We bought our house over 2 years ago and have been parking out in the street, because we could never get up over the huge curb along the street to park in the rutted out dirt & gravel "driveway" a previous owner had made in the past. We had Wolfe Construction come out to give an estimate and some advice, and they came by within the next day or two to take some measurements and give us an idea of how we could finally install a single lane concrete driveway that widens up to a double car parking space beside the house. They gave us a good, fair, price estimate, so we just needed to see if there were any restrictions the city might have before we got started. We weren't sure how close to the property line we could go to install the double wide parking space, so they contacted the city for us to find out all the information we needed. My wife and I spent a couple of evenings deciding how & where we wanted the driveway to be laid out by drawing it out on paper and then going out and placing little flags & string lines to get an idea of how it would look. Our original plan was going to be a tight squeeze to park both of our cars, so we had them come out once again to show us how we could expand the parking space another two feet wider and another foot or two longer. They agreed to do it for us, along with tearing out about 15 feet of an old sidewalk in front of our house, for the same price as the original, slightly smaller plan we started with... plus they honored the coupon we found here on Angie's List on top of that. They started by calling all the necessary places that needed to come out and verify our plan or flag anything important hidden below the ground (city inspector, water, electric, sewer, cable, etc) and had that taken care of within a day or two. They showed up at 9:00 the morning we agreed to start the driveway, and about 8 hours later or so, the entire driveway had been leveled with their bobcat, the old sidewalk was torn out, and the wide, double parking space next to the house was already framed out, graveled, rebarred, poured 4" thick, smoothed, broom finished, and dry enough to walk on! The next few days was a three day holiday weekend, so once they came back after that, the parking space was good to go, so they started working on the narrower driveway portion of the job. Within three hours, they had it framed out, graveled & leveled, rebarred, poured 4" thick, smoothed, and broom finished. The next 4 or 5 hours was spent jackhammering out the huge, old curb next to the road, digging the 6ft of driveway up from the road deeper for the 6" of concrete the city required, pouring it, finishing it out, and even hand forming the edges for a nice, smooth reveal where it met the street. They came back two days later once the driveway portion had cured to remove the forms, cut a few lines between sections, and clean up & re-level the edges of our yard where they had to dig it out to fit all the framing forms. We are very happy with the work they did to help us get off the street and finally be able to start parking next to the house. We were impressed with how hard & fast they worked and were even surprised that they were able to start our job about a week earlier than expected due to them having to wait on some permits for another job they were working on before ours. The price was great and they were very nice and responsive with any questions we had. If we ever need any concrete or bobcat work done in the future, we will give them a call
Kevin T.
