Addison Concrete Sidewalks & Walkways

Addison carries a substantial commercial and light-industrial base alongside its residential neighbourhoods, and a walkway serving a business is held to a standard a residential path is not.

Walkways That Have to Meet an Accessibility Standard

An accessible route has real numbers attached to it. Running slope and cross slope are limited, changes in level at joints and transitions are limited, and the surface has to be firm, stable and slip resistant. A walk that is merely poured flat by eye will frequently miss the cross-slope limit, and a quarter inch of settlement at a joint can put a compliant route out of compliance. We form and screed to grade rather than to appearance, and on commercial work we will tell you where the existing conditions make full compliance impractical instead of quietly pouring around the problem.

Residential Work in Addison

On the residential side Addison runs heavily to mid-century ranches and split-levels, where the front walk and the stoop have usually aged together. Replacing both at once costs less than two separate mobilisations and is the only way the finish and colour actually match. See our commercial concrete page for flatwork, aprons and loading areas.

How We Build a Walk That Lasts in Addison

The slab is the part you see and the smallest part of the job. We excavate past the failed subgrade rather than pouring over it, bring in stone and compact it in lifts, and form to a consistent width and a positive pitch away from the house. Residential walks go down at four inches, thickened to five or six where a driveway crosses them and vehicles will run over the edge. The mix is air-entrained, which is what lets concrete survive an Illinois winter, and control joints are cut at the correct depth and spacing so the inevitable movement shows up in a straight tooled line instead of a diagonal crack across the middle.

Salt, Snowplows and the First Winter

New concrete is at its most vulnerable in its first season, and the fastest way to ruin a good walk is de-icing salt applied before it has fully cured. Use sand for traction through the first winter. After that, avoid products containing ammonium sulphate or ammonium nitrate entirely, and go easy on rock salt at the driveway apron where plow blades and meltwater concentrate. A sealer applied at the right time helps, and we will tell you when that is rather than selling you one on the day of the pour.

Other Concrete Work We Do in Addison

A walkway is usually not the only concrete on a property. We also pour concrete driveways, stamped concrete patios, stoops and front steps and foundations, and we handle crack and foundation repair where replacement is not the right answer. If the walk, the stoop and the drive are all due at once, doing them together costs less than doing them in three visits and they actually match.

Nearby Communities We Serve

Elmhurst, Lombard, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream — and every other town on our service area list.

Free estimates in Addison. Call 630-761-1634 or request a free consultation. We will come out, look at what is actually under your walk, and tell you whether it needs grinding, lifting or replacing.

More Concrete Work We Do in Addison

We are not a single-trade contractor. In Addison we also handle stamped concrete patios and decorative work and general concrete contracting. If more than one of these is due at the same time, doing them together costs less than separate visits and the finishes actually match.

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