Royse City & Rockwall County, TX//Concrete · Excavation · Demolition
Kidd's Exterior Solutions is an owner-operated concrete crew working the east side of the metroplex. Formed square, base compacted, steel chaired up off the dirt, joints cut before it has a chance to crack where you'd notice.
Driveways// Patios// Sidewalks// Concrete repair
Who you're calling
Kidd's Exterior Solutions is Grant McElwee IV and his crew, running out of Royse City. The same people who dig it out form it, tie the steel, pour it and finish it — nothing gets handed off to a stranger halfway through the week.
Concrete is the main thing we do. The machine work that surrounds it — tear-out, grading, haul-off, the odd retaining wall — comes off the same truck, so a driveway job doesn't turn into three separate phone numbers and two weeks of waiting.
“KES is a small local business startup specializing in contracting landscaping, concrete, excavation, and haul-off. We provide top-quality exterior services while emphasizing customer service and customized approaches.”
Kidd's Exterior Solutions, in its own wordsWhat we pour
Different shapes, same rules underneath: dig it right, compact the base, get steel where it belongs, finish it by hand and cut the joints before the concrete decides for itself.
The one everybody sees and the one that has to carry a loaded truck. New pours, full replacements, extensions for a third vehicle, and the approach out to the street.
Somewhere to put the chairs, the grill and the table that doesn't tilt after two Texas summers. New patios, patio extensions, front porches and pads for hot tubs and sheds.
The front walk, the run down the side of the house, the path from the driveway to the gate. Narrow work where the levels and the drainage have to be right or you feel it every day.
Cracked, sunk, crumbling at the edges or lifting into a trip hazard. Sometimes it's a section. Often it works out better to take the panel out and pour it properly than to keep patching it.
Also on the truck
Digging out to depth, cutting the fall so water runs away from the house, and compacting a base that won't settle under a new slab.
Old driveways, cracked patios, slabs, footings and small outbuildings broken out and cleared, ready for the new pour to go in behind it.
Broken concrete, dirt, brush and job-site debris loaded and taken away. The yard should look better when we leave than the day we turned up.
Retaining walls, stone and brick borders, pavers and bed edging — the work that usually turns up in the same conversation as a patio.
Not sure which of these your job actually needs? Describe it on the phone — (469) 601-8771
The spec
Concrete is unforgiving in a very specific way: almost every failure you'll ever see was decided before the truck arrived. Here's the order we work in, and why each step is not the one to skip.
Where the water goes when it rains hard, what's under the ground you want dug, how the levels meet the garage lip and the street. Ten minutes standing on the spot saves a slab that ponds water in the corner for the next twenty years.
Free, no obligation
The old concrete comes out and goes on the truck. Then we dig to depth, set the forms square and true to the fall we agreed, and compact the base so the slab is sitting on something solid instead of loose fill.
Rebar or mesh, tied and chaired so it sits in the middle of the slab where it can actually do something. Steel laid flat on the ground and "pulled up" during the pour is the single most common shortcut in this trade, and it's why so many driveways fail early.
Placed and screeded level, floated, then hand-worked at the edges and against the house. The final texture is your call — broom for grip where cars and feet go, smoother finishes where it's a patio you'll be walking on barefoot.
Control joints get saw-cut early, at the right depth and spacing. Concrete is going to move; joints decide that it moves in a straight line at the bottom of a cut instead of across the middle of your new driveway.
Forms pulled, site swept, debris gone. Then the honest bit: stay off it on foot for about a day, keep vehicles off for a week, and don't panic at hairline surface marks — concrete keeps gaining strength for roughly 28 days.
We give you the real dates before we go
Under the surface
Anyone can make wet concrete look good on the day. What decides whether it's still good in year ten is the part nobody photographs: how deep it was dug, how well the base was compacted, whether the steel is actually in the middle of the slab, and where the joints were cut.
North Texas clay swells when it's wet and shrinks hard in August. A slab poured on loose fill with the mesh lying on the dirt is going to tell you about that within a few seasons. Doing it properly the first time isn't a premium option here — it's the whole job.
Dig to depth // Compacted base // Square forms // Chaired steel // Correct slump // Hand-finished edges // Saw-cut joints // Clean site
In their words
Real reviews, quoted exactly as they were written. Nothing here is edited or invented.
★★★★★
Grant and his crew built three stone/brick flower bed borders and a stone/brick tree ring border at my house in Plano. The work was outstanding, and Grant even stayed behind until 8:30 p.m. on a Sunday to clean all of the finished borders and our front patio/driveway (stone/brick dust)…Who else does that?? Grant is an extremely hard worker and takes great pride in his work. We could not be happier with the result. We are actually looking to sign Grant up for the next project…a concrete garbage can slab. Please contact Grant for your landscaping needs. You will be happy you did!!
★★★★★
I was very nervous about getting my drive way extension done at first. All of my questions and concerns were taken into consideration thankfully. I can tell KES takes great pride in their work, I am extraordinarily happy with the results.
★★★★★
Was able to give me a quote within 48 hours. Very negotiable on price and over all very satisfied. Thank you for all your hard work.
★★★★★
Good dude. Used him for hauling services and he came when asked. He also gave us a hand in loading his trailer. Would definitely recommened.
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Straight talk
Not every bad-looking slab needs replacing, and not every cheap patch is worth doing. Here's roughly how we call it when we're standing on your concrete.
Where we work
We're based in Royse City and work Rockwall County and the towns either side of it every week. Same crew, same phone number, whichever side of the lake you're on.
Not on the list? Call and ask — if we can get the truck and a mixer to it, we'll tell you straight.
Questions
Still not covered? Call (469) 601-8771 and ask. You'll get a person, not a script.
Yes. Break-out, loading and haul-off are part of the job rather than a separate phone call. The same crew that digs it out pours the new one, and the site gets cleaned up before we leave.
Rule of thumb: stay off it on foot for about 24 hours, and keep vehicles off it for a week. Concrete keeps gaining strength for roughly 28 days. We'll give you the real dates for your pour and the weather that week before we leave the job.
Every slab moves. The job is controlling where. A compacted base, steel in the right place and saw-cut control joints put in early mean the concrete cracks in a straight line at the bottom of a cut, instead of across the middle of your driveway where you'd have to look at it.
Depends what's going to drive on it and how the soil behaves. North Texas clay moves a lot with the seasons, so driveways generally get rebar on chairs rather than mesh. We'll tell you which one your job needs, and why, before anything gets poured.
A broom finish is the standard for driveways and walks — it's the one that isn't slick when it's wet. Smooth trowel finishes, brushed textures and detailed edges are all on the table for patios and porches.
Yes. A single walkway, a pad for the garbage cans, a slab under a shed, a sunken approach out at the street. Small jobs are how most of the bigger ones start.
Royse City, Rockwall, Fate, Heath, Rowlett, Forney, Greenville, Caddo Mills, Mobile City and the rest of Rockwall County. If you're just outside that, call and ask.
Cash, check or card, plus Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay — whichever is easiest for you.
Free estimate
No obligation and no hard sell. Give us the address and a rough idea of what you want poured or pulled out, and you'll get a straight answer about what it needs and when we could do it.
Royse City · Rockwall County
One call, one crew, from the tear-out to the last joint cut. Tell us what you're looking at and we'll tell you what it actually needs.
