Concrete Sidewalk Replacement and Installation Done Right

The same flatwork skill that pours a sidewalk pours a garage apron, and it's a job we handle constantly. A garage apron is the concrete pad between your garage door and the driveway, and a driveway apron is the section where your driveway meets the street or public sidewalk. Both take a beating that a plain walkway never does: full vehicle weight rolling over the same edge thousands of times a year, plus water and snowmelt that collects right at the garage threshold and refreezes.

That's why we don't pour an apron the way we pour a walk. Where a residential sidewalk goes down at 4 inches, a garage apron or driveway apron gets 6 inches over a compacted subbase, and we tie the reinforcement and control joints into the adjacent slab so the two surfaces move together through freeze-thaw instead of cracking apart at the seam. A poorly poured apron is the first thing to fail on a driveway, and it usually fails at the garage lip where water sits.

If your apron is spalling, sinking at the garage door, or cracking where it meets the driveway, it can usually be replaced as its own section without redoing the whole driveway. We'll walk it with you and tell you whether it's an apron-only replacement or a sign the slab underneath has gone. In Edina and the surrounding southwest metro, mature boulevard trees and the same freeze-thaw stress hit driveway aprons just as hard as they hit sidewalks. Call (612) 462-2610 and we'll take a look.