About
About Elite Concrete Hutto: a small crew built around clay and heat
We set up around one idea: in Hutto, concrete mostly fails because of the ground under it and the weather on the day it's poured. Get those two right and the rest is craft.
Where we started
A concrete outfit built around Blackland clay and Texas heat
Drive any Hutto subdivision in August and you can read the soil from the street: driveway panels stepped up at the joints, walks lifted by a lawn that gets watered every night, patios cracked corner to corner. Very little of that is bad concrete. Most of it is concrete that was poured as if the ground under it would hold still.
The ground here doesn't. Houston Black and Branyon clay are rated high shrink-swell by the USDA; they crack open for months in a dry summer and swell back with the May and October rains. And the pouring season is hot: about 115 days a year at or above 90°F at the nearest weather station, in Taylor.
Elite Concrete Hutto was set up to work with both instead of around them. That's the whole angle. We don't claim a long history, a pile of awards or a big crew. What we can show you is how we handle the clay and the heat, job by job, in writing.
How we work
Six habits on every Hutto concrete job
These are the things you can check us on.
None of these are secret. They come from published guidance: NRMCA on hot-weather concreting and curing, ACI's 95°F limit at discharge, and Hutto's own code on dowels and reinforcement. What makes them a habit is doing them on the small jobs too.
If you hire someone else, these are fair questions to ask them.
Our habits, one card at a time
Use Next card (or the arrow keys) to work through the stack.
- 01/06 Habit 1
We probe the soil on the site visit
A steel rod and a shovel tell us more about a Hutto lot than any photo: whether the clay is bone-dry and cracked, soft from irrigation, or already filled with something else. What we find goes in the scope.
- 02/06 Habit 2
We schedule pours by the thermometer
From June through September the first truck is booked for first light. If the forecast puts evaporation in the red and nothing on site can bring it down, we move the pour and tell you why.
- 03/06 Habit 3
Curing is a line on the quote
Curing is the step most often skipped because nobody sees it. We write the method and the minimum days into the quote, so you can hold us to it.
- 04/06 Habit 4
You get photos of what gets buried
Subgrade, steel on its chairs, dowels, plumbing stubs: we photograph them before concrete covers them and send them to you. They're yours for the life of the slab.
- 05/06 Habit 5
We ask about sprinklers near the slab
Irrigation that soaks one edge of a slab every night keeps that strip of clay swollen. We will ask you to re-aim heads before a pour, and tell you how to water after it.
- 06/06 Habit 6
No prices over the phone
We will talk through what drives cost on any call. A number comes after someone has stood on the site, because on clay the number depends on what is under the grass.
Honest scope
Our concrete work, or a specialist's?
A good share of calls are for work someone else does better. Sort a few.
We pour and repair concrete: driveways, patios, stamped and decorative work, slabs and pads, sidewalks, retaining walls, overlays and small commercial flatwork. That's the list on the homepage, and it's deliberately short.
When a call is outside it, we say so on the first call and name the kind of company to look for. It costs us the job and saves you a site visit that ends the same way.
Ours, or a specialist's?
Tap a card, then tap the bin you would put it in. Mouse users can drag.
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Our call: We pour it. Tear-out, prep for the clay, steel, dowels, approach permit. Core work for us.
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Our call: A specialist's job. That points at the foundation. Start with a structural engineer and a foundation repair company, not a flatwork crew.
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Our call: A specialist's job. Foam lifting is specialist equipment we don't run. If the slab is broken as well, replacing panels is something we do.
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Our call: We pour it. Slab, thickened areas or footings for posts, permit. Planning the cover footings now is the cheap way to do it.
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Our call: A specialist's job. Asphalt is a different trade with different equipment. An asphalt paving company is the right call.
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Our call: We pour it. Footing, steel or block, drain rock, pipe. Walls that need an engineer get one.
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Our call: A specialist's job. We leave landscaping to landscapers and will schedule around them.
Where we work
Concrete work in Hutto and the towns a truck can reach
The concrete itself sets the radius: a load at 90°F has a short clock.
Hutto grew from about 1,250 people in 2000 to 27,577 in 2020, and it hasn't slowed. Hutto is home base, so neighborhoods like Star Ranch, Emory Crossing, Cottonwood Creek and the streets around Old Town are the shortest drive for a truck.
We also work in Round Rock, Pflugerville, Taylor, Georgetown, Manor and Coupland. The paperwork changes town to town and road to road, so we sort it before quoting:
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Inside Hutto city limits
Permits through the City's GovWell portal; right-of-way work gets its own ROW permit; Development Services inspects. -
Hutto address, outside the city
The City's own FAQ notes some Hutto addresses are outside city limits. Then it's Williamson County for county roads, with inspections before concrete is placed on culvert driveways. -
Taylor and Georgetown
Each city has its own driveway rules and online applications; Georgetown requires a permit to add to a driveway or change an approach, with a pre-pour inspection. -
Pflugerville and Manor
Mostly in Travis County, with their own city rules. Same approach: we check before we quote. -
Further than that
Ask. If the drive makes our price unfair to you, we'll tell you and suggest you find someone closer.
One local note
About the concrete hippos
Yes, Hutto has concrete hippos all over town. The City tells the story as a legend: a circus train in 1915, a hippo that got loose, and the message "Stop trains! Hippo loose in Hutto." We don't make hippos. We do think a town that decorates with concrete deserves driveways that hold up as well as its statues do.
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Talk to the crew
Tell us about the job. If it's ours, we'll set a visit; if it's not, we'll tell you who to call instead.
- Call or text: (737) 201-1843
- Photos and plans: info@eliteconcretehutto.com