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Athens Concrete Pros

Athens · Clarke County · Oconee County

Concrete contractors in Athens, GA

Driveways, patios, walkways and slabs for Athens homes, built for red clay and sloping lots. We look at the site first, then give you the full price in writing.

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  • Every line priced in writing
  • Insured crews
  • We pull the permits
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Concrete services in Athens

Pick a job to read how we do it, which finishes you can have, what the estimate will list and what makes the price go up or down.

Power trowel finishing a freshly poured concrete slab

Concrete driveways

Athens driveways climb hills, sit on red clay and often carry more cars than they were built for. We pour new drives, tear out and replace broken ones, and widen parking for households with three or four vehicles. The base and the drainage are settled before a truck is ordered.

How we do it

Finished concrete patio with a wooden bench and a green garden behind it

Concrete patios

A level place to sit is hard to come by in a hilly Athens back yard, so most of our patios are carved into a slope or built up on one side. We pour patios, grill pads, fire pit circles and pool surrounds that shed water toward the lawn and feel solid underfoot.

How we do it

Worker standing on a rebar grid before a foundation slab is poured

Concrete slabs and foundations

Garage floors, workshop and shed slabs, parking pads, carport and addition slabs, and the footings that carry them. On Piedmont ground the real work is under the concrete: leveling a sloped site, keeping clay dry and dealing with rock when it turns up.

How we do it

Crew finishing a fresh concrete surface with a power trowel

Stamped and decorative concrete

Patterned, colored and exposed-aggregate concrete for patios, pool decks, entry walks and driveway borders. The surface reads as stone, brick or timber, while underneath it is one reinforced slab that clay cannot shuffle apart the way it does loose pavers.

How we do it

Worker edging fresh concrete along a form with a hand trowel

Walkways, sidewalks and steps

Entry walks, garden and side-yard paths, poured steps, landings and stoops, plus replacement of cracked or tilted sidewalk sections. Since so many Athens front doors sit above or below the street, much of this work is getting people safely up and down a grade.

How we do it

Worker cutting concrete on a tree-lined residential street

Concrete repair and resurfacing

Driveways broken along the edges, slabs that have dropped or tilted, surfaces peeling after a cold winter and steps that have pulled away from the porch. We track down what went wrong underneath, then repair, resurface or replace the part that actually needs it.

How we do it

Workers building a concrete block retaining wall under a clear sky

Concrete retaining walls

Rolling Piedmont lots need walls: to hold the bank beside a driveway, to make a level lawn or patio out of a hillside, or to replace rotted timbers along a property line. We build reinforced concrete walls with a real footing and working drainage behind them.

How we do it

Crew paving a large commercial concrete area seen from above

Commercial concrete

Concrete for the properties that keep Athens running: rental houses and apartment communities, restaurants and shops, churches, offices and small warehouses. We pour parking pads, sidewalks, ramps, dumpster pads, loading areas and floor slabs, on a schedule built around tenants and customers.

How we do it

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A concrete company that shows its math

Athens Concrete Pros pours concrete and prepares the ground it sits on. That is the whole business: driveways, patios, walks and steps, slabs, decorative finishes, repairs and low retaining walls for houses, rentals and small commercial lots in and around Athens.

Two quotes for the same driveway can be thousands apart, and the reason is usually hidden. One assumes the old slab stays, or leaves out the stone base, or pours thinner. We write ours so nothing is hidden: thickness, base, reinforcement, finish, joints, demolition and permits each have a line and a price. You can check it against anybody's.

Our crews are insured and the certificate comes with the estimate. The pour date we give you is the date we come, weather permitting, and near campus we keep clear of home-game Saturdays so a mixer truck is never stuck in your street.

How we work

What we pour most around Athens

Power trowel finishing a freshly poured concrete slab

Concrete driveways in Athens

Driveways are most of what we pour. Athens lots tend to climb or drop between the street and the house, so the first questions are where the water runs and how steep the drive will be. We give sloped drives a coarse broom finish for traction, send runoff to the side, and build the slab on compacted stone because red clay on its own moves when it gets wet. Cars get 4 inches of concrete; trucks, trailers and the shared parking pads behind rental houses get 5 to 6 with rebar.

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Finished concrete patio with a wooden bench and a green garden behind it

Patios and pool decks

Few backyards here are level, which shapes every patio. We either cut the patio into the slope and hold the high side with a low wall, or step it down in two levels, so you end up with a flat surface that sheds water away from the house. Choose a plain broom or salt finish, exposed aggregate, or stamped stone, slate and brick patterns with color.

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Worker edging fresh concrete along a form with a hand trowel

Walkways, steps and sidewalks

Front walks, paths around the house, steps up from the street and landings at the door. On a hillside lot the walk and the steps are one job, and we set riser heights so the climb is even from bottom to top. We also replace sidewalk panels that have cracked or tilted, and arrange the approval when the walk is in the public right of way.

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Worker standing on a rebar grid before a foundation slab is poured

Slabs, pads and footings

Garage floors, workshop and shed slabs, pads for heat pumps, generators and trash carts, and footings for porches and additions. The slab is sized for what it will carry, set on compacted stone and kept clear of standing water, with a vapor barrier under anything that will be enclosed. If we meet rock, we say so before the price changes.

More about concrete slabs and foundations

We also take on stamped and decorative concrete, repair and resurfacing, retaining walls and commercial flatwork.

Red clay, rock and four real seasons

Athens sits in the Georgia Piedmont, on hills of red clay with rock not far below. Clay is strong when it is dry and undisturbed, but it soaks up water slowly, swells, and shrinks again as it dries. A slab laid straight on it rides up and down with the seasons until it cracks.

So the work that matters happens before the truck comes. Topsoil and soft clay are dug out, crushed stone is laid and compacted, and the slab is pitched so rain runs off it and away from the house. On a slope we also decide where that water ends up, because the neighbor's yard and the street gutter are not acceptable answers.

About 55% of the homes in Clarke County were built before 1980, and plenty of the driveways are original. Taking the old concrete out and fixing what is under it are separate lines on our estimate.

Days a year at 90°F or above
62
Freezing nights a year
46
Inches of rain a year
49

NOAA 1991–2020 normals, Athens-Ben Epps Airport.

Concrete conditions in Athens

Averages from the nearest NOAA climate normals station, Athens Ben Epps AP, GA (2.4 miles away, 785 ft), over 1991–2020.[1] Conditions can change over short distances, so treat these as a planning guide, not a forecast.

Nights at 32°F or below
46
Days at 90°F or above
62
Precipitation a year
49 in
Average temperature
63°F

Heat and drying

Summer brings about 62 days at 90°F or hotter, 51 of them in June–August. High temperatures speed up setting and drying, which raises the risk of plastic shrinkage cracks. For a summer pour we schedule outside the hottest part of the day and protect the slab from drying too fast. NRMCA's hot-weather guidance covers retarders, early starts and curing.[4]

Cold and freeze-thaw

Freezing nights are a regular part of winter in Athens, about 36 of them in December–February, but rare outside it. A pour between late fall and early spring may need the cold-weather precautions ACI describes for air temperatures expected below 40°F. For driveways, walks and patios that freeze while wet, NRMCA recommends air-entrained concrete to resist scaling. Our estimates say whether the mix is air-entrained.[2, 3]

With 49 inches of precipitation a year, we plan how fresh concrete gets covered if rain arrives during or soon after the pour, and slope the finished slab to shed water away from the house.

  1. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (annual and seasonal, by station) (archive c20230404; imported November 6, 2026), station USW00013873.
  2. American Concrete Institute, ACI 306R-16: Guide to Cold Weather Concreting (preview) (2016 edition; checked October 6, 2026).
  3. National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, CIP 2: Scaling Concrete Surfaces (checked October 30, 2026).
  4. National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, CIP 12: Hot Weather Concreting (checked October 30, 2026).

How a job runs

One form, one call, one visit, one written price. No salesman and no deposit to get a number.

  1. 1

    Fill in the form

    What you want built, your ZIP code, roughly how big and how soon. It takes a minute.

  2. 2

    We call you

    The same working day in most cases, to confirm the details and fix a time for the visit.

  3. 3

    We measure and price

    On site. You get a written estimate that lists thickness, base, steel, finish, removal and permits one by one.

  4. 4

    We build it

    Demolition if needed, base, forms, steel, pour, finish and cure, on the date we agreed. Then we tell you when it can take feet and when it can take cars.

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Where we work

We are based in Athens, a city of about 127,315 people that runs as one government with Clarke County. Our crews work in every part of it, from the in-town streets around Five Points, Normaltown and Boulevard to the Eastside and Westside subdivisions, and out into Oconee, Barrow, Jackson and Walton counties.

  • Five Points
  • Normaltown
  • Boulevard
  • Cobbham
  • Eastside
  • Westside
  • Homewood Hills
  • Forest Heights
  • Timothy Road
  • Winterville
  • Bogart
  • Hull
  • Statham
  • Oconee County

Somewhere else nearby? Put your ZIP code in the form. You will get a straight yes or no the same day.

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What concrete costs

We do not post Athens prices, because a figure that ignores your lot is a guess. These national ranges come from named industry sources and show what a reasonable estimate looks like. Yours is set by size, finish, demolition and how much groundwork the site needs.

JobNational range, installedSource
Plain concrete driveway$5–$8 per sq ftConcreteNetwork.com, updated January 13, 2026
Concrete patio$5–$18+ per sq ftConcreteNetwork.com, updated January 20, 2026
Stamped concrete$10–$20+ per sq ftConcreteNetwork.com, reviewed January 26, 2026
Basic installed slab$10.63–$13.00 per sq ftHomewyse, September 2026 figures

What moves the price

  • Size and thickness: 4 inches for cars and people, 5 to 6 inches with rebar for heavy loads
  • Tearing out and hauling off an existing slab
  • The dig: how much clay comes out, and whether rock turns up
  • Slope: steep drives and cut-in patios need more forming, sometimes a wall
  • The finish: broom is the least, stamped and colored the most
  • How close the truck can get, or a pump if it can't
  • Permits, and review in the historic districts

Permits in Athens

Athens and Clarke County are a single unified government, so one permit office covers almost every address in the county. Winterville is its own small city. The work that usually needs approval is a new or wider driveway entrance on a public street, anything on a sidewalk in the right of way, and a slab that will hold up a garage, an addition or a covered porch.

Parts of in-town Athens, Boulevard, Cobbham and Dearing Street among them, are local historic districts where changes visible from the street can be reviewed first. Watkinsville and the rest of Oconee County, and the towns in Barrow, Jackson and Walton counties, each have their own rules. We tell you which apply when we price the job, and we file the paperwork.

Questions we get in Athens

What does it cost to have you come out and quote?

Nothing. One of us walks the site with you, measures it, looks at the slope and what the ground is made of, and writes up the price with each part of the job on its own line. You owe nothing for the visit and you decide in your own time.

How fast can you get to an Athens address?

We ring you back to go over the request, as a rule on the same working day, and you choose the time for the visit. It is normally a matter of days, not weeks.

Which places do you serve?

Athens and all of Clarke County, including Five Points, Normaltown, Boulevard, Cobbham, Eastside, Westside, plus Watkinsville, Jefferson, Winder, Monroe and the Oconee County subdivisions. If you are a little further out, send your ZIP code and you will hear the same day whether we can take it.

Are you licensed and insured?

We carry general liability insurance on every crew and attach the certificate to your estimate. Georgia has no separate state license for pouring flatwork such as driveways and patios. Where your project needs a permit, getting it is part of our job and shows as a line on the estimate.

How much is a concrete driveway in Athens?

It depends on the lot more than the town: the slope, how much clay or rock has to come out, whether an old slab has to be hauled off. For orientation, ConcreteNetwork's national range is about $5 to $8 per square foot installed for plain concrete and $10 to $20 or more for stamped. We give you the exact figure in writing after we have seen the site.

You hit rock when you dig. What then?

It happens in this part of the Piedmont, where weathered rock and sometimes solid granite sit close to the surface. We probe during the estimate visit, and the estimate says what is included if rock turns up and what it would cost to remove more. Often the better answer is to build up over it instead of cutting it out.

Do I need a permit for a driveway or a patio?

A new or widened driveway entrance onto a public street needs approval, and so does a slab that will support a garage, an addition or a covered porch. In Athens that is the unified Athens-Clarke County government; Winterville, Oconee County and the other towns around have their own offices. A plain backyard patio often needs nothing, but we check your address before we promise that.

Do you pour in winter?

Yes, with care. Athens sees about 46 freezing nights a year, so in the cold months we pick the day by the forecast, pour early enough for the slab to set in daylight and cover it overnight. In summer the concern flips: we start at dawn and begin curing as soon as the surface is finished.

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