Thickness, reinforcement and joint spacing — stated on every quote
Concrete Contractors in Frisco, TX — Driveways, Patios and Repair
Concrete contractors will each give you a different number for the same driveway, often several thousand dollars apart. The number is not the problem. Not knowing what stands behind it is — so we put ours in writing.
- Measured on site, in person — never quoted from a photograph
- One fixed price in writing, not a range that moves on the day
- Haul-off and clean-up included, not added at the end
Tell us where you are and what you need. Someone attends, measures, and you receive the number in writing.
The cheapest concrete quote is usually the thinnest slab
Two quotes for the same driveway can sit $3,000 apart, and the difference is almost never labour.
It is an inch of thickness. Mesh where rebar belongs. Control joints cut too far apart. None of it is visible on the day the crew leaves, because a fresh slab looks the same either way.
No fee, no obligation.
What our quote states that most quotes leave out
Five lines. They are the difference between a slab that lasts and one that needs a repair crew in five years.
Yours to keep, whether you book or not.
- Slab thicknessThe depth in inches for your job, not a default. A driveway carrying a truck is not a patio carrying a grill.
- ReinforcementRebar or mesh, the size, and the spacing. This is the line most often missing, and the one that costs the most to leave out.
- Joint spacingWhere the control joints sit and how deep they are cut. Concrete cracks; joints determine where.
- Sub-base prepWhat is excavated, what is compacted, and to what depth. The part nobody photographs, and the part that decides whether clay movement reaches your slab.
- What is includedDemolition, haul-off, forms pulled and the site swept. Priced at the outset rather than added at the end.
The crew that pours it is the crew that quoted it
Your job is not passed to whichever crew happens to be free that week. The person who measured your yard is on site when the truck backs up, so the specification on the quote is the specification that ends up in the ground.
Most of the work happens before the concrete arrives
Before the truck arrives, the sub-base is excavated and compacted, the forms are set to the finished level, and the fall is set at an eighth to a quarter of an inch per foot so water runs away from the house instead of standing against it.
That stage decides what your patio or driveway slab looks like in ten years.
Steel sized for the clay, not for the invoice
Reducing the steel is the easiest way to take a few hundred dollars off a quote, and the fastest way to lose a slab. We see the result often enough — most of our concrete repair work is on somebody else's pour.
So the rebar is sized for the soil, tied, and chaired clear of the ground. Steel sitting underneath a slab rather than inside it does nothing at all.
What we pour, repair and finish around Frisco
Four kinds of work make up most of what a Frisco homeowner calls about. Each is quoted with the same numbers on the page: mix strength, steel, base depth and joint spacing.
Concrete patios
A concrete patio is a reinforced slab poured on prepared ground, normally 4 inches thick and sized to the furniture that ends up on it. We form, pour and finish patios using 3,000 to 3,500 PSI ready-mix, 6x6 welded wire mesh or #3 rebar chaired to mid-depth over 4 inches of compacted base, with control joints cut to a quarter of the slab depth and spaced 8 to 12 feet apart. Every patio quote states the thickness, the reinforcement, the joint layout and the finish before anything is poured.
Concrete patios in FriscoConcrete repair
Concrete repair covers three separate failures: a crack that is widening, a surface that is flaking apart, and a panel that has dropped. We rout and seal moving cracks with polyurethane sealant, inject structural cracks with epoxy, and saw-cut failed panels out to the nearest joints before rebuilding the base and repouring at full thickness. Every repair quote names which of the three you have, and says plainly what it does not fix.
Concrete repair in FriscoConcrete driveways
A concrete driveway carries vehicle loads, so it is poured thicker and reinforced harder than any other flatwork on the lot. We pour driveways at 4 inches for cars and 5 inches where a truck or an RV parks, using 4,000 PSI ready-mix and #3 or #4 rebar at 18 inches on centre over compacted base, with an eighth to a quarter of an inch of fall per foot away from the house. Every driveway is jointed to a plan drawn before the pour, not cut wherever the saw lands afterwards.
See every serviceResurfacing and overlays
Resurfacing bonds a new wear surface onto concrete that is structurally sound but worn, spalled or stained. We profile the existing slab and apply a polymer-modified overlay, broom-finished or stamped and coloured, then seal it with a penetrating sealer. Every overlay quote starts with whether your slab is a candidate at all — over concrete that is cracked and still moving, an overlay is money spent twice.
See every serviceDriveways, resurfacing, overlays, stamped work and repair are all quoted the same way — see every concrete service we cover across Frisco and the North DFW ring.
The spec goes on the quote before you decide anything.
Common concrete problems in Frisco and North Texas
Four failures cause most of the concrete work in this part of DFW. All four are local, and none of them is the concrete's own fault.
Shrink-swell clay under most of Frisco
Frisco sits on the Blackland Prairie, and the soil under most of it is Houston Black clay — a smectite clay that swells as it takes on water and shrinks as it dries. It routinely tests at a plasticity index of 40 to 60. The building code classes a soil as expansive at 15.
A wet spring lifts the edges of a slab; an August drought drops them again. The slab is loaded in bending twice a year, every year. Nothing stops the movement — thickness, reinforcement sized for the soil, and joints cut to a plan are what decide whether it survives.
Voids and dropped panels after a dry summer
When clay shrinks away from the underside of a slab, the concrete spans the gap unsupported. The first heavy vehicle finds the void, and the panel cracks or steps down at a joint — usually near the street, where a drive is at its widest.
If a sound slab has sunk as a whole, foam lifting is the right fix and there are specialists here who do only that; we will say so rather than sell you a replacement. Where the panel itself has failed, it comes out to the nearest joints and the base is rebuilt before anything is repoured.
Hot-weather pours, shrinkage cracking and spalling
In July and August, afternoon temperatures here run into the 100s with wind and low humidity. Water leaves the surface of fresh concrete faster than it rises through it, and the top skin cracks while the slab underneath is still plastic.
Two things go wrong on site: water added to the mix to keep it workable, and finishing started while bleed water is still standing. Both weaken the top few millimetres, and both show up years later as spalling. Pouring early, using an evaporation retarder and curing properly are what prevent it.
Water running the wrong way
Flatwork poured dead level, or with fall back towards the house, holds water against the slab edge and against the foundation. On expansive clay that is the swell cycle applied exactly where you least want it, with algae and staining on the surface as the visible half.
Concrete flatwork needs an eighth to a quarter of an inch of fall per foot away from the structure. It gets measured at the estimate, before the forms are set — after the pour, the only fix is a saw and a truck.
The site visit tells you which of these you actually have.
You will know when you can drive on it before you book
All three dates go on your quote in writing. "It will be fine by tomorrow" is how good concrete gets damaged by the person who just paid for it.
Cold weather extends every one of them. If that applies to your pour, you hear it before the truck is ordered rather than afterwards.
Curing guidance: NRMCA CIP 11, Curing In-Place Concrete.
Our quote against the typical quote
Same driveway, same yard. The difference is what's written down before anyone pours.
| On the page | DFW Concrete Co. | The typical quote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | One number for the job as scoped | A per-foot range that moves on the day |
| Slab thickness | Stated in inches | Not mentioned |
| Reinforcement | Rebar or mesh, size and spacing | "Reinforced" — the entire line |
| Joint spacing | Planned and written | Cut wherever, if at all |
| Haul-off and clean-up | In the price | Added at the end |
Take our quote to any other contractor and compare it line by line. That is what it is for.
Free. No obligation. Most quotes back the same day.
How much does concrete cost in Frisco, TX?
These are the ranges the Frisco and North DFW market runs at in 2026, with the specification each number assumes. They are ranges, not your price — the fixed number goes on the written quote after the site visit. Anyone who gives you one firm figure over the phone has not seen the job.
| Work | What the number assumes | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| New flatwork | ||
| Concrete patio | 4in slab, 3,000–3,500 PSI, mesh or #3 rebar, broom finish | $8–$13 / sq ft |
| Concrete driveway | 4in slab, 4,000 PSI, #3 rebar at 18in centres, broom finish | $7–$12 / sq ft |
| Driveway for trucks or an RV | 5in slab, #4 rebar at 18in centres, thickened edge | $10–$16 / sq ft |
| Sidewalk or walkway | 4in slab, mesh, over 4in of compacted base | $7–$12 / sq ft |
| Stamped patio | pattern, integral colour, release and penetrating sealer | $15–$25 / sq ft |
| Repair and restoration | ||
| Rout and seal a crack | crack cut out, backer rod, polyurethane sealant | $8–$18 / linear ft |
| Epoxy injection | structural crack, injected under pressure | $12–$25 / linear ft |
| Replace a failed panel | saw-cut to the nearest joints, base rebuilt, repoured | $8–$15 / sq ft |
| Resurfacing | profiled slab, polymer-modified overlay, broom finish | $4–$8 / sq ft |
| Decorative or stamped overlay | as above, stamped or scored, coloured and sealed | $8–$14 / sq ft |
| Site work | ||
| Demolition and haul-off | existing 4–5in reinforced slab broken out, hauled and disposed of | $3–$6 / sq ft |
What moves a number inside its range: slab thickness, whether an existing slab has to come out first, how close the truck can get, how much base has to be excavated and compacted, and the finish. The City of Frisco asks for the depth, the rebar size and spacing and the PSI on the permit survey — the same three lines we put on the quote.
Free. No obligation. Most quotes back the same day.
How a job actually runs
Four steps. You can stop after the second one at no cost.
The site visit
We measure the area, check the grade and the drainage, assess the soil, and confirm whether a truck can reach the pour.
The written quote
One fixed price, with the thickness, the reinforcement and the joint spacing stated — the same three items the City of Frisco asks for on the survey with a concrete and driveway permit application. Yours to keep and to compare.
Prep and pour
Sub-base excavated and compacted, forms set, steel tied and chaired. Then the pour, the finish and the joint cut.
The cure
Forms pulled and the site cleared, then the slab is left undisturbed to gain strength on the schedule above.
Walk 24–48h · car 7 days · heavy 28 days
Step one costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Questions people ask before they book
Who are the best concrete contractors near me in Frisco, TX?
How much does a concrete driveway cost in Frisco?
How much does a concrete patio cost in Frisco?
Why do so many slabs crack in North Texas?
How long before I can walk on it, and park on it?
Can you repair a cracked slab instead of replacing it?
Do I need a permit for concrete work in Frisco?
Do you charge for an estimate?
Which areas do you cover?
Get the number in writing this week
Concrete is weather-dependent work. The calendar fills from March, and again from September. A job quoted in a busy week is poured in a later one.
Worst case, you walk away with a written spec you can hold every other quote against. Best case, you stop shopping.
- Free on-site visit, measured properly
- One fixed price, in writing
- Thickness, steel and joints stated
- Insured — certificate on request
- Haul-off and clean-up included