Concrete Contractor in Windsor, CO
The median Windsor home was built in 2009. That single number should change what a concrete contractor tells you here, because a seventeen year old driveway is rarely the thing that needs pulling out.
ECB Concrete LLC is a family owned, father and son residential concrete contractor. We pour flatwork for homeowners in Windsor and across Northern Colorado, and the estimate is free.
What most homes here have is not worn out concrete. It is the smallest amount of concrete the builder was willing to pour. 71.2% of Windsor’s housing units went up in 2000 or later and 46.6% of them since 2010, so the typical job here starts from a standard width driveway, a small back slab, no walkway to the side gate and a bare garage floor. Most of the concrete work this town needs adds to what is already there rather than replacing it.
Replacement is still real in Windsor, and it sits in two specific places. 2,283 homes were built here in the 1990s, which puts them at 27 to 36 years old and at the front edge of the replacement window. Another 1,655 went up in 1979 or earlier, most of them in the Old Town grid off Main Street. Own one of those and the honest answer is a different one, and it turns on what is under the slab rather than on how the surface looks.
Concrete work we do in Windsor
Here is the residential concrete we pour in Windsor, with the additions listed first.
- Patios and patio extensions. A new slab at grade, or a larger one tied onto the small slab the builder left, sized to how the back of the house is really used.
- Driveway extensions and wider driveways. Room for a third vehicle, a trailer, a turning space, or simply room to open a door without stepping onto gravel.
- New concrete driveways and slab replacement. Break out the old concrete, rebuild what is underneath it, repour.
- Walkways and side paths. The connector to the side gate, the shop door, the mailbox or the trail. These get named by where they go rather than by what they are.
- Concrete pads. Gate pads, shed pads, hot tub pads, RV pads and cart access pads.
- Stamped concrete. Pattern and texture pressed into the fresh pour, which suits the lake and golf frontage lots in Water Valley and RainDance.
- Colored concrete. Integral color through the mix, or color worked at the surface, chosen to sit with the house instead of fighting it.
- Concrete floors. Garage, basement, shop and pole barn floors, including the level transition at the garage door that stops a car jolting on the way in.
- Front steps and stoops. Flat, even, and without a lip to catch a toe, which matters in a town where 18.1% of residents are 65 or over.
- Curb and gutter. The frontage concrete between your property and the street, set to the drainage the street already has.
- Residential foundations and concrete demolition.
All of it is residential work. We are fully licensed and insured, and what we pour is 4000 PSI concrete or better. Tell us which of these you are planning and ask for a free estimate.
Windsor permits and local details
Windsor writes down more about residential flatwork than most towns on the Front Range, and that works in a homeowner’s favor.
The Town publishes a homeowner handout for concrete patios and driveways. In it, the Town sets out three requirements for exterior flatwork: reinforcement with a minimum 10-gauge welded wire mesh or another reinforcement the Building Official accepts, control joints spaced at a minimum of thirty times the thickness of the slab and no greater than ten feet, and backfill compaction under the slab that is consistent with the site soils report and verified by a geotechnical engineer by way of an affidavit. That affidavit has to be approved before a reinforcement inspection can be scheduled. Read that last one twice. The Town is telling you in writing that what sits under the slab decides how long it lasts.
Whether your particular patio or driveway needs a permit is a question Windsor answers by phone rather than in print. The Town’s public FAQ on patio covers and similar structures publishes no yes or no, and asks homeowners to call the Permit Technician at (970) 674-2436. That number is the one to ring before anything gets priced.
One rule the Town does publish in full is the patio setback. Table 16-1-20(a) allows a patio to encroach into any setback as long as it is no more than 12 inches above grade and no closer than three feet from the property line. You can check that with a tape measure before anyone prices anything.
Work in the public right of way runs through Engineering instead, which issues its own access, curb and sidewalk, encroachment and excavation permits. Two more layers sit above the Town in most newer Windsor subdivisions. The Town’s own homeowner guidance says HOA covenants cannot be less restrictive than Town rules although they can be stricter than Town requirements, and many newer neighborhoods also sit inside a metro district. Settle the color and the pattern with both before the forms go in.
There is one thing Windsor does not do. The Town states that there is no contractor license required for contractors performing work within the Town, so there is no municipal register to look us up in. The Town’s own handout answers that gap by telling homeowners to hire licensed contractors, get at least three bids, and get three references and ask to see a project. We would rather you did all three than take our word for it.
Conditions are the other half of the story. Windsor’s adopted design criteria classify the town as Severe for weathering and set the frost line depth at 30 inches, which is the code’s own way of saying that exterior concrete here takes punishment. NOAA publishes no normals for the Windsor station, so the defensible figure comes from the stations either side of town, which cross the freezing point on roughly 134 to 154 days a year. Water gets into a slab and its sub-base, freezes, expands, and does it again the following afternoon. Underneath all of that is clay. The Colorado Geological Survey calls expansive soil Colorado’s most significant geologic hazard and reports that these clays can expand up to 20% by volume when they take on water. A large share of the town is still establishing irrigated landscaping around fresh concrete, so where that water ends up is a design decision on the day, not something to sort out later.
Geography splits the work up as well. Water Valley and Pelican Lakes sit on ground reclaimed from former gravel mines, with lakefront and golf frontage lots where the concrete is part of the view. RainDance is planned at 2,800 home sites and includes 46 one acre custom lots in Acadia, which means a steady supply of houses closing with builder minimum flatwork. Highpointe sits west of town on larger lots. Greenspire at Windsor Lake is newer and more compact, close to Boardwalk Park and the path around the water, and some filings there are townhomes where the association rather than the owner controls the flatwork. Old Town, the grid around Main Park and Main Street, holds the oldest concrete in town along with the tightest access and the mature trees. The 1990s and 2000s belt, neighborhoods such as Village East, Poudre Heights and Winter Farm, is the part of Windsor where replacement rather than addition is the likelier answer.
Get a free estimate in Windsor
Call (970) 880-3330 or send a message through the site with the address and a line about what you are planning. The estimate is free.
Concrete gets priced off the ground it sits on. Where water goes, what an existing slab is bedded on, how a new pour meets the old one, where the joints have to land, and what the finished grade does at the gate and the downspouts all move the number. An estimate that names the thickness, the reinforcement, the joint layout and the sub-base work can be compared against another one. An estimate that names only a total cannot.
ECB Concrete LLC is family owned and father and son operated, fully licensed and insured, and every pour is 4000 PSI or better.
Custom Concrete Services
Our Custom Concrete Service covers all of your concrete needs.
We have over 20 years of experience providing all concrete services including:
Concrete Driveways & Sidewalks
Other areas we serve
Windsor is one of twenty communities in the service area, and one of four we cover in depth here alongside Fort Collins, where ECB Concrete LLC is based, Loveland and Greeley.
The full list runs Fort Collins, Laporte, Wellington, Timnath, Windsor, Loveland, Berthoud, Greeley, Evans, Johnstown, Milliken, Mead, Longmont, Frederick, Erie, Boulder, Broomfield, Thornton, Brighton and Commerce City.
An address on that list does not change the work. Call (970) 880-3330 and the estimate is still free.
Get a Professional Free Estimate
Send us the drive and walk dimensions, a note about what parks on the surface, and a couple of photos showing how the existing concrete has failed. That is usually enough for us to tell you what the scope should be.
Estimates are free. We will walk the site, shoot the grades, and give you a written scope that names slab thickness, base depth, and reinforcement, so you can hold it against anything else you have been quoted.
ECB Concrete LLC (970) 880-3330 ecbconcrete@gmail.com 3717 S Taft Hill Rd #161, Fort Collins, CO 80526
We are fully licensed and insured, and every concrete driveways and sidewalks quote we write is an itemized scope you can read line by line before you decide anything.
Frequently Asked Questions
How far from the property line does a patio in Windsor have to sit?
Three feet, and no more than 12 inches above grade. Windsor Table 16-1-20(a) allows a patio to encroach into any setback provided it meets both of those limits, which makes it one of the few outdoor questions in town you can answer yourself with a tape measure. The rules for other structures are written separately and are not the same, so check which one your project actually is before you rely on the patio line.
What does the Town of Windsor ask for underneath a slab?
Compaction that matches the site soils report, signed off by a geotechnical engineer on an affidavit, and approved before the reinforcement inspection can be scheduled. The Town publishes that in its concrete patio and driveway handout, along with a minimum 10-gauge welded wire mesh in exterior flatwork and control joints at no greater than ten feet. It is the clearest statement anyone in this town has put in writing that the sub-base, not the finish, decides the outcome.
Do I need a permit for a patio or a driveway in Windsor?
The Town does not publish an answer to that, so we do not publish one either. The Town FAQ on patio covers and similar structures asks homeowners to phone the Permit Technician at (970) 674-2436 instead. That call is the one to make before anything is poured, and the answer comes from the Town rather than from a contractor’s web page. Right of way work is a separate track that runs through Engineering.
Our builder poured a small back slab and nothing else. Can you add onto it?
Usually yes, and it is the situation most homes in this town are in. 71.2% of the housing units here went up in 2000 or later, so the flatwork is builder minimum rather than worn out. The decisions are where the joint between old and new lands, whether the existing slab is sitting level and on sound ground, and how the finished surface drains once it is twice the size. A slab that has already moved is worth replacing rather than extending, and that judgment has to be made on the ground before any price means much.
Windsor does not license concrete contractors. So what can I actually check?
Insurance, licensing, references and finished work. The Town states there is no contractor license required for contractors performing work within the Town, which leaves the homeowner with nothing official to look up. Windsor answers that in its own handout by telling people to hire licensed contractors, get at least three bids, and get three references and ask to see a project. We are fully licensed and insured, and we would rather be one of your three bids than your only one.