Summit Concrete Walkways and Sidewalks

Your front walk is the handshake of the house. Every guest, delivery driver and neighbor steps on it, and when one panel has lifted above the next or a low spot by the door turns into an ice rink each winter, it sours the whole first impression. On the older blocks around Summit we see a lot of original walks that were laid on bare clay long ago and have been shifting ever since. Our crew replaces them the way they should have been built to begin with. We jackhammer the tired panels and cart the pieces off in the truck. The path is excavated and filled with crushed stone, packed tight so every panel has the same support. Forms are staked with a slight sideways tilt, small enough that you will never feel it walking but enough to throw rain and meltwater off onto the grass. Most walks are poured about 4 inches thick, a little heavier where they cross a driveway or carry wheeled bins. The surface gets a light broom for traction, the edges are tooled smooth, and control joints are placed at even spacing so the finished walk looks crisp from the street.