Concrete in De Soto, a small town getting a lot of new rooftops
De Soto was a town of about 6,500 people with a river, a rail line and big lots. The Panasonic plant and the K-10 work are bringing subdivisions, and the concrete questions are shifting from shop slabs to first patios.
De Soto sits on the Kansas River at the far northwest corner of Johnson County, with an old downtown along 83rd Street and Lexington Avenue, acreage lots on gravel roads to the south and west, and now the Panasonic electric-vehicle battery plant on the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant site, which the City expects to bring about 4,000 jobs and thousands of new housing units. The City has already reduced its minimum single-family lot size from 7,500 to 6,000 square feet to make room for them, and the K-10 corridor is being expanded to carry the traffic.
For now most of the concrete work in De Soto is what a town of big lots needs: shop and pole-barn floors, detached-garage slabs on frost footings, six-inch pads for campers and trailers, long gravel driveways getting a concrete apron at the garage, and patios behind the newer homes off Lexington and Kill Creek Road. The old town has the usual older-street repairs. As the subdivisions go in, the first patios, widenings and trailer pads will follow. Approaches onto city streets are city right-of-way under De Soto's permit; on the county roads outside the city it's the county's road department, and we check which before we quote.
What we do in De Soto
Shop, garage and pole-barn slabs
Frost-footing slabs for buildings, floors poured inside existing barns, base built over the clay first.
RV and trailer pads
Six-inch reinforced pads for campers and equipment trailers on the acreage lots.
Driveways and aprons
Concrete aprons and garage pads at the end of gravel drives, and full driveways in the new subdivisions.
Patios
First patios behind the new homes, sloped and sealed, with footings for a cover.
Repair and leveling
Old-town walks, stoops and drives lifted, repaired or replaced.
Approaches
City or county right-of-way permit, whichever the road belongs to, handled before the pour.
Neighborhoods and roads we cover
- Downtown De Soto: 83rd Street & Lexington Avenue
- Kill Creek Road
- Lexington Avenue south
- Edgerton Road & 95th
- Cedar Creek (east De Soto)
- Sunflower / Panasonic site
- K-10 & Kill Creek
- Lexington Trails
- Riverview & the Kansas River bottoms
- The gravel roads south of 103rd
Concrete services in De Soto
- Driveways, driveway replacement, approaches and sidewalks
- Patios, stamped and decorative concrete, steps, stoops and walkways, garage, shop and RV slabs
- Mudjacking and polyjacking, repair and resurfacing, sealing
- Removal, commercial concrete
Questions from De Soto homeowners
Can you pour a floor in my pole barn?
Yes. We grade and compact the base, lay a vapor barrier if you want it dry, and pour five or six inches with rebar and joints, sloped to the doors.
How deep do garage footings go?
Below the frost line, to the depth the plan and the City's adopted code require. The slab is part of the permitted building.
Do you come out to the gravel roads?
Yes, anywhere in the De Soto area, including the lots south of 103rd and west toward the county line.
Will the plant change anything for homeowners?
Mostly traffic and new neighbors. For concrete, it means more subdivisions, more HOAs and more first patios, and we're ready for that.
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