Griffith Indiana Concrete Curbs – Plow and Salt Wear

You can spot it from the driveway. The top of the curb shows chips down to pale stone. But a plow blade left a long scrape on the face. Salt left a white crust where the gutter meets the concrete. When that edge breaks, the apron beside it often cracks at the same joint. Concrete Curbs in Griffith take that hit each winter on the older streets.

We have walked a lot of these approaches in spring. People call us after a tire catches a broken nose, or after the joint at the apron opens. So we check the whole run, past the one chip a driver noticed. The curb and the driveway apron meet in a few feet of concrete. After a hard winter, we see the damage at that meeting point.

Winter Wear on Concrete Curbs in Griffith

Plow blades push along the curb, and the steel rides that line. On a dipped apron, the blade can drop and clip the nose as it passes. We have pulled out runs where the nose had broken away for several feet. But the apron had cracked back from the same spot. Because the gutter stays wet, salt water sits on that broken face for days.

Then freeze and thaw lift thin flakes off the surface. After a thaw, you can find those flakes in the gutter. The face looks rough and feels sharp under a shoe. So a small clip from one pass gets wider. Then the blade catches the same low spot the next winter and takes more concrete. On older Griffith streets, that’s how a curb line wears down.

We have found a gap at the curb joint wide enough for a finger. Grit and old salt pack into it. Water sits in that gap through a thaw. When it freezes, the two edges pry apart a little more. By the time people called, we had to take out both the curb and the apron.

Curb work is how we put that edge back, and we pour it with the driveway apron. We have seen the joint open again after an apron pour left a broken curb in place. Concrete Curbs in Griffith need both pieces at the same height. We cut out the bad concrete and set forms to the street grade. Then we pour the curb and the apron together.

Pouring Concrete Curbs in Griffith With the Apron

The tear-out comes first. We saw-cut the broken curb and the failed apron, then load the old concrete out. That’s concrete removal and a replacement pour. So the forms follow the street height, and water still runs to the gutter. When the drive slopes hard toward the garage, we hold that slope in the new apron.

We usually pour Concrete Curbs in Griffith with the apron in one visit. You can see the rest of that flatwork under our concrete curbs work. If a service walk is breaking where it meets the drive, we can tear that section out too. For example, a short walk beside the apron often breaks at the same joint the plow hits.

Cabe’s Concrete is a family owned and operated company, and we’ve worked in Northwest Indiana since 2006. Our About Us page covers how the crew is set up. We don’t inflate the price of material to pick up a few extra dollars. We write the hours out line by line on the quote. So a longer curb run shows up as time on that quote. Concrete Curbs in Griffith vary with the length of the broken section and with the apron.

Job photos of new curbs and aprons sit in the photo gallery. Because we pick the mix ourselves, we know what goes in the forms. The finished face should line up with the street. The apron should meet that face without a lip that catches a tire.