Driveways for Taylorsville's hillside and orchard-country lots, where slope and base prep decide everything.
Taylorsville is the seat of Alexander County, sitting at roughly 1,175 feet beneath the Brushy Mountains, and it is where our owner and project manager both live. Very little of Alexander County is truly flat: homes sit on hillsides, driveways climb from the road, and back yards slope away toward tree lines and creeks.
A driveway here usually rises from the road to the house, and that grade has to be engineered rather than paved over. We set the fall so runoff leaves the slab sideways, build the base deep enough that water cannot undermine it, and choose a finish with grip because at 1,175 feet the ice is real.
The orchard and pastureland ringing Taylorsville means many of these lots carry topsoil and old fill exactly where you want compacted subgrade. Topsoil holds water and compresses; a slab poured on it settles no matter how good the mix is. We probe before we quote, so the base you pay for matches the ground that is actually under it.
$8 to $15 per square foot installed for a broom finish, $14 to $22 for decorative work. Hillside lots carry more excavation and drainage than flat ones. See our concrete pricing page for the full breakdown.
A broom-finished driveway in Taylorsville typically runs $8 to $15 per square foot installed and decorative work $14 to $22. Because so many Alexander County lots carry grade, excavation and drainage are often a larger share of the quote here than on a flat site.
The Foothills Concrete Company is based in Hickory, and both our owner and our project manager live in Taylorsville — so this is not a market we drive out to, it is the one we come home to. Estimates in Taylorsville are free, on site and written down.
Yes. Grade means water has somewhere to run, and water is what undermines a slab. We set a deliberate cross-slope, build the base deep enough that runoff cannot wash it out, and where the grade is severe we design drainage or a retaining edge into the project from the start.
Foot traffic after 24 to 48 hours, passenger vehicles after 7 days, and heavy vehicles or an RV after 28 days. We provide the full curing schedule at handover.
Full service details on our concrete driveways page, everything we pour in Taylorsville, and current pricing on our concrete cost page.