Licensed and insured concrete crews pouring driveways, patios, slabs, and foundations built for Miami Valley winters. Free written estimates - call (937) 834-8390.
Six services, one crew - everything poured, formed, and finished, from a salt-scaled apron in Kettering to addition footings in Beavercreek.
A Dayton driveway takes roughly 50 freeze-thaw cycles a winter and a salt truck's worth of chemistry on top. We pour air-entrained 4,000 PSI concrete over a compacted base so yours isn't flaking by year five.
Miami Valley ground swings between clay till and river gravel, sometimes on the same street. We build patios on bases matched to what's actually under your yard, graded so water leaves.
The look of stone or brick in one continuous slab, with no paver joints for Ohio frost to heave out of level. Colored, stamped, and sealed against winter salt.
The sidewalk crossing your frontage is the property owner's responsibility in Dayton, notices included. We replace flagged squares to city spec and pour front walks that stay flat.
Garage floors, shed pads, hot tub bases, and addition slabs, each sized for the load on top. A slab holding a loaded pickup isn't a slab holding a mower.
Footings for additions, garages, porches, and decks, poured below the 32-inch frost line so winter can't lift what you built on them. Formed walls too.
Call (937) 834-8390 or send the form. A real person gets back to you within 24 hours.
We walk your property, measure, check grade, soil, and truck access, and hand you a written price that names the spec. Not a range that grows once the forms are set.
Forms set, concrete placed and finished, joints cut, site swept. You get a written cure timeline - when to walk on it, when to park on it.
Dayton Concrete Contractors Co works out of 40 W 2nd St downtown, a block from Courthouse Square, which puts most of the Miami Valley inside an easy drive. We pour in the Oregon District, St. Anne's Hill, South Park, Wright-Dunbar, Grafton Hill, Dayton View, Riverdale, Old North Dayton, Belmont, Walnut Hills, Linden Heights, Oakwood, Kettering, Beavercreek, Centerville, Bellbrook, Huber Heights, Vandalia, Englewood, Clayton, Trotwood, Riverside, Fairborn, Miamisburg, West Carrollton, Moraine, Springboro, Tipp City, and Xenia. If you're in the Dayton area, you're in our service area.
Early March on a side street off Shroyer Road in Kettering, and the snow has finally pulled back far enough to show a homeowner what winter did. The driveway went in when the ranch did, somewhere around 1958, and it's been dying in slow motion for a decade - but this year it jumped. The surface is flaking off in patches the size of dinner plates, there's a new crack running diagonally from the garage corner, and the square by the downspout dropped another half inch, so now the snowmelt pools there every afternoon and refreezes every night into a rink aimed at the mailbox.
Dayton Concrete Contractors Co works out of 40 W 2nd St downtown, and most of what we replace comes down to concrete that was never built for this climate. Southwest Ohio runs a slab through roughly 50 freeze-thaw cycles a winter. Water soaks in, freezes, expands about nine percent, and pries the concrete apart from the inside - then does it again the next night. Add the salt trucks and you get scaling, the flaked, pitted surface on half the driveways in Kettering and Huber Heights. The defense is specific and unglamorous: air-entrained concrete, carrying billions of microscopic voids that give freezing water somewhere to expand, poured at 4,000 PSI for exterior work, over a base that was compacted in lifts instead of raked flat and hoped over.
The ground here is its own story, and it's a stranger one than most cities get. Dayton sits where four rivers meet - the Great Miami, the Mad, the Stillwater, and Wolf Creek - and the glaciers that cut this valley left two very different soils behind. Down in the river valleys, it's outwash: sand and gravel, the same deposits that hold the region's famous buried-valley aquifer. Gravel drains well and bears well. Up on the ridges - Kettering, Beavercreek, Centerville - it's clay till, which holds water against the underside of a slab, heaves when it freezes, and shrinks away in a dry August. Two properties a mile apart can need different base designs, and a contractor who treats all Dayton dirt the same is guessing on half his jobs. The frost line runs 32 inches down, which is where footings have to bear if the thing standing on them is going to stay level.
Some concrete is a surface. Some of it holds up a building, and that work doesn't forgive shortcuts. Concrete Foundations and Footings covers addition footings, detached garage foundations, porch foundations, and deck piers - all of it bearing below that 32-inch frost line, because a footing that stops short gets lifted by the first hard winter, and the cracked block and racked door frames above it pay the bill. The Miami Valley added a hard chapter to this work in 2019, when the Memorial Day tornadoes tore through Trotwood, Old North Dayton, and Beavercreek. A lot of rebuilding followed, and rebuilt homes are only as good as the new concrete under them. We treat every footing like the house depends on it, because it does.
Concrete Slab Installation starts with the question cheap bids skip: what's going on top? A garage slab in Huber Heights storing a work truck and a trailer needs thickness and rebar a shed pad in Bellbrook doesn't. A hot tub full of water pushes past 5,000 pounds. Pricing those the same means one of them was built wrong.
And timing counts in this trade. Pouring season in southwest Ohio runs roughly April into early November. We can pour colder with blankets and accelerators when a job genuinely can't wait, but concrete placed carelessly near freezing never reaches strength, and no finish hides that later. Sometimes the honest answer is "let's wait two weeks," and you'll hear it from us when it is.
Straight answer: it depends on square footage first, then on everything under and around it. Anyone giving a firm number without standing on your property is guessing with your money.
Size and thickness set the floor. A two-car driveway uses far more material than a front walk, and slabs carrying vehicles need more depth and steel than slabs carrying patio chairs. Demolition comes next, because most Dayton work is replacement - sawing, breaking out, and hauling a sixty-year-old slab is real labor before a single new yard arrives.
Site conditions move the number from there. Clay till that needs deeper excavation and more stone. Grade corrections so water finally stops running at the garage. Access, which matters more here than people expect - Oakwood's detached garages sit off alleys a mixer can barely thread, and plenty of fenced backyards from South Park to Belmont pour by buggy through a gate, which is crew hours. Finish moves the top end: broom finish is the workhorse, Stamped Concrete and coloring add material and finishing labor. Permits, where the work needs them, pass through at cost.
Here's how the lineup plays out across the Valley. Concrete Driveway Installation runs heaviest in the postwar suburbs - Kettering, Huber Heights, Riverside - where original drives poured for 1950s sedans are meeting modern trucks and losing, plus widening work where a single-car ribbon can't serve a two-car household. Concrete Patio Installation turns muddy backyards in Centerville, Englewood, and Miamisburg into usable space, graded so storms drain away from the house. Stamped Concrete shows up most in Beavercreek, Springboro, and Bellbrook, where people want the stone look without paver joints heaving every spring.
Concrete Sidewalk and Walkway work stays steady under the old street trees of Oakwood, Dayton View, and Belmont, where roots lift squares an inch at a time until the city flags them - and the notice lands with the property owner. Concrete Steps and Stoops replaces the crumbling entries winter leaves behind on century homes in South Park and St. Anne's Hill. Concrete Slab Installation covers garage floors, workshop pads, and hot tub bases; Concrete Foundations and Footings handles the structural end. Concrete Repair and Resurfacing is the honest-conversation service - some salt-scaled slabs resurface for a fraction of replacement, some are done, and we'll show you which yours is. And Concrete Sealing and Maintenance is the cheap habit that makes everything else last, in a city where the salt trucks run November through March.
Ask what's under the concrete, and get the answer written down: base depth and compaction, PSI, air entrainment, reinforcement type and where it sits in the slab. A bid that says nothing but "4 inches of concrete" is hiding its savings underground, where you'll never see them and always feel them.
Ask about joints. Control joint spacing and depth decide where a slab cracks, and skipped or shallow joints mean the concrete picks its own line, usually straight across the middle.
Ask about access honestly - an Oakwood alley garage pad or a fenced Walnut Hills backyard needs a buggy plan, and a crew that hasn't planned the route hasn't planned the pour. Confirm liability and workers' comp. Ask who pulls permits for approaches and structural footings. And if your property sits in the Oregon District, St. Anne's Hill, South Park, or another historic district, exterior work visible from the street may need landmark review before ground breaks - a local contractor should raise that before you do.
Estimates usually get scheduled within a few days, and work lands on the calendar within a few weeks depending on season. Spring fills fastest - call early.
No. We measure the property, check the site, and hand you a written price at no charge. You decide from there.
It comes down to size, thickness, demolition, access, site conditions, and finish, which is why we won't quote blind over the phone. The on-site estimate is free and in writing.
Yes. We carry liability and workers' comp, and certificates of insurance are available whenever you ask.
Roughly April through early November for normal pours. Cold-weather work is possible with blankets and accelerators when a job can't wait, and we'll tell you plainly when waiting produces a better slab.
The Dayton metro - downtown and the city neighborhoods, plus Oakwood, Kettering, Beavercreek, Centerville, Huber Heights, Vandalia, Fairborn, Miamisburg, Springboro, and out through the Miami Valley.
Regularly. Alley garage pads, fenced backyards, and courtyards get poured by buggy or pump, and we plan that route during the estimate so nobody's improvising with a mixer on the clock.
Concrete shrinks as it cures, so some cracking is physics. Compacted base, correct thickness, and control joints cut on time keep cracks tight and put them where we planned instead of across the middle of your driveway.
Seal it, yes - and keep deicing salt off entirely the first winter, sand instead. New concrete is at its most vulnerable to scaling in year one, and Dayton salts hard.