Pflugerville, TX · Travis & Williamson County
Concrete Contractor in Pflugerville, TX
Driveways, patios, slabs, retaining walls, repair and commercial flatwork, built for Blackland clay and Central Texas heat. Every job starts with a walk of your lot and ends with a written scope you can compare.
Serving Pflugerville, Wells Branch, Round Rock, Hutto, Manor, north Austin and Coupland
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Request a Concrete Site Visit
Tell us what you want built or fixed and roughly where. We reply to set a time to walk the site. Rather talk? Call (737) 201-0849.
Tell us what you want built or fixed and roughly where it is. We reply to set a time to walk the site, then send a written scope with a price for exactly that scope.
Rather talk it through? Call (737) 201-0849. Photos of the curb, the existing concrete and any cracks help us arrive with the right questions.
- We walk the site with you and measure it.
- You get a written scope that names the base, joints and finish.
- No charge for the visit and no pressure after it.
Cement Contractors Near Me Who Write the Walk-Through Down
Practices, not slogans: we walk the lot, sound the old concrete, call in our own utility locates, and put the joints, base and finish in writing.
Every Elite Concrete Pflugerville job starts the same way: a walk from your curb to your back fence. At the curb we check whose concrete it is, since the approach and the public walk sit in city right-of-way. Across the yard we ask about sprinkler lines, because the utility locators won’t mark private ones. Along the house we look for the signs of a post-tensioned slab, which nobody should cut or core into to tie in a patio. Out back we watch where the rain will go.
What we find on that walk goes into the scope. Pflugerville’s housing is young (the median home here was built around 2006), so most driveways and patios here are still the first ones their lot ever had. When one starts to fail, it is usually the first replacement, and the first chance to fix whatever the original crew skipped. Read how the walk-through works, stop by stop.
Concrete Services for Pflugerville Homes and Businesses
Nine kinds of concrete work, each with its own page on materials, Pflugerville rules and the decisions you’ll face.
Concrete Driveways
New driveways, tear-out and replacement, and widening an existing drive, with the city approach and expansion joints built to code.
Stamped & Decorative
Slate, plank and cobble patterns, integral color, exposed aggregate and borders, sealed and planned around HOA approval.
Concrete Patios
Backyard and covered patios sloped away from the house and tied in without cutting into a post-tensioned slab.
Foundations & Slabs
Additions, shop and garage slabs, and pads for sheds, AC units and hot tubs, with compacted fill and reinforcement planned for clay.
Concrete Resurfacing
A new wearing surface or stamped overlay on concrete that is sound underneath. We sound it first and say so when it is not.
Retaining Walls
Concrete and block walls with drain rock and a weep path, because clay that stays wet behind a wall pushes harder.
Concrete Repair
Cracks, spalls, open joints and settled panels. We find what moved the concrete before we patch what it broke.
Sidewalks & Walkways
Public sidewalk panels, front walks and curb ramps, built to the city’s doweled-joint and 2% cross-slope rules.
Commercial Concrete
Walks, ramps, dumpster pads, approaches and lot repairs, phased so a business stays open while we pour.
Not Sure Which Kind of Concrete Job You Have?
Steps, a shed pad, a cracked walk, a city notice, or something that doesn’t fit a box. Tell us what you’re looking at and we’ll say how we would handle it, or who should.
How Concrete Pourers Run a Site Visit
Three steps between your first message and a pour date.
You send the visit request or call
Tell us the job and the neighborhood or cross streets. If your HOA or the city has already sent anything, mention it; it changes the schedule.
We walk the lot with you
We measure, check the fall of the ground, sound any old concrete with a chain, look at the curb and the house slab, and ask where the sprinkler lines run.
You get the scope in writing
Thickness, base, reinforcement, joint layout, finish, the curing plan and any city or HOA steps, with a price for that scope. Another contractor could bid the same page.
Why Concrete Cracks, Heaves and Ponds in Pflugerville
Central Texas isn’t freeze-thaw country. Concrete here fails from heat, clay and water, and each one has a fix that goes in before the pour.
Heat Cracks on a Fresh Slab
Austin’s Camp Mabry station averaged 29 days a year at 100°F or hotter over 1991-2020. Wind and heat pull water out of fresh concrete faster than it can bleed up, and the surface cracks in short parallel lines. Early starts, fog spray, evaporation retarder and curing compound prevent it.
Clay That Lifts and Drops the Slab
Roughly half of the Pflugerville area is Houston Black clay, a soil the USDA rates high for shrink-swell. Dry spells open cracks in it up to 4 in. wide; rain closes them and lifts the ground. Compacted base, steady moisture and the right reinforcement keep a slab riding it out together.
Water That Sits Against the House
Clay takes water in quickly when it is dry and cracked, then barely drains at all once it is wet. A patio or walk that falls toward the house parks water exactly where the foundation least wants it.
What Goes Into a Pflugerville Pour
The details under the surface, the ones that decide whether a slab lasts.
- Base. Compacted select fill over a prepared subgrade. Trenches under concrete are backfilled with wetted sand or compacted fill with no rock over half an inch (City Code §150.29).
- Mix. For curb, gutter, sidewalks and driveways, TxDOT’s Class A concrete (3,000 psi) is a common benchmark. We name the strength in the scope.
- Reinforcement. Rebar or wire sized to the job. Steel doesn’t stop concrete from cracking; it holds the pieces together when clay moves.
- Joints. Control joints cut at a quarter of the slab depth, at most about 15 ft apart, with an expansion joint wherever new concrete meets old.
- Heat plan. First-light starts in summer, fog or evaporation retarder behind the screed, and white curing compound on the surface.
- Curing. At least three days of moisture held in the slab. Concrete left to dry out early can lose up to half its potential strength (NRMCA).
None of this shows the day the forms come off. It is still the difference between a driveway that cracks where it was told to and one that cracks where it likes.
Concrete Companies Near Me: What a Local Crew Does Differently
Three habits you can check for on any estimate, ours included.
The Walk Comes Before the Number
Nobody prices your job from a photo. Someone walks it, measures it, checks how water leaves the lot, and asks what you want the concrete to do, then writes it up.
The Scope Names the Hidden Parts
Base, thickness, reinforcement, joint layout, finish and the curing plan are all written down, so you can hold any other bid up against the same list.
We Say When a Concrete Job Isn’t Ours
Raising or pier-supporting a house foundation is a foundation repair company’s work, not ours. If a slab sounds hollow across most of its face, we’ll tell you an overlay would waste your money.
Concrete Work Across Pflugerville and the Towns Next Door
Pflugerville is about fifteen miles north of Austin, mostly in Travis County with a sliver of Williamson. The town is our focus, from the older lots near the East Main Street historic district to subdivisions like Blackhawk, Falcon Pointe, Highland Park North and Cantarra, platted from the 1990s on. Road names come up on every visit: Pecan Street is FM 1825 inside the city, FM 685 runs northeast toward Hutto, and SH 130 and SH 45 carry the commute.
Outside the city, the concrete is the same but the paperwork isn’t. Pick an area to see what changes.
Town Ribbon: what changes by area
Each chip shows who issues permits there and anything about the ground or the drive that changes the job.
- Pflugerville
- Most of the city sits in Travis County, with a small slice in Williamson County. Inside city limits, building permits run through Building Inspections & Permits, and anything in the street right-of-way (approaches, curbs, public sidewalk) goes through Development Engineering. Check whether your address is inside the city or out in the county before assuming whose rules apply; a subdivision with a Pflugerville mailing address is not always inside city limits.
- Wells Branch
- Wells Branch is a census-designated place in Travis County, not an incorporated city, so there is no Wells Branch city hall issuing concrete permits. County rules and your own deed restrictions decide what is needed, and we confirm that for the address before the scope is written.
- Round Rock
- Round Rock is its own city in Williamson County, about eight miles northwest of Pflugerville, with its own permit office and its own standards for approaches and sidewalks. Our Pflugerville code notes don’t carry over there, so we look up Round Rock’s rules for the job.
- Hutto
- Hutto is reached up FM 685 to the northeast. It is a separate city in Williamson County, so a Hutto driveway or sidewalk follows Hutto’s permits and street standards, not Pflugerville’s.
- Manor
- Manor is a separate city, partly inside Pflugerville ISD, with its own permit process. The Houston Black clay that covers much of this side of the county has its official type location near Manor, so the same heave and settlement habits apply there.
- North Austin
- North Austin addresses follow the City of Austin’s permit and right-of-way process, which is separate from Pflugerville’s. Pflugerville sits about fifteen miles north of Austin, so north Austin is close; a job in south Austin is not, and we would rather tell you that than run late every morning.
- Coupland
- Coupland is a small community partly served by Pflugerville ISD. Lots out there can be rural, with long drives and sometimes no curb at all, so the right-of-way questions change. For a small job that far out, we’ll tell you up front whether a closer crew would make more sense for you.
What Does Your Concrete Project Touch: City, HOA or TxDOT?
Most delays on a concrete job come from paperwork nobody saw coming. Flip on whatever applies to yours.
Switchboard: who your project involves
Each switch adds the office involved and what to have ready. Switches are independent; turn on as many as fit.
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City of Pflugerville Development Engineering A right-of-way permit before work starts (City Code Ch. 96). Decisions typically take about ten days from a complete application, and the city gets 48 hours’ notice before we start.
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City of Pflugerville Development Engineering The same right-of-way permit. Sidewalk joints are doweled with #3 rebar, 12 in. long, at least 24 in. apart (§150.28). If the city sent a repair notice, bring it: the owner has 30 days (§130.13).
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Your HOA’s architectural review committee A packet with a plot plan, dimensions, finish and color. Some committees post their own timeline (Falcon Pointe allows up to 30 days), so we schedule the pour after approval.
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TxDOT TxDOT approval for any sidewalk or concrete work in its right-of-way (UDC §10.3.1(B)). Their calendar isn’t ours to promise.
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Texas 811 (our own locate ticket) Two business days’ notice for the locate. Point out private lines (sprinklers, a gas line to a grill); utilities don’t mark those.
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Elite Concrete Pflugerville (tie-in detail) Tell us if the house slab is post-tensioned. PT slabs are the most common residential foundation in Texas, and they are never cut or cored to pin a patio in.
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City of Pflugerville Building Inspections & Permits Their miscellaneous permit form lists driveways, sidewalks, patios and patio covers; we confirm whether your job needs it.
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- Elite Concrete Pflugerville (site walk and written scope)
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How to Choose Concrete Contractors in Pflugerville
Concrete is hard to judge on the day it’s poured and easy to judge three summers later, so you have to pick the contractor on what they put in writing. Ask every bidder for a scope that names the base and how it is compacted, the slab thickness, the reinforcement, where the joints go, the finish, and how the slab will be cured in heat. If two bids don’t list the same things, you are not comparing prices yet.
Ask who calls in the utility locate. Texas811 is clear that each excavator needs its own ticket; a homeowner’s ticket doesn’t cover the crew that digs. Ask who pulls the city permit when one is needed, and whether the contractor knows the difference between Building Inspections (your lot) and Development Engineering (the right-of-way). A contractor who says “nobody needs a permit for that” about a driveway approach is telling you how they treat the parts you can’t see.
Ask for proof of insurance from any contractor before work starts, and be wary of a firm price given over the phone. Until someone has seen the old slab, the clay under it, the access for the truck and the fall of the yard, a number is a guess, and guesses get corrected after the old concrete is already in a dumpster.
Finally, notice how the visit itself goes. A contractor who walks the whole site, explains the drainage, and tells you which of your ideas they would talk you out of usually runs the pour the same way.
What Pflugerville Concrete Contractors Charge For, and Why
A per-foot figure on a website can’t see your base, your access or the finish you want, so you won’t find one here. The same square footage can be two very different jobs. What we can lay out is what moves the number, so you can read any bid and know where the money goes.
Tear-out and haul-off. Removing an old slab is labor, equipment and dumping fees. What is under it is unknown until it is up, so on a replacement it pays to keep some room in the budget for a soft spot that needs more base.
Base work on clay. Houston Black clay rarely makes a good base as found. Bringing in and compacting select fill is often the biggest hidden line on a driveway replacement or a new slab or pad.
Finish. Broom-finish gray is the baseline. Stamped patterns, integral color and exposed aggregate add labor inside a short working window and add sealing later.
Access and shape. A backyard the truck can’t reach means a pump or wheelbarrows. Curves, steps and tie-ins to the house all take more forming than a rectangle.
Paperwork and timing. A right-of-way permit for an approach or public sidewalk, an HOA review, and TxDOT on a state road add time more than cost, but time is money on a crew schedule.
Repair versus replacement is its own question. Sealing joints and patching small defects is inexpensive and buys years; a slab that sounds hollow, has heaved, or is cracked through in several places is usually cheaper to replace once than to repair every spring. A resurfacing overlay only makes sense on concrete that is sound underneath.
Residential and Commercial Concrete Jobs
The bulk of what homeowners call about is residential: driveways, patios, front walks, pads for sheds and AC units, and the retaining walls that sloped Pflugerville back yards need. The priorities on a house are finish, drainage away from the foundation, and joints that look intentional, because you look at them every day.
On the commercial side we pour walks, accessible ramps, dumpster pads, approaches and lot repairs for businesses and property managers. The concrete is similar; the planning is not. A business usually can’t close for a week, right-of-way work has to happen in business hours unless the City Engineer approves otherwise, and every new sidewalk that meets a street needs a ramp (§150.23(D)).
Whether it is one backyard slab or a strip center’s walkways, the same written scope applies.
Concrete Contractor Questions, Answered Before You Call
That depends on where the concrete sits. Work on your own lot (a patio, a driveway, a side walk) goes through Building Inspections & Permits, whose miscellaneous permit form lists driveways, sidewalks, patios and patio covers; we confirm with them whether your job needs one. Anything in the street right-of-way, such as the approach or the public sidewalk, needs a right-of-way permit from Development Engineering before work starts (City Code §96.02).
Weather decides it more than the calendar. Normal highs at Austin’s Camp Mabry station stay at 90°F or above from late May to late September, so summer pours start at first light with fog sprays and curing compound ready. The average first freeze is around December 1 and the last around February 15; on a hard freeze watch, like February 2021, we move the pour instead of gambling with it.
That depends on the mix and on the temperature during the first week, so your written scope gives the date for your slab rather than a stock answer. The slab is kept moist or sealed with curing compound for at least three days, and full strength keeps building for weeks after it looks finished.
If the joints are laid out right, the cracks it does get should follow the joints. Concrete shrinks as it dries, so control joints give it a planned place to crack: spaced no more than about 15 ft apart and laid out so panels stay close to square (no longer than 1.5 times their width), per NRMCA guidance. Clay movement and poor curing cause the cracks joints can’t control, which is why the scope covers both.
For plain broom-finish gray concrete it is optional. For stamped, colored or exposed-aggregate work, a sealer protects the color from UV fade, and decorative concrete in full sun is typically resealed every two to three years (ASCC). The finish you pick decides the upkeep, so we say which applies before you choose.
Within reason. Wells Branch, Round Rock, Hutto, Manor, north Austin and Coupland are all in our service area. Each one has its own permit office, so we look up the right rules for the address. For a small job a long drive away, we’ll tell you up front if a closer crew would serve you better.
Ready to Walk Your Lot With a Concrete Crew?
Send the visit request or call. We’ll set a time to walk the site and follow up with the scope in writing.
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