Concrete Contractor in Berthoud, CO
Berthoud straddles the Larimer and Weld county line, so the first thing homeowners here ask is which county issues the permit. Inside town limits, neither one does. The Town of Berthoud runs its own building department, working to the 2024 International Residential Code with inspections handled through SAFEbuilt, and a county building department only takes over outside the town boundary. Larimer or Weld, if your address is in Berthoud, the Town is who you deal with.
We are ECB Concrete LLC, a father and son business based about 21 miles north in Fort Collins. Residential concrete is all we do. The estimate is free.
Berthoud is growing faster than anywhere else on our map. The population is up 36.4% since 2020 and now sits near 14,080, and 87.5% of occupied homes here are owner occupied. On a concrete page that second number is the one that counts, because almost everyone reading this can make the call on their own property.
The work itself splits in two. The median Berthoud home dates to 2011 and 55.5% of the housing went up in 2010 or later, so what the newer subdivisions call for is first time concrete: the patio nobody poured, the walk to the side gate, the third bay pad. The old core is smaller but it is real. 740 units, 14.3% of the town, predate 1980, and around Mountain Avenue that means original flatwork that has sat on ground that moves through four decades and more.
Concrete work we do in Berthoud
Everything below is residential concrete work, and all of it is in scope in Berthoud.
- New patios and patio enlargements. The most requested job in the newer neighborhoods. A first slab behind a house that never had one, or a larger one tied into the small slab the builder left.
- Concrete driveways. Full replacement where the original has served its time, and widening or a turnaround where a second and third vehicle have nowhere to sit.
- Driveway approaches and curb cuts. The apron between your drive and the street. This is the piece that runs through the Town’s right of way rules.
- Sidewalks and walkways. Town frontage walks, the run out to the side gate, the path to a shop door, a gate or a mailbox.
- Curb and gutter. Set to the line, grade and location the street already has.
- Stamped concrete. Pattern and texture pressed into the fresh pour.
- Colored and decorative concrete. Integral color through the mix, or color worked at the surface. Color and pattern are settled before the pour, which matters where an architectural committee has to see a sample first.
- Concrete pads. Shed and shop pads, hot tub pads, RV and trailer pads, third bay pads and gate pads.
- Concrete floors. Garage, basement, shop and pole barn floors, poured flat and finished to the use.
- Slab replacement and concrete demolition. Break out the old concrete, rebuild what is underneath it, repour, and haul the broken material away.
- Residential foundations.
Every one of those is residential work. ECB Concrete LLC is fully licensed and insured, and the mix that goes into the forms is 4000 PSI concrete or better. Tell us which of them you are planning and ask for a free estimate.
Berthoud permits and local details
Three separate sets of rules can reach a concrete job here, and only one of them is about the slab.
Start with the Town’s permit list, headed BUILDING PERMITS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE FOLLOWING. Flat concrete is not on it. Driveways, sidewalks, patios and slabs are absent. What the list does name is Patio Cover, Patio Enclosure, carports, garages, demolition and pergolas over 120 square feet or attached to the house. It also closes with the line “This list may not be all inclusive”. So the defensible answer for a patio or a driveway at grade is that it is not on the Town’s permit list, while a structure built over that slab is, and the Town keeps the right to ask for more.
The public right of way is where the Town gets strict, and it is written into the municipal code rather than left to practice. Code 15.7 states that “No sidewalk or curb shall be constructed or reconstructed, and no openings, driveways or cuts of any kind shall be made or enlarged in any curb” without first obtaining a permit from the town clerk approved by the superintendent of streets. Code 15.8 puts the grade, line and location of that work in the hands of the same officer and writes them into the permit. The Town’s right of way page defines the right of way to include town owned roads, crosswalks, bike paths, alleys and easements, and requires a Certificate of Insurance carrying Workers’ Compensation with the Town of Berthoud named as Certificate Holder and Additional Insured. The 2026 fee schedule prices the process: $25.00 for the right of way application, $50.00 for a street cut covering a drive, curb, gutter, sidewalk, encroachment or alley, and $132 per hour for inspection. That insurance requirement is checkable, and it is a fair thing to ask any contractor quoting frontage work here to produce.
Then there is the sidewalk out front, which is legally yours. Berthoud code 15.11 places sidewalk, curb and gutter work on the adjacent property owner once the Board of Trustees resolves it is necessary for public safety. The owner is served notice and has 30 days. After that the town does the work or contracts it out, and the cost is assessed against the adjacent property. The same chapter puts snow and ice clearing on the abutting owner within 24 hours.
Most of the newer subdivisions are organized through metropolitan districts rather than a conventional association. The Town describes a metro district as an independent and self-governing quasi-governmental entity with its own elected governing body, sitting inside the municipality but not run by it. Its metro district page lists eight entries, several of which cover more than one numbered district: Berthoud 160, Berthoud-Heritage, Hammond Farm, Heritage Ridge, Legacy Park, PrairieStar, Rose Farm Acres and Turion, with Heron Lakes and Vantage named as the neighborhoods served by Berthoud-Heritage. Assume architectural review on color, pattern and finish anywhere in the newer parts of town, and expect to submit a sample first.
Underneath all of it is clay. The Colorado Geological Survey calls expansive or swelling soil Colorado’s most significant geologic hazard and reports that these soils can exert a force of up to 30,000 pounds-per-square-foot as they take on water. Berthoud sits at 5,033 feet on the plains at the edge of the Little Thompson Valley, squarely inside the ground that description covers. Weather finishes the job. Across this part of Northern Colorado about 150 days a year cross the freezing point, dropping below overnight and climbing back by afternoon, and water in a slab or its base repeats that cycle every one of them.
Where you are in town changes the work. Heron Lakes at TPC Colorado sits on custom and lakefront lots around the TPC Colorado course, where the concrete is part of the view and the finish has to clear a palette before it is poured. PrairieStar, on the far side of Berthoud Parkway, is a phased build, so early filings are years past closing and ready to finish a yard while later ones are still bare lots. Hammond Farm and Vantage put nearly complete detached phases next to incoming paired housing, which brings shorter drives, smaller patios and a question about who authorizes work on a shared line that is worth settling before anyone prices it. Farmstead is the east edge, growing across into Weld County. The Mountain Avenue core holds the oldest flatwork in town, the tightest access, and the frontage where the right of way rules bite hardest.
Get a free estimate in Berthoud
Call (970) 880-3330 or use the contact form with your address and a sentence about what you are planning. The estimate is free.
Most of what decides a flatwork job in Berthoud is settled before any concrete is ordered: where drainage leaves the yard, how a new pour meets what is already there, where the control joints fall, and what the sub-base under the slab is built from. Those are also the items that make one bid comparable to another, so they are worth seeing named on any estimate rather than folded into a single figure. ECB Concrete LLC is family owned and father and son operated, fully licensed and insured, and pours 4000 PSI concrete or better.
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Other areas we serve
Berthoud is one of twenty communities in the ECB Concrete LLC service area. Loveland is the next town north of you and Longmont the next one south, and both are on that list, along with Mead, Johnstown and Milliken out toward the Weld County side.
The list in full: Fort Collins, Laporte, Wellington, Timnath, Windsor, Loveland, Berthoud, Greeley, Evans, Johnstown, Milliken, Mead, Longmont, Frederick, Erie, Boulder, Broomfield, Thornton, Brighton and Commerce City.
If your town is on that list, call (970) 880-3330 and the estimate is 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
What does the Town of Berthoud require before work touches the curb or the sidewalk?
A right of way permit, plus proof of insurance before it is issued. Berthoud code 15.7 requires a permit from the town clerk, approved by the superintendent of streets, before any sidewalk or curb is built or rebuilt and before any driveway cut is made or enlarged in a curb. The Town also requires a Certificate of Insurance carrying Workers’ Compensation with the Town of Berthoud named as Certificate Holder and Additional Insured. The 2026 schedule lists $25.00 for the right of way application and $50.00 for a street cut. ECB Concrete LLC is fully licensed and insured, and that certificate is a fair thing to ask any contractor to produce before frontage work starts.
The sidewalk in front of our house has lifted. Whose problem is that?
Yours, once the Town says so. Berthoud code 15.11 places sidewalk, curb and gutter work on the adjacent property owner after the Board of Trustees resolves that it is necessary for public safety. You are served notice and have 30 days. Miss that and the town does the work or contracts it out, and the cost is assessed against the adjacent property. When a notice like that lands, the honest fix on a lifted panel is usually taking it out and pouring a new one to the line and grade the superintendent of streets sets.
Our neighborhood is in a metro district. Does that change a colored or stamped patio?
It adds an approval step rather than a limit on what you can have. The Town describes a metro district as an independent and self-governing quasi-governmental entity with its own elected governing body, and Heron Lakes and Vantage are served by the Berthoud-Heritage districts. Plan on review of color, pattern and finish, and settle that approval before any material is ordered. A district review is an approval step on the finish, not a limit on the concrete underneath it.
The ground moves here. What keeps a new slab from going the same way?
What goes under it, mostly. The Colorado Geological Survey names expansive or swelling soil as Colorado’s most significant geologic hazard and reports that it can exert a force of up to 30,000 pounds-per-square-foot as it takes on water. No slab wins that by being thicker. What works is keeping water off it: a graded and compacted sub-base, drainage carried away from the house and the slab edge, joints placed so the concrete moves where we set the line, and 4000 PSI concrete or better with reinforcement sized to the job. Those are the items worth seeing named on any estimate you are given.
Why does the concrete on my street look nothing like my neighbor’s?
Because it was poured to different builder specifications, often in different years. Heron Lakes at TPC Colorado alone lists nine builder partners across sections including The Rookery and The Peninsula, so builder grade flatwork built to nine separate specifications sits side by side on the same streets. Town wide, a subdivision map carried 33 different developments as of February 2024, and more than 3,000 homes were in the town’s development pipeline as of early 2024. What a builder poured tells you what that plan allowed at the time. It does not tell you what the ground under your lot needs. Slab thickness, reinforcement, joint spacing and sub-base preparation are what separate two slabs that look identical on the day they are finished.