315 E Front St, Bloomington, IL, 61701
Poured around the freeze-thaw window, on a compacted base, with the mix and thickness set before a form goes in.
Your driveway, patio or garage slab holds its line through the Bloomington freeze and thaw that lifts concrete poured on clay.
Bloomington Concrete Pros is a concrete contractor working out of Bloomington, pouring for homes and businesses in Normal, Hudson and Downs, and has been since 2008. Most jobs go in within one to two weeks of the first call.
Driveways and parking make up most of what this crew pours, replacement slabs and truck aprons. Patios and walkways come next, sloped to shed water off the house. Then foundations and slabs for garages, concrete repair on settled or scaling slabs, and decorative concrete for stamped and exposed aggregate finishes.
Every pour is a 4,000 PSI air entrained mix, which keeps a McLean County winter of road salt from scaling the surface.
Is one cracked slab too small a concrete job to call about? One cracked slab is a morning of concrete work for a homeowner, and the other end of the scale is a builder ordering the slab and truck apron for a commercial unit.
Ask Bloomington Concrete Pros for a free concrete estimate at (309) 555-0142, in Bloomington, Normal, Towanda or Heyworth. Somebody comes out, measures the ground and leaves you holding a written quote rather than a figure over the phone.
Greg and Karen Vollmer
Founders and owners
Who we are
We have been pouring concrete around Bloomington, Normal, Hudson and Downs since 2008. Eighteen years in, the job still comes down to the ground under the slab, an air entrained mix, and pouring inside the window.
We hold the digging, the base, the forms, the steel, the pour and the joints under one contract, so nobody quotes you concrete laid on somebody else's grading. The base depth goes in the quote, not the day.
Services
A driveway carries more weight than almost anything else poured around a house, so it fails first when the base underneath was never dug out properly. This is for a homeowner whose driveway has heaved into a trip hazard, and for a builder who needs an apron poured to hold trucks and trailers. Both get the same base work and reinforcement decisions before concrete is ordered.
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A patio sits closer to the house than almost anything else poured on the property, so a slope built wrong sends water toward the foundation instead of away. This is for a homeowner planning an outdoor space for a table and chairs, and for somebody selling a house whose cracked walkway an inspector will flag first. Both get the same grading work and finish decisions before a form goes in.
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For a garage, a shed or an addition, the foundation underneath it is the part nobody sees again once the walls go up, which is exactly why it has to be right the first time. We dig to a compacted subgrade, set footings below the frost line and place steel to match the load, whether that is a two-car garage or a room tied into a house that has stood for decades.
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A crack does not tell you on its own whether it is cosmetic or a sign the base underneath has failed, and guessing wrong means paying twice. We sound every slab before quoting a repair, so a driveway that can be lifted and sealed does not get torn out unnecessarily, and one that genuinely needs replacing does not get a patch that fails again next winter.
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A decorative finish is the one concrete decision that is entirely yours, the pattern, the color and the texture, and it is worth getting sealed properly so it still looks like a choice five winters from now. We mix color through the full slab rather than dusting it on top, and every finish gets a sealer rated for the salt this area puts down every winter.
Learn more about Decorative ConcreteAir entrained mix, a compacted base and the reinforcement, specified before a form goes in.
Every pour uses a 4,000 PSI air entrained mix, rated for the freeze-thaw cycling McLean County gets each winter. The subgrade is excavated and compacted to at least four inches of dense graded base, since clay left loose under a slab is what heaves it the first cold snap.
Control joints are cut within twenty-four hours, at a depth equal to a quarter of the slab thickness, so cracking happens where it is planned. Fiber reinforcement is standard, and rebar or wire mesh goes in where load requires it.
Driveways and walkways get a broom finish, sealed within thirty days to keep road salt from scaling the surface.
Call and a crew lead comes out, measures the site and puts the mix, the thickness and the pour date on one estimate.
(309) 555-0142Corn belt clay heaves with the frost, the pour window closes on a cold snap, and road salt scales a poorly finished surface. Three things, each changing the job.
Rated 5 out of 5
City tagged the two sidewalk squares in front of our house back in June. They cut them out and repoured on a Tuesday morning. Nothing else to say about it.
Rated 5 out of 5
Our driveway lifted at the apron every winter until it cracked right across. When they broke it out they hit an old asphalt layer nobody knew about, which added a day. Flat through two winters now.
Rated 5 out of 5
We left the patio too late and October was closing in, so they poured on the first dry week and said the sealer would wait until spring. It did. My husband still checks the slope when it rains.
Ask where we poured near you and go and stand on it. That tells you more than a star rating does.
Get a free quoteSix jobs finished in the last year, each one in a town on the list below. What the site needed usually mattered more than the finish.
Driveway replacement, heaved slab
Bloomington
Original slab had heaved at three joints from an uncompacted subgrade. Removed, base rebuilt and compacted, repoured with fiber reinforcement.
Stamped patio, ashlar slate pattern
Normal
New patio poured off the back of the house, stamped in an ashlar slate pattern and sealed, tied into the existing walkway with a control joint.
Garage slab, new construction
Hudson
Slab poured for a detached garage build, four inch base compacted first, control joints cut to match the door bays.
Exposed aggregate walkway
Danvers
Front walkway removed and repoured in exposed aggregate after the original surface had scaled from years of deicing salt.
Retaining wall and steps
LeRoy
Retaining wall and a run of steps poured on a sloped side yard, with drainage worked in behind the wall before backfill.
Commercial slab and apron
Heyworth
Slab and truck apron poured for a small commercial unit, four inches of compacted base first, scheduled around the tenant business operating hours.
A free look at the ground, and the base depth written into the quote.
You have just seen how a job runs. What gets priced is not the square footage alone, it is what the ground is doing underneath it and what the finish is asked to do on top.
Which of these apply is usually clear once somebody has stood on the site and seen the ground for themselves. Get a free quote
A cracked or heaved driveway costs more off an offer than a new one costs to pour.
No published resale report prices concrete as its own line item. Remodeling studies measure whole projects, a kitchen or a primary suite, with paving and slab work folded inside the number rather than broken out beside it. A percentage claimed for a driveway or a patio on its own would be a guess, so none is offered here.
What a report cannot show is what a buyer's inspector writes down. A driveway sitting flat with tight, planned control joints reads as maintained. One that has heaved at the seams, spalled from salt, or been patched twice is a line in the inspection report and a number off the offer before anyone discusses the roof or the furnace.
Most jobs run one to two weeks from that first call to a finished pour, and the pour itself takes just one day.
Call (309) 555-0142 for a free estimate, or ask us to come out and measure before you decide on anything.
Get a free quoteSince 2008 this crew has poured driveways, patios and slabs in Bloomington, Normal, Hudson and Downs, and the part that decides how long a pour lasts happens before the truck arrives. The digging, the base, the compaction, the forms, the steel, the pour, the finish and the joints are one contract. Nobody is quoting you for concrete laid on top of somebody else's grading.
Call (309) 555-0142 or fill in the form and we will come and look at the ground. The visit costs nothing, and the base depth and the joint spacing are written into the quote rather than left to the day.
Concrete service area
Working out of Bloomington, covering Normal and the McLean County towns around it, out to about a twenty mile radius.
Primary service area
Bloomington, IL
Bloomington Concrete Pros 315 E Front St, Bloomington, IL, 61701 (309) 555-0142Also serving
If your town is not on the list, call anyway. Twelve names is what fits on the page, not where the crew stops driving.
FAQs
Common questions about concrete work in Bloomington
No. A single cracked walkway slab or a small patio repair gets the same estimate visit as a full driveway, and a crew stays free through most of the season for exactly that size of job, not just the larger pours.
It is broken out, loaded and hauled away as part of the job, so it never becomes something you have to arrange separately. What comes up rarely tells the whole story either, since a failed slab often means the subgrade under it needs work too.
Foot traffic after about three days, and vehicles after seven, weather allowing. Full strength takes closer to twenty eight days, which is why a new driveway is barricaded rather than roped off for the first week.
Not against a hard freeze. The pour window here runs roughly April through October, and a date near a cold snap gets moved back a few days rather than risk a slab that never cures right. Repairs on an existing slab have a little more flexibility.
Usually the subgrade underneath it, not the concrete itself. Corn belt clay that was never properly compacted moves with every freeze and thaw, and a slab poured on top of that keeps cracking in the same places no matter how many times it is patched.
As closely as concrete allows. A patch is a new pour beside an old one, so a slight color and texture difference is normal even with a matched mix and finish, and it fades with a season of weather. Where the difference would bother you, full replacement is the other route.
Stamped concrete is pressed with a pattern while it is still workable, to read as stone, brick or slate. Exposed aggregate is washed and brushed after the pour so the stone inside the mix shows on the surface. Both are sealed on a schedule to hold their color.
Not one poured and sealed correctly. Air entrained concrete and a sealer reapplied on schedule are built to take a McLean County winter of deicing salt. An older, unsealed slab is what scales and flakes, and resealing an existing driveway is its own job worth asking about.
For the estimate visit and the walk round at the end, yes. In between, most customers are not, since the pour and finish run on their own schedule once the forms and subgrade are set. Access to the site and a water source is what actually matters on the day.
Concrete gets wheeled in by hand rather than chuted straight off the truck, which is worked into the estimate rather than left as a surprise once the crew arrives. It is common on older lots in Bloomington and Normal with narrow side access.
Yes, tying a new slab into an existing one is routine, with a control joint set at the seam so the two move independently rather than cracking each other. The existing surface gets checked first, since a poor subgrade under it will eventually affect the new pour too.
Yes, from a single homeowner patio to a full slab for a commercial unit, poured by the same crew either way. Commercial work gets scheduled around the tenant business operating hours where that matters, nights and weekends included.
We have been pouring concrete around Bloomington and Normal since 2008.
Bloomington Concrete Pros pours driveways, patios, slabs and foundations across Bloomington, Normal and the rest of McLean County. We handle new pours, removal and replacement of failed slabs, and repair on concrete that is cracking or settling with the freeze and thaw. Every job gets a free estimate before anything is scheduled.
Why call a crew that already knows this ground?
Concrete poured without allowing for how this ground moves cracks at the joints by the first winter, and a slab poured on a rushed schedule rarely cures the way it should. We plan around both, from the mix we choose to the week we book the pour. Call (309) 555-0142 for a free estimate, and we will come out and measure before you decide on anything.
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