Foundations and Footings
We pour slab foundations and footings for houses, additions, garages and outbuildings around Lafayette. Each one is dug and poured to the builder's or engineer's plan.
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Maybe you need a slab for a shop behind the house, or a pad for a new shed. RockSolid Contracting pours concrete slabs and pads on homeowners' land around Lafayette and across Acadiana. A concrete pad is a small slab, sized for a shed or a generator. A slab carries a whole building, like a workshop or a carport.
A house or an addition sits on a slab foundation instead, which is our foundation and footing work. If the old carport has to come down first, we tear down small structures like that too. Call or text (337) 520-8615, and we will look at the spot 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.
A shop slab is the floor of the building and the base its frame bolts to. When a metal building comes with a slab plan, we form and pour to it, anchor bolts included. For a workshop or storage building without a plan, the size and thickness go in the written quote.
Carport slabs and shed pads are smaller, but they still need a firm, level base. Boat and RV pads hold a lot of weight on a few tires, so they get extra thickness and steel. A pad for a generator or an air conditioner is poured level, to the size the installer gives us.
Our own jobs include a wide slab poured beside a metal building and a smaller pad at a building door. If an old, broken slab is in the way, we tear out the old concrete first.
Even, well-compacted ground helps keep a slab from cracking. We strip the topsoil and soft spots, then compact the ground so it supports the slab evenly. The Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code asks for fill with the plants and debris stripped off, compacted for uniform support.
A compacted gravel base goes down next, and the wood forms are set to height and slope. Where the plan calls for a vapor barrier, the sheeting goes over the base with its seams lapped.
The rebar or wire mesh is set up off the ground before the truck arrives. The state building code wants it held between the middle and the upper third of the slab during the pour.
Much of the ground in Lafayette Parish is silt loam that drains slowly. Federal soil surveys call Frost silt loam, common across the parish, poorly drained. From December through April in most years, it is wet within a foot and a half of the surface. That shallow water table is why the base and the drainage around a slab matter here.
Along Bayou Teche around Breaux Bridge, many soils are heavy clays that shrink as they dry and swell when wet. That movement can damage slabs, so the base and the steel count for even more there. We set the pad so rain runs off and away, with the ground around it graded to match. If water already stands on the spot after a rain, a yard drainage fix may need to come first.
Concrete shrinks as it dries, and all concrete tends to crack. Control joints are planned cracks: grooves at least a quarter of the slab's depth, laid out in near-square panels. On a 4-inch slab they go about every 10 feet, so most shrinkage cracks land in the joints. The rebar or wire mesh helps keep any other cracks tight.
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 slabs and pads around Lafayette and across Acadiana. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We pour slab foundations and footings for houses, additions, garages and outbuildings around Lafayette. Each one is dug and poured to the builder's or engineer's plan.
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Concrete patios, porch slabs, walkways and sidewalks with a broom finish. Each one slopes away from the house so rain runs off.
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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.
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.
