Licensed and insured concrete crews pouring driveways, patios, and slabs built for Ohio winters. Free written estimates — call (380) 324-3827.
One crew for everything poured, formed, and finished — from a cracked apron in Beechwold to a stamped patio in Upper Arlington.
A Columbus driveway lives through around 50 freeze-thaw cycles every winter, plus whatever the salt truck throws at it. We pour air-entrained 4,000 PSI concrete on a compacted base so yours survives all of it.
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Central Ohio clay holds water, heaves in January, and shrinks in an August drought. We build patios that ride it out — graded away from your foundation, jointed so cracks happen where we planned them.
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The look of stone or brick without the shifting joints pavers develop after a few Ohio winters. Stamped, colored, and sealed to hold up against snow shovels and deicer.
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In Columbus, the sidewalk in front of your house is your responsibility — and the city notices when it cracks and lifts. We replace flagged sections to city spec and pour new walkways that stay flat.
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Garage floors, shed pads, additions, and hot tub bases, each sized and reinforced for what's actually sitting on it. A slab holding a loaded pickup is not a slab holding a garden shed.
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Freeze-thaw eats Columbus steps from the edges in, and a crumbling stoop is a lawsuit waiting by the front door. We form and pour steps with uniform risers that stay safe in February.
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Salt-scaled surfaces, spalled edges, sunken sections next to the garage. Some slabs can be saved and some can't, and we'll tell you honestly which one you've got.
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Call (380) 324-3827 or send the form. A real person gets back to you within 24 hours.
We walk your property, measure, check the grade and soil, and hand you a written price before any work starts. Not a range that grows later. The price.
Forms set, concrete placed and finished, joints cut, site cleaned. We tell you exactly when you can walk on it and when you can park on it.
Finishing is a skill you can't fake, and our finishers have poured through plenty of Ohio seasons.
Liability and workers' comp protect your property and everyone on it.
Air-entrained mixes, proper base prep, and sealing advice that accounts for salt.
You'll know the price in writing before a single form stake goes in.
Columbus Concrete Contractor Co works out of Olentangy River Rd in Clintonville and covers the whole metro. You'll see our trucks in Clintonville, Beechwold, Worthington, Upper Arlington, Grandview Heights, Dublin, Hilliard, Westerville, Gahanna, New Albany, Bexley, Whitehall, Reynoldsburg, Grove City, Powell, German Village, Merion Village, Victorian Village, Italian Village, the Short North, Olde Towne East, Franklinton, the Hilltop, Linden, Northland, and everywhere between. If you're in the Columbus area, you're in our service area.
4701 Olentangy River Rd, Columbus, OH 43214
Early March off Indianola Avenue in Clintonville, and the snow finally pulls back far enough to show a homeowner what winter actually did. The driveway surface is flaking off in patches the size of dinner plates — scaling, from three months of deicer working into concrete that was never sealed. There's a new crack running diagonally from the garage corner, and the section by the sidewalk sank another half inch, so now the snowmelt pools there and refreezes every night into a skating rink aimed at the mailbox.
That driveway didn't fail in March. It failed years ago, at the pour.
Columbus Concrete Contractor Co works out of Olentangy River Rd in Clintonville, and most of what we fix comes down to concrete that wasn't built for this climate. Central Ohio puts concrete through roughly 50 freeze-thaw cycles a winter. Water gets into the slab, freezes, expands about nine percent, and pries the concrete apart from the inside — then does it again the next night. The defense is real and it's specific: air-entrained concrete, which carries billions of microscopic bubbles that give freezing water somewhere to expand, poured at 4,000 PSI for exterior work, over a base that was actually compacted instead of just raked flat.
The ground here fights back too. Franklin County sits on glacial till, which mostly means heavy clay. Clay holds water against the underside of a slab, heaves when that water freezes, and shrinks away during dry stretches in late summer, leaving voids. A slab poured on lazy base prep rides that movement until it cracks. And the frost line here sits at 32 inches, which is why anything structural — stoops, footings, Concrete Steps and Stoops tied to a foundation — has to bear below it or get lifted by the first hard winter.
We build for all of that, on every job, because we live here too.
Some concrete work is cosmetic. Some of it holds up your truck, your addition, or your front entry, and that work punishes shortcuts. Concrete Slab Installation starts with the question most cheap bids skip: what's going to sit on this? A garage slab in Hilliard storing a loaded F-250 and a trailer needs more thickness and real reinforcement — rebar on chairs, not mesh lying on the dirt waiting to do nothing. A shed pad in Gahanna needs less. Pricing them the same means one of them was built wrong.
Concrete Driveway Installation is high stakes here for a different reason: the city. A driveway approach — the section crossing the public right-of-way between sidewalk and street — runs through Columbus permit requirements and has to meet city spec. We handle that paperwork, because a torn-out approach done without it becomes your problem twice.
And timing matters in this trade more than people expect. The pouring season in central Ohio runs roughly April through early November. We can pour in colder weather with blankets and accelerators when a job can't wait, but concrete placed carelessly at 28 degrees never reaches strength, and no finish hides that later. We'll tell you when the honest answer is "let's wait two weeks."
Straight answer: it depends on the square footage, and then on everything under and around it. Anyone quoting a firm number without walking your property is guessing with your money.
Size and thickness set the base. A 16-by-70 driveway uses a lot more material than a front walk, and a slab carrying vehicles needs more depth than one carrying patio furniture. Demolition is next — most Columbus jobs are replacements, and busting out an old 6-inch slab someone over-poured in 1975, then hauling it off, is real labor before the new work even starts.
Site conditions move the number from there. Clay that needs extra excavation and stone. Grades that have to change so water stops running at the garage. Tight access behind a German Village rowhouse where every yard of concrete travels by buggy because a truck can't reach. Finish matters too: broom finish is the workhorse price, Stamped Concrete and coloring add material and finishing labor. Permits, where the job needs them, pass through at cost.
What never changes: the estimate is free, it's in writing, and nothing starts until you approve it.
Here's how the lineup plays out across the city. Concrete Driveway Installation is the flagship — full tear-outs and replacements in the postwar neighborhoods where original drives are past 60 years old, plus widening projects where a 1950s single-car ribbon can't handle a two-car household. Concrete Patio Installation turns clay-mud backyards in Westerville and Grove City into usable space, graded so the water leaves. Stamped Concrete shows up most around Dublin and New Albany, where people want the stone look without paver joints heaving every spring.
Concrete Sidewalk and Walkway work is steady in the older tree-lined neighborhoods — Clintonville's silver maples are gorgeous and merciless, and their roots lift sidewalk squares an inch a year until the city flags them. The sidewalk is the owner's responsibility here, which surprises people at the worst time. Concrete Steps and Stoops replaces the crumbling front entries winter leaves behind. And Concrete Repair and Resurfacing is the honest-conversation service: some salt-scaled driveways can be resurfaced for real savings, some are too far gone, and we'll show you which yours is instead of selling you the wrong one.
Ask what's under the concrete. Base prep is where bad bids hide — "4 inches of concrete" means nothing poured over uncompacted fill. Get the mix in writing too: PSI, air entrainment, reinforcement type. A contractor who won't specify those is planning to decide at the plant.
Ask about joints. Control joints cut at the right spacing and depth decide where a slab cracks. Skipped or shallow joints mean random cracks, usually right through the middle where you'll see them forever.
Check insurance, ask how they handle permits for approaches and right-of-way work, and be suspicious of the lowest bid — in concrete, the money that's missing from a cheap quote almost always came out of the base, the reinforcement, or the mix, and you can't see any of those once it's poured. If you're in German Village or another historic district, visible exterior work may need commission approval first, and a local contractor should raise that before you do.
When you want a straight answer and a written price, call (380) 324-3827.
Estimates are usually scheduled within a couple of days, and most residential jobs land on the calendar within a few weeks depending on season. Spring books fastest — call early.
No. We walk the property, measure, and hand you a written price for free. You decide from there.
It depends on size, thickness, demolition, site conditions, and finish, which is why we don'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 on request.
The main season runs roughly April through early November. Cold-weather pours are possible with blankets and accelerators when a project can't wait, and we'll tell you honestly when waiting is the better call.
The whole Columbus metro — Clintonville, Worthington, Upper Arlington, Dublin, Hilliard, Westerville, Gahanna, Bexley, Grove City, and everywhere between. Our shop is on Olentangy River Rd.
Concrete shrinks as it cures, so some cracking is physics. Proper base compaction, correct thickness, and control joints cut on time keep cracks small and put them where we planned, not across the middle of your driveway.
In Columbus, yes — and skip deicing salt entirely the first winter, because new concrete is most vulnerable to salt scaling in year one. We seal and we'll tell you the reapplication schedule.
Yes, our workmanship guarantee is in writing. If something we poured fails from our workmanship, we come back and make it right.
Tell us what you're planning and we'll take it from there. Fill out the form or call (380) 324-3827.
One call handles it, from the first measurement to the final joint cut.