Concrete Driveway CD-6

Our customer (Chad) lives on a lot that slopes down from the road. The house sits in a hole. In order to get in the front door of the home, Chad had to go up seven steps and a steep sidewalk. This often resulted in someone falling. The parking situation was also limited and parking on a decline was the only option. Chad asked us to come look at his driveway and front entrance to see if we could come up with a better way to enter the house and park. We had the utility lines marked and check elevations. We decided that with height of the front door we could bring up the front yard and create a raised and level parking area for a garage addition. The job took about 2 months from start to finish for the concrete walls and ground work.

Approximate cost $55,000.00

 

Before photo of grade and front door.

Moving gas and water lines out of building area.

Site clean up and concrete removal.

Front steps removed from house and footing work for walls started.

Rebar for wall footings added.

Concrete wall footings poured.

Rebar for concrete walls installed.

Concrete wall forms set and ready to pour.

Pump truck on-site to pour concrete walls.

Pouring concrete walls.

Concrete walls poured and water proofed.

Packing in dirt for the front porch. We poured a front wall as well so that the porch will never sink in the front. This cost about another $2,000.00

Moving in fill dirt for the the garage.

13 dump truck loads of fill dirt were brought in for the raised area.

Setting forms to pour garage slab, porch and rear driveway. Notice the rebar for the concrete garage slab.

Forms set to pour circular driveway.