Concrete across Middle Tennessee

Concrete across Middle Tennessee

Concrete contractors who compact the base, place the steel and cut the joints — the parts you never see and the reason the slab does not crack.

Concrete crews pouring in Nashville also work Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro, Hendersonville; the range runs to 65 towns in 12 counties. The houses are not the same in any two of those towns, and neither is the concrete work:

• Nashville. Pre-war houses have original concrete walks and steps that have heaved and settled for a century; replacement usually means matching the scale of the old work rather than pouring a modern slab.
• Brentwood. Newer subdivisions have driveways poured fast on builder fill, and the ones that have settled at the garage apron are candidates for leveling before they are candidates for replacement.
• Murfreesboro. Newer subdivisions have driveways poured fast on builder fill, and the ones that have settled at the garage apron are candidates for leveling before they are candidates for replacement.
• Hendersonville. In older neighborhoods the driveways and walks are past the point of leveling, and the demolition and haul-off are a real share of the job; a quote that skips that line is incomplete.
• Columbia. Pre-war houses have original concrete walks and steps that have heaved and settled for a century; replacement usually means matching the scale of the old work rather than pouring a modern slab.
• Lebanon. Rural work is shop slabs, barn floors and long drives, at a scale where the pump truck and the base material are the cost, and a crew set up for that is a different crew.