Concreters Keysborough — Slabs, Driveways & New-Estate Concrete

Keysborough is build-out territory. The old market gardens have become new estates — Somerfield, the Coates estate, and the rest — and the ground underneath all of them is the same former market-garden clay that's some of the most reactive soil in Melbourne. Most of the new blocks here classify as H-class sites, which means the slab design has to account for serious seasonal movement. We pour house slabs, shed slabs and new-estate driveways in Keysborough to the engineer's drawings and the soil test, every time.

H-class sites cost more to pour properly, and we flag that honestly at quote stage. The beam depth, the mesh, the edge profiles and the slab type (waffle raft or conventional) are all driven by the soil test and the engineer's design — and on an H-class block, shaving those is how you end up with a cracked slab in three years. We'd rather quote the real number and pour it properly than win the job on a thin price and watch it fail. We'll walk you through what the soil test means and why the slab costs what it does.

The new-estate driveways in Keysborough are usually the last piece after the house goes up. We coordinate with your builder, pour the driveway and any alfresco or patio slab to match, and handle the estate crossover to the developer's and council's spec. Exposed aggregate alfresco packages are popular in the Somerfield estate — a finish that ties the alfresco to the front driveway.