Concrete Contractor Altoona IA - Driveways, Patios & Sidewalk Replacement

We pour and replace concrete in Altoona: driveways, back patios, public walks, front steps and pads, from the older blocks near downtown to the newer subdivisions.

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Older concrete driveway widened with a strip of new light-gray concrete beside it in front of a brick and siding two-story home

Altoona writes its sidewalk specs right into city code, and our crews follow them.

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Concrete Work We Do in Altoona

Driveway replacements and widenings, new patios and patio extensions, sidewalk squares and front walks, shed and hot tub pads, and garage floors. Where a slab has dropped but is still in one piece, lifting it is usually cheaper than a new pour. If it's heaved or broken, we'll quote concrete driveway replacement instead.

Three workers screeding wet concrete for a backyard patio extension next to a wooden deck, with a wheelbarrow and a privacy fence behind

Altoona's Sidewalk Standards

Altoona's city code requires a permit before anyone removes, rebuilds or installs a sidewalk, and it spells out how the walk gets built:

Residential walks at least 5 feet wide and 4 inches thick, in sections no more than 5 feet long
At least 6 inches thick across driveway areas
A 3-inch base of clean, coarse gravel where the soil doesn't drain well
A slope of 1/4 inch per foot toward the curb
A broom or wood-float finish

Sidewalk form beside the curb filled with clean coarse gravel, with a string line and a level resting across the forms

Right-of-Way Permits and Sheds

Construction in the public right-of-way, such as a new approach or curb work, requires an Engineering right-of-way construction permit through the City's permit portal. The contractor has to carry a $1,000,000 liability certificate naming the City and a $25,000 performance and maintenance bond. If your project is a shed pad, Altoona requires a permit for any shed over 40 square feet, and the shed has to sit in the rear yard, out of easements, 6 feet from the house and 3 feet off the property line. We plan the pad to those setbacks.

Wooden forms over compacted gravel for a shed pad in a fenced backyard, with flagged stakes and a tape measure along the form

Around Altoona

Altoona got its name from the Latin altus, "high," because the surveyor found it was the highest point on the Des Moines Valley Railroad between Des Moines and Keokuk. Today it's home to Adventureland and Prairie Meadows, and we work in neighborhoods all around them, from the blocks near Haines Park to the newer streets on the edges of town.

Altoona's white water tower with the city name in blue against a clear sky — Altoona water tower. Photo: Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Part of Des Moines Concrete Contractor, serving Altoona and the east side of the metro.

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