Concrete contractor in Burkburnett, TX

What concrete work do we do in Burkburnett?

We’re a concrete contractor in Burkburnett, TX, the I-44 town at the north end of Wichita County. Our Wichita Falls team is just down the road. We pour new driveways, patios, and slabs here, and we grind old floors into polished concrete or coat them.

Burkburnett grew out of a 1918 oil boom, and you can still see it in what’s built here. There are old shop floors, metal buildings, and slabs poured in a hurry over decades of pump-jack work. The town sits just south of the Red River at the Oklahoma line, with I-44 and US-281 running through it, and Wichita Falls is a short drive south. We build for a working town like that, not a showroom. Get your price now

What floor fits a shop that sees oil and hydraulic fluid?

Energy service work and light metal shops still carry a lot of the work in Burkburnett. So the town has plenty of detached shops, fleet bays, and garages where oil, hydraulic fluid, and dropped tools land on the floor. Our answer there is garage floor coatings. We lay a 100 percent solids epoxy body, then a polyaspartic topcoat that holds up to shop chemicals and to the sun through a south-facing bay door. Coatings like that run $8.55 to $10.39 a square foot before the drive cost.

An office or a store going into an old building is a different job. The owner usually wants a clean floor that’s easy to keep. Polished concrete fits better there, at $3.83 to $6.25 a square foot. We grind the slab and densify it, which hardens the top, so there’s no coating to peel. That floor takes a forklift and a mop equally well.

Most work here falls into four kinds, and each one gets a different build:

• Oil, fuel, or hydraulic fluid on a shop floor, including the old slabs poured fast in the pump-jack years: a coated floor with a polyaspartic topcoat, for energy-service outfits and fleet bays.
• A store or office moving into an older downtown building: polished concrete, with nothing on top to wear off.
• A driveway, patio, RV pad, or approach apron: an air-entrained outside pour, built for Wichita County’s freeze-thaw swing and the steady Rolling Plains wind.
• A metal building or barndominium-style home on acreage out toward the Red River bottoms, where land is still cheap: a new slab, poured through Pour-4-Polish if you might polish it later.

Each of these breaks in its own way. A patio cracks, a coated shop floor peels loose from the slab, and a driveway on a poor base heaves. So we name how a job would fail first, then build the slab or coating against that.

Driveways and patios that stand up to Wichita County weather

Outside work is where the weather here does its damage. The surface tops 100 degrees in summer, real hard freezes come in winter, and the wind hardly ever stops. Pour a concrete driveway or concrete patio with no air in the mix, or with joints in the wrong place, and that weather tears into it. So every outside pour we place uses an air-entrained mix. We space the control joints by the slab’s thickness, following ACI 302.1R. Then we seal it with a penetrating sealer that soaks in, since a film on top peels under the sun.

Want more than plain gray? Decorative concrete can add a border band with a broom finish, saw-cut lines, or color mixed right in. It dresses up the front of the house, and it needs less care than pavers do. If a slab inside will get a polish, we place it through Pour-4-Polish. That way the finish is built in from the subgrade up.

What is the local stone, aggregate, and subgrade under Burkburnett?

Burkburnett sits on the Rolling Plains, over Permian red bed. That’s layers of sandstone, siltstone, and shale, and as they break down they turn into the red soil the region is named for. Near the Red River, that ground blends with river silt. It also holds pockets of expansive clay, a clay that swells when wet and shrinks as it dries. Both move a slab, just in opposite ways.

Most of the red bed under Burkburnett holds up a slab better than the deep Blackland clays farther southeast. But it changes from lot to lot. Soil that came from sandstone drains and packs well. The shale streaks and the river-bottom clay near the Red River swell and shrink with the seasons. They can walk a slab sideways a little each cycle. So we check how firm the ground is at several points instead of assuming it’s stable. We wet or dry the subgrade to the right moisture and pack it. Under any slab bound for a coating or polish, we lay a capillary break (a layer of gravel that keeps ground water from wicking up) and a vapor barrier. Steel and joints follow ACI 302.1R, scaled to the slab’s thickness and use.

We look over every slab already on the ground before we finish it. If it’s old, had a coating, or has a moisture past nobody knows, we run an ASTM F1869 test before we pick a finish. That test measures how much water vapor comes off the slab. A polish over a wet slab fails, however clean the grind looks.

For ready-mix and rock, most Burkburnett pours draw from OK Concrete Company - Wichita Falls, in Wichita County about 13 miles south. We name it as a supply point for the region, not a yard in Burkburnett. The haul from the plant is part of how we plan a pour and build your quote.

Which Wichita-area towns do we cover near Burkburnett?

Burkburnett sits at the north edge of what we cover in Wichita County. The closest Texas pages from here run south and east along I-44 and US-82:

• Wichita Falls, just south, the closest city and where most Burkburnett ready-mix and rock comes from
• Gainesville (about 95 miles southeast toward US-82)
• Sherman (roughly 130 miles east on US-82, in Grayson County)
• Denison (about 135 miles east, near the Red River)

The Texas state page and our locations index cover the rest.