Apex Contracting · Wentzville, MO
Concrete driveways, patios and flatwork in Wentzville and St. Charles County
Flatwork either carries water away from the house or holds it against the foundation, and that gets decided before the truck ever backs up. Billy pours driveways, patios, garage slabs and steps, finishes them clean, and puts the number in writing first.
Free written estimate. Projects start as low as $500, and you get the number before anybody breaks ground.
What we pour
Driveways, patios, slabs and steps
- New driveway pours, formed, poured and finished in one run
- Patios and walkways, broom finished or exposed aggregate
- Garage and shed slabs, poured flat and pitched to drain
- Steps, landings, and the flatwork that meets your brick
Concrete is the one thing on the house you pour once. Get the base and the fall right and it outlasts the roof. Get them wrong and no finish on earth covers for it.
How we do it
Base first, then forms, then finish
Concrete fails from underneath. The base gets graded and compacted before a form goes in, because a slab poured over soft fill cracks no matter how good the mix was. Forms get set to a fall that runs water away from the house and off the drive, not back toward the garage door.
Then the finish, which is the part you look at for the next twenty years. Broom for grip on a driveway, exposed aggregate where you want texture and a little color in it, clean edges either way. Control joints get cut early, while the slab is still green, so the shrinkage that is coming shows up on a line somebody chose.
Recent concrete jobs
Flat where it should be, pitched where it has to be
Questions
What people ask before the forms go in
How long before I can drive on new concrete?
Concrete is hard in a day and strong in a month. Foot traffic is usually fine after a day or two and normal cars after about a week. Cold weather stretches all of it, and a slab that has to hold a truck or a loaded dumpster waits longer. It keeps curing and gaining strength after you’re back on it.
Why does new concrete have lines cut into it?
Those are control joints. Concrete shrinks as it cures and it will crack somewhere, so joints cut early, roughly a quarter of the way through the slab and spaced off its thickness, decide where that crack goes and keep it straight. Flatwork with no joints picks its own line, usually across the middle.
Does my driveway need replacing, or can the surface be fixed?
It depends on what failed. Scaling and flaking on top of a slab that is still solid and sitting flat is a surface problem. Cracked all the way through, heaved, rocking underfoot or visibly sinking means the base under it failed, and nothing laid on top fixes that. Billy looks at it in person and tells you which one it is, including when the answer is the cheaper one.
Other work we do
Tuckpointing
Failed mortar joints ground out, matched, and repointed.
See tuckpointing →Brick & Stone Repair
Cracked brick matched and replaced, lintels reset, walls read right.
See brick repair →Chimney Repair
Crowns, spalled brick, flashing, and rebuilds from the roofline up.
See chimney repair →Serving Wentzville, Lake St. Louis, O’Fallon, St. Peters and the rest of St. Charles County.
Free estimate
A written quote, and the number holds.
Most concrete contractors won’t give you a number until they’ve seen the job. Ours starts at $500, and you have it before anybody breaks ground.
- Call BillyTell him what you’re looking at. If he’s on a pour, leave a message and he gets back to you.
- Walk the job togetherHe looks at it in person, tells you whether it’s the surface or the base, and writes the quote himself.
- The work gets doneBase prepped, poured, finished and cleaned up. The invoice matches the quote.
No pressure visit. If the slab doesn’t need replacing yet, he’ll tell you that too.
Free estimate
The quickest way to a number is a phone call. Tell Billy the address and what you’re looking at.
(314) 687-5364Straight to Billy’s phone, not a call center.