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Concrete in Maplewood

Concrete in Maplewood, Minnesota.

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

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About an hour and fifteen 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 Maplewood

Compactor and dumpster pads behind the mall's anchors, dock aprons on the Gervais Avenue industrial buildings, curb and gutter around the hospital campus. A pad gets poured for the front axle of the truck that services it, which is a bigger number than the container sitting on it. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar, and the asphalt around the pour goes 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 Maplewood

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 Maplewood

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 Maplewood

What Maplewood calls us about, answered straight.

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How far out is Maplewood for you?
About 78 miles from Eau Claire and roughly an hour and fifteen minutes, straight out I-94 or around on I-694. 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.
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 Maplewood

Maplewood is in Ramsey County, about six miles north of downtown St. Paul, roughly 40,000 people on 17 square miles. From Eau Claire it's about 78 miles and an hour and a quarter, out I-94 the whole way or around the top on I-694. Highway 36 crosses the city east to west and I-694 loops the north and east metro through it. The Met Council counts about 36,600 jobs inside the city, in education, health care, manufacturing, retail and social services.

3M's global headquarters is here, on the campus the company started buying in 1952, and it opened a 400,000 square foot research building on that campus with room for up to 700 scientists. Maplewood Mall on White Bear Avenue is 931,000 square feet across two floors, and Birch Run Station sits next to it on Beam Avenue with access to I-694 and Highway 61. M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital is on Beam Avenue, acute care with 184 licensed beds.

The industrial ground is the Highway 36 and Gervais Avenue corridor, buildings in the 30,000 to 50,000 square foot range with access to I-694 and I-35E. Ramsey County has Aldrich Arena on White Bear Avenue and its Maplewood library on Southlawn Drive. Hill-Murray, a private school on a 40-acre site on Larpenteur Avenue, is the high school inside the city; neither of ISD 622's high schools is in Maplewood. The former Sears and Macy's space at the mall is being redeveloped as the Pan Asian Center, and the METRO Bronze Line is planned along White Bear and Maryland avenues with 22 stations and five miles of dedicated bus lanes.

Where we work in Maplewood

  • White Bear Avenue
  • Beam Avenue
  • The Highway 36 and Gervais Avenue corridor
  • Southlawn Drive

Around Maplewood: 3M Center, Maplewood Mall on White Bear Avenue, M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital on Beam Avenue, Aldrich Arena on White Bear Avenue, Hill-Murray School on Larpenteur Avenue.

40,142 people, 2024 Census estimate.

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