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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Youngsville has grown into a city of newer subdivisions just south of Lafayette. More than half its homes were built in 2010 or later, per the Census. Maybe your slab house came with a back patio that fits a grill and two chairs. Maybe the flat backyard holds water for a day after every hard rain.
RockSolid Contracting is a concrete contractor based in Lafayette, and we come over to Youngsville for residential work. We pour concrete patios, walkways, driveway extensions and slabs for shops and sheds. We also take down old sheds and carports, and we fix wet yards with yard drainage and French drains. Call or text (337) 520-8615, and we will look at the job 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.
Youngsville keeps building. The 2020 Census counted 15,929 people here. Permits for new houses went from 265 in 2020 to 388 in 2025, all single-family. Sugar Mill Pond has kept adding phases from 2005 into 2026, and Caneview Estates is one of the newest.
Youngsville's development guide calls for sidewalks at least four feet wide on both sides of new subdivision streets. The walk from your driveway to the back gate is yours to add. We pour that walk, a bigger patio, a generator pad or a driveway extension or a parking pad.
Youngsville has older streets too. Cane Village was platted in the early 1980s, and Copperfield's first plats date to 1984. A driveway from that era may be cracked across the middle or sunk at the street. When it is past patching, we break it out and pour a new one.
The NRCS soil survey maps most of the ground around central Youngsville as Frost and Coteau silt loams. Frost is poorly drained and, in most years, wet within 1.5 feet of the surface from December to April. Coteau drains a little better, but in winter and spring it can be saturated from 1.5 to 3 feet down. That shallow water table matters under any slab.
On ground this wet, the work starts under the concrete. We set a slab for a shop or a shed on a compacted gravel base, with rebar or wire mesh. Then we grade the soil around it so water runs away from the edges. A pad is a small slab, and it gets the same prep.
For a new house, Youngsville's residential building checklist asks for foundation drawings. They show the width and depth of the footings, the rebar, the fill and the vapor barrier. The city wants an elevation certificate on the finished floor when the forms are set or the concrete is poured. In the 100-year flood zone, the city's plat rules set that floor at least a foot above base flood elevation.
Rain in Youngsville runs off through coulees, the drainage channels Acadiana towns are built around. Anselm Coulee, Bayou Parc Perdu, LaSalle Coulee and Darby Coulee run through the city. Parts of Youngsville sit in FEMA flood zones. After the August 2016 flood, FEMA approved housing help for 941 homeowners with Youngsville mailing addresses.
Outside the flood zones, flat lots on slow-draining silt loam can still hold water after a hard rain. Standing water on the grass usually needs a catch basin or a swale, a shallow graded ditch that carries water. Water that soaks the ground along the house or a fence line often calls for a French drain.
The city's development guide adds a rule for subdivisions. Their covenants must bar lot owners from placing pipes or culverts in the drainage system without the city's written approval. So a drain line that ties into the subdivision's drainage starts with a call to City Hall. The guide also cites a city ordinance against dumping concrete or other objects that can block drainage.
Youngsville is its own city in Lafayette Parish, with a permit office at City Hall on Iberia Street. Plan review comes first, before the city issues a building or a footing and foundation permit. For a patio or a teardown, City Hall answers the permit question. Any permit the job needs is sorted out before work starts.
Youngsville's permit page says any digging on property in the city must be reported by calling 811. Louisiana 811 asks for the call at least two business days before the digging starts. That goes for a footing trench as much as a French drain.
We come over from Lafayette on LA 89, which turns into Youngsville Highway on the way south. When an old shed or carport stands where the new slab goes, we take it down and haul it off. We work across the city, from the original village along Church Street to the newest subdivisions.
Communities and areas we serve around Youngsville: Sugar Mill Pond, Highland Ridge, Sugar Ridge, Copper Meadows, Copperfield, Laurel Grove, Field Crest Estates, Southlake Plantation, Cane Village, Caneview Estates, Downtown Youngsville, Youngsville Highway (LA 89).
Youngsville ZIP codes served: 70592.
We come over from Lafayette, look at the job and put the quote in writing.
(337) 520-8615 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 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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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 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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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.
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We take down sheds, carports, patio covers, decks, fences, small garages and old slabs. The debris goes on the dump trailer and the ground is raked clean.
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We install French drains for soggy yards and for wet ground along the house. The pipe sits in washed gravel and filter fabric, sloped to an outlet.
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Catch basins, channel drains, downspout lines, swales and driveway culverts for yards that hold water. We give rainwater a path away from the house and off the lot.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Youngsville. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
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.