Long lanes off US 41 and State Road 45
Where a house sits back on acreage, concrete driveways in Floral City run long, and a 10 or 12 foot lane from the pavement to the porch adds up fast. A 12 by 80 lane is 960 sq ft, so $7,680 to $13,440 at our rate. On a longer run you can pour the apron and the stretch near the house first and leave the middle for later; we price it either way so you can compare.
Tires drop off the side of a lane that has no curb, so we thicken the outer edge, keep the crown or cross slope consistent so rain runs off instead of down the middle, and saw joints no more than 10 feet apart. The full spec, from base to finish, is on our concrete driveways and sidewalks page, and the driveway cost guide runs longer lane sizes too.
Sorting out the clay-topped sand
Most of the 30 soil sample points in town drain well. Lake fine sand and Astatula fine sand, both rated excessively drained, were the two top soils across 30 survey points, followed by well-drained Arredondo fine sand. Two of those points, though, were Lake fine sand with a clayey surface, which NRCS puts in hydrologic group C and rates very limited for building. In all, 6 of the 30 points carried a building limitation.
Our Floral City concrete contractors page covers the town's soils for other kinds of pours. For a new driveway, that means we dig a test spot on the walk-through instead of assuming sand all the way down. Clean sand only needs to be wetted and compacted. A clay-topped layer lets water in slowly (NRCS hydrologic group C) and makes a poor bed for a slab, so we strip it out and replace it with compacted clean fill before we form. After length, that decision moves the base cost most on a lot here, which is why we look before we quote rather than after the excavator is on site.
