Concrete Contractors in Schaumburg, IL

Schaumburg went from a farm village to one of the largest suburbs in the area in about twenty years, and its driveways show it. As concrete contractors serving Schaumburg, we see a lot of 1970s builder slabs reaching the end of their life, plus requests to widen, extend or add on. The village's driveway resource guide sets the rules for all of it.

How Schaumburg filled in

The village incorporated on March 7, 1956, with roughly 130 people, in a township that had stayed mostly farmland and where Wikipedia says German was widely spoken at home into the 1950s. Builder Alfred Campanelli broke ground on Weathersfield in 1959; that one subdivision grew past 6,800 homes. Motorola began building its headquarters nearby in 1967 and Woodfield Mall opened in 1971. The census followed: 986 residents in 1960, 18,724 a decade later and 53,305 by 1980. ACS figures on Point2Homes put 37.8% of homes in the 1970s and 22.2% in the 1980s, with a median year built of 1979.

What the village driveway guide says

The Community Development Department's driveway resource guide covers new and replacement drives:

• Permit: required for adding or replacing a driveway
• Driveway slab: 4 inches of concrete on 4 inches of compacted stone
• Apron: at least 5 inches of non-reinforced, 6-bag concrete
• Width: 21 feet maximum within 3 feet of the front property line, widening at no more than 45 degrees past that point; 9 feet minimum
• Coverage: front and rear yard paving each capped at 40%
• Additions: new concrete tied to an existing drive must be pinned with No. 4 rebar
• Inspections: a sub-base inspection and a final

A drive already wider than 21 feet that legally existed before March 1, 2005 may be repaired or replaced at its current width, but not widened.

Widening a Schaumburg driveway

The pinning rule shapes how a widening is built. We saw a straight edge on the old slab, drill it, and set No. 4 bars in epoxy so the new strip cannot drop or creep away from the original. The flare is laid out to stay inside the 21-foot limit near the street and the 45-degree angle beyond it, and the 40% front-yard cap is checked against the plat before a plan is drawn.

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Walks and patios

The guide sets walks at a minimum of 3 feet wide, with side-yard walks capped at 5 feet, and it requires flatwork to pitch away from the house. For backyards we pour patios and stamped concrete, keeping total rear-yard coverage within the village limit.

Headwaters and Salt Creek

Wikipedia describes Schaumburg as the headwaters of the West Branch of the DuPage River, which carries runoff from the middle and west of the village, while the West Branch of Salt Creek takes the east side toward Busse Lake. Ground elevations run from about 750 to 850 feet, highest at Schaumburg Road and Webster Lane. Whatever the slope of your street, each slab still has to move water off itself and away from the foundation, and we set grades with that in mind.

Timing your project

Schaumburg's guide asks for the sub-base inspection to be requested by 4 p.m. the business day before. In practice that means base work, inspection and pour fall on back-to-back days when the weather allows. We plan driveway replacements so the old slab comes out, the stone base goes in and gets inspected, and the concrete is placed while the base is still dry and firm. A base left open through a rainstorm has to be reworked before anyone pours on it.

Our services in Schaumburg

• Concrete driveways: replacement, widening and aprons
• Sidewalks & steps: front walks and side-yard walks
• Concrete patios and stamped concrete
• Garage & shed slabs
• Concrete repair & replacement for 1970s and 1980s concrete

Call (224) 494-2266 for a free estimate.