Driveways, Walks and Patios in Due West
Due West is a college town in the plainest sense: Erskine College sits in the middle of it, and the houses, churches and a short Main Street gather around the campus. Go a few blocks out and you are in farm country, with pasture, hay barns and long lanes on every side. It is a quiet place with old trees and old houses, and most of the concrete here has been in the ground a long time.
A1 Concrete LLC drives over from Greenwood for work in and around Due West. Jobs here split about evenly between town and farm, and the two call for different things.
Jobs around town and farm
In town, the request is usually modest and specific. A front walk has heaved over an oak root and become a trip hazard. A driveway poured for a much smaller car has crumbled at the edges. A back stoop needs a landing, or a family wants a patio where the grass never grew. For most of these, a plain broom-finish drive or walk is the right answer, built on a proper base and sized for how the house is used now.
Some owners want more character, especially behind the older homes near campus. Color mixed into the concrete, or a stone or brick pattern pressed into the surface, can make a patio look like it belongs to the house. Our notes on a stamped patio behind an older house explain the patterns, the sealing and the upkeep so you can decide if it is worth it for you.
On the farms the scale changes. We pour slabs for equipment sheds and workshops, aprons in front of barn doors where mud has been winning for years, and pads for feed bins, trailers and campers. Farm lanes get regraded so they drain, and wooded corners get cleared when a new building needs a site. We are licensed and insured and take residential and commercial jobs, which covers church parking pads and walks as well.
How we prep the base
Concrete fails from the bottom. Around Due West the bottom is red Piedmont clay, which swells when it is soaked and shrinks and splits open in a dry August. A slab laid directly on it rides up and down with the seasons until it breaks.
Our prep is the same on a small walk as on a shed slab. We strip the sod and topsoil, dig out anything soft, and shape the clay so water cannot sit under the slab. Crushed stone goes down next and is compacted until it does not give under a boot heel. Forms are set to a grade that sends rain away from buildings, and control joints are planned ahead so the slab cracks in straight lines where we want it to and not across the middle.
Water gets its own look. The area sees around 47 inches of rain a year, a good part of it in heavy summer thunderstorms, and a flat yard or a barn lot can stay wet for days. If the spot you have picked holds water, we will say so and suggest regrading or a French drain first. Around mature trees we keep the dig shallow where we can and tell you plainly when a root is going to win in the long run.
Services we bring out here
Concrete Driveways and Flatwork
Built on a compacted stone base with joints and mix chosen for red clay.
Stamped and Colored Concrete
Stone, slate and brick patterns, sealed to hold color in Southern sun.
Careful Concrete Work in Abbeville
Careful concrete and stamped finishes for homes near the Court Square.
Concrete for Farm and Home Lots in Donalds
Licensed and insured, and the quote is free.
Getting a price
Send the quote form with your name and number, and use the message box to describe the job: what you want poured, about how big, and what is on the spot today. We set a time to come out, measure and look at access for the truck. Every job is priced after someone has walked the ground and measured it, with the price in writing before a truck is ordered. If the plan needs to change once we have seen the ground, you hear that before any work starts and not in the middle of it. Due West is one stop on a regular loop for us, and it often pairs with the work we do in Abbeville. We work across Greenwood County and the nearby Lakelands towns, from Ninety Six and Hodges to Abbeville, Ware Shoals and Laurens.
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