Cicero concrete
Fix the slab in Cicero, but find out who owns the road in front first
Your Cicero driveway, steps or garage floor may need a contractor, and your apron may need a permit from an office that is not the town. Tell us which slab it is and what it is doing, and we point you to the next step.
Book any Cicero concrete job, and $100 off your first job is subtracted at the booking.
From the house to the street
- Garage floorYours
- Steps and walksYours
- DrivewayYours
- ApronYours, with a permit
- Public sidewalkAsk the town
- StreetRoad owner
Questions
Before you call about a slab in Cicero
- 1
Which office handles a driveway apron in Cicero?
It depends on the road in front of your house. Town road, county road and state road each have a different owner, and the owner decides the permit. The Town of Cicero Building Department is the place to ask which one applies to you.
- 2
Are Cicero homes old enough that their concrete is simply worn out?
Usually not. The median house was built around 1980, so a slab has had decades of exposure, not generations. If yours is failing early, ask about the mix, the finish and the salt it has seen.
- 3
Can I book concrete work in Cicero in late fall?
You can, but ask hard questions first. Cold-weather rules apply once nights fall to 40F, and a pour that freezes while it is still fresh can lose much of its strength. Ask what protection the contractor will use, or whether the job should wait for spring.
Ask about your slab
Start your Cicero slab job
Send the details once. Nothing is booked and you owe nothing for asking.
We help you work out whose concrete it is and what to ask for, then introduce you to an independent Syracuse-area contractor to quote it.
Put it in writing before anyone pours
Seven questions for any contractor, any slab. Copy them into your messages and keep the answers with your contract.
- Air-entrained mix, with the air content namedThe mix decides whether the surface flakes again in a few winters.
- The pour date, and a plan if it turns coldCold nights after the pour count, even when the pour day is mild.
- How the slab is cured and coveredCuring and cold protection run for different lengths of time.
- No de-icer on the new slab this winterClean sand gives traction without feeding the scaling.
- Whose road it is, and who pulls the permitWork in a county road right of way needs a county permit first.
- A signed written contract before work startsNew York asks for a written contract on home improvement jobs over $500.
- What is removed, what is poured, what is leftA clear scope stops arguments about patching versus replacing.
$100 off your first job
Your $100 comes off once your first concrete job is booked.
- The credit comes from us, not out of the contractor's price.
- One credit per customer, per property.
- Your job needs to be booked by December 31, 2026.
- Mention the $100 when you book the work.
The straight-answer slab promise
- No charge to ask, and no obligation once you have.
- If the city or the road owner should fix it, we say so.
- We ask about the mix and the pour month up front.
- Your $100 is applied the way our Terms spell out.
Your contract is with the contractor, who answers to you for the work.
Concrete Repair Syracuse, (315) 640-3590
Cicero is a town, not a village, so the first question about any slab at the street is simple: which road do you front? The 2017 state highway report gives the town 126.7 miles of town road, 41.7 miles of county road and 31.1 miles of state road. Only one other town in the county has more state road. Neighbors a block apart can sit on different roads, and the road owner is the one who decides what the apron at your curb needs.
Ready to ask about your slab?
Start with the office that knows. The Town of Cicero Building Department takes building permit applications and plan submittals and issues the town's building permits. Nothing published says it also rules on driveway aprons, so call it and ask which office covers your frontage before anyone pours at the curb. On a county road the permit comes from Onondaga County DOT, and New York Highway Law section 136 bars building or improving an entrance there without it. On a state road the state decides. Tell the contractor which road you have before you ask for a price.
What a house from around 1980 asks of its concrete
Median year built in Cicero is 1980, newer than most of the county, and the Brewerton census designated place inside the town sits at 1983. Census estimates put 6.9 percent of homes at 1939 or earlier and 49.6 percent before 1980. So the typical slab here has had a few decades of weather, not a century. When one fails early, the better questions are about the original mix, how the top was finished and how much salt it has met, rather than age alone.
Census estimates say 80.6 percent of occupied Cicero homes are owner occupied, so you are usually the person who signs the contract and decides what gets fixed. Ask for the work in writing, with the mix and the pour month named.
Tell us the address and the problem.
Winter does the testing. Syracuse airport records count about 84 days a year when the air crosses freezing, and salt riding in on car tires reaches slabs nobody salts. Ask for air-entrained concrete, and ask what protects the new pour through its first winter. Cold-weather rules matter earlier than most people expect, because October already averages close to 14 nights at or below 40F. A repair that skips these questions can fail the way the first pour did.
Pick your slab below, or give us your street and what the slab is doing, and you will learn whose job it is and what to ask for.
Basis: New York State DOT Town of Cicero
Start with the address and what you see.
Five jobs
Five slabs, five pages for Cicero
Pick the trouble you see at your Cicero house. Each page covers one kind of slab, what decides it here and what to ask before you book.
Driveway Repair and Replacement
Flaking or cracked drive: what to ask first
Driveway Aprons at the Street
Broken apron at the street: ask who owns the road
Concrete Steps, Walks and Patios
Crumbling steps or walk: ask whose job and what mix
Garage Floor and Slab Repair
Pitted garage floor: salt rides in on your tires
Sunken Slab Leveling
Sunken slab: lift it, or pour it new?
Around
Next door to Cicero
Settle the owner, the mix and the pour month first.