Concrete Contractor in Groves, TX - Driveways and Patios That Shed the Rain

I can't give you an honest number until I've seen the ground, because what's under the slab and how big it is set most of the price. Breaking out and hauling off old concrete adds to it, so does a tight spot the truck can't reach, and a stamped or colored finish costs more than a plain one. Your written estimate lists every one of those for your driveway.

You start a building permit application on the City of Groves' Public Portal, which you'll find on the city's website. Whether your driveway, patio or slab needs one is the city's call, so we check for your address and handle the permit side with the city when the job calls for one. The city also takes contractor registrations through that portal, and we're licensed and fully insured.

Yes, the Texas Department of Insurance lists Groves in the Inland I zone of its windstorm program. If you're building a new house, addition or building on a new slab and want windstorm coverage through the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the construction has to be certified, now to the 2024 International Residential Code or International Building Code. If that's your plan, tell me at the estimate so the slab fits into it.

You can usually walk on new concrete well before you can drive on it, because curing, the slow hardening that gives concrete its strength, keeps going for days after the pour. Heat and the mix change the wait, so you get the days for your slab at the final walk-through, and we'll sort out where you park in the meantime.

It can crack some, all concrete does, but an old slab that cracked and sank usually did it because of what was under it, a base raked level instead of dug out and packed, or water getting underneath and softening the ground. Cracks also land where nobody chose when joints are cut late or skipped, or when a pour sets in midday heat. The base, the steel, the joints and the timing are how we keep cracks thin and where they belong.

Put the money into the base and the drainage first, because on flat, wet ground those decide how long the slab holds up. The base is buried on day one, so it's the first thing people want to cut, and I'd rather pour a plain broom finish, the light texture that gives your shoes grip when it's wet, over a solid base than a stamped finish over raked dirt. You can dress up good concrete later, but a bad base only gets fixed by tearing it out.