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Your Choice For Concrete Driveways
Driveway replacement can be an important part of maintaining your home to ensure that it constantly looks and feels its absolute best. As a full service, top of the line concrete company, we work hard to provide a huge variety of services in addition to replacing driveways to help improve your home and property.
For driveway replacement, there’s no better contractor to address all of your needs than us. We understand the importance of your driveway to you, and we have everything that it takes to ensure that you driveway will be there for a lifetime and continue to give you years and years of service all while increasing the curb appeal and value of your home.
Many times damaged driveways that are beginning to show signs of cracking, breaking or sinking are reacting to an incorrectly finished surface, inadequate reinforcing or poorly prepared sub-grade. We take a lot of pride in the measures that we take to prevent crumbling and other damage to our concrete pours. Whether it’s the fact that we carefully lay a base layer of hard packed gravel beneath each of our pours, or the fact that we use a good quality sealer after every pour to improve its durability and strength, it’s clear that we do all we can to protect your investment. Don’t settle for less than the absolute best in driveway contractors.
Whether it’s our responsive, timely service, our accurate and easy to understand work estimates, or our expert, friendly and knowledgeable technicians, we’re positive that you’ll be happy that you chose Citiscape Construction for all of your concrete driveway needs.
Driveway replacements are our bread and butter here at NC. Replacing driveways is what got this company started back in 2019 and it is what we continue to like to do the most out of all of our projects. There’s no better facelift to the curb appeal to a home than a brand new driveway. There is a right and wrong way to do them however.
First, removing your old driveway takes a lot of equipment and know-how to do it safely without damaging your home. We have all our own demo equipment, dump truck and experienced workers guys to get the job done.
Next is the subgrade, we bring in a compacted gravel base to give your new drive a bed to sit on that will not settle or erode over time. Next is reinforcing rebar that gives the slab the tensile strength to hold up whatever load you might put on it. We use half inch rebar (no wire mesh like others) and we put it on chairs so it stays where is should (not just pull it up and step back on it like others). Like all of our concrete we use a high strength 4,000 psi mix or higher and use a water reducer to prevent the addition of too much water that dilutes the mix.
While finishing the driveway we tool joints that are a true 1” deep and not just put a shallow decorative joint like a lot of other driveways out there. Usually there is a least one joint down the middle of the drive and one every 10’ going the other direction. This helps prevent cracks from forming on your new investment. And the last but not least is the sealer. Once we are finished brooming the texture we then apply an acrylic cure and seal that protects the top from the harsh NC elements.
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Concrete slabs in most cases can be walked on the next day after pouring. You should wait 5-7 days before it should support a vehicle. It takes concrete 28 days to reach its full psi strength.
Curing is one of the most important steps in concrete construction, because proper curing greatly increases concrete strength and durability. Concrete hardens as a result of hydration: the chemical reaction between cement and water. A curing compound sould be applied to maintain this moisture a slow the curing process and in return strenghten the concrete.
Concrete is a constant element in every home. Sidewalks, driveways, patios, garages, basements and more are all created from the same, versatile material. The typical gray slab has maintained the same appearance for decades, but now the ability to change this standard look into an upscale custom design is here. Imagine transforming your sidewalk into a cobblestone or red brick walkway, or natural stone design on your pool deck? Furthering the ability to customize the final look, an unlimited number of patterns, logos and designs are available as well as a complete color palette ranging from muted tones and pastels to bright blues and deep charcoals.
Concrete has two basic categories; Interior and Exterior. Interior concrete is used where freezing will never occur and Exterior concrete is used in areas that may or will experience freezing. Exterior concrete contains an admixture known as air entrainment. This product, when added and mixed properly in the batch, will produce countless numbers of microscopic air pockets. These pockets allow space for the moisture drawn into the concrete to expand when moisture freezes. A glass bottle, when filled to the top, capped and placed in the freezer, will shatter. When a glass bottle is only filled partially and frozen, the shattering of the container will not occur. This is due to the fact that the liquid in the container has room to expand within the container as it froze. The air pockets within \”air entrained\” concrete will allow for expansion in a similar fashion.
Concrete can also be categorized as footing mix and slab mix. The differences inherent in these two is based upon the mix strength. This strength is a factor of the amount of cement placed in each cubic yard. a 2,500 psi mix is a basic footing mix. Higher strength mixes, 3000, 3500, 4000, 4500 and so on, have more cement in the mix design. In addition, footings are placed at a greater thickness ( approximately 10 to 12 inches) and do not require as much cement. Driveways and sidewalks are placed at a thickness of approximately 3 to 4 inches and more cement is needed to bring about strengths needed to support vehicles.