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Concrete Driveway Contractor in Old Town Scottsdale, AZ

Tight streets near the shops, and driveways that work around them.

Scottsdale · Caliche desert floor

Old Town Scottsdale is the city's historic downtown around Scottsdale Road and Indian School Road, and its residential streets mix older homes with condos and townhomes near the shops and the arts district. Driveways here are short and close together. Older houses often have a narrow drive and a carport, townhome communities share approaches, and some lots back onto busy streets. We replace single drives, rebuild shared approaches with association approval, widen where the lot allows and add decorative finishes that suit the neighborhood.

Typical Phoenix-area price$8–$12 / sq ftinstalled · free written estimate
(602) 773-1313
Broom finishControl jointsRebar on chairsAggregate base courseCaliche, broken outMix adjusted for heat
A driveway on caliche
Serving ZIP 85251 · Maricopa County, ArizonaPermits and right-of-way work: The City of Scottsdale
Concrete Driveways in Old Town Scottsdale

What Old Town Scottsdale driveways need

The ground is caliche desert floor. A hard caliche layer sits a few inches to a few feet below the surface and holds water, so the soil above it gets soft after irrigation or a monsoon storm, and slabs on that soft layer sink and crack. Older drives here were often poured right on it. We dig to firm ground, break out caliche that sits high, replace it with compacted aggregate base, set rebar on chairs and slope the drive so water leaves the garage and the building.

Permits in Old Town come from the City of Scottsdale, and the crew checks its rules for your apron and drive. Condo and townhome associations usually review exterior work, and we prepare the layout, finish and color they ask for. Narrow streets and nearby businesses mean we plan truck parking, give neighbors notice and start early, especially in summer when the morning hours are the coolest part of the day. Call (602) 773-1313 for a free on-site estimate and a printed quote.

What’s included

Every Old Town Scottsdale driveway we pour starts with the ground under it, caliche desert floor here, and the same list of work goes into the quote:

  • New concrete driveways
  • Driveway replacement and tear-out
  • Extensions, widening and side parking
  • RV and trailer parking pads
  • Stamped, colored and exposed-aggregate finishes
  • Aprons at the street, with the city permit where one is needed
  • Caliche, fill and soil checked before forming
  • Compacted aggregate base, deeper where you park heavy
  • Slope that sends water away from the garage
  • Control joints laid out before the pour
  • A pour timed and cured for the heat
The ground under Old Town Scottsdale

Caliche desert floor

Gravelly desert soil on the fans and terraces of the Valley floor, often with a layer of caliche, soil cemented hard by calcium carbonate or silica, anywhere from a few inches to a few feet down.

Dig to firm ground, break out caliche that sits high in the base and haul it off the site, bring in aggregate base compacted in lifts, and slope the slab and the grade so roof and sprinkler water run away from it and off the hardpan.

What fails here first

  • Slabs sunk or cracked beside sprinkler beds and downspouts
  • Water standing along an edge for days after a storm
  • Corners and edges dropped below the next panel
  • Cracks that keep opening over the same low spot
Our process

How a Old Town Scottsdale driveway job runs

  1. 01

    Free Estimate

    Call, text or send the form. We come out to look at the space, measure it and talk through what you want, and we can do a drive-by estimate if your schedule is tight.

  2. 02

    Printed Quote

    You get a printed quote on the spot, free of charge, with the project details and a clear breakdown of the cost. You decide if and when to go ahead.

  3. 03

    Install

    Once you approve it, we schedule the work, prepare the site and pour, finish and cure your concrete with methods planned for the heat and the monsoon.

  4. 04

    Final Walkthrough

    We’ll review the completed work with you, answer your questions, and make sure you know how to care for your new concrete.

Old Town Scottsdale driveway questions

Straight answers

Sam The Concrete Man North Phoenix pours driveways for the older homes and townhomes on the streets around Old Town Scottsdale. With caliche in the ground, we dig down to firm soil, break out hardpan that sits high and compact the aggregate base in lifts. Short driveways here still get a thick apron at the street end, and anything at the curb is checked with the City of Scottsdale first.

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We pour driveways in Old Town Scottsdale from our North Phoenix base.

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Tell us what you're planning. We'll come out, measure, look at the ground and leave you a printed quote.

(602) 773-1313