Service area
Chloride is the highest and the smallest community we serve — about 229 people at roughly 4,009 feet on the flank of the Cerbat Mountains. It is the oldest continuously inhabited mining town in Arizona, founded in the 1860s, and it has the most demanding winter exposure of anywhere on our list.
At 4,009 feet Chloride freezes harder and more often than anywhere else we work. Air entrainment is not a nicety here, cold-weather protection is a real part of the schedule, and a slab poured carelessly in December will tell you about it every winter afterwards.
Chloride sits on the mountain flank rather than on deep valley fill — coarse, rocky, decomposed granite ground, and a townsite of narrow unpaved streets and large lots. Both change how a job gets planned.
Slabs and footings, steps and retaining walls, driveways and parking pads, shop and outbuilding floors, and repair or replacement of old concrete.
It is a small town with a lot of history, and much of the built fabric is old. Working around what is already there carefully matters more here than it does on an open lot.
Chloride is the highest point in our service area and freezes regularly. Everything that is optional lower down becomes standard here: air-entrained concrete for exterior flatwork, protection while the slab gains strength, and a schedule that does not put a fresh pour into a freezing night.
Ground snow load in the county's adopted design criteria is 5 psf for 3,000 to 4,500 feet, which covers Chloride. It is a modest number, but it is a reminder that this is a genuinely different environment from Bullhead City an hour away.
Sitting on the southwestern flank of the Cerbat Mountains, the ground here is coarser and rockier than the deep basin fill down in the valleys, and excavation can be slower and harder as a result.
The townsite has narrow, largely unpaved streets and large lots. Getting a loaded truck to the pour is a real question and we check it before quoting rather than after.
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Not too cold, but it needs doing properly. Pours get scheduled for the warmer part of the day so the slab gains strength before nightfall, the mix is adjusted, and protection goes on when it is called for. What you should not accept is a slab poured on a freezing afternoon and left uncovered.
That is exactly what we check first. The streets are narrow and mostly unpaved and some lots are awkward to reach. Where a truck cannot get to the pour there are ways around it, and we will tell you the cost implication up front.
We pour concrete — slabs, footings, steps, walls. Where that is happening next to something historic, working carefully around it is part of the job. If your project needs specialist historic restoration, we will say so rather than take it on.
Free estimate
Estimates are free and there is no obligation attached to one. If you would rather just talk it through, the phone is faster than the form.
Received
Usually the same day, and always within one working day. If it is urgent, calling is quicker than waiting on us.
