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[TRACKING NUMBER GOES HERE]Driveway Replacement · Gladstone, MO
Gladstone's housing stock is the oldest in the Northland — the typical home was built in 1966, and nearly nine in ten were standing before 2000. A lot of those driveways are original, or on their last replacement. We tear out failed slabs in Meadowbrook, Winnwood, and along the North Oak corridor and pour new ones built for Clay County clay.
Serving Gladstone — tell us about the project and a local estimator will call you back to schedule the free site visit.
Driveway Replacement
Post-war Gladstone was built fast, and its driveways were poured to post-war specs: thin slabs, minimal base, joints too far apart. Sixty years of clay shrink-swell and freeze-thaw later, the pattern is the same on street after street — panels cracked at the corners, aprons dropped at the street, surfaces scaling down to the aggregate. Patching a slab like that buys a season, not a decade.
Replacement done right means full tear-out and haul-off, excavation of the failed base, compacted gravel, a 4-inch minimum air-entrained pour, and control joints spaced to the slab. Most two-car driveway replacements in Gladstone run $4,500 to $8,500 complete. See the full breakdown on our Kansas City driveway cost guide.
We also serve North Kansas City and the older Kansas City neighborhoods along North Oak and Antioch. Drives there tend to be smaller than suburban standard — most full replacements run $3,500 to $7,000 — and apron and sidewalk panels in the city right-of-way are often part of the job. We price those panels in the written estimate, not as a surprise add-on.
If your slab is sound but settled, lifting it costs a fraction of replacement. If it's cracked through, thin, or scaling, lifting is money into a dying driveway. The written estimate says which side of that line you're on — either way.
The Pour Judgement Spec
Every replacement we quote is built on the same six line items — the difference between a slab that lasts decades and one that cracks in five winters.
Project Types
The jobs homeowners in Gladstone ask us to price most — scoped on site and written up line by line, never sold off a script.
Full replacement of thin, minimal-base 1960s–70s slabs — the standard Gladstone job, rebased on compacted gravel.
Smaller-than-suburban drives in NKC and the inner Northland, most running $3,500 to $7,000 complete.
Apron and sidewalk panels in the city right-of-way, priced in the written estimate — not as a surprise add-on.
An honest leveling-vs-replacement call in the written estimate: lifting when the slab is sound, replacement when it isn't.
How It Works
Five steps, the same on every job — so you know exactly what happens at your home and when.
We walk the project with you, check drainage and subgrade, and measure. You get a written, line-by-line estimate — tear-out, base, pour, finish, sealing — with no allowances and no obligation.
The failed slab is broken out and hauled away the same day. Nothing gets buried on site and nothing gets poured over — the old problem leaves with the truck.
The moved clay and broken subgrade that caused the failure are excavated, then rebuilt with compacted AB-3 gravel, graded so water runs away from the slab instead of under it.
A 4-inch minimum air-entrained pour — 5 inches where trucks, boats, or RVs park — with control joints spaced to the slab and cut on time, finished broom, smooth, or stamped to your spec.
Walk on it in about 24 hours, park cars in about a week, full cure at 28 days. We leave you the care notes — including when to seal — so the new slab stays the way it was poured.
Local Knowledge
Gladstone's typical home was built in 1966 — the oldest stock in the Northland — and nearly nine in ten homes were standing before 2000. That makes this a pure replacement market: original and last-generation driveways failing on the same streets at the same time, from Meadowbrook and Winnwood to the North Oak corridor, plus the smaller drives of North Kansas City.
Common Questions
Most two-car driveway replacements in Gladstone run $4,500 to $8,500 complete. See the full breakdown on our Kansas City driveway cost guide.
Drives in North Kansas City and the older neighborhoods along North Oak and Antioch tend to be smaller than suburban standard — most full replacements run $3,500 to $7,000, with apron and sidewalk panels priced in the written estimate.
If your slab is sound but settled, lifting it costs a fraction of replacement. If it's cracked through, thin, or scaling, lifting is money into a dying driveway. The written estimate says which side of that line you're on — either way.
Post-war Gladstone was built fast, to post-war specs: thin slabs, minimal base, joints too far apart. Sixty years of clay shrink-swell and freeze-thaw later, whole streets hit the wall together.
Most residential driveways pour in one to two days once the old slab is out. You can walk on the new concrete in about 24 hours, park cars on it in about a week, and it reaches full cure at 28 days.
Free site visit anywhere in Gladstone or North Kansas City. Written price. No pressure.