Commercial
Commercial concrete in Henderson, Kentucky
Flatwork for the businesses along US 41, Green Street and the industrial parks: dumpster pads, approaches and aprons, curb and gutter, ADA ramps, sidewalks and small lots. Scheduled around your hours, written up line by line.
The work
What commercial flatwork in Henderson usually means
Most of the commercial concrete in Henderson is not a new building. It is the pad the hauler wants, the apron at the overhead door that the delivery trucks broke up, the curb the plow took out, the sidewalk the inspector flagged, the ramp that has to meet ADA. Small jobs, on a schedule, done right the first time because the business cannot close twice.
- Dumpster pads and enclosure footings, six inches with rebar where the truck lifts.
- Loading approaches and door aprons thick enough for the truck axle that actually uses them.
- Curb and gutter replacement and new runs, formed and poured to the city's section.
- ADA ramps and accessible routes with the slopes, landings and detectable warnings the code calls for.
- Sidewalks and entrance walks, and small parking areas and drive aisles.
- Equipment pads for HVAC units, generators and transformers on the site plan's layout.
Planning ranges
- Commercial flatwork, per sq ft
- $9 - $15 per sq ft
- Dumpster pad
- $2,500 - $6,000
- Curb and gutter, per running ft
- $30 - $45 per linear ft
Commercial work is quoted from a site visit and the plans. These are planning numbers so a budget line is not a guess.
Henderson specifics
The strip, the parks and the river
The US 41 corridor is truck traffic and plow traffic, and the concrete there fails at the aprons and the curbs first. Riverport and the industrial parks off the bypass are forklifts and semis on flatwork that was poured to a spec and needs to be repaired to the same spec. Down by the river the water table comes up in spring and any slab there gets a base that drains. The site visit reads which of those the job is.
Paper
Insurance, invoices and the inspector
The crews we connect commercial jobs with carry the insurance a property manager asks for and can produce the certificate before the pour. Quotes are itemized so they can be attached to a work order, and the work that touches the right-of-way or an accessible route gets done to the section the City of Henderson or the inspector calls for, with the crew handling that conversation.
Asked and answered
Commercial questions from Henderson callers
Do you do full parking lots?
Small ones: a lot for a shop, a church, a strip of a dozen spaces, an apron and drive aisle for a warehouse door. Those get quoted on a site visit with the drainage and the truck traffic in mind. A large lot with an engineered drainage plan is a paving contractor's job, and we will say so rather than quote it badly.
What is a dumpster pad and why does the hauler want one?
A thick concrete pad, usually six inches with rebar, where the dumpster sits and where the truck's front wheels land when it lifts. Asphalt and gravel get chewed up by the lift cycle within a season. Most haulers and most Henderson site plans require one, and it runs $2,500 - $6,000 depending on size and whether an enclosure wall footing is part of it.
Can the work be done outside business hours?
Pours can be scheduled early or on a weekend so a drive or an entrance is not blocked during the day, with the cure time planned so it is drivable by opening. That gets written into the quote as a schedule line, and the concrete plant's hours set the limits on it.
Free estimate
Get a written commercial quote
Say what and where (the business, the street, the part of the site), and whether there is a site plan or a spec. A crew that does commercial flatwork in Henderson looks at it and writes it up for your work order.
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
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