Panel by panel — sealed, resurfaced or repoured, each priced separately
Concrete Driveway Repair in Frisco, TX
Concrete driveway repair comes down to three routes, and most drives need only one of them. A crack that is still moving gets sealed. A panel that has broken up gets cut out and repoured. A surface that has only flaked gets resurfaced. We walk the drive with you, say which yours needs, and price each one on its own line.
- Concrete only — we do not patch or sealcoat asphalt
- Failed panels saw-cut to the joints and repoured at full thickness
- Repair and full replacement priced side by side, both numbers yours
Send the rough size and what it looks like. Someone attends, walks the drive, and you get the number in writing.
Concrete driveway repair usually starts at the panel nearest the street
The approach end of a drive is its widest panel, it carries every vehicle that has ever turned in off the road, and it often sits over ground that was trenched for the water or sewer connection when the house was built.
When the clay under it shrinks through a dry August, that panel spans a void. The first heavy axle cracks it through or steps it down at the joint.
What gets sold at that point is usually a bag mix troweled into the step. It carries no steel and bonds to nothing, and it breaks out along the same line the following spring. The panel comes out to the joints instead, the base under it is rebuilt, and the repour is dowelled into the concrete that stays.
No fee, no obligation.
How we repair a concrete driveway in Frisco
Four repairs cover almost every drive we are called out to. The estimate names which ones yours needs, and what each one will not fix.
Replacing a failed panel
Panel replacement is the repair for a driveway section that has cracked into pieces, dropped at a joint, or lost the base underneath it. We saw-cut the failed panel out to the nearest existing joints, break it out and haul it away, recompact the base, then repour at 4 inches — 5 inches where a truck or an RV parks — with #3 or #4 rebar dowelled into the panels that stay. Every panel replacement includes the haul-off in the price and states in writing that new concrete will not colour-match a twenty-year-old drive.
Routing and sealing the cracks
Routing and sealing is the repair for a crack that is still opening and closing with the seasons rather than one that has stopped. We saw or grind the crack out to a clean square channel, set backer rod to depth, and fill it with a flexible polyurethane sealant that stretches as the slab moves instead of splitting with it. Every sealed crack is quoted by the linear foot and described as maintenance, because the movement underneath it does not stop when the crack is filled.
Resurfacing a spalled driveway
Resurfacing is the repair for a drive that is structurally sound but flaking, scaling or stained, where the top few millimetres have failed and the slab beneath them has not. We mechanically profile the existing concrete, prime it, bond a polymer-modified overlay across it, then broom-finish and seal it. Every resurfacing quote opens with whether your slab is a candidate, because over concrete that is cracked and still moving an overlay buys one good-looking year.
The apron and the approach at the street
The apron is the section between your drive and the city walk, and it is the part of the drive most likely to be sitting partly on public land. We rebuild it at 5 inches over compacted base with #4 rebar, and dowel it into the panels that remain rather than butting new concrete against old. Every apron quote states whether the work reaches into the public right-of-way, because that needs a separate City of Frisco Public Works permit alongside the building permit.
If the surface is the only thing that has failed, price concrete resurfacing before you price a repair, and price a concrete overlay if you want the drive to look different rather than just sound. Cracks and spalling on patios, walks and steps are on the concrete repair page. Once repair stops making sense the job is a new concrete driveway, which starts with concrete removal. The rest of the trade is on the concrete services hub.
The spec goes on the quote before you decide anything.
What takes a concrete driveway apart in Frisco
A driveway is the longest slab on the lot, the only one that carries vehicles, and the only one with a public right-of-way at the end of it. Those three facts account for nearly every repair we price here.
Voids under the approach end
Frisco sits on Blackland Prairie clay, and the dominant soil — Houston Black — routinely tests at a plasticity index of 40 to 60, where the building code calls a soil expansive at 15. It swells through a wet spring and pulls away from the underside of a slab through a dry summer.
A drive is the longest run of flatwork on the lot, so it spans more of that variation than any other slab, and the end at the street is both its widest panel and the one every vehicle turns across. That is where an unsupported slab gets found first, and it fails by cracking through or stepping down at the joint.
The trench that was cut across it
Utility connections often run under the drive, and any later repair to one means a trench cut across it. Backfill dropped in one lift and left to settle, rather than compacted in layers, keeps consolidating for years afterwards.
The panel above it drops, and the crack runs parallel to the trench line. Repouring that panel without rebuilding the base underneath repeats the failure, which is why the excavation depth and the compaction are stated on the quote.
Four inches under a three-quarter-ton truck
Most of Frisco was built between the mid-nineties and the mid-2010s, and the standard residential drive of that period is 4 inches with light mesh, sized for two sedans.
A loaded pickup, an RV, a dumpster on the apron or a concrete truck delivering next door puts several times that on it. Where a vehicle like that lives on the drive, the repoured panel goes in at 5 inches with #4 rebar rather than matching what was there before.
Irrigation running along the slab edge
A driveway edge is a long seam between concrete and clay, and North Texas lawns are watered hard through the summer to keep grass alive on that clay.
Water landing repeatedly along the edge saturates the soil beside and under the slab while the ground further in stays dry, so the two halves of a panel move on different schedules. Fall of an eighth to a quarter of an inch per foot away from the slab, and heads aimed off it, cost less than the panel does.
The site visit tells you which of these you actually have.
You will know when you can park on it before you book
A repoured panel follows exactly the same schedule as a new slab, and all three dates go on your quote in writing. A routed and sealed crack is a different matter — the sealant takes traffic within hours, and we give you the window on the day.
Cold weather extends every one of them. If that applies to your pour, you hear it before the truck is ordered rather than afterwards.
Curing guidance: NRMCA CIP 11, Curing In-Place Concrete.
Our driveway quote against the typical driveway quote
Same drive, same cracks. The difference is whether anyone wrote down which panels come out and which get sealed.
| On the page | DFW Concrete Co. | The typical quote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | One number for the job as scoped | A per-foot range that moves on the day |
| Slab thickness | Stated in inches | Not mentioned |
| Reinforcement | Rebar or mesh, size and spacing | "Reinforced" — the entire line |
| Joint spacing | Planned and written | Cut wherever, if at all |
| Haul-off and clean-up | In the price | Added at the end |
Take our quote to any other contractor and compare it line by line. That is what it is for.
Free. No obligation. Most quotes back the same day.
How much does concrete driveway repair cost in Frisco, TX?
These are the ranges the Frisco and North DFW market runs at in 2026, with the specification each number assumes. Repair is priced in two units — per linear foot for cracks, per square foot for panels and surfaces — so a quote giving one total for the whole drive is hiding which of the two you are buying.
| Work | What the number assumes | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| Repairing the drive you have | ||
| Rout and seal a moving crack | crack cut to a clean channel, backer rod, polyurethane sealant | $8–$18 / linear ft |
| Epoxy injection | surface ports, face sealed, structural epoxy under pressure | $12–$25 / linear ft |
| Replace a failed panel | saw-cut to the nearest joints, base rebuilt, dowelled and repoured | $8–$15 / sq ft |
| Resurfacing a spalled drive | profiled and primed, polymer-modified overlay, broom finish | $4–$8 / sq ft |
| When repair stops making sense | ||
| Demolition and haul-off | existing 4–5in reinforced slab broken out, hauled and disposed of | $3–$6 / sq ft |
| Full driveway replacement | 4in slab, 4,000 PSI, #3 rebar at 18in centres, broom finish | $7–$12 / sq ft |
| Replacement for trucks or an RV | 5in slab, #4 rebar at 18in centres, thickened edge | $10–$16 / sq ft |
What moves a number inside its range: how many separate panels are involved, whether the base under them has to be rebuilt, how close the truck can get to the pour, and whether the work reaches the right-of-way and needs the Public Works permit. Two failed panels at opposite ends of a drive cost more than four side by side.
Free. No obligation. Most quotes back the same day.
How a driveway repair actually runs
Four steps, and the second one is where you find out whether repairing is the cheaper option at all.
The site visit
We measure the area, check the grade and the drainage, assess the soil, and confirm whether a truck can reach the pour.
The written quote
One fixed price, with the thickness, the reinforcement and the joint spacing stated — the same three items the City of Frisco asks for on the survey with a concrete and driveway permit application. Yours to keep and to compare.
Prep and pour
Failed panels saw-cut to the joints and broken out, base rebuilt and compacted, steel dowelled into the concrete that stays. Then the pour, the broom finish, and the joints re-established on the existing lines.
The cure
Forms pulled and the site cleared, then the slab is left undisturbed to gain strength on the schedule above.
Walk 24–48h · car 7 days · heavy 28 days
Step one costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Concrete driveway repair questions people ask before they book
Who are the best concrete driveway repair contractors near me in Frisco, TX?
How much does concrete driveway repair cost in Frisco?
Should I repair or replace my concrete driveway?
Can you replace just one section of a driveway?
Do you repair asphalt driveways?
Do I need a permit to repair a driveway in Frisco?
Tell us what the job is. We'll price it in writing.
Tell us the rough size and what you want done. Someone comes out, measures, and you get one fixed number in writing — not a range that moves on the day. Nothing is owed if you don't go ahead.
On-site estimate is free · no obligation · most quotes back the same day.
- Free on-site estimate across the North DFW ring
- Fixed price in writing before we start
- Reinforcement and thickness stated on the quote
- Clean-up and haul-off included