Concrete Contractors in Platteville, WI

Concrete Contractors in Platteville serve a university city. UW-Platteville is here, the 2020 census counted 11,836 people, and with 2,858 of them in student housing, the median age came out at just 22.9. The city was officially founded in 1829 in the middle of the lead rush, and mines around it produced lead and zinc heavily for about a century, into the 1920s. The city sits in the Driftless Region, known for karst topography and rolling hills.

The city's 2026 sidewalk work

Platteville Public Works awarded Contract 6-26 for 2026 sidewalk replacement, covering replacement of concrete sidewalks and grinding of trip hazards, with work allowed to start as early as May 18 and due by September 11, 2026. If the city program is not reaching your block this year, or your private walks and steps need attention, we can replace those. We check with the city on permits and specifications before any work on a public walk.

Rentals near campus

With so many renters, a lot of Platteville concrete belongs to landlords. Student rentals take hard use: heavy foot traffic, cars parked on every inch of pad, and inconsistent snow clearing. Typical rental wear:

• broken or heaved walk squares that create trip edges
• steps with crumbling edges from salt
• parking pads that have cracked and rutted
• back slabs that tip toward the house

We can price section by section and schedule around move-out and move-in so tenants are not shut out of a building.

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Karst and old diggings

Karst ground can hold voids, and old mining country can hide shafts and diggings. A slab that sinks in one spot while the rest stays level can point to something underneath. We look closely at soft spots during excavation and will tell you if we find something that needs more investigation before we pour.

Hard winters

Platteville's 1991 to 2020 normals show 42.8 inches of annual snowfall, and its all-time low is -43°F. Every exterior pour gets air-entrained concrete, careful curing and a recommendation to seal once cured. New slabs should get sand, not rock salt, their first winter.

Rountree Branch and the Little Platte

The area was first settled along the inlets and groves of the Rountree Branch and the Little Platte River. Lots near the branch can sit on lower, wetter ground than those up the hill, and that shows in how slabs settle. On low lots we dig past soft soil, build the base back with compacted stone, and keep slab tops above grade, so spring runoff drains off rather than soaking the base.

Parking pads that last

A gravel or thin concrete pad behind a rental takes cars parking and turning on it every day. A pad meant for daily parking needs a compacted stone base, enough thickness for the vehicles on it, and joints laid out so cracks fall in straight lines. We pitch the pad toward the alley or the lawn so meltwater does not freeze in a sheet where tenants walk.

Mining-era homes

The city's mining decades left older homes close to downtown, some with stone foundations and steps rebuilt many times. On these, we check how the steps meet the foundation before removing anything, because an old stoop can be tied into the wall in ways that are not obvious. New steps then go on their own footing with a sealed joint at the house.

Driveways and patios for homeowners

Outside the campus blocks, Platteville homeowners want the usual: a sound driveway, a patio with room to use it, and steps that do not move. Slabs are pitched off the foundation, and joints are laid out to control where cracking happens.