Driveway Culverts in Gilbertville, IA
Waterloo Culvert Company installs, replaces, and repairs driveway culverts in Gilbertville, Iowa. We also build field entrances, grade approaches, protect outlets against scour, and clean plugged pipe. Licensed and insured excavating contractor.
Gilbertville is about eleven miles by road from Waterloo, in Black Hawk County. That is close enough that a job here is a normal day for us rather than a trip, and close enough that we can come back and look at something in the spring without making an event of it. Same county, same County Engineer, same entrance permit process on a county road.
Most of the calls from a town this size are one of three things. The pipe is full and the ditch is backing up. The end of the pipe washed out and the corner of the driveway has dropped. Or the culvert has gone flat under the wheel track because it never had enough material over it. The third one is the only one that costs real money, and it is the one short cover causes.
Cover is the distance from the top of the pipe up to the surface you drive on, and it is what spreads a wheel load out before the pipe feels it. A residential entrance wants about a foot of it, compacted. Skimp on that and the pipe carries the truck directly. We check cover on every entrance we look at, because it explains more failures than material choice ever does.
Call (319) 555-0122 for a free estimate on culvert work in Gilbertville.