Driveways, shop floors and acreage concrete in Springfield
Out here a driveway might be two hundred feet long, and the shop floor matters more than the patio.
Concrete work in Springfield, Nebraska
Springfield still has a real small-town center, a few blocks of older houses around Main Street, and then it's acreages and open Sarpy County ground. Those are two very different kinds of concrete work, and we do both.
In town it's normal stuff: driveway replacement, sidewalks and steps, patios, garage floors. Out on the acreages it's bigger. Long driveways, turnarounds a truck and trailer can swing around in, shop and machine shed floors, equipment pads, and slabs that have to carry a lot more than a car.
Long drives and heavy loads
First thing to know about acreage driveways: concrete isn't always the right answer for the whole length. Two hundred feet of six-inch concrete is real money. For a lot of places the smart plan is a good gravel drive with concrete where it counts, meaning the apron at the road and the pads at the house and the shop where everyone turns and parks. We'll tell you that even though it's a smaller job for us.
Where we do pour, the weight decides everything. Four inches is built for cars. A tractor, a loaded grain trailer or a skid steer needs six inches, rebar on a grid, a good packed base, and thicker edges where tires roll off. Edges are where acreage concrete breaks. A heavy tire dropping off an unsupported edge cracks concrete that would hold the same load in the middle all day.
There's no storm sewer out here, so water goes wherever the land sends it. A long drive crossing a low spot might need a culvert. We look at that before we form anything.
Parts of Springfield we work in
Pretty much all of it, including Downtown Springfield, Highway 50, Platteview Road, Buffalo Road, Schram Road, Springfield acreages and Southern Sarpy County. If you're in or near Springfield and don't see your street, call (531) 236-6623 and ask. It takes about thirty seconds.
Springfield questions
Should my whole acreage driveway be concrete?
Often not. Gravel handles the straight run for a lot less. Concrete earns its keep where vehicles turn and park. If you want the whole thing poured, we'll do it right, but you'll get the comparison first.
What does a shop floor cost?
A real shop floor (six inches, rebar grid, packed base, vapor barrier, cut joints) usually runs $9 to $16 a square foot. A 40 by 60 is 2,400 square feet, so figure roughly $22,000 to $38,000. Bigger floors get a little cheaper per foot.
Can a concrete truck get back to my building site?
Usually, but we need to look. A loaded mixer weighs about 65,000 pounds and will sink in soft ground or crack a thin existing drive. Sometimes we lay down a temporary rock path, and sometimes a pump is cheaper. Either way it's in the price up front.