Driveways, slabs, patios, repair and decorative concrete, permitted before we pour and built to the standard detail that governs the job.
Georgetown Elite Concrete has placed concrete in Georgetown, Texas for more than twenty years: driveways, slabs and equipment pads, patios, sidewalks, retaining walls, repair and leveling, stamped and polished finishes, resurfacing, and commercial flatwork across Williamson County. We are a concrete contractor rather than a builder who subcontracts the pour, so the crew reading the ground is the crew placing the ready mix on it.
What separates a job here from the same job an hour in any direction is that Georgetown wrote its own rules and then removed the escape hatches. The city deleted the model code exemption for flatwork in both its residential and its commercial code, so a driveway or a walk is permitted work rather than something you pour on a Saturday.
We build around those documents rather than past them. Every quote names the standard detail the work answers to, states the reinforcement that detail allows, and says which permit we are pulling and how long its review runs. That is the difference between a slab that passes its final inspection and one broken out because nobody read the sheet before the truck arrived.
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Concrete contractors serving Georgetown and Williamson County
Engineered concrete retaining walls in Georgetown, TX, priced from the rock depth on your own lot and drained so the wall does not fail.
Concrete repair in Georgetown, TX that starts with finding the cause: cracks, spalling, failed joints, broken edges and settled steps.
Concrete leveling in Georgetown, TX using polyurethane foam lifting or mudjacking, with the cause of the void found before the slab is raised.
New and replacement concrete driveways in Georgetown, TX, permitted, inspected and built to the adopted standard detail for your job.
Stamped concrete patios, pool surrounds and walks in Georgetown, TX, with the governing covenant checked before a pattern is ever quoted.
Concrete slabs and equipment pads in Georgetown, TX, sized to the real load and built on ground that has actually been prepared.
Concrete patios in Georgetown, TX designed around furniture, fall and the covenant that governs your address, not around a square foot figure.
Polished concrete floors in Georgetown, TX, ground and densified from the slab you already own, with a test panel cut before anything is agreed.
Concrete sidewalks, walkways and garden paths in Georgetown, TX, built to the specification and jointing detail that actually governs the run.
Concrete resurfacing and bonded overlays in Georgetown, TX, quoted only after the existing slab has been sounded and tested for bond.
Commercial concrete in Georgetown, TX: parking lots, dumpster pads, bollards and accessible routes, phased so the site keeps trading.
We have twenty years and more of concrete placed in Georgetown and across Williamson County, on ground where the Edwards recharge zone covers the west side of the city and stops before the east. That is why we price a west-side slab and an east-side slab differently: the same crew has dug both.
Georgetown requires contractor registration at no cost through My Government Online, and we hold it. We will also tell you the part this trade leaves out: there is no concrete or flatwork category on that list, and the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation issues no license for concrete contractors anywhere in its 208-entry program list.
Georgetown deleted the model code exemption for flatwork in both its residential and its commercial code, so every driveway and walk we place is permitted work with a pre-pour inspection booked into the schedule. An inspector sees the steel while it is still visible, rather than asking to see under a slab that is already hard.
No bid leaves here without reading what is under the job. Eckrant on the west side carries indurated limestone at a representative 11 to 12 inches while Denton downtown holds it near 36 inches, so the excavation line is priced from the real depth to refusal rather than discovered by a machine on the first morning.
Every quote names the standard detail the work is built to. Georgetown has adopted SD-15 at a ten foot minimum width, a four foot six inch radius and six inches of thickness, and SD-16 at twelve feet, five feet and five inches, so you can hold the finished job against the document rather than against a promise.
Never a pour without saying first whether the job needs an engineer’s certification, since Georgetown requires one after the foundation or the concrete application is finished and accepts no opinions or disclaimers inside it. We build so that certification is straightforward to obtain, rather than leaving an owner hunting for an engineer willing to sign off on work nobody watched go in.
SD-15 mandates six by six number six mesh, or number four bar at sixteen inches on chairs, while SD-14 and specification C5.04(G) permit fibrous concrete instead. We use what the governing document allows for your job and we say which document that is, rather than defaulting to whichever reinforcement is cheapest on the truck that week.
Inside Sun City nothing starts until the Modifications Committee has approved an application, and section 3.15 prohibits stamped and template patterns and a definite multi color appearance outright. We read the guidelines before quoting, so no homeowner is sold a finish the association will later require them to remove at their own cost.
A job here starts with the ground rather than the forms: what the soil is, how deep the rock sits, and where the utilities run once Texas 811 has marked them. Then the permit, subgrade compaction and base course, forms and reinforcement, a pre-pour inspection, the ready mix, finishing, curing and a final inspection. You get that sequence with dates on it.
Georgetown requires an engineer’s certification once the foundation construction or the concrete application is finished, and the code is explicit that it shall contain no opinions or disclaimers. That wording matters, because a hedged letter is not a certification and will not close the permit. We say before the pour whether your job triggers one, and build so the engineer can certify without qualifying anything.
Most Texas cities inherit a model code exemption that lets flatwork go in unpermitted. Georgetown deleted that exemption in both its residential and its commercial code, which makes a driveway, walk or patio permitted work like any other construction. We pull the permit as part of the job rather than quoting around it, because an unpermitted slab becomes the owner’s problem at resale.
A city driveway permit is required any time work adds to an existing driveway or changes or alters the approach, the approach being the portion at the street that crosses the utility easement, usually the first 10 feet. The submittal is one merged PDF with a plot plan showing structures, building lines and easements, a marked indication of the change, and a drawing of the steel reinforcement. We assemble that package.
Shed slabs, generator pads, hot tub pads and workshop floors are one problem at different sizes: a point load on ground whose depth to rock changes across the lot. We size thickness and reinforcement to the actual equipment rather than to a default, and where a hot tub already has a delivery date we work backwards from it, because a pad that has not cured cannot take the tub.
The historic district guidelines recommend ribbon paving, and city code section 10.16.010 counts two parallel eighteen inch strips as an approved surface, while the development code’s paved surface definition excludes them. Those documents answer different questions, and which one your lot is judged against depends on what you are applying for. We settle that before designing the drive.
SD-15 mandates six by six number six mesh or number four bar at sixteen inches on chairs, while SD-14 and specification C5.04(G) permit fibrous concrete instead, and the city’s flatwork specification allows fibrous concrete using 100 percent virgin polypropylene fibrillated fibers meeting ASTM C-1116 at no less than 1.5 pounds per cubic yard. We name which one your job gets and which sheet permits it.
Concrete and asphalt work is exempt by name through emergency drought stage four under section 13.16.090(A)(5), even while stage three bans washing driveways, parking lots and patios. That exemption is why a water restriction is not going to cancel your pour or your cure. We mention it up front, because owners routinely delay a project through a dry summer assuming the city will not allow it.
A dropped slab has almost never failed as concrete; the ground under it moved or washed out and the slab followed. The usual causes here are poorly compacted trench backfill over a utility line and soils that still test expansive despite being shallow, with Eckrant carrying a representative plasticity index of 32 against the plasticity index of 15 or more that IRC Section R403.1.8.1 uses to classify a soil as expansive.
Polyurethane foam lifting and mudjacking both raise a sunken slab by filling the void underneath, at a fraction of the disruption of demolition and a new pour. The test is the concrete itself: a sound slab that has simply dropped is worth lifting, while one spidered with cracks or missing its edges is a slab you will replace anyway. We quote both so the comparison is yours.
Fine shrinkage cracks that wander and stay tight are a curing artifact and cosmetic. A crack running straight, opening wider at one end, showing a vertical offset between the two sides, or reappearing in the same line after a repair is telling you the support underneath is moving. We route and fill the first kind and investigate the second, because sealing a moving crack relocates it a few inches away.
Resurfacing bonds a new wearing surface to the old slab, which works only where there is enough sound concrete left to bond to. Delamination, cracks through the full depth, and contamination from an old sealer or release agent will all reject an overlay however it is applied. We sound the slab and test the surface before proposing one, and say plainly when replacement is cheaper over ten years.
The white bloom on new concrete is efflorescence, salts carried to the surface as water leaves, and it usually weathers off. Blotching and dark patches are a harder call: a curing artifact, a sealer applied over a damp slab, an uneven finishing pass, or a permanent stain that has reached into the paste. We identify which before recommending anything, since the treatments have nothing in common.
Control joints and sawcut joints are deliberate, placed to decide where concrete cracks, and Georgetown joints public sidewalks into sections 5 feet in length with approved jointing tools while SD-45 downtown scores a twenty four by twenty four inch grid instead. Trowel marks and lift lines are records of how the pour was run. A homeowner worried about a crack is often looking at a joint working as designed.
A hard-troweled garage or warehouse floor that goes wet in humid weather is not leaking. Warm moist air condenses on a slab held cool by the ground beneath it, and a dense burnished surface with no texture turns that film into a real slip hazard. Almost nobody in this trade will name it, so owners spend money chasing an imaginary leak. The fix is surface profile.
A walk someone now shuffles around, a step whose rise changed as the slab settled, and a threshold that catches a walker or a wheel are concrete problems with a safety deadline. Sun City’s guidelines treat elevation as exactly that, requiring guardrails wherever there is more than 30 inches of elevation difference between a walking surface and the adjacent area. We rebuild the geometry to what the person using it needs.
Stamped concrete presses a pattern and color into fresh concrete, and on an open lot it is among the best value decorative finishes available. Inside Sun City it is unavailable to most residents: section 3.15 prohibits patterns produced by stamping or templates and any definite multi color appearance, and reserves aggregate and stamped concrete to Custom Homes. We check the covenant governing your address before quoting a stamp.
Where stamping is prohibited, the sanctioned route is a coating worked with a stencil. Sun City allows color coating of driveways, sidewalks, patios and porches in a color from the association’s approved list, encourages textured coatings that resist slipping, and allows a stenciled pattern or simulated grout lines on sidewalk, patio and porch surfaces, with decorative borders permitted at 6 to 8 inches wide. That is a real design vocabulary.
An association color list is a short set of specific colors, not a manufacturer’s full range, and the same document chooses the coating that carries them. Designing from the list first is a different exercise from picking a color you like and hunting for approval afterwards. We start with the approved list, show you what those options look like on your own concrete, and file the application with the color named.
Acid stain reacts chemically with the concrete and becomes part of it, giving mottled, variegated tones that are permanent but not precisely controllable. Dyes deposit color into the surface, reach a far wider range including tones acid stain cannot produce, and fade more readily under ultraviolet light outdoors. We steer stains toward exterior work that has to last, and dyes toward interiors where color accuracy matters more than sun exposure.
Polished concrete is two choices discussed as one. Aggregate exposure decides what the floor looks like, from a cream finish showing almost no stone to a full salt-and-pepper or exposed aggregate cut; gloss level decides how much light it throws back. We put samples on your own slab, because the aggregate gradation in that pour is what you will be looking at.
A broom finish drags texture across the surface for traction and is the workhorse on exterior flatwork. A float finish leaves an open, sandy texture; a steel trowel finish burnishes hard and smooth for interiors; a salt finish presses coarse salt into fresh concrete and washes it out to leave a pitted surface. Each changes grip, glare and cleaning, so we match the finish to where a foot lands.
Slip resistance is a specification, not an adjective, and it should be set by whoever is least steady on their feet in the household. Around a pool, on a ramp, or on a walk used with a cane or a walker, we specify a textured coating or a finish with real profile, which is what Sun City’s own guidelines encourage. A hard-troweled surface is the wrong answer outdoors.
The finishes that move curb appeal are visible from the street and unbroken across the whole approach: a consistent color, a clean edge, and a border framing the drive rather than decorating one corner. Sun City permits decorative borders at 6 to 8 inches wide, a genuinely useful dimension because it reads from the curb without overwhelming the field. We design the drive as one surface, since a patchwork reads as repair work.
A parking lot is a structural problem disguised as a paving problem: subgrade compaction, base course, jointing layout and a thickness set by the heaviest vehicle that will ever use it, usually a loaded refuse truck rather than a car. We build to ACI 330 practice, dowel the joints traffic crosses, and sequence the work so the tenant keeps a usable entrance throughout.
An accessible route is measured, not judged: running slope, cross slope, landing dimensions, changes in level and detectable warning surfaces all carry numbers in the Texas Accessibility Standards, and a curb ramp missing one fails inspection however it looks. We form and screed to those tolerances and check them before the concrete sets, because a ramp poured out of tolerance is demolition rather than repair.
Sidewalks and sidepaths must be constructed on both sides of all streets, including frontage roads, in new development. In the Downtown Overlay District the developer is responsible for constructing the sidewalks, landscaping and lighting the Downtown Master Plan calls for where they do not exist or need reconstruction. We establish whose obligation the walk is before anyone budgets for it.
Georgetown files dumpster pad requirements in its landscaping and screening article at UDC 8.04.070 rather than anywhere in solid waste, which is why they get missed until a plan review comment arrives. The pad has to take a loaded truck’s wheel loads and the impact of a container dropped back down, so it is a heavier slab than the parking field around it. We build the pad and coordinate the screening together.
More than one instrument can govern a commercial approach, and the wrong one costs weeks. A city driveway permit covers work that adds to a driveway or alters the approach, while a Site Development Plan is required before constructing, expanding or removing driveways, sidewalks, drainage structures and utility improvements inside the city limits. Inside an overlay a Certificate of Appropriateness can be triggered too, and review alone runs 10 to 15 business days.
Impervious cover is a live constraint on added flatwork. Under the UDC adopted August 11, 2026, residential impervious cover is capped at 60 percent for front-access lots and 70 percent for alley-access lots in the Residential Suburban and Residential Mix districts, 40 percent in Residential Estate and Residential Transition. Approved surface and paved surface are defined differently, so a surface counting under one document may not under the other.
The Edwards recharge zone covers the west side of Georgetown and stops before the east, so two jobs on opposite sides of one city carry different obligations. Work over the zone can bring a geologic assessment and a notarized acknowledgement form into the process, and the Georgetown salamander is a live consideration in the same geography. We establish which side of that line you are on at the first site visit.
Downtown the joint rule changes: SD-14 scores at five feet, while SD-45 scores a twenty four by twenty four inch grid with doweled half inch bituminous joints, a zip strip every ten feet, and color sealing. Historic review does not reach a plain drive or walk, but it does reach vertical work, so modifications to exterior steps, stairways and ramps require a Certificate of Appropriateness.
Georgetown Elite Concrete provides concrete-contractor throughout the greater Georgetown area, with the same crews and the same standards on every job.
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We quote each job rather than publishing a rate, and when we give a price per square foot we tell you the size of job it was worked out from. A square foot price with no job behind it is not a price, because thickness, reinforcement, depth to rock and the permitted approach at the street all move the number.
Usually yes. Georgetown deleted the model code exemption for flatwork in both its residential and its commercial code, so flatwork is permitted work here rather than something you pour without review. A city driveway permit is separately required any time work adds to an existing driveway or changes or alters the approach at the street. We pull the permit as part of the job.
Driveway permit review runs 10 to 15 business days, and both a pre-pour inspection before concrete is placed and a final inspection are required. We build that window into the schedule at quoting rather than announcing it later, and we submit the merged plot plan, the marked change and the reinforcement detail together so review is not paused for a missing sheet.
Concrete gains most of its strength over the first month, and the specification the city uses for public flatwork is Class A concrete at a minimum 3,000 psi compressive strength at 28 days. We give you one date for foot traffic and a later one for vehicles, sized to the mix, the thickness and the weather during the cure. Driving on it early is how a new drive earns its first crack.
For work built to the city's flatwork specification, Class A concrete: 5.0 sacks of cement per cubic yard, a minimum 3,000 psi at 28 days, and a maximum water-cement ratio of 6.5 gallons per sack. Private work is specified to what it has to carry, which often means a higher strength, and the mix always goes on the quote.
Whichever the governing document allows. SD-15 mandates six by six number six mesh, or number four bar at sixteen inches on chairs. SD-14 and specification C5.04(G) permit fibrous concrete instead, and the city's flatwork specification allows fibrous concrete using 100 percent virgin polypropylene fibrillated fibers meeting ASTM C-1116 at no less than 1.5 pounds per cubic yard. We name the sheet and the reinforcement together.
Not by the state. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation issues no license for concrete contractors or general construction contractors anywhere in its 208-entry program list, and Georgetown's own free contractor registration has no concrete or flatwork category. Anyone advertising a state concrete license is describing something that does not exist. Judge a contractor on insurance, on permits pulled, and on the documents they can name.
No. Concrete and asphalt work is exempt by name through emergency drought stage four under section 13.16.090(A)(5), even while stage three bans washing driveways, parking lots and patios. Owners routinely postpone projects through a dry summer assuming the city will not allow it.
The mix, the reinforcement, the standard detail the work answers to, the permit being pulled and who books the inspections. If a price per square foot is given, it should say what size of job it was worked out from. A quote naming none of those is a number rather than a specification, and it is impossible to compare against anyone else's.
Yes, and we quote them properly rather than pricing off a rate built for a large pour. A single pad, a short walk, a set of steps or a section of drive replaced at a failed joint are all normal work here. Mobilization for a small pour is a real cost and we show it as one.
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