Retaining walls, driveways and slabs for Austell properties on both sides of Sweetwater Creek, a short drive from our Powder Springs base.
Medina Concrete is a concrete contractor close to Austell, based about 10 to 20 minutes away in Powder Springs. We build retaining walls, driveways, slabs and fences for homeowners around Sweetwater Creek and the hills above it.
Austell is a small city where Cobb County meets Douglas County, with Thornton Road, the East-West Connector and Veterans Memorial Highway all passing through. A great deal of its ground slopes toward Sweetwater Creek and the streams that feed it, and that shapes almost every outdoor job here.
When Francisco Medina visits, he reads the grade and the runoff before anything else. Then he explains what it would take to hold back the slope or send the water somewhere harmless, in English or in Spanish.
A sloped Austell yard can give up a little soil in every heavy storm until the fence leans or the patio edge hangs in the air. A block or poured wall with a footing, drainage gravel behind it and an outlet for the water turns that bank into level ground you can use.
Steep drives need a coarser broom texture for traction and a clear plan for the water collecting at the bottom. We pour new driveways and replace broken ones, pitched so runoff does not sheet into the garage.
Sheds, carports, trailer pads and workshop floors all start with a slab. We set forms, lay rebar over compacted stone and pour at a thickness matched to the weight it will carry.
Once a slope is held, a pine privacy fence along the top of the wall finishes the yard. We build fences and gates, including double gates wide enough for a mower or a small trailer.
Everything else we do is on the services page.
Austell residents remember the September 2009 flood, when Sweetwater Creek rose into homes and streets across the city. Not every property sits near the water, but most of the city drains toward it, and that deserves a place in any plan for new concrete.
On these lots we keep new work from acting like a dam. Patios and driveways get a fall that steers water around the house, retaining walls get drain pipe and an exit for it, and we avoid raising the grade where it would push runoff onto the property next door.
Sweetwater Creek State Park lies just across the Douglas County line, and the creek valley there shows how quickly the land falls toward the water. Yards at the bottom of an Austell hill tend to collect runoff from the houses above them, so a new driveway down there often needs a trench drain or a grassy swale alongside it.
Away from the creek, much of Austell sits on hills that were cut for subdivisions off Austell Road, Clay Road and Maxham Road. Those cuts left steep banks behind many houses, and a red clay bank slumps when it stays wet through a rainy spring.
A wall that lasts here sits on a footing below the loose topsoil, with its first course buried and clean gravel against the back of the blocks instead of clay. Nobody sees that part once the job is done, and it is the part that decides whether the wall stays straight over the years.
Taller walls, or walls holding up a driveway or a building, can call for geogrid layers tied back into the soil or an engineered design. Francisco tells you at the estimate when a wall is past the point where a standard block wall makes sense.
Austell lies between our home base and the towns to the south and east, so it is one of the easiest places for us to work. The same trip covers jobs in Mableton and Lithia Springs.
Older houses near downtown Austell and the rail lines often have gravel or bare dirt for parking beside the house. A poured parking pad with a short apron to the street keeps mud off the porch and gives a second car a level place to sit.
Estimates are free. If a slope project also needs a new patio or walkway at the top, we price them together, and our concrete patios page shows what that slab work involves.
Yes. The wall sits on a footing below the loose topsoil, with gravel and drain pipe behind it so water can get out instead of pushing on the blocks. We also make sure the new grade does not send runoff onto a neighbor.
Yes. We cover Cobb, Paulding and Douglas counties, so an Austell address on either side of the county line is in our area. Austell is a short drive from our Powder Springs base.
The cost depends on the wall height and length, the material, how much digging and drainage it needs, and how easy the site is to reach. A short segmental block wall is usually simpler than a tall poured wall or one that needs an engineered design. Francisco will look at the slope and give you a free estimate for the options that fit.
Not if you want it to last. Concrete poured straight onto red clay settles and cracks as the clay swells and shrinks, so we remove the soft soil and pour on a compacted gravel base. Slabs for sheds or shops also get rebar.
A solid wood privacy fence with boards set tight together, usually six feet tall, blocks the view from the yard next door. We build pine privacy fences with single or double gates. Check any height limits with your city or subdivision before you build.
A small crack or a single settled panel can sometimes be repaired, but a driveway or patio that is broken in many places or sinking is usually better replaced with a new base. Francisco will tell you honestly which one your concrete needs at the free estimate.
Reviews left by Medina Concrete customers on Google, shown word for word.
These guys are nothing short of amazing they took what was left of a crappy asphalt driveway and turned it into this masterpiece!! I would give more than 5 stars if it was possible. Do not hesitate to use Medina concrete. They were respectful and professional every step of the way. Thank you!!!!
Medina Concrete did a good job at the best price. They cleaned up well after the project. I was very happy with their work and would use them again.
Awesome work . Great price . Highly recommend. Removed old driveway poured new driveway.