Concrete Driveway Installation in Dearborn, MI
Narrow Dearborn side drives, rebuilt from the clay up.
A lot of Dearborn homes date from the 1920s through the 1950s, and many share the same layout: a narrow side driveway squeezed between the house and the lot line, running back to a detached garage. Those strips were poured on lake-plain clay that holds water close to the surface every spring. After decades of freezing and thawing, they tilt toward the foundation, heave near the garage and leave a puddle by the side door.
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A Dearborn driveway, built from the ground up
Building a new concrete driveway in Dearborn means working in tight quarters. We plan the tear-out so equipment fits between the houses, dig out the wet clay, and replace it with compacted 21AA aggregate base in lifts. The slope gets set with care, because on a narrow drive the water has only two choices: toward the house or toward the street. We make sure it heads to the street.
Then we pour an air-entrained mix with reinforcement and cut control joints at spacing that suits a long, slim slab. Dearborn is close to our Romulus shop, so estimates are easy to fit in. The City of Dearborn sets the permit requirements, and we'll explain what your job needs. If the old garage apron is crumbling too, it can be torn out and poured with the new drive as one piece.
Flat, slow-draining clay left behind by the glacial lakes that once covered most of Wayne County.
Dig out the soft clay, replace it with compacted 21AA aggregate base, and set the slope so water runs off the slab and away from the house.
Every Dearborn driveway install includes
The same groundwork goes into every driveway we pour in Dearborn, sized to your lot and your lake-plain clay.
- New driveway installation
- Two-car and three-car driveways
- Driveway approaches and aprons
- Broom, stamped and exposed-aggregate finishes
- Decorative borders and bands
What goes under and into it
- 01Excavation and compacted base
- 02Slope that sends water away from the house
- 03Rebar or fiber reinforcement
- 04Air-entrained mix for freeze-thaw
- 05Control joints in the right places
From estimate to walkthrough in Dearborn
- 1Free estimate: we visit, measure and listen
- 2Plan the layout, finish and timeline
- 3Prep, forms and reinforcement, then the pour
- 4Cure, seal where needed and walk it with you
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