Concrete Work Across Florence
Florence grew up around the railroad, and the town still shows it. The older blocks off Dargan, Evans and Irby Street sit close to the tracks and downtown, the brick ranch houses filled in around Timrod Park through the fifties and sixties, and the newer subdivisions keep stretching west toward I-95 and out along Second Loop and Hoffmeyer Road. Each of those parts of town hands us a different kind of concrete job, and we treat them that way instead of pouring every driveway the same.
Most of what we do in Florence is the everyday concrete a house needs: driveways, front walks, back patios, garage floors and the slab for a shed or a shop. Some of it is new. A lot of it is replacing concrete that was poured forty or sixty years ago and has finally given up.
The houses and lots we work on here
A typical in-town Florence job is a brick ranch with a single-car driveway that was narrow when it went in and feels narrower now that the household has two trucks. The panels are often cracked across the middle, sunk at the street end and raised near the big tree in the side yard. The walk to the front stoop has usually done the same thing. When a homeowner calls us about one, it is worth looking at both, because widening the drive and resetting the walk is one mobilization instead of two.
Out in the newer neighborhoods the concrete is younger but the lots are bigger, so the asks change: a wider parking pad, a patio off the back slider, a slab for a detached garage. Those builds tend to sit on fill that was brought in and graded fast, which matters for what goes under a new slab.
What is under a Florence slab
Dig a few inches into most Florence yards and you hit sandy loam, and below that a tighter clay. The sand drains fast and shifts easily; the clay holds water. If the base under a driveway is loose sand that was never compacted, rain finds its way under the edges, carries fines out, and the slab ends up bridging a void until it cracks. That is the failure we see more than any other in town, far more than anything weather does to the surface.
Shade trees are the other half of it. The older streets are lined with loblolly pines and live oaks, and their roots run shallow and wide. They lift sidewalk panels and driveway corners, and the needles and sap leave stains on concrete that was never sealed. We plan around the roots rather than pretending they are not there, and we set slope so water leaves the slab instead of pooling against the house.
Inside city limits, an apron that ties into the street or work in the right-of-way generally needs a permit, so we check the city's permit pages before a driveway job is scheduled, not after.
The work we bring to Florence
For a worn-out driveway we break out the old concrete, haul it off, rebuild and compact the base, set forms, and pour with control joints placed where cracks would want to go anyway. If you want to understand that job in more detail, read about replacing a tired driveway before we come out.
Not every bad slab needs to come out. A single sunken panel, a trip edge on the walk or a crumbling step can often be handled on its own, and we will say so when that is the case. There is more on patching versus tearing out if you are weighing the two.
Beyond driveways we pour patios, garage floors, shed and shop slabs, steps and walkways across every part of Florence, plus small commercial pads for businesses that need a dumpster pad or a sidewalk replaced.
Just outside the city
Florence is where most of our calls come from, but the work does not stop at the city line. Crews heading east go through Quinby almost every week, and we run south and west to Effingham and Timmonsville when the schedule calls for it; you can read about those older Quinby streets on our Quinby page. The soil and the trees do not change much over those few miles, so neither does how we build. We pour across Florence County and the nearby Pee Dee towns, from Darlington and Hartsville to Lake City and Marion.
Services we bring out here
Concrete Driveways
Every drive is poured on a compacted base built for Pee Dee sand.
Concrete Repair and Replacement
We find out why it broke before we fix it.
Concrete Work in Quinby
Patios, walks, driveways and repairs on a proper base, measured on site and quoted in writing.
Concrete for Timmonsville Homes and Farms
House driveways, pole-barn floors and equipment slabs, sized for the load and quoted in writing.
Get a price for your Florence job
Tell us what you have in mind in the form: the driveway, walk or slab, roughly how big it is, and what is wrong with it now if something is. We come out, look at the slope, the trees and what the base is made of, and talk through options. Every job is priced after we have measured it on site and looked at the base, with the price in writing before any forms go down. No pressure either way.