Concrete Driveways in Jackson, TN
New driveways, driveway aprons, and full tear-out-and-replace of cracked or heaved slabs. Compacted base, correct thickness, and control joints cut for Jackson’s clay soil so your driveway stays flat instead of cracking apart.
Call (731) 982-1685
What We Pour
- New concrete driveways — from the road apron to the garage, sized and reinforced for how you’ll use it
- Driveway replacements — tear out the cracked, heaved, or crumbling old slab, re-prep the base, and pour new
- Driveway aprons — the section where your drive meets the street, poured to the city’s spec where required
- Driveway extensions & widening — extra parking pad, a turnaround, or a wider approach
- Ribbon and parking pads — for extra vehicles, boats, trailers, and RVs
Why Base Prep Decides Everything
The number-one reason concrete driveways fail in Jackson isn’t bad concrete — it’s bad base prep. West Tennessee clay soil holds water, swells when wet, and shrinks when dry, and that movement will crack and heave a slab poured on unprepared ground. We strip the topsoil, compact the sub-grade, and lay and level a proper gravel base that drains and gives the slab a stable, uniform bed. It’s the part you can’t see after the pour, and it’s the part that determines whether the driveway lasts 5 years or 40.
How Thick Should a Driveway Be?
- 4 inches — standard for cars and light trucks over a compacted base
- 5–6 inches — for RVs, loaded work trucks, trailers, and heavier vehicles
- Reinforcement — wire mesh or rebar on a grid, sized to the load and thickness
- Thickened edges — where the slab meets soft ground or takes wheel load
Control Joints — Where Concrete Is Allowed to Crack
All concrete cracks eventually as it cures and moves. The trick is telling it where. We cut control joints at the correct spacing and depth so the slab cracks cleanly inside the joints, where you never notice, instead of randomly across the surface. Skip the joints or space them wrong and you get the ugly cracks people blame on “bad concrete.”
Finishes
Most Jackson driveways get a broom finish — a light brushed texture that gives tires and feet grip in the rain. We also pour smooth-troweled and exposed-aggregate driveways, and we can add a stamped or colored border for a higher-end look.
How We Price Driveways
Square footage, thickness, base prep, reinforcement, finish, removal of the existing driveway, and any grading or drainage work all move the number. We measure the drive, look at the sub-grade, and give a written estimate. Here’s how our estimates work.
Get a Driveway Estimate
Call (731) 982-1685 or send an estimate request. We serve all of Jackson and Madison County.