Local Concrete Contractors Wellington FL

As Concrete Contractors in Wellington, We Work to the Village Packet, Not a Guess

Wellington became its own municipality on December 31, 1995, and it runs its own Building Division on Forest Hill Boulevard, its own engineering review and its own Unified Land Development Code. That is why a driveway job here reads differently from one in the unincorporated Acreage to the north or in Royal Palm Beach, about a 15-minute drive northeast. The Village publishes a Driveway Packet with a checklist, a worksheet and an affidavit, and the quote we write follows its checklist.

Royal Palm Beach Concrete Co is Locally Owned & Operated, and our free estimate is the first step. You tell us what you are building, we walk the lot with the survey in hand, and you get a detailed written quote before any work begins. The quote names the thickness, the base, the finish, the old concrete we remove and the permit forms the job needs. Lots in Palm Beach Point, Rustic Ranches, Wellington CountryPlace and the other subdivisions all run through the same Village system, but the rules for each lot size and zoning subarea differ. As concrete contractors in Wellington, we read both before pricing a slab.

This page covers the parts of the process that are specific to Wellington. The general permit overview is in the Wellington driveway permit guide, and each service has its own page: driveways, patios and slabs. Combo pages for driveways in Wellington and patios in Wellington go further on each job.

The Driveway Packet, the Formboard Inspection and the Six-Inch Apron

The Driveway Packet is a building permit checklist written to the Florida Building Code, 8th Edition. It asks for a building permit application, a Driveway Worksheet, a New Construction Affidavit, a Notice of Commencement and an Owner/Builder Affidavit if they apply, a survey from the past two years marked up with the extent of all driveway and walkway work in square feet, a paver or concrete installation detail, and a scope of work with the total replacement value. At final inspection the packet also asks for a certification of driveway and swale grading.

The right-of-way section is where Wellington gets specific. The apron, the right-of-way crossing and the sidewalk are replaced with 6 inches of concrete at a minimum of 3000 PSI, without steel or wire mesh, in any new drivable area. The apron has to flare out while holding a two-foot setback from the property line. The area must be formed and a driveway and sidewalk inspection scheduled before any concrete goes in, and the formboard inspection checks that the pitch is sufficient for stormwater.

The no-steel rule covers the new drivable area in the right-of-way. The packet also asks for a construction detail that conforms to it, so we pour the right-of-way portion to the packet, pour the part on your lot to the thickness and reinforcement written in your quote, and cut a joint where the two meet. The Village code prohibits coloring or coating the apron and sidewalk in the public right-of-way with paint, stain or sealant, and the Driveway Affidavit lists a coating such as "paint, decorative texture, etc" as prohibited there, which keeps stamped texture, color and sealer on your side of the property line. Concrete goes in only after the forms pass, so, as concrete contractors in Wellington, we order the truck only after that inspection passes. Driveway expansions have to match the existing driveway in material and color. A decorative border is allowed when every section keeps one continuous pattern, so a stamped extension to a broom-finish driveway is a question for the Village before it is a design choice.

Lots of One Acre or More: Engineering Permits, Swales and Bridle Trail Easements

Bigger parcels change the paperwork for concrete contractors in Wellington. If your property is one acre or larger, Wellington asks for an engineering permit in place of the building permit. Its engineering forms list a Driveway Permit for lots of 1 acre or more, and the same list includes a Horse Hair Interceptor and Horse Wash Details form and a Grant of Easement for a bridle trail. Wellington may also require a bridle trail easement as part of a building permit for a principal equestrian structure or use, so concrete tied to a barn can come with more paperwork than a house driveway.

The swale between your driveway and the road is the Village's concern as much as yours. The swale page tells residents not to pave the swale, not to increase driveway culvert sizes and not to lower driveway culverts, and the code says that swales cannot be altered without an engineering permit. Owners maintain the sodded right-of-way next to their lot. Lots on local roads get at most two driveways. A third is allowed only on lots of 1.75 acres or more, on Aero Club corner lots, or on lots over an acre that serve a detached garage or hangar, and the side interior setback is two feet for single-family driveways.

Any easement on your survey matters before we mark a layout. Table 6.3-2 of the land development code says no improvement can be built in an easement without the holder's consent and the Wellington Engineer's approval. The Acme Improvement District, created by the Legislature in 1953 for drainage and water management and a dependent district of Wellington since March 28, 1996, is part of that picture, and the code defines the right-of-way as land dedicated or deeded to Wellington or to Acme. Check your plat and survey for drainage and canal easements before you commit to a design, then bring them to the estimate.

Impervious Limits That Size a Wellington Patio, Walk or Back Slab

Wellington treats buildings, driveways, walkways and patios as impervious surface and caps them by yard. In the front yard no more than 50 percent can be impervious, and the combined driveway, walkway and patio area in the front yard cannot exceed 50 percent of the required front yard setback. For rear and side yards on lots smaller than half an acre, up to 75 percent can be impervious, capped at 6,000 square feet. On lots of half an acre or more the limit is 50 percent, capped at 12,000 square feet. Impervious surface also has to sit two feet back from every property line.

Those caps decide the size of a back patio long before the price does. Buildings, walkways and patios all count as impervious, so whatever hard surface already sits in the rear and side yard comes out of the allowance before a new patio does. We run the numbers from your survey at the estimate, write the maximum square footage that fits into the quote and keep the layout inside it. A patio at the cap is a different design from a patio at a quarter of the cap, and as concrete contractors in Wellington, we size the slab to the cap, not the sketch.

A back patio or slab is priced at $7 to $13 per square foot for plain or broom finish. A 14 by 20 patio is 280 square feet, so $1,960 to $3,640 at that range, with the free written estimate after we see the site. Porches, lanais and shed pads follow the same impervious rules, and as concrete contractors in Wellington, we measure all of them against the yard cap. The concrete patio page explains the thickness, control joints and finish choices, and the stamped concrete in Wellington page covers color and patterns.

Equestrian Overlay Subareas and Where Concrete Gets Complicated

Wellington's Equestrian Overlay Zoning District has six subareas, and the one your lot falls in changes what the Village asks of a slab, an apron or a barn pad. Subarea A is Palm Beach Little Ranches. Subarea B covers Saddle Trail Park, Paddock Park No. 2 and Greenview Shores No. 2. Subarea C covers the sections south of Lake Worth Road and west of 120th Avenue, including all of Palm Beach Point. Subarea D is Wellington CountryPlace and the Equestrian Club PUDs, subarea E is Rustic Ranches and subarea F is Winding Trails of The Landings at Wellington.

As concrete contractors in Wellington, we ask about the subarea first on equestrian lots. The village charter protects the Equestrian Preserve Area, the Village counts more than 57 miles of trails, and Public Works maintains 15 named bridle paths, from the Black and Brick Red trails to Greenbriar. The engineering forms list includes Horse Hair Interceptor and Horse Wash Details, so a wash rack slab is the kind of pour where we ask Engineering which details apply. Wellington International on Equestrian Club Drive hosts the Winter Equestrian Festival and the Global Dressage Festival, with Grand Prix Village and the Aero Club area also inside the village.

In the design standards, a stamped concrete driveway and a paver driveway each score 10 points toward a new home's design requirements, which shows the Village treats a stamped driveway as an approved material in the right setting. That scoring is part of the design standards for new homes, so ask the Building Division how it applies to a replacement. Stamped work still stops at the right-of-way line, because the Village does not allow a coating, stain or decorative texture on the apron.

What Wellington Soil, Flood Zones and Water Do Under a Slab

NRCS soil maps at 30 points inside the 2020 village boundary show Riviera fine sand at 33 percent of points, Holopaw fine sand at 20 percent, Okeelanta muck at 10 percent, Tequesta muck at about 7 percent, Oldsmar and Pineda sands at about 7 percent each, and smaller shares of Okeechobee muck, Chobee and Boca soils. Muck soils made up 20 percent of those map points, and the federal soil survey rates every unit found as poorly or very poorly drained and "very limited" for dwellings without basements. Map points are not acreage, so treat this as a picture of the range, not a map of your yard. Muck is its own pricing question, and as concrete contractors in Wellington, we treat it that way.

The FEMA map points split too: 60 percent of the same points sat in FEMA Zone X and 40 percent in Zone AE. For a slab, the practical points are a base that drains, a layout that sheds water to the swale and a lot-by-lot look at the ground before we price it. If your site shows muck, our quote will say the soil needs a site-specific evaluation before we commit to a base design. Wellington's livestock-waste rules note that stormwater drains toward the C-51 canal, which flows through a South Florida Water Management District treatment area on its way to the Loxahatchee refuge, so what runs off your driveway ends up in that system.

Housing here is newer than in Royal Palm Beach, where the median home dates to 1990: in Wellington the median home was built in 1995, with the biggest block built from 2000 to 2009, then 1980 to 1989 and 1990 to 1999. The median owner-occupied value is about $599,400, and 16,563 of the village's 21,859 occupied homes are owner-occupied. When an old driveway has to come out first, a tear-out adds $2 to $4 per square foot to the base range.

Permit Fees, Timing and the HB 803 Question in Wellington

Permit timing matters to us as concrete contractors in Wellington because nothing gets poured before the forms pass. Permits are processed electronically through ProjectDox. Applications are emailed to the Building Division and fees are paid on the Citizen Self Service portal. The fee schedule starts with a $150 minimum for work valued up to $7,500, plus 2.00 percent of construction value in the next tier, which runs up to $100,000, and 1.75 percent in the tier above that, up to $500,000. Plan review is 50 percent of the permit fee with a $75 minimum, the first re-inspection is $60, and failure to obtain a permit costs four times the permit fee. A job valued under $7,500 pays the $150 minimum, and the permit fee is separate from our price.

House Bill 803 took effect July 1, 2026. Wellington's page says certain residential work valued under $7,500 may qualify for an exemption from building permit requirements, but only if you apply for it, and it excludes structural work and projects located partly or entirely in a flood hazard area, and exempt work still has to meet zoning, floodplain and HOA requirements. Palm Beach County's Building Official has stated that the exemption does not apply anywhere in the county. Do not assume you can skip the permit: check with the Building Division before you schedule a crew.

HOAs are separate. Wellington says it will not consult private homeowners associations before issuing a permit, so the applicant must check deed restrictions. The Architectural Review Board meets the fourth Wednesday of each month and adopts the village's approved materials, designs and color charts. A stamped color that is not on an approved chart is better settled before the pour than after.

Working Around Wellington: Loxahatchee Groves, Westlake, Greenacres and The Acreage

We also work the surrounding towns, and the rules change at each line. Loxahatchee Groves has its own driveway permit package, with right-of-way aprons and sidewalks at a minimum of 3000 PSI. Westlake runs its own Building Department. The Acreage adds Indian Trail Improvement District driveway and culvert permits. Greenacres and Lake Belvedere Estates each have a different permit office. Our Acreage and Loxahatchee guide covers those, and the service area page lists every town.

The Mall at Wellington Green, on Ring Road, sits inside the village boundary, and Royal Palm Beach, where we are based, is about a 15-minute drive away. If you are not sure which town your lot sits in, the county parcel record tells you, and the answer decides which permit office handles the job. Confirm that before you hire concrete contractors in Wellington for a lot near the village line.

Get a Free Written Estimate From Concrete Contractors in Wellington

When you are lining up concrete contractors in Wellington, ask each one the same three questions: which permit does my lot pull, how thick is the apron, and who schedules the formboard inspection. A quote that does not answer those is a number without a plan. Ours names the thickness, the base, the finish, the old concrete we remove and the inspection steps, and it arrives in writing before any work begins.

Fill out the quote form or call 561-782-0848 and we will line up the visit. Bring the survey if you have one, your subdivision or street name, a rough size and a photo of the area. If the lot is an acre or more, mention horses, bridle trails or a barn, because those change which forms apply. We will set a time to walk the lot and measure.