Driveways
New concrete driveways, replacements, extensions and parking pads for homes across Acadiana. The apron and the culvert at the street are part of the job, and the quote comes in writing.
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Your patio is too small and half of it is broken, or the back door steps down onto mud. RockSolid Contracting is a concrete contractor based in Lafayette. We pour concrete patios, back porch slabs, walkways and sidewalks for homes across Acadiana. Every patio and walkway we pour gets a broom finish, which gives your feet grip when the concrete is wet.
We also extend patios in good shape and pour pads, small slabs for a grill or a hot tub. If your patio has sunk or cracked through, we can break out and haul off the old concrete first. Call or text (337) 520-8615. We look at the job or your photos and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the driveway, slab, drainage problem or teardown and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
We size a patio to what goes on it, and the thickness follows the load it will carry. A patio or walkway for foot traffic is poured to the standard thickness. For public sidewalks, the design standards of the Lafayette Consolidated Government (LCG) call for at least 4 inches of concrete.
Control joints are planned cracks, cut or tooled into the slab. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association recommends joints no more than 24 to 36 times the slab's thickness apart. On a 4-inch patio, that works out to about 10 feet, with each panel close to square. On sidewalks, LCG's detail spaces them as far apart as the sidewalk is wide, up to 10 feet.
A concrete porch slab under a cover is poured the same way as a patio. If the cover's posts need support below the slab, we can pour footings for the posts too. The porch cover itself is framing work for a builder.
Away from the house, so rain runs off. The state building code, the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code, covers this in section R401.3. It calls for hard surfaces within 10 feet of a house to slope at least 2 percent away. That is about a quarter inch of fall per foot.
On a patio 12 feet deep, the outer edge ends up almost 3 inches lower than the house side. LCG's sidewalk detail uses the same 2 percent, sloped toward the street gutter or roadside ditch. Past the edge of the slab, the water still needs somewhere to go. In a flat Acadiana yard where water already stands, draining the yard may need to come first.
Where a patio meets the house, or a walkway meets the concrete driveway, an isolation joint goes between them. That joint lets each side move on its own, which the same association says helps limit cracking.
Summer is the hard season for a pour here. NOAA's 30-year averages for the Lafayette airport put the summer high near 91 degrees. June through August bring close to 20 inches of rain. Louisiana also has the second-most thunderstorms of the lower 48 states, NOAA reports.
Heat makes concrete set faster, so the finishing has to keep pace. Sun and wind can also dry the top before it sets and leave shallow surface cracks. The association's hot-weather guide says to avoid the hottest part of the day when possible. It also calls for dampening the ground and forms before a pour on hot days.
Rain is the other risk. Finishing concrete with water on the surface leaves a top that dusts or flakes, the association's finishing guide warns. Curing starts as soon as the finish is done, and pour days follow the weather.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about an hour around Lafayette, from the Acadiana towns to Baton Rouge.
(337) 520-8615From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (337) 520-8615 and tell us about the job and where it is. Send photos if you like.
We come out to look at the site and where the water runs. Clear photos can stand in for that first look.
You get the quote in writing, with the work spelled out. Once you say yes, we set a date, and pour days follow the weather.
First comes the tear-out, or the forms and rebar for new concrete. Then the ready-mix truck arrives, and we pour and finish the slab. On drainage jobs, we dig the trench and set the pipe.
We take a final look at the work with you, and the site is cleaned up. We also tell you when the new concrete can take foot traffic and when it can take a car.
Common questions about patios and walkways around Lafayette and across Acadiana. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
New concrete driveways, replacements, extensions and parking pads for homes across Acadiana. The apron and the culvert at the street are part of the job, and the quote comes in writing.
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Concrete slabs and pads for shops, metal buildings, carports and sheds on your land around Lafayette. Each one goes down on a compacted base, with the steel set before the truck arrives.
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We break out cracked or sunken driveways, patios, walks and slabs and haul the rubble off. Where a new slab goes in, we grade the base and pour new concrete.
Learn MoreOne call covers the whole job. The teardown and the new pour come from the same company, and so can the drainage.
We pour each slab to the thickness its use calls for, on a compacted base. Driveways and slabs get rebar or wire mesh. Control joints go in so shrinkage cracks land where they belong.
We look at the job first, on site or from the photos you send. Then the quote comes to you in writing, with the work spelled out.
Our work reaches about an hour around Lafayette, from Opelousas down to Abbeville. Baton Rouge, to the east, is in our area too.
Tell us about the job and the town it is in, and text us photos if you have them. Call or text (337) 520-8615 or use the form, and we will get back to you.
Tell us about the driveway, slab, drainage problem or teardown and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
