Concrete Contractor in Greeley, CO
Greeley concrete has to survive a seven month freeze window. The first freeze here typically lands around October 4 and the last around May 4, so for most of the year the slab in front of your house is either frozen, thawing, or about to freeze again. Add an average of 34.9 inches of snow a year, winter lows in the 15 to 20 F range, and ground that swells when it is wet and shrinks when it is dry, and you get the two failures Greeley homeowners actually describe: concrete that cracks, and concrete that sinks or heaves out of level.
ECB Concrete LLC is a family owned, father and son business pouring residential concrete for homeowners in Greeley and across Northern Colorado. Driveways and sidewalks, patios, stamped and colored work, garage and basement floors, curb and gutter, and pole barn and shop floors.
Greeley’s housing splits that work in two. 41.3% of the city’s housing units were built in 1979 or earlier, and the median Greeley home dates to 1991. Downtown and on the older east side, that means original driveways, walks and approaches that have served their time and are ready to come out. West of town, in the subdivisions built from the early 2000s onward, the concrete is younger and the conversation changes: patios that need to be bigger, driveway aprons that need to be wider, and finishes that need to look like somebody chose them.
Either way, the estimate is free and it starts with one of us on site.
Concrete work we do in Greeley
Everything below is residential work, poured at 4000 PSI or better. It divides about the way Greeley itself does.
Where the original flatwork has run out of road:
- Concrete demolition. Getting the old slab broken out and off the property. In Greeley this is rarely cosmetic. When a driveway has sunk or heaved, the trouble is beneath it, and nothing gets fixed while it is still buried.
- Concrete driveways and sidewalks. Full replacement: out with the failed slab, rebuild and compact the base, set the reinforcement, then pour and joint it properly.
- Curb and gutter. The frontage concrete where the property meets the street, poured to sit correctly with the drainage and the walk beside it.
- Concrete floors. Garage and basement slabs. Almost every home in the west Greeley subdivisions has a basement, so this comes up more often here than people expect.
Where the house is newer and the yard is the project:
- Concrete patios. New slabs and extensions onto what is already there. On the smaller lots around Promontory the back patio effectively is the yard, so getting the footprint right is most of the job.
- Stamped concrete. Pattern and texture worked into the fresh pour, which is the usual ask on the larger lots out in St. Michaels.
- Colored concrete. Color run through the mix or worked at the surface, chosen against the house rather than out of a catalogue.
- Pole barn and shop floors. Outbuilding slabs, plus the long driveway runs that come with a property big enough to need one.
Tell us which half of that list you are on and we will come out and put a real number on it. The visit and the estimate both cost nothing.
Greeley permits and local details
Concrete work that reaches into the City of Greeley’s Public Space, which is what most people mean when they say the right of way, needs a permit, and the City runs those through its online eTrakit portal. The one covering a residential driveway approach is the General Construction Permit, which the City describes as covering construction within the Public Space and related work such as driveways and concrete work within the right of way.
The requirement worth knowing as a homeowner attaches to the contractor rather than the concrete. The City states that all contractors completing construction work within the Public Space are required to have a Business License and Contractors License. You can ask for both before you sign anything, and a straight answer to that question tells you a lot about who you are dealing with.
One technical point catches people out on approaches. Sidewalks in the City right of way have to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the cross slope running from the driveway to the street cannot exceed 2 percent. It reads like a small detail. It is the difference between an approach that stands and one that gets torn out and done again.
Geography sets the rest of it. Downtown Greeley and the historic east side, roughly between US-85 and 8th Street, hold homes built between 1900 and 1994, including the older stock around the Monroe Historic District on 9th Avenue. That is the oldest flatwork in the city and the likeliest to need full replacement rather than an upgrade. West of town the picture flips. Kelly Farm, built out by 2005, has reached its first replacement and upgrade cycle. Promontory sits on small lots near the JBS USA headquarters, where 2 and 3 car garages leave the back patio doing the work of a yard. St. Michaels holds the largest lots among the west side subdivisions, which is where the bigger stamped and colored slabs make sense. Owl Ridge is where 3 car attached garages are the norm, and that is the widest driveway footprint in the city.
Those four west side neighborhoods are all HOA governed. Whether a particular HOA reviews color, pattern or finish varies from one community to the next, so settle that question before you choose a stamp. Underneath every one of them is the same ground: soil that expands when wet and contracts when dry, with the freeze cycle driving the swing harder. That is why the base, the joint layout and the direction water leaves the slab matter more in Greeley than the finish sitting on top.
Get a free estimate in Greeley
Call (970) 880-3330 or send a message through the site with your address and a line about the job, and we will arrange a time to come out. There is no charge for the visit and none for the estimate.
Once we are there we look at the slab, at where water sits and where it drains, and at what the concrete has been bedded on. If the base underneath is the real problem, we will say so, because a fresh slab set on the same tired ground in a seven month freeze window is a short answer to a long question.
ECB Concrete LLC is family owned and father and son operated, fully licensed and insured, and every pour is 4000 PSI or better. We cover Greeley, Fort Collins, Loveland and the wider Northern Colorado area.
Other areas we serve
Greeley is one of three towns we cover in depth. The other two are Fort Collins, where ECB Concrete LLC is based, and Loveland. Past those three the service area takes in twenty communities in all: Fort Collins, Laporte, Wellington, Timnath, Windsor, Loveland, Berthoud, Greeley, Evans, Johnstown, Milliken, Mead, Longmont, Frederick, Erie, Boulder, Broomfield, Thornton, Brighton, and Commerce City.
Nothing about the work changes with the address. If your town is on that list, the estimate is still free and still costs nothing to ask for.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a permit to replace my driveway in Greeley?
For the portion on your own property, that depends on the project, and the City’s Community Development team is the right place to confirm it rather than a contractor’s website. The public side is clear: work reaching into the City’s Public Space, including the driveway approach where it meets the street, is permitted through the City’s eTrakit portal, and the contractor performing it must hold a Business License and Contractors License. Ask to see both before you hire anyone.
What actually makes one Greeley driveway last longer than another?
What is underneath it, and how it is jointed. Thickness and mix matter, but the slab that survives here is the one placed on ground excavated to the right depth and compacted properly, with control joints cut where the concrete was always going to crack anyway, and with the grade sending water away from the house instead of along the slab. Those are the parts of the job that vanish from view the day it is finished, which is exactly why they are worth asking about while you are still comparing bids.
We are in one of the west Greeley HOA neighborhoods. Does that change anything?
It can change your color and pattern choices, so find out early. Kelly Farm, Promontory, St. Michaels and Owl Ridge are all HOA governed. Whether a given HOA reviews a patio, a driveway extension or a decorative finish varies between them, and the published scopes cover common area maintenance rather than architectural review, so the only reliable answer comes from your own HOA. Get it in hand before you commit to a stamp or a color.
Can you pour a garage or basement floor as well as the driveway?
Yes. Garage slabs and basement floors are part of what we pour, and in the west Greeley subdivisions, where almost every home has a basement, they come up regularly. If you are already planning work out front, it is worth raising the interior slabs at the same estimate visit so you are looking at the whole picture at once.