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Concrete patios, driveways and repair in Hickman, Nebraska
One of the fastest-growing small towns in the state, which means a lot of new concrete and a lot of new ground underneath it.
Concrete work in Hickman
Hickman is about fifteen minutes south of Lincoln and it's grown faster than almost any village its size in Nebraska. That growth is most of our work here. Families move out for the Norris schools and the lot size, buy a house that was finished eighteen months ago with a builder-grade driveway and a back door opening onto bare dirt, and then want a patio, a walk out to the shed, and eventually more driveway. Finishing what the builder left undone is genuinely the bulk of it.
The rest is repair, and it clusters in two places: the older blocks near the original townsite, where mid-century flatwork has worn out, and the first wave of subdivisions, now fifteen or twenty years old, where driveways poured on development fill are starting to show it.
We're registered with the Nebraska Department of Labor, insured, and carry workers' comp. Those details and a certificate of insurance go out in writing with every Hickman estimate so you can check them before you commit, and the workmanship warranty is on paper too.
Salt Valley clay, development fill, and water that has to go somewhere
Southern Lancaster County ground is heavier than what's north of Lincoln. You're in the upper Salt Creek watershed here, the country the Salt Valley flood-control reservoirs were built for, and Wagon Train and Stagecoach are both a few minutes out of town. Soils in those drainages carry more clay than the loess uplands, and clay swells when it's wet and shrinks when it's dry with enough force to lift a slab in a wet spring and drop it again in August.
The fix isn't exotic, it's just work: over-excavate below the slab, bring in clean granular base and compact it, and moisture-condition the subgrade instead of pouring on ground that's bone dry in July. Dry clay under a new slab is a slab waiting for its first wet winter. Where there's a lot of clay we go thicker and tighten the joint spacing, because joints are how you pick where a crack goes.
New construction adds the second problem, and it's the one that costs people money. The strip of ground right beside the foundation is backfill from when the basement was dug, and it'll keep settling for years. That's exactly where a patio or a stoop wants to go. Pour across it without dealing with it and you get a patio tipping back toward the house inside five years, which then routes water at your foundation wall. A two-thousand-dollar mistake that turns into a much bigger one.
What we pour in Hickman
- Driveways, replacements and widening strips
- Patios, walkways and outdoor living slabs
- Front steps, stoops and porch slabs on proper footings
- Garage, shop and outbuilding floors
- RV, boat, shed and equipment pads
- Repair, resurfacing, slab lifting and removal
Full detail on every service, with price ranges.
Areas we cover around Hickman
We pour throughout Hickman and southern Lancaster County, including:
- Original townsite
- Norris school area
- Panther Creek
- Prairie Ridge
- Wagon Train Lake acreages
- Stagecoach Lake
- Highway 77 corridor
- Roca Road
- Firth Road
Not on the list? If you're in or near Hickman we almost certainly cover you. Call (531) 236-8940 and ask, it takes thirty seconds.
Hickman concrete questions
What does a patio cost in Hickman?
A broom-finished patio runs roughly $8 to $14 a square foot installed, so a 12x16 is usually somewhere between $1,900 and $3,400. Access matters more out here than people expect. If we can chute straight to the pour that's one price; if we're wheeling buggies through a 36-inch gate, that's another. Stamped or colored runs $14 to $24. Those are ranges to check bids against, not a quote.
Can you pour a patio right against the house on a new build?
Yes, but the first few feet out from the foundation need thinking about rather than just forming. That strip is backfill from the basement dig and it keeps consolidating. Pour across it casually and the patio tips back toward the house and sends roof water at your foundation wall. Depending on the lot the answer is a thicker section, a properly compacted and moisture-conditioned base, or sometimes carrying that first span structurally so the settling ground isn't what's holding it up.
Do you work out by Wagon Train and Stagecoach?
Regularly. Out there it's driveways, often long ones, shop and outbuilding floors, RV and equipment pads, and patios. Two things come up more on acreages than in town. An approach onto a county road is permitted through Lancaster County rather than the village. And a long acreage driveway is a drainage design as much as a concrete pour, because get the crown and the fall wrong on a north-facing run and you've built a hundred-foot ice rink.
Got concrete that needs work?
Free on-site estimates throughout Hickman. Call and get a straight answer on what your job needs and what it costs.