Local concrete and masonry
Concrete Contractors for West Haven Homes
From a split front step to a new driveway on a compacted gravel base, we pour, repair and rebuild the concrete around older houses, and you get the whole price on site before any of it starts.
Monday to Friday, 8 am to 4:30 pm. Calls after hours go to voicemail and we return them the next working morning.
- 13.2 miFrom our Old Town Rd office
- Same dayWe answer or call back
- Whole jobPriced before we start
Who comes out to the job
Concrete Contractors Down the Road
The University of New Haven brings a steady stream of feet onto the sidewalks, steps and driveways of the blocks around it, and slabs like those are what we pour and repair for homeowners here.
Knowing how concrete in town has aged, and what the ground under it does in a freeze, is what lets us price a job right the first time. We take residential and commercial work alike, from a single step to a full driveway.
New concrete
We dig to firm ground, compact a "base course" of gravel, set the forms and steel, and pour an "air-entrained concrete" mix made for slabs that freeze. "Control joints" are cut on day one so the slab cracks where we chose.
Repairs
Before a repair is priced we tap the slab for "delamination", the hollow spots where the top has let go, and read whether the trouble is surface wear or a slab that moved. Each one takes a different fix.
The houses here
Homes and Their Walks
The census puts the median build year for houses in town at 1961, so the typical stoop, front walk and driveway here has seen decades of winters, patched or not.
Of the 21,884 homes counted, only 51.1% of the occupied ones are lived in by their owners, so close to half are rented. On a rental the front walk takes daily traffic from tenants who never poured it, and a lifted panel becomes the owner's problem the day someone trips on it.
- 1961Median year built
- 21,884Housing units in town
- 51.1%Owner-occupied homes
- A walk that old?(203) 633-8199
Ground and Weather Conditions
Outdoor concrete here works against three things, and every slab we pour or repair is built around them.
Freeze and thawWater that gets into or under a slab freezes, swells and lifts it, then lets it drop unevenly in the thaw. That is where the heaved panel and the trip lip come from.
Road saltDe-icer spread on a walk or a drive eats the surface into "scaling", a pitted, sandy face. A sealer and the right mix slow it down.
Standing waterRain that sits against a foundation or under a patio softens the ground and carries the fill away, and a slab left over a hollow sinks. Slope and drainage are set before the pour.
What older slabs ask for
The Fixes Older Property Needs
Each of these has a page of its own with the full detail. Here is how each one plays out on the streets in town.
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concrete repair
Concrete Repair After a Hard Winter
The thaw is when the damage shows: a step nose chipped off, a walk panel split corner to corner, an old patch lifting at its edges. On the Allingtown side of town as anywhere else, we find what broke the concrete before we fix it, so the repair does not open along the same line next spring.
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masonry contractors
Masonry Contractors for Foundations
A foundation wall with a stair-step crack or mortar falling out of its joints needs a mason, not a slab crew. On a house in New Halville or the streets beside it, that means cracked block cut out and replaced, joints raked and repointed, and the wall closed up against water before it gets worse.
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concrete leveling
Concrete Leveling for Uneven Patios
A back patio that has dropped at one corner is sitting over a hollow where the fill washed out or packed down. Near Sea Bluff or anywhere else, we raise it by pumping material underneath, "slabjacking", which can cost about half as much as replacing it and leaves the yard around it intact.
Angel is very easy to work with and cares about his work along with fair prices.
Before you hire anyone
What Every Job Gets
- A free estimateOn your property, with no obligation.
- A same-day answerWe answer the phone or call back the same working day.
- On timeWe show up when we say we will.
- One priceThe whole job quoted before we start, with no surprise charges after.
- A clean siteWe clean up when the work is done.
Monday to Friday, 8 am to 4:30 pm.
Next door and nearby
Towns Around This One
Our service area page lists every town we work in, and two of our neighbors have pages of their own.
- concrete contractors in the towns we serve
- New Haven concrete contractors
- Norwalk concrete contractors
Orange, Derby and Ansonia are close by too. A job in one of them is a question for the call.
Step, slab or foundation
Get the Full Price on Site
Tell us what the concrete is doing and where, and we come out, measure it and write down the whole price before any work is booked.
- Free, no-obligation estimates
- We show up when we say we will.