Eau Claire, WI · Northwestern Wisconsin Open now (715) 450-9897
(715) 450-9897

Concrete in Menomonie

Concrete in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

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

Get a Free Estimate Call (715) 450-9897

4.7 from 21 Google reviews

About 25 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 Menomonie

Dock aprons and truck pads at the manufacturing and distribution sites are the commercial concrete work in Menomonie. A pad taking loaded semi traffic is a different slab from one taking delivery vans, and building both the same way is how one of them fails early.

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

All job photos

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 Menomonie

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 Menomonie

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.

Booking the last of the sealcoating season now · Call (715) 450-9897

Questions We Get in Menomonie

What Menomonie calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
We own rental property near campus. Do you work with landlords?
Regularly. Rental drives around UW-Stout carry more vehicles than they were built for and wear accordingly, and a landlord is usually making a maintenance decision rather than a cosmetic one. The estimate prices the cheapest thing that actually works rather than the nicest-looking option, and we can schedule around the summer turnover.
Can the work be done between tenants rather than during the semester?
That's usually the sensible way round it, and it's the most common scheduling conversation we have in Menomonie. Sealer needs the surface clear and about 24 hours before traffic goes back on, which is easy in an empty August week and hard in October. Tell us the turnover dates when you call rather than after the calendar is set.
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 Menomonie

Menomonie sits at the south end of Lake Menomin, a reservoir on the Red Cedar River, right on the boundary between the Central Plain and the Western Upland. I-94 runs along the south side with exits at Highway 25 and again four miles east, and Highway 25 north is the commercial spine. The grade change between the lake flats and the uplands is real, and so is the difference in how they drain.

The rental belt around the university is its own kind of work. A converted single-family drive carrying four or five vehicles wears in a pattern the original surface was never designed for, and the owner is usually a landlord making a maintenance decision rather than a homeowner making an appearance one. Those two buyers want different conversations and we have both.

Commercially, Menomonie punches above its population. Manufacturing is the largest employment sector in the county, and names like 3M, Ford, Andersen and the Walmart distribution center mean industrial lots with genuine truck loading on them.

Menomonie has the most lopsided housing profile in the valley: nearly a quarter of all its housing went up in the 1990s, more than any other decade by a distance. Those drives are now 25 to 35 years old, which is exactly the age where the original surface has run out but the base is usually still good.

The other half of the picture is UW-Stout. Only 40 percent of the housing is detached single family, the lowest of any town we serve, and a third sits in buildings of five units or more. The city's own comprehensive plan notes that single-family homes near campus have been converted to rentals, which produces parking pressure on drives that were never built for four cars.

Where we work in Menomonie

  • Downtown Historic District

Around Menomonie: Mabel Tainter Theater, UW-Stout, Lake Menomin, Wilson Place Mansion, Wakanda Park.

16,709 people, 2024 Census estimate.

Same 48-inch frost regime as the rest of western Wisconsin. Thick glacial outwash sand and gravel fills the Red Cedar valley, so the valley floor drains fast and the uplands behave differently again.

Get a Free Estimate in Menomonie

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

(715) 450-9897
  • Free on driveways and lots anywhere in the service area
  • A photo of the problem helps, and it can go in the message
  • Surfaces that are not ready yet get told so at the estimate

Get an estimate

Send the form and we'll call you back. The estimate is free.

What can we help with?

By submitting, you agree to be contacted about your concrete job. Text messages only go out if you checked the box above. We don't sell your info, ever.

Other Work We Do in Menomonie

Concrete in Nearby Towns

Everything about concrete, including how the work goes and what changes the price