Driveways, aprons and slabs from around metro Atlanta. Each one has a short note on what the job actually involved, because the finished photo never shows the part that matters.
Poured for a builder while the house was still in framing, which is the right time to do it. The pad runs from the street all the way to a three car garage, with the apron widened out so two vehicles can pass without anybody riding the edge.
The curved side was formed by hand rather than cut in afterward. Joints went in the same day the slab was finished so the concrete cracks where we put the line instead of wherever it wants to.
The old asphalt was done. Weeds through the cracks, the surface breaking apart at the edges, and low spots holding water every time it rained. Patching it would have bought a season at most.
We broke it out, hauled it off, regraded for drainage and poured a full width concrete drive out to the road. Same footprint, squared up and widened at the garage so both bays open onto concrete instead of grass.
Gravel washes. Every heavy rain takes some of it down the slope, the ruts come back, and you are spreading another load of stone every couple of years.
This one got torn out, regraded, compacted and formed, then poured as one clean run up to the house. The owner has a surface he can shovel, park a trailer on, and stop thinking about.
The entrance is the part that takes the beating. Delivery trucks, trash service and anybody turning in off the road all load the same two feet of edge, so this one was poured thicker through the apron and reinforced.
We kept the pour tight to the stone columns and set the slope so water runs to the road instead of pooling at the gate.
A wide drive needs a joint plan before anyone pours, not after. Panels get laid out so they stay close to square, because long skinny panels are where random cracks start.
Broom finish for grip in the rain, edges rounded so they do not chip, and the whole thing pitched away from the garage door.
Shot the day the slab was finished, forms still set and stakes in the ground. Underneath it is compacted sub base and reinforcement, which is the half of the job nobody ever sees in a photo and the half that decides whether it lasts.
Forms come off the next day, joints get cut on schedule, and the owner is parking on it inside the week.
Tell us what you are thinking about and we will come measure it. Free estimate, no pressure behind it.