How We Ended Up Pouring Concrete for a Living
We form, pour and finish concrete for homeowners around Onalaska, driveways, patios, walkways and slabs, and most of what we know came from doing it in this specific climate, not a classroom. Western Wisconsin's freeze-thaw cycles are hard on concrete that wasn't mixed or jointed for them, and that's the kind of work we ended up specializing in without planning to.
If you're on this page, there's a good chance something cracked, sank or started flaking, a driveway scaling from years of road salt, a patio that heaves every spring, steps pulling away from the porch. The fix usually starts underground, with what the old slab was poured over and whether water had anywhere to drain. We rebuild the base properly, use air-entrained mix rated for our winters, and cut joints early so the slab cracks where we tell it to instead of wherever it wants.
