Concrete Contractors in Taylor, MI

Taylor is our home base, and most of the calls we get for concrete contractors in Taylor come from owners whose driveway, front walk or back patio has simply worn out. The city covers 23.63 square miles of Wayne County, about 16 miles southwest of downtown Detroit, and it counted 63,409 residents and 26,770 housing units in the 2020 census. That is a lot of driveways, aprons, stoops and patios, and a big share of them were poured during the same few decades. We tear out and replace driveways, pour new patios and stamped concrete, set walks and steps, build garage and shed slabs, and repair sections that have sunk or cracked.

A city that grew fast, then settled

Taylor started as farm country. Wikipedia records that Peter Coan bought the first 80-acre parcel from the federal government in 1830, and the area was part of Ecorse Township before Taylor Township was organized in the late 1840s. Residents voted for city status in 1966, and the charter was approved on March 6, 1968. The census shows the population climbing to 77,568 by 1980 before easing back to about 63,000.

For concrete, that history matters because so much of the flatwork in Taylor neighborhoods went in during the same building wave. Driveways and walks from those years have now been through several decades of freeze and thaw, road salt and heavy vehicles. The most common things we see are cracked aprons at the street, panels that have dropped next to the garage, front steps pulling away from the house and patios that tip back toward the foundation.

Flat clay ground and winter freeze

Taylor sits on the southeast Michigan lakeplain, the floor of old glacial lakes. Michigan Natural Features Inventory describes that plain as deep clay deposits with mostly poorly drained soils, crossed in places by thin sand ridges. The city's elevation is about 614 feet, and the ground is close to level, so rain does not run off on its own. Water that sits on or under a slab and then freezes is what lifts panels, opens joints and flakes the surface.

The National Weather Service averages on Taylor's Wikipedia page put the January mean low at 18 degrees and the July mean high at 84, a wide swing that concrete has to live through every year. So every Taylor job starts with grade and base. We remove soft soil, put down compacted aggregate, pitch the new surface away from the house and toward the street or yard, and use air-entrained concrete for exterior work so it holds up to freeze-thaw cycles.

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Permits through the Taylor Building Department

The City of Taylor's Permits page lists driveway and approach work, concrete or asphalt work, patios, and public sidewalks or service walks among the projects that need a building or zoning permit, and it strongly recommends contacting the Building Department at 23555 Goddard Road before any work starts. The same page notes that removing and replacing existing concrete is exempt from the zoning review step, which keeps a straight replacement simpler than new construction. We confirm the permit for your address and schedule the inspection before we pour.

Roadwork on Eureka Road

The city's Eureka Road Corridor Project is adding new sidewalks, retaining walls and streetscaping, and enclosing part of the Frank and Poet Drain in culverts, with construction scheduled through the second quarter of 2027. If you live or run a business near Eureka, Racho or Telegraph, we plan delivery routes and pour dates around the rolling closures.

What we pour in Taylor

• Driveways: full replacements, widened drives for a second car, and new aprons to the street
• Patios: broom-finish slabs and larger backyard patios
• Stamped concrete: patterned and colored patios and walks
• Sidewalks and steps: front walks, side walks to the backyard, stoops and porch steps
• Garage and shed slabs: floors for detached garages and pads for sheds
• Repair and replacement: sunken panels, trip edges, broken steps and scaled surfaces

Call (313) 351-8654 to set up a visit anywhere in Taylor, from the Heritage Park area to the neighborhoods off Inkster Road.