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Concrete in Oakdale

Concrete in Oakdale, Minnesota.

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

Dock aprons at the industrial buildings on the highway corridors, dumpster pads behind the centers on 3rd Street, curb and gutter around the city's campuses. The public works yard on Granada has fleet storage, salt storage and a fuel island, which is the kind of pavement where concrete does what asphalt can't: hold a point load that stands still. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar. A pad gets sized for the truck that services it, not for the container that sits on it.

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 Oakdale

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 Oakdale

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 Oakdale

What Oakdale calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
How far out do you come? We're right off I-694.
Oakdale is about 79 miles from Eau Claire and a bit over an hour and a quarter, nearly all of it 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.
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 Oakdale

Oakdale is an east metro suburb of St. Paul in Washington County, about 30,000 people and roughly 79 miles west of Eau Claire, nearly all of it I-94. The city is boxed in by highway: I-94 along the south, I-694 along the north, Highway 120 on the west and Highway 36 across the middle.

There's no single business park here; the commercial ground is spread along those highways. Oakdale Village on 3rd Street North is three retail buildings with a pad-ready parcel still open, sitting next to the big boxes at Inwood Avenue and Radio Drive. Fleet Farm is on Hadley Avenue between Highway 36 and I-694, and Cub is at Bergen Plaza on 10th Street North in the southeast corner. Slumberland Furniture's headquarters is here, on the campus the old Imation world headquarters left behind, and there's a clinic in the Tessar building on Helmo Avenue.

The other big lots belong to the city and the county. City Hall and the police station on Hadley Avenue are being remodeled and expanded, with services working out of Public Works on Granada Avenue while that runs. The new public works building on Granada is 75,300 square feet on nine acres, with 40,000 square feet of fleet storage, salt storage and a fuel island. Washington County's Oakdale Library is on Heron Avenue and Tartan Senior High is on Greenway Avenue. Close to 200,000 square feet of new industrial space is in the works.

Where we work in Oakdale

  • Oakdale Village
  • Hadley Avenue North
  • The Highway 36 corridor
  • Helmo Avenue North
  • Bergen Plaza

Around Oakdale: Tartan High School on Greenway Avenue, Fleet Farm on Hadley Avenue, Oakdale Village on 3rd Street North, Tanners Lake, Tilsen Park, where the 45th parallel crosses the city.

30,441 people, 2024 Census estimate.

MnDOT has required frost-free material, coarse gravel or sand, in asphalt subgrades since 1995, at 30 to 36 inches depending on what has to drive on it.

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