Concrete Driveways in Ankeny, Iowa — A Driveway That Holds Through Decades of Iowa Winters

Tear-out, base prep, and the pour are usually one to two days on site. The concrete reaches usable strength in about seven days and keeps gaining for several weeks, so we ask you to keep vehicles off it during that window.

A standard car driveway gets four inches of concrete over a compacted base. If you park a loaded truck, an RV, or a boat trailer, JLB steps the thickness up to five or six inches and adds reinforcement so the edges don't spider-crack under the weight.

Central Iowa concrete goes through 100 to 120 freeze-thaw cycles a winter. The 5 to 7 percent entrained air JLB pours gives freezing water room to expand inside the slab instead of fracturing it, which is what prevents surface scaling and cracking.

Yes. JLB pours exposed-aggregate, integrally colored, and stamped driveways that read like stone or brick. All of them still take a plow blade and shovel, so a decorative finish doesn't cost you in winter upkeep.

Usually yes, because a new slab is only as stable as the base under it and an old, cracked driveway often signals base problems. JLB's crew handles the tear-out, and the free inspection up front tells you whether the existing base can be reused.