Driveway, Ridge Oak Road ·
A hillside driveway, broken out and poured again
A 1970s driveway climbing a hill between live oaks, cracked into plates and sunk at the bottom. Out it came, in went six inches of base and a slab that drains.
- What we did
- Tear-out, new base, 5-inch slab with rebar, broom finish, saw-cut joints
- Size
- 1,640 sq ft
- Time
- 4 days
- Cost
- $17,900 all in
The old driveway had been poured on clay with no base and no steel, and fifty years of runoff had washed the ground out from under its lower end. It had cracked into plates and the bottom one had dropped two inches below the garage apron.
Day one we broke it out and hauled away forty tons. Day two was grading, a culvert under the lower turn and six inches of limestone base, rolled. Day three the forms and the rebar went in, and on day four three trucks poured it before nine in the morning, with a fall to the ditch so the rain runs off instead of under.
Batch ticketNo. 261014
- Mix
- 4,000 PSI, fibre
- Slump
- 4 in
- Yards
- 26 yd³ in 3 trucks
- Poured
- Tue 6:10 a.m.
- Weather
- 61 °F, clear
- Cured
- 7 days wet, sealed day 28