Concrete Contractors in Ogden, KS

Ogden sits in Riley County between Manhattan and Junction City, close to Fort Riley, and with an established housing stock, much of the work for concrete contractors here is repair and replacement. The town was founded around 1857 and incorporated as a city in 1870, so it has a long history and a housing stock to match. It was named for Major E. A. Ogden of the Army Corps of Engineers, who led the construction of the nearby fort.

The numbers behind Ogden's housing

The census tells a clear story. Ogden had 2,087 residents in 2010 and 1,661 in 2020, a drop of about 20 percent. Housing units went from 992 to 923, and in 2020 about 24.3 percent of them were vacant. The rental vacancy rate that year was 20.1 percent.

For property owners, that pattern matters. When a house sits empty, small problems grow. A cracked driveway lets water into the base, a winter of freezing pushes the pieces apart and a walk that was a minor trip hazard becomes a real one. That makes landlords readying a home for new tenants, and buyers fixing up a house that sat empty, the people most likely to need concrete work in Ogden.

Start with an honest look at the old slab

Not every cracked slab needs to be replaced. Here is how we sort it out:

1. Hairline cracks with no height difference can usually be cleaned and sealed. The slab is still doing its job. 2. Sections that have sunk or tipped but are otherwise solid may be candidates for lifting. If they are badly broken, replacing that section is often better value. 3. Surfaces that are flaking or pitting, called scaling, point to freeze-thaw damage. Shallow scaling can sometimes be resurfaced; deep scaling means replacement. 4. Slabs broken into many pieces usually mean the base underneath has failed. Patching the top will not fix that. We remove the concrete, rebuild and compact the base and pour new.

We will tell you which bucket your concrete falls in, and if a smaller repair will do the job, we say so.

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Building it back to last

When we do replace a driveway, walk or patio in Ogden, the new slab gets the full treatment. That means air-entrained concrete, which resists the freeze-thaw cycles that broke up the old one. It means the right thickness for the load: thicker for driveways and garage floors, standard for walks and patios. It means control joints spaced so cracks form in straight lines where you want them, and a slope that sends water away from the house and off the surface.

Ogden's climate, as Wikipedia describes it, has hot, humid summers and mild to cool winters. Summer heat makes curing important. A slab that dries out too fast in July loses strength at the surface, so we keep new concrete moist or use a curing compound, and we time pours to avoid the hottest part of the day when we can.

What Ogden properties tend to need

• Driveway replacement where the old one has broken into pieces
• Sidewalk and step repair to fix trip hazards before a new tenant moves in
• Garage and shed slabs for storage on rental or owner-occupied lots
• Patios, plain or stamped, to make a home more appealing to renters and buyers
• Concrete repair of sunken or scaled sections that do not need full replacement

We check what the City of Ogden requires before any work at the street edge. Call (785) 509-7585 and we will set up a site visit.