Concrete aprons help stabilize the area where your driveway meets your garage floor.
During the construction of your home, soils are excavated and backfilled, often without proper compaction. It can take 20+ years for soils to settle completely in this “backfill” zone. Water freezes, causing driveways to heave and settle unevenly, causing damage to the foundation wall during the freeze/thaw cycle.
When this damage occurs on a block foundation, it is common to see a void far below the surface opening. Many times when installing a new concrete apron, foundation repair or reinforcement on the garage foundation wall is necessary to ensure proper installation of the new apron.
Our team installs a rock and gravel base along with rebar for reinforcement. We pour concrete aprons with a minimum strength 4,000 PCI concrete and finish the concrete with a curing sealer.