Driveway Replacement Cost in Georgetown, TX

A driveway is the largest single slab most homes ever pour, and it rarely fails in a way you notice on a Tuesday. It settles, hollows out underneath, and cracks along lines nobody planned, until a patch job costs more than the repour it kept postponing. By the time replacement is the honest answer, the quote you get depends far less on the concrete itself than on everything under it and around it.

The numbers below are the local shape of that decision: what a Georgetown repour actually runs, what pushes it up or down, and where a low bid quietly takes the money out.

The local math

Tear out and repour of a two-car driveway in Georgetown generally runs $5,000 to $12,000 for a standard broom finish. That total has two parts. Removing and hauling off the old slab runs about $2 to $6 per square foot, commonly $1,200 to $3,500 on a typical drive. The new broom finish pour runs about $6 to $12 per square foot installed. Square footage scales the number, but small drives cost more per foot than big ones, because a crew's fixed cost of showing up spreads over less area.

Where your driveway lands inside its band comes down to the six factors below.

What moves the number

Tear out and disposal. Old concrete is heavy and often reinforced. A four-inch slab with rebar takes longer to break up and costs more to haul than a thin unreinforced one, and tight side-yard access or high dump fees push it further.

Slab thickness. Standard residential flatwork is four inches. Park a loaded truck, an RV, or a trailer and five to six inches is the right call, and that extra concrete is real money across 700 square feet.

Reinforcement. Welded wire mesh is the budget option; a rebar grid is the norm on Georgetown clay and the better long-term bet. The material delta is modest. The difference in how the slab ages is not, which is why the rebar vs wire mesh guide is the one to read before you sign.

Base and subgrade prep. A compacted subgrade topped with a few inches of base rock is what keeps a slab flat. It is also invisible the day after the pour, which is exactly why it is the first thing a cheap bid shortchanges.

Finish. Broom finish is the baseline priced above. Exposed aggregate and stamped work add per-square-foot cost and their own upkeep.

Access and site. Slope, drainage, a narrow gate, mature tree roots to work around, and irrigation to protect all add hours. A flat, open drive pours faster than a terraced one on a bluff lot.

What a complete bid itemizes

A quote worth comparing spells out tear out and haul off, subgrade and base depth, slab thickness, the concrete mix (commonly 3,000 to 4,000 psi here), reinforcement type and spacing, the control joint plan, the finish, the curing method, cleanup, and a workmanship warranty. Anything vaguer is not a lower price. It is an unfinished sentence, and the line by line estimate guide walks each item.

Red flags on both ends

On the low end, watch for no base line item, a "pour over existing" plan, "reinforced" with no spec, no joint plan, and a four-inch quote for a slab that will park an RV. On the high end, watch for decorative finish pricing on a job you asked to keep broom, a fat "unforeseen" allowance with no unit price behind it, and mobilization charges that do not match the actual scope.