Concrete contractor in Sidney, OH - driveways and patios that drain and stay put

The city's permit list names site improvements but doesn't name driveways or patios outright, so your job should be checked with the city before anyone pours. Sidney's code calls for a building permit before any new structure, addition or structural alteration, and the city's permit information page lists pools, decks and fences among the work that needs one, with permit questions taken at 937-498-8130. Before we schedule anything, we check what the office covering your address asks for and tell you what we find, and when a permit is needed we take care of the application or help with the parts that need your signature.

Outside the City of Sidney, permits go to the Shelby / Miami County Building Department, at 937-658-6220 or 937-440-8121. That office also handles commercial and industrial permits inside the city, while the city's own building inspection covers homes of one to three units and their accessory structures. If you're not sure which side of the line your property falls on, we check that for you before the work is scheduled.

Yes, every contractor has to register with the city's Building Inspector before doing any work in Sidney, and property owners may only allow registered contractors to work on their property. The city handles that registration for all of Shelby County, so it applies whether you're in town or out in the county. It's fair to ask any contractor for proof before work starts.

There's no honest number until I've seen your driveway, because the price comes from its size, how much old concrete has to come out and how much digging and base your ground needs. Truck access, steps or walks tied into the job, and a stamped or colored surface instead of a plain broom finish, the light texture that gives shoes and tires grip, all move it too. After I walk the job with you, you get in writing what the work includes, so you can compare it fairly.

You'll be walking on it well before you can drive on it, because concrete keeps curing, slowly hardening, for days after the pour, and a car loads it far harder than feet do. A car that goes on too soon can mark or crack a slab that would otherwise have held up fine, so I'll give you the days for your pour based on the mix and the weather that week.

Concrete shrinks as it cures, so a few hairline cracks are normal, and the real goal is keeping them small and putting them where we choose. We dig out and pack the subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, add rebar, steel that holds the pieces tight if a crack does form, where the job calls for it, and stay away from pouring in the worst midday heat. Then we cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a straight line to crack along, on time instead of late, because most of the bad cracking we replace around Sidney traces back to one of those steps being skipped.