Concrete Contractors in Jesup, IA

Jesup sits mostly in Buchanan County, with a slice in Black Hawk County that is part of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls metro area. It had 2,508 residents at the 2020 census, up from 2,212 in 2000, and Wikipedia credits its growth to its closeness to Waterloo and Cedar Falls and to new subdivisions. For concrete contractors, Jesup is notable for how evenly its housing is spread across the decades, which means every type of concrete job turns up here.

Housing across the decades

Census estimates for Jesup's 1,029 housing units break down this way:

• 1950s: 154 homes (15.0 percent)
• 1960s: 136 homes (13.2 percent)
• 1970s: 168 homes (16.3 percent)
• 2010s: 116 homes (11.3 percent)
• 2020 or later: 31 homes (3.0 percent)

The median year built is 1974. So on one drive through town you can pass a 1950s house with crumbling steps, a 1970s ranch with a driveway at the end of its life, and a new house with no patio at all.

Older homes: replace what has failed

For homes from the 1950s through the 1970s, the common calls are for driveway replacement, new front steps and garage floors that have cracked and settled. We remove the old concrete, rebuild the base with compacted granular fill and pour air-entrained concrete with control joints laid out to keep cracking in check.

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Newer homes: add what is missing

For homes in Jesup's newer subdivisions, it is mostly additions:

• A patio off the back door, plain or stamped.
• A wider driveway or side pad for a trailer.
• A slab for a shed or detached garage.
• A walk around the house to the back yard.

On newer lots, we check that backfill near the foundation has been compacted, because a patio on loose fill will settle.

A young, family town

Wikipedia's 2020 census figures give Jesup a median age of 37.8, younger than most towns around it, with 26.8 percent of residents under 18. Of 1,008 households, 34.6 percent had children at home and 55.9 percent were married couples. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.1 percent. Point2Homes puts owner occupancy at 78.9 percent, with 823 single detached houses among 1,029 units. Families like these tend to ask for patios, play slabs, wider drives and walks around to the back yard.

A school district that kept building

The Jesup Community School District reaches well beyond town, into Littleton, Wise and Shady Grove in Buchanan County and Barclay, Canfield, Jubilee and Spring Creek in Black Hawk County. Wikipedia notes that the district's growth led to a new elementary, early childhood center and middle school, all now complete. Three Amish schools north of town serve the district's rural Amish families, and St. Athanasius Catholic School has taught preschool through eighth grade since the 1950s. Growth in the schools has gone hand in hand with new subdivisions, and those newer lots are where patios and wider driveways are most often missing.

Stamped patios in the subdivisions

Stamped concrete has become a common pick for patios behind newer Jesup houses. An ashlar slate, flagstone or brick pattern is pressed into the surface while it is still workable, and color is mixed in or dusted on. After it cures we seal it, and it needs resealing every few years to protect the color from salt and weather.

Farms in the district

Outside the city limits, the district's farm and acreage properties call for different concrete: machine shed floors, aprons at shop doors and pads for bins or tanks. Wikipedia places Jesup's center in Perry Township at about 984 feet of elevation. Out on the gravel roads we plan the job around how a ready-mix truck reaches the site and how firm the ground is in spring.

Call (319) 481-5867 or use the form to send a few photos, and we will set up a visit to Jesup.