Concrete Resurfacing in Hays, Texas

The Handbook of Texas records that local residents had pushed through incorporation as the town of Hays by 1980, when it counted 286 people, and that the population then eased down to 251 in 1990 and 233 in 2000. The 2020 Census found 227 residents in 92 housing units; by July 1, 2025, the Census Bureau's estimate had reached 271. The Bureau's survey counts every home as a single-family detached house and puts the median year built at 1970, give or take 5 years.

Zoning keeps the pattern: the "A" Single-Family Residential district requires lots of at least 1 acre, 150 feet wide and 150 feet deep, with no mobile homes of any kind, and the City's 1982 building ordinance requires the front walls of a main house to be at least 75 percent masonry.

Wear that resurfacing covers

Spalling, where the surface flakes away, can start with poor finishing or curing, a bad mix, de-icing salts or freeze-thaw cycles, and the remedies are a color-matched patch, an overlay, or tear-out and replacement. Spalling and discoloration are the kind of wear a resurfacing overlay can cover. Small cracks can be filled or patched first, though a filled patch is a stopgap and won't be watertight.

When a slab needs more than an overlay

Wide, jagged cracks where the slab has heaved or settled may mean replacing that section instead, and an uneven crack wider than an inch can point to a structural problem underneath. The American Concrete Pavement Association adds that a partial-depth repair can't fix a crack that goes all the way through the slab.

Hays requires a permit for all driveways on new and existing homes. The application goes to the City Administrator with construction plans, the driveway has to meet the City's standards before it's built, and a fee may be charged. The Code Enforcement Officer processes building permit applications and inspects the work, and the Building Code says additions, alterations and repairs must meet the provisions for new construction unless the chapter says otherwise.

Nothing in the posted code says whether an overlay on an existing drive counts as driveway work, so ask the City before the job starts: the fee schedule doubles permit fees for any work begun before the permit is signed. That schedule, posted as a 2023 final draft, charges $0.20 per square foot, with a $40 minimum, for flatwork such as patios, decks and porches, and lists a $250.00 application fee for residential and commercial building permits.

Where a drive crosses the ditch

Driveways must not significantly block drainage in the side ditches, and must be designed so the flow from a 25-year storm runs no more than 12 inches deep over any part of the drive; culvert pipe may be corrugated metal or concrete. Where a drive crosses a side ditch to reach a city road, the code asks for material that's easily restored if damaged, because the City isn't responsible for damage to driveways when it repairs or improves the drainage.

Besides resurfacing, we pour new driveways and walks, repair cracks and spalls, level sunken sections and seal older slabs. Heritage Concrete Austin works in the nearby towns too, with concrete driveway repair in Shady Hollow and new concrete driveway approaches in Manchaca.