Concrete, Landscaping & Snow Removal in Sherwood Park

Most of the concrete work we quote in the older parts of Sherwood Park is replacement rather than repair. A driveway poured in the 1960s has been through six decades of freeze-thaw, and the failure is usually underneath it: the base has moved, water is sitting where it should be draining, and the slab has cracked along the line the ground gave way. Grinding the surface or filling the cracks hides that for a season.

We take the old slab out, deal with the base and the drainage, and pour a new one that slopes water away from the house. On mature lots that often means dealing with tree roots as well — a spruce that was a sapling when the house was built will lift a walkway and keep lifting it, so the fix has to account for where the roots are going, not only where they are now.

In the newer neighbourhoods the work is the first pour rather than the second: driveway extensions, rear pads for a garage that was not built with the house, patios, garden steps and curbing to hold the beds back.

A new build in Summerwood or Aspen Trails comes with a rough grade and nothing else. The first job is getting the slope right so water leaves the house and reaches the swale between the lots, and it is worth doing properly before the sod goes down rather than after — heavy clay does not forgive a lazy grade, and the spring melt finds every low spot.

From there it is topsoil, sod, beds, rock or mulch, and the trees and shrubs that will eventually give the yard some shade. We install irrigation at the same stage where it makes sense, because trenching a lawn that was laid last month is work nobody enjoys paying for twice.

The mature yards want the opposite service. Beds that were planted in 1975 have grown into each other, overgrown shrubs are holding moisture against the foundation, and the lawn under a big canopy has thinned out. We take those back to something manageable, replace the sod that will not recover, and rebuild the beds with edging that holds its line.

Our snow crews run with our own skid steers, plows and blowers, and we work residential driveways and walkways alongside commercial lots. The residential nuisance in Sherwood Park is the windrow: the county grader clears the street and leaves a compacted ridge across the bottom of every driveway on it, usually a few hours after you have already shovelled. Clearing that by hand once it has set up is a genuinely hard job.

On the commercial side the requirement is timing. A lot that is not open by the time staff and customers arrive is a problem, so we set the route before the season starts rather than sorting it out during the first real storm.

We also handle ice control, and we clear the sidewalk sections property owners are responsible for under the county standard as part of the same visit.

The commercial strip through Sherwood Park and the industrial property to the west give us a steady mix of work that is not residential: parking lot concrete, sidewalk and curb replacement, loading aprons, tenant improvements and the landscaping around all of it.

For property managers the useful part is that the same contractor handles the pour in July and the plow in January. One point of contact for the site, one set of records, and no argument in the spring about whether the damage at the edge of the lot came from the snow crew or was there already.