Billings Heights, MT
A concrete driveway in Billings Heights usually has a birthday in the 1970s, 80s or 90s. The Heights added close to ten thousand people through the seventies alone, and most of its housing went up between 1970 and 1999, ranch and bi-level homes on comfortable lots that run around 10,000 square feet. The driveway bill for that boom is arriving now, block by block: surface pitting, corner cracks, panels tipping toward the garage. Meanwhile the north edge keeps pouring brand-new concrete, with filings still selling at High Sierra and The Ranch at Lake Hills along Madrid Drive and Lindero Boulevard.
Ostermiller Construction works both ends of that story from Shepherd, a few minutes up Highway 312. We replace driveways that are done, and we pour new ones where the Heights is still growing. What we never do is jack or mudjack a settled slab, because lifting failed concrete leaves you with lifted, failed concrete. The metro version of this service is on the main concrete driveway page, and everything we do in the Heights has its own hub.
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Concrete has a service life, and subdivisions built in one push reach the end of it in one push. On a slab from the boom decades, the tells are everywhere: aggregate showing through the surface, cracks that run corner to corner, a low panel that holds ice by the garage every February. Sealers and patch kits do not turn that clock back.
Replacement done right starts under the slab. We tear out the old concrete, fix the ground that let it fail, and rebuild a compacted base before new forms are set. Owners who want a different material at the same time flip to an asphalt driveway in the Heights, and we price both from a single visit.
The Heights has been inside Billings city limits since annexation in the 1980s, and the city has a specific rule where your driveway meets the street. Cutting or altering a curb, driveway apron or public sidewalk requires a city permit, the city issues those permits only to licensed and bonded contractors, and curb cuts must include a concrete apron at least five feet deep. The city also wants 24 hours notice before that work starts.
The good news: flatwork entirely on your own property needs no building permit at all. At the estimate we mark exactly which square feet of your project sit in the right-of-way, what the permit step means for the timeline, and what stays simple. Ten minutes of mapping keeps the whole job clean.
Yellowstone County's clay soils hold water and give it up slowly, which is precisely what a concrete base does not want under it in a freezing climate. Our pours start with drainage arithmetic: grade the slab to shed away from the house, compact base that lets water pass under instead of pooling, and keep downspouts from feeding the ground beside the drive.
New filings bring the opposite problem, freshly graded lots where fill has not finished settling. There the base work is about compaction and patience, so the new driveway does not follow the fill down. Either way, the numbers are in our concrete driveway cost guide, and the real quote is free at your curb. Call (406) 717-4103.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Billings Heights and Yellowstone County.
(406) 717-4103From the first look at the job to the final walk-through, here is exactly how it goes.
We come see the actual job — the slab, the driveway, the lot, and the ground under it. What failed, why it failed, and what the fix really is. No blind quotes over the phone.
You get a free written quote with a real number and a real timeline. It says what's included — tear-out, haul-off, prep, materials — and it holds unless the scope changes.
The crew shows up when we said and does the job the way we quoted it — tear-out, base, forms, pour, pave, seal or stripe. Anything unexpected, you hear about it immediately, not on the invoice.
We walk the finished work together before we call it done. Clean lines, clean site, old material hauled off, and clear guidance on cure times and care. Done means you say it's done.
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