Duck Creek Village cabin steps and slabs
Cabin steps, a landing, a slab for the shed. We drive up the mountain for the small pours and line them up so one truck covers several cabins.
Duck Creek Village
Duck Creek Village sits at about 8,400 feet on Cedar Mountain, in the pines and aspens along Highway 14. Snow piles up deep here and the ground stays frozen well into spring. Nearly every concrete job is for a cabin. Deck steps that have started to lean. A landing at the door, so you are not stepping into June mud. A pad for the side by side or the wood shed.
A ready-mix truck has a long climb to reach these lots, and a crew built for big pours will not make it for two yards. Our way is to group. When a few cabins are on the list, we set a Duck Creek pour day and spread the trip across all of them. Most owners live somewhere else, so it starts with a photo, and we look at the lot on a run up if we need to.
Pouring in Duck Creek Village
- A short season at 8,400 feet
- Snow can hang around the cabins into May and come back in October. We pour here from roughly late spring to early fall, once the ground has thawed and nights stay above freezing. If you want work done this year, get on the list before summer is half gone.
- Mix built for freeze and thaw
- Water gets into concrete, freezes, and pushes. Up here that happens over and over each winter. We order air-entrained concrete, which has tiny air pockets that give the ice room to swell. Skip the de-icing salt the first winter and use sand for grip.
- Steps that get shoveled
- Cabin steps and walks take a beating from snow shovels and from snow sliding off the roof. We give them a broom finish for grip, keep the risers even, and slope landings so melt water runs away from the door instead of freezing into a sheet.
Common jobs in Duck Creek Village
- 1
Steps and landings
Cabin entries sit high off the ground, and wood steps rot fast under months of snow.
- 2
Shed and hot tub slabs
A hot tub needs a flat slab under it, and so does the shed that holds the snow blower.
- 3
Sidewalks and paths
A walk from the parking spot to the door keeps the mud out of the cabin during spring melt.
- 4
Tear out and replace
Older pours that were not made for freeze and thaw flake and crack, and the fix is to break them out and start over.
Text a photo from Duck Creek Village.
435·220·5536Text us a photo of the spot and rough measurements. We will tell you what we can from the photo, or come out and take a look. Rather type it out? Use the form.
Duck Creek Village: straight answers
When can you pour in Duck Creek?
Roughly late spring to early fall. The ground has to be thawed and the nights have to stay above freezing while the concrete cures. The exact weeks change every year with the snow, so text us early and we will tell you where the list stands.
Do I have to be at the cabin?
Not to get started. Text a photo of the spot with rough measurements and we will tell you what we can from it. If we need to see the lot, we can look on a trip up. It also helps to mark the corners with stakes next time you are there.
Can a concrete truck reach my lot?
Usually, but cabin lots can be steep, tight or tucked back in the trees. Send a photo of the driveway along with the spot. If the truck cannot get close, we plan another way to move the concrete and tell you before pour day.
Everywhere we pour
St. George area
Hurricane Valley
Zion corridor
Hildale and the Arizona Strip
Up the mountain
- Duck Creek Village
- Panguitch
- Panguitch Lake
- Hatch
- Alton