Concrete Driveway Installation in Draper, UT

A new concrete driveway in Draper, poured and finished by crews who work the south valley.A driveway installation in Draper starts with what is underneath it. The sub-base is excavated and compacted, then a compacted gravel layer goes down before any concrete is placed. In this part of Utah that base matters more than the slab thickness, because the ground moves with the seasons.

Most residential driveways are placed at four to six inches of concrete over a compacted base, with control joints cut at regular intervals so the slab cracks where you want it to rather than where it wants to. Reinforcement is usually a welded wire mesh or rebar grid; thicker sections and anything that will carry a heavy vehicle are commonly reinforced more heavily.

Finishing is where the driveway becomes what you actually look at: broom, salt, exposed aggregate or stamped. Curing follows — concrete does not dry, it cures, and a slab that cures too fast in a dry summer loses strength it never gets back. A crew that rushes curing is a crew that will not tell you when the surface starts scaling.