Walkways, steps, driveways, and aprons poured right the first time — by a family crew from nearby Westbury that already works Mineola's tight lots every week.
A lot of Mineola's housing stock is older, and so is its concrete. Original walkways heaved by tree roots, stoops with worn or crumbling steps, short driveways breaking apart at the apron — on a compact village lot, that walkway is most of the front yard, so failing concrete is the first thing anyone sees from the street.
Tight lots also raise the stakes on the replacement. There is nowhere to hide a pour that isn't square to the house or a slab that doesn't meet the property line cleanly. And with newer construction filling in around the older homes, a cracked walk next to a freshly built neighbor stands out more every year.
We're based minutes away in Westbury and we're in Mineola constantly, so we know what these lots need: precise forming, honest base work, and concrete that drains away from the house instead of toward it.
It starts with Kenny walking the job and giving you a straight price before anything is touched. On Mineola's narrow side yards, the breakout is half the work — old concrete has to come out and get hauled through a tight gap between houses, so we plan the access and the debris path before the crew shows up, and we leave the property clean at the end of each day.
The pour itself is about the base and the pitch. We compact properly, deal with the roots or settled soil that broke the old slab in the first place, and pitch the new concrete so water moves off the surface and away from the foundation. Poured flat on a small lot, water has nowhere to go but against your house.
Because we also do the landscaping, the edges get finished instead of abandoned — lawn, beds, and pavers meet the new concrete cleanly, not with a strip of torn-up dirt. If your job touches the street, like an apron or a new driveway, we'll flag whether the village needs to sign off before we start.
It depends on the specifics, so we don't quote blind. The main cost drivers are the size of the pour, how much old concrete has to be broken out and hauled away, how tight the access is between houses, the condition of the base underneath, and whether the job touches the apron or curb. Kenny gives free estimates — you get a straight price before any work starts.
It depends on the job. Mineola is an incorporated village with its own building department, and work near the street — aprons, curb cuts, new or widened driveways — is the kind most likely to need village sign-off. Replacing an existing walkway in kind usually isn't, but we'll tell you exactly what your job needs when Kenny comes out for the estimate.
It comes down to why it failed. Surface cracking on a slab that's still flat and stable can sometimes be repaired. But if the slab has heaved from tree roots or a settled base — common with Mineola's older walks — a patch won't hold, because whatever moved the concrete is still moving it. We'll look at it and tell you straight which one you're dealing with.
Also available throughout Mineola and nearby Nassau County towns.
Also available throughout Mineola and nearby Nassau County towns.
Also available throughout Mineola and nearby Nassau County towns.
See everything we handle in town on the main Mineola landscaping page.
Call or text Kenny, walk the job with him, and get a straight price and a real timeline before anything is poured. No pressure, no sales pitch.
Call (516) 333-4019