elmo Business Park
  • Inwood Commercial
  • Bridgewater Village

Around Lake Elmo: Lake Elmo Park Reserve, Lake Elmo Airport, The old village center on Lake Elmo Avenue, Royal Golf Club.

14,161 people, 2024 Census estimate.

MnDOT publishes frost and thaw depths for Washington County, and those readings are what set the spring load limits on the roads out here.

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