Concrete Contractors in Murfreesboro, TN

Murfreesboro homeowners hiring concrete contractors live in one of the fastest-growing cities in Middle Tennessee. The Rutherford County seat had 68,816 people in 2000, 108,755 in 2010 and 152,769 at the 2020 census, when it counted 62,905 housing units. We pour new driveways and patios, sidewalks and steps, garage and shed slabs, and we replace concrete that has cracked or settled in neighborhoods of every age.

Two kinds of neighborhoods

Murfreesboro was settled in 1811, incorporated in 1817, and served as the state capital from 1818 until 1826. The streets around the courthouse square and Middle Tennessee State University, which started in 1911 as a teacher-training school, hold older homes with front porches, narrow drives and walks laid long ago. Most of the city's housing, though, went up in the last few decades as the population more than doubled.

That split shows up in the work:

• Older homes: porch steps and stoops that have pulled away, narrow drives that need widening, walks broken by trees
• Newer homes: patios added after move-in, extra parking pads, driveway sections that settled over backfill near the garage

Settling near the garage is common in newer subdivisions because the soil next to a foundation is backfill. If it was not compacted well when the house was built, the driveway can drop there within a few years. We cut out the sunken part, compact the base properly and pour a new section tied into the sound concrete.

Rain, rivers and the occasional deep freeze

The West Fork of the Stones River runs through the city and Lytle Creek runs through downtown. Wikipedia lists 55.92 inches of precipitation and 2.2 inches of snow a year, with a record low of minus 19 degrees from January 26, 1940, and a record high of 109 degrees from August 16, 1954. Heavy rain is the everyday enemy of flatwork here, so we focus on slope, base drainage and a well-cured surface. For outdoor concrete we use air-entrained mixes that hold up better when water in the surface freezes.

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City permits at the street

The City of Murfreesboro's Engineering Department handles right-of-way permits, and its instructions ask for a plan or sketch of the requested work for residential driveways. The fee is listed per street and doubles if work starts before the application. When your project reaches the street, we put together the sketch and handle the application with you so the job is not held up.

History in the ground

The Battle of Stones River began on December 31, 1862, and ended in early January 1863, with 23,515 combined casualties. The battlefield is preserved today. It is a reminder that many Murfreesboro neighborhoods sit on old farmland, where the topsoil can be deep and soft in one spot and thin over limestone in the next. We probe and dig enough to know what is under a slab before we pour.

Popular projects in Murfreesboro

• Driveway replacement and extensions for growing families with more cars
• Backyard patios, plain or stamped, sized for grills and seating
• Front walks and steps for older homes near downtown
• Garage, shed and workshop slabs with thickened edges where needed
• Section repairs for settled or cracked concrete

Call (615) 326-1447 to set up a visit anywhere in Murfreesboro.