Concrete driveways, patios and repair in La Vista
Most La Vista concrete went in during the 70s and 80s. It's right at the age where you either replace it or start paying to patch it every year.
Concrete work in La Vista, Nebraska
La Vista was incorporated in 1960 and mostly built out over the next twenty-five years, so a lot of the driveways here are forty to fifty years old. Some still have plenty of life in them. Some don't.
A lot of what we do in La Vista is help people figure out which one they've got. When the answer is "leave it alone for a few more years," we'll tell you that. Otherwise it's driveway replacement, patios and extensions, garage floors, camper pads, and front steps.
Flaking driveways and forty years of salt
The thing we see most in La Vista is a driveway where the top layer has flaked off in patches and you can see the rock underneath. That's called scaling. It comes from two things working together. A lot of residential concrete from back then either didn't have enough air in the mix or got overworked when it was finished, and then it's had forty winters of road salt dripping off cars.
If the slab is still flat and solid underneath, that's often fixable. A bonded overlay gives it a new surface for about a third to half the cost of replacing it. If it's also cracked through and sunk at the street, though, the overlay will just crack right along with it. That one needs to come out.
Plenty of the older blocks here have alleys and garages out back. That doesn't change the concrete, but it changes how we stage the job, since the truck sits in the alley and your neighbors still need to get by. We sort that out when we come look.
Parts of La Vista we work in
Pretty much all of it, including Central La Vista, Brentwood, Park View Heights, Cimarron Woods, Harrison Street, 84th Street, Giles Road, La Vista City Centre, Thompson Creek and Southport. If you're in or near La Vista and don't see your street, call (531) 236-6623 and ask. It takes about thirty seconds.
La Vista questions
Can a flaking driveway be resurfaced instead of replaced?
Often, yes. If it hasn't sunk and doesn't have cracks with one side higher than the other, an overlay runs about $4 to $8 a square foot, compared to $8 to $14 to tear it out and pour new. If it has moved, skip the overlay. It'll crack again within a year or two.
What does a new driveway cost in La Vista?
Most driveways here are 450 to 700 square feet. Tearing out the old one and pouring new usually comes to $4,500 to $9,500. Adding the apron at the street is another $1,200 to $3,000 and needs a city permit.
Can you pour in the winter?
Into early December, usually, with heated water and blankets on it overnight. After that we'd rather book you for spring. The ground has to be thawed to do the base right, and new concrete can't freeze in its first few days.