Concrete Driveways in Belmont, NC

Gastonia Driveway Co connects Belmont homeowners with a local concrete contractor for driveway installation, replacement, and repair across the Belmont area.

Belmont grew roughly 49 percent between the 2010 and 2020 censuses — 10,076 residents to 15,010 — making it one of the hottest small-city housing markets in North Carolina. Belmont Abbey College has anchored the town from 1876, and the Downtown Historic District, on the National Register from 1996, holds more than 260 structures dating from 1850 to 1949. Houses of that vintage tend to still have their original driveways, and concrete does not age on a historic district's timeline.

Replacing a drive on one of those older streets is partly a design question — a finish that sits comfortably beside a 1920s porch instead of arguing with it — and partly a rebuild question, because slabs from that era went down without air-entrained mixes. Gastonia-area winters swing above and below freezing dozens of times between roughly mid-November and late March, and that cycling is exactly what scales and flakes old non-air-entrained concrete. Current code calls for 3,000 to 3,500 psi with 5 to 7 percent entrained air on weather-exposed slabs, which is the difference the re-pour buys.

Belmont's newer neighborhoods generate the opposite list: extensions, patios, and pads behind homes built during the boom. To find out what either kind of project would run on your street, ask for a quote here — it's free, and it arrives itemized, with tear-out, base preparation, and finish each priced separately.