Henderson, Kentucky
Concrete company in Henderson, Kentucky
Driveways, patios, slabs and sidewalks, formed and poured by crews that work Henderson County. Not a ready-mix plant. No yards for sale. A written quote after somebody walks the job, and a pour date set by the weather.
Free estimate
Get a written quote
Tell us the job and roughly how big it is. Somebody who pours concrete in Henderson County looks at it and calls you back with a number in writing, not a guess off the phone.
Rather talk it through? Call (270) 714-3029. If nobody picks up, leave the address and the job and you get a call back.
- Measured on site before the number is final
- Tear-out, base, finish and haul-off itemized
- Pour dates set by the weather, in writing
Contractor, not supplier
What a concrete contractor in Henderson actually does
Search for concrete in Henderson and the first page is mostly plants: Meuth on Highway 41, Dixon & Melton out in Corydon, imi's yard. They sell concrete by the cubic yard to people who already have forms in the ground. That is not this.
A concrete contractor is the crew that shows up with the forms, the stakes, the wire, the screed and the floats. They tear out what is failing, cut the grade, compact the base, set the forms to the string line, call the truck, place the mix, screed it, float it, cut the joints and broom the finish. Then they come back and strip the forms and tell you when you can drive on it. Henderson Flatwork Co. connects Henderson County homeowners with crews that do that work, and nothing else.
- 01Site visit first. Every quote starts with somebody standing on the ground with a tape and a level. Slope, drainage, the apron, the clay underneath.
- 02Itemized in writing. Tear-out, base, thickness, finish, joints and haul-off as separate lines, so a lower number elsewhere can be read for what it left out.
- 03Weather sets the date. Pours are scheduled around the forecast, not the calendar. A slab poured into a freeze or a downpour is money in the dumpster.
Services
What gets poured
One page per job, with the Henderson ranges and what moves them. Every job on this list is residential flatwork we schedule in the pour season.
The ground here
Why Henderson County concrete gets poured a little differently
The brochures are written for a national average. Henderson sits on Ohio River bottomland and a ridge of clay, and both of those things change how a slab has to be built if it is going to last through the winters here.
Clay under the slab. Most lots in town, and nearly everything on the East End and out Zion Road, sit on clay that swells when it is wet and shrinks when it dries. A slab poured straight onto it moves with it. Four to six inches of compacted gravel base is not an upsell here; it is what keeps the control joints doing their job instead of the slab picking its own place to crack.
The water table on the river side. Between downtown and the levee, and along the bottoms toward Reed and Spottsville, the water table sits high in a wet spring. A garage slab or a basement-adjacent patio there gets a vapor barrier and a base that drains, or it stays damp from underneath for years.
Freeze and thaw, twenty times a winter. Henderson does not get Minnesota cold. It gets a freeze most nights and a thaw most days from December into March, and that cycle is harder on a driveway than a deep freeze that stays frozen. Air-entrained mix, a proper finish that does not seal water into the top quarter inch, and sealing the surface before the first winter are the difference between a driveway that scales in year three and one that does not.
The apron and the street. The heave you see at the end of a Henderson driveway, where it meets the city sidewalk, is usually water getting under the apron and freezing. It is the first place an old driveway fails and the first thing a crew looks at on the site visit.
How a job runs
From the site visit to the day you can drive on it
- Site visit and written quote. Somebody measures, checks the grade and the apron, asks what is under the old slab, and writes it up line by line. Most residential jobs get a number within a couple of days.
- Tear-out, grade and base. The old slab comes out and goes to the crusher, the subgrade gets cut to slope away from the house, and the gravel base goes down and gets compacted. On a bad clay lot this is the day that matters most.
- Forms, steel, pour and finish. Forms set to the string line, wire mesh or rebar on chairs so it sits in the slab and not on the dirt, the truck backs in, and the crew screeds, floats and brooms it in one continuous pass.
- Joints and cure. Control joints get cut the same day or the next morning. You can walk on it in 24 to 48 hours, park a car on it in 7 days, and it reaches full strength at 28 days.
- Strip and clean up. Forms come off, the edges get backfilled, and the truck leaves with the scrap. The sealer goes on before the first winter.
Henderson numbers
Three jobs, three ranges, before anyone comes out
Those are what the jobs typically run in Henderson County, installed. Tear-out, thickness and access move them. The full list is on the page about what concrete costs in Henderson.
Where the trucks go
Henderson and the whole county
In town: the East End ranches off Green Street and Zion Road, the older brick houses on Main, Center and Elm near downtown, the North End along Highway 41, the newer subdivisions out toward the bypass, and everything in between. In the county: Corydon, Robards, Sebree, Spottsville, Reed, Baskett, Niagara, Zion, Hebbardsville, Smith Mills, and the farm-edge lots along the Green River bottoms where most of the pole barn floors get poured.
Across the river is Indiana, and Owensboro is thirty-five minutes east. Crews from both places sell into Henderson. The ones we connect you with are already here.
One number
Call (270) 714-3029Weekdays, first thing, is when the crews are easiest to reach. Leave a message any time and it gets returned.
Asked and answered
Questions we get on the phone
Do you sell concrete by the yard?
No. Half of what comes up when you search concrete in Henderson is a ready-mix plant, and that is a different business. Henderson Flatwork Co. connects you with crews that form, pour and finish flatwork: driveways, patios, slabs, sidewalks and steps. If you need a truck of mix for your own forms, Meuth and Dixon & Melton sell it. If you want the slab done, you are in the right place.
How much does a concrete driveway cost in Henderson?
A new 20 by 20 broom-finished driveway on a prepared base runs about $3,600 - $5,200. Tearing out the old slab and hauling it off first puts the same driveway at $4,800 - $7,000. The full ranges by job and size are on the prices page, and the number you get after the site visit is in writing.
When can concrete be poured here?
April through November is the season. A slab needs the ground and the air above about 40 degrees for a few days after the pour, and Henderson County gets its first hard freezes in late November. December through March is when quotes get written and old driveways get scheduled for spring. A hot July afternoon has its own rules: early pours, and a cure blanket or wet cure so the surface does not dry faster than the slab underneath.
Can you pour a new driveway on top of the old one?
Usually not, and the reason is height. A new 4-inch slab on top of the old one sits 4 inches above the garage floor and the street apron. An overlay under 2 inches bonds poorly and cracks where the old cracks were. The honest answer on most Henderson driveways is tear-out, a fresh base, and a new pour. The repair and replacement page covers when resurfacing does make sense.
Do I need a permit for a driveway in Henderson?
Inside the city, work in the right-of-way (the apron between the sidewalk and the street, and the sidewalk itself) goes through the City of Henderson. A driveway on your own lot generally does not need one, but the apron usually does, and the crew handles that conversation. Out in the county the rules are looser; a pole barn slab or a shed pad is between you and the building permit for the structure itself.
Are you an Evansville company?
No. The crews we connect you with work Henderson and Henderson County. Some of the sites you will see for Henderson concrete belong to companies across the river or in Owensboro with a page for our town. There is nothing wrong with them. There is also nothing about a Henderson driveway that needs a truck to cross the bridge.
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