Kennedale, TX — Concrete crew
Concrete Driveways, Patios and Repairs in Kennedale, TX
Kennedale sits right off Arlington’s south side, close enough that we are often already working within a few minutes of it. That proximity is the whole point of this page: the small job that a bigger outfit will not send a crew across the metroplex for is the job we can add to a day we are already spending nearby.
Small does not mean casual. A 120-square-foot pad heaves on the same clay, cracks for the same reasons and needs the same base, steel and joints as a 900-foot driveway. It just takes less concrete.
The jobs nobody wants to drive out for
An AC or generator pad. Three panels of a walk that lifted over a root. A set of steps down to the back yard. The pad under a shed that arrives next month. A driveway apron beaten up where it meets the street. None of these fills a day, and all of them are worth doing right.
The honest limit is the job minimum: about $1,800. That is not a Kennedale number, it is the same everywhere we pour, and the reason is simple — a crew, forms, tools and a ready-mix truck cost the same to send for 120 square feet as for 600. On top of that, most DFW plants charge a short-load fee on anything under about 4 cubic yards, which a small pad always is. A 10 by 12 pad at 4 inches is roughly 1.6 yards.
What that means in practice: if you have two or three small things, group them. The patio and the walk and the AC pad poured on one day share one mobilization and one truck, and the price per square foot drops for all three. It is the single most useful thing you can do to your own estimate.
Small pours still need the boring parts
The temptation on a small slab is to skip the prep, and it is exactly where small slabs fail. We still strip the topsoil, still compact the subgrade, still put the slab on compacted base. Expansive clay does not care how many square feet you poured on it; it swells after rain and shrinks in August either way, and a pad set straight on raked dirt rocks the first time something heavy sits on it.
Joints still get cut. A 4-inch slab wants panels no more than 8 to 10 feet apart, and on a narrow pour — a 3 or 4-foot walk — the spacing drops to about the width so the panels stay near square. Concrete shrinks as it cures and it will crack; the joint decides where. On a walkway that is the difference between a clean line every few feet and a jagged one across the middle.
And it still needs to drain. Every pad gets pitched away from the house, and where new concrete meets the foundation, the porch or an existing slab we set an isolation joint so the two can move independently. On an AC pad that pitch matters more than most people think: a pad tilted toward the house sends condensate straight at the foundation.
— What we pour here
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Repair & Resurfacing
Panel replacement, trip hazards and spalled surfaces — the most common small call we get here.
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Sidewalks & Walkways
Front walks, side-yard paths and the run to the back gate, 3 to 4 feet wide and pitched to drain.
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Slabs & Foundations
Shed, AC, hot tub and generator pads, compacted and pitched away from the structure.
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Patios
Small back patios and extensions, doweled to the existing slab so the seam does not lip.
Common questions
- Is my job too small for you?
- Probably not, but there is a floor. Our job minimum is about $1,800, because sending a crew, forms and a ready-mix truck costs the same whether the pour is 120 square feet or 600. Below that number nobody can do the work properly. If your job is under it, the fix is usually to group it with something else you have been putting off.
- Can you pour an AC or generator pad?
- Yes, and the two things that matter are the base and the pitch. We compact the ground under it so the pad does not rock when the unit starts, and we slope it away from the structure so condensate and rain leave instead of running at your foundation. A generator pad on loose fill will move the first hard start.
- Why does a small pour cost more per square foot?
- Two reasons. The fixed cost of showing up — crew, forms, tools, layout — spreads across fewer feet. And most DFW ready-mix plants charge a short-load fee under about 4 cubic yards, which nearly every small pad is; a 10 by 12 pad at 4 inches is about 1.6 yards. It is why the job minimum exists and why grouping small work saves real money. Full answer →
- How soon can we walk on it?
- About 24 hours for foot traffic, roughly 3 days before you set furniture on a patio, and 28 days to full design strength. Keep vehicles off a 4-inch pad for 7 days. In summer we cure the surface so it does not dry too fast, which is what keeps it hard instead of dusting later. Full answer →
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