About Temple Elite Concrete

Temple Elite Concrete is a concrete contractor in Temple, TX, with 20+ years of driveways, slabs, patios, sidewalks, retaining walls, decorative work and commercial flatwork behind us. We are a flatwork and paving business rather than a general builder, which means concrete is the whole job for us rather than one trade among several on a schedule.

Most of what we have learned in that time is about two things nobody sees once the work is finished: what a slab is sitting on, and what a city expects before it will let the work happen. Both are decided long before a truck arrives, and both are where a good quote separates itself from a cheap one.

Our Approach

We find out what your slab will sit on before we quote it, because the ground changes block to block here, from Houston Black clay at a plasticity index of 44 to Eddy soils sitting on rock 20 centimeters down. We price rock and caliche honestly for the same reason: on a lot where the limestone is a foot down, the excavation is the job, and pretending otherwise is how a quote doubles halfway through. Where a slab can be lifted or repaired rather than replaced, we quote repair against replacement with real numbers, because leveling an existing slab usually costs well under what a new one does.

The paperwork gets the same treatment. We pull the drive approach permit ourselves and display it on site, since in Temple it is unlawful to pour a drive approach without one, and we build the city’s ten business day permit review into the schedule we hand you instead of discovering it after you have cleared your driveway. When the approach is ready for concrete we call the inspections department and wait for the inspector, who has one working day to approve or disapprove it. We carry the bonds Temple requires before anyone touches a curb, approach or gutter on public property, and we stand behind right-of-way work for the full one year structural defect period the city measures from final approval and acceptance.

Texas issues no state license for concrete contractors, which is worth knowing when you are comparing bids. The city’s annual contractor registration and those bonds are the only credential you can actually check, and ours are current. Two more things we hold ourselves to on site: we contain our washout, since discharging ready-mixed concrete or equipment rinse water into the storm sewer is an offense under the city’s stormwater chapter, and we plan summer pours around the heat, holding to the state highway standard that allows 45 minutes from batching to begin discharging once the concrete itself reaches 90 degrees, or 75 with a Type B or D admixture. Downtown, we replace sidewalk at the width it was and put back any decorative pavers or stamped pattern we had to remove, which the Central Area rules require.

What We Do

We handle concrete repair and concrete leveling, new concrete driveways, slabs and pads, patios, sidewalks and walkways, retaining walls, resurfacing, stamped and decorative concrete, and commercial concrete work including parking lots, curb and gutter, islands, loading areas and drive approaches. Whether the job is one sunken panel or a whole site, the estimate is free and it comes in writing. Tell us what you are looking at and we will tell you what it needs, including when the honest answer is that it needs less than you expected.