A hillside driveway, broken out and poured again
Driveway, Ridge Oak Road
Batch ticketNo. 261014
- Mix
- 4,000 PSI, fibre
- Slump
- 4 in
- Yards
- 26 yd³ in 3 trucks
- Size
- 1,640 sq ft
- Time
- 4 days
- Cost
- $17,900 all in
Booking spring pours
Concrete & masonry · Cedar Bend, Texas
Poured right. Built to last.
Driveways, patios, foundations and stone walls, formed, poured and finished by our own crew, with a written estimate before we dig and a five-year warranty after.
- a sq ft of flatwork
- $9–$14
- never a subcontractor
- Our crew
- workmanship warranty
- 5 years
What we do
Concrete and stone, one crew
From a new driveway to a limestone wall, six kinds of work, all formed, poured and laid by our own people.
How a pour goes
From bare ground to a cured slab
Every slab we pour is built the same way, layer by layer, and you see each one before the next goes on.
Prices →- 01
Grade and compact
The ground dug to depth, sloped to drain and compacted until a boot leaves no print.
- 02
Lay the base
Four to six inches of crushed limestone, wetted and rolled flat, so the slab sits on rock, not clay.
- 03
Set forms and steel
Timber forms staked to line and level, rebar tied in a grid and lifted on chairs to the middle of the slab.
- 04
Pour and screed
The concrete placed in one go, vibrated, then screeded with a straightedge until it is dead level.
- 05
Finish and cut
Floated, edged and broomed or stamped, with control joints cut so any crack runs where we choose.
- 06
Cure and seal
Kept damp for a week, walked on after two days, driven on after seven, sealed after twenty-eight.
Projects
Poured this year, ticket and all
A few jobs from this year: what we did, how big, how long it took, what it cost, and the batch ticket from the plant.
A stamped courtyard with a seat wall
Patio, Mesquite Hollow
Batch ticketNo. 260902
- Mix
- 3,500 PSI, integral colour
- Slump
- 5 in
- Yards
- 10 yd³
- Size
- 720 sq ft
- Time
- 5 days
- Cost
- $13,400 all in
A limestone terrace wall on a hillside lot
Retaining wall, Live Oak Springs
Batch ticketNo. 260618
- Footing
- Crushed limestone, 12 in
- Drain
- 4 in perforated pipe
- Stone
- Local limestone, 38 tons
- Size
- 86 ft of wall
- Time
- 11 days
- Cost
- $24,600 all in
- pouring in Cedar Bend since
- 1998
- driveways, patios and slabs
- 2,400+
- finishers and masons, all ours
- 8
- PSI, our standard driveway mix
- 4,000
- workmanship warranty
- 5 yrs
Where the crews go
Haldane Concrete & Masonry 1280 Old Quarry Road Cedar Bend, TXThe trucks leave the yard on Old Quarry Road at six. We pour and build in Cedar Bend and every town within fifteen kilometres, all year except in a hard freeze.
Get directions
Guides
Notes from the yard
When to seal a new driveway
Not the first week, and not never. Why we wait twenty-eight days, what sealer does, and how often to do it again.
Why concrete cracks (and where we let it)
All concrete shrinks as it cures. The trick is telling it where to crack, and what the cracks you do see mean.
Stamped concrete or pavers?
Two ways to get a patterned patio, priced and compared honestly, from people who build both.
Care notes, four times a year
Short notes from Mateo: when to seal, what a freeze does to new concrete, and what to look at on a retaining wall after a storm.
Cracked, sunken or just not there yet? Let's measure it.
Tell us what you'd like built or fixed and send a photo if you have one. We'll come out, measure, check the ground and leave you a written estimate.
