Wenatchee Concrete Contractors

These companies specialize in concrete work, including building and pouring concrete forms for sidewalks, driveways and home and office foundations. If you are building a new home in Wenatchee, or need to have a new driveway or sidewalk poured, call one of these contractors today.

Do-It-Yourself Repair Ideas For Cracked Concrete Driveways

Fixing small cracks in your cement driveway can be done with just a shop vac and concrete colored silicone. Clean the crack with a small brush and your shop-vac to remove any loose material in and around the crack. Then squeeze the silicone calking into the crack in the driveway and use a finger, or a putty knife, along with paint thinner, to give the silicone a smooth finished look.

Repair larger concrete cracks with a commercial concrete repair product like Crack Magic that can be purchased at Lowes or Home Depot. Fixing the cracked concrete will require a hand held grinder for deepening and widening the crack in the cement, as well as a bucket, trowel and shop-vac.

Clean the crack with a brush, or the shop-vac, to remove any broken pieces of concrete or gravel that could be thrown up by the grinding wheel. Use the hand grinder to grind the crack in the driveway to a depth of 1/2" or more. Make sure you grind the crack in the concrete it's full length, so that moisture can't get in the ends of the crack when you're done. When done grinding, use the shop-vac to remove all of the dust and debris from the crack and surrounding work area.

Place a thin layer of primer from the concrete repair kit, or crack repair kit, in the bottom of the crack along its entire length. While the primer is still wet, sprinkle a fine coating of masonry sand over the primer and let it dry for 15-20 minutes.

Once the primer is dry, fill the crack with your liquid commercial crack filler, and while it's still wet, fill the crack with masonry sand. Then take a trowel and smooth the sand into the crack; removing all of the excess wet compound. The excess compound and masonry sand mixture can be used to fill other cracks, or low spots, before it becomes dry. When the filler in the crack is dry, use the grinding wheel to smooth and blend the new concrete into the old.