Concrete Contractor in Knights, Plant City

The old Town of Knight on the rail line north of Plant City

Knights grew up around State Road 39 and Knights-Griffin Road and takes its name from the Knight family, who came to Hillsborough County in 1844. The county's historic resources survey says the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad laid track through in 1887, and George W. Knight platted the Town of Knight on February 9, 1892. Groves, a citrus packing house, general stores and turpentine kept it going. Farming mattered so much that the train engineer blew the whistle three times to warn growers of a freeze. After the 1895 freeze, families replanted citrus, corn and sweet potatoes, and a two-story brick school from about 1922 stayed the social center into the 1970s and held classes until 1976.

Knights' mapped center sits outside 2020 Plant City limits, and on a deep lot out here the job might be a long driveway, a shop floor behind the house, or a patio with room to spread out. See the service area page for the map.

Pricing a 200-foot driveway one square foot at a time

Our concrete driveway rate is $8 to $14 per sq ft. The $5,000 to $10,000 project range covers a typical two-car driveway of about 500 to 700 sq ft, which a Knights lane can blow past fast. A 12-foot lane running 200 feet back from the road is 2,400 sq ft: about $19,200 at our low rate and $33,600 at the high one. Narrow it to 10 feet and you're at 2,000 sq ft, near $16,000 at the low rate. If an old asphalt or concrete lane has to come out first, tear-out adds $2 to $4 per sq ft.

Three ways to keep a long run in budget: pour the apron and the parking area by the house now and the middle later; go 10 feet wide with a wider pad at the garage; or pour 4 inches where only cars go and 5 where the trailer turns. Concrete Network says moving from 4 to 5 inches adds roughly 20% to the concrete cost and nearly 50% to load capacity, so the thick section goes where the weight is. The driveway cost guide breaks down each line item.

Concrete Pricing

Our Knights ranges. On a deep lot, the square footage of the lane does most of the talking.

A long lane, a road connection permit and phased pours change the total. Free written estimate after we see the site.

Getting a ready-mix truck down a long Knights lane

A long driveway isn't one pour, it's a sequence. We walk the lane at the visit and decide where the truck can sit, whether the ground at the end of the lane can carry it after a rain, and how far the chute or a wheelbarrow line has to reach. On a deep lot we pour in sections, starting at the house end and working back toward the road, so the truck never crosses fresh concrete.

Each section ends on a joint, so the seams look planned. Control joints go no more than 10 feet apart on a 4-inch slab, cut a quarter of the depth, and isolation joints go where the driveway meets the garage floor and any walk. In the summer storm season we start early and keep plastic on hand; curing starts the moment finishing ends, and you keep vehicles off for at least seven days. If a ditch runs along your frontage, show us where water crosses the lane so the grade sheds it instead of pooling at the culvert.

What to Expect, Start to Finish

1. Walk the whole lane

   We measure from the road to the garage, mark the ditch crossing and pick where the truck can sit.

2. Price the options

   You get the full run, a phased version and a 4 versus 5 inch split in one written quote within 48 hours.

3. Road paperwork

   We confirm whether FDOT, the county or the city covers the connection, and work to that permit.

4. Pour in sections

   House end first, working back toward the road, each section ending on a joint.

5. Cure and reopen

   Curing starts at once; we give you the day the lane can take cars again.

Shop floors you may air-condition one day

If your Knights lot has room for a workshop or a detached garage, plan the floor for what the building becomes, not just what it is now. Florida's residential code requires a 6-mil vapor retarder under a slab, but it lets garages and unheated accessory buildings skip it. If there's any chance you'll close the shop in and put a mini split in it, lay the plastic now. It can't go under the slab later.

New building slabs also need termite protection before the pour, and the pest company issues a Certificate of Compliance to the building department; our slab and foundation page covers that step. Our slabs run $7 to $12 per sq ft, or $2,000 to $7,500 for a typical 4-inch reinforced pad, with thicker or monolithic work priced higher. A 30 by 40 shop is 1,200 sq ft, so plan near $8,400 at the low rate. Plant City's no-permit rule for kit sheds of 150 sq ft or less applies inside the city; on a county parcel, ask the county.

Patios, walks, the road connection and Knights' neighbors

Behind the house, a concrete patio of 250 to 450 sq ft runs $2,500 to $6,500 and a walkway from the driveway to the porch runs $1,500 to $4,500. For a stone or brick look, stamped concrete is $14 to $24 per sq ft with pattern, color and sealer included. Pool decks can ride along on the same visit.

Where the lane meets the road decides the paperwork. A connection to State Road 39 is a connection to the State Highway System, which Florida law puts under FDOT. A county road connection on unincorporated land takes Hillsborough County's right-of-way permit. Check your parcel's Tax District on the Property Appraiser site first, as the city's permit FAQ explains; the permit guide has the rest. Nearby, we also pour in Mount Enon, Walden Lake, Coronet, Turkey Creek and Trapnell.