Concrete Slabs
We pour concrete slabs and pads for garages, sheds, pole barns, shops and HVAC units around Louisville. Tell us what the slab will carry, and we put the quote in writing.
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Muddy Boots Concrete pours concrete sidewalks and walkways for homes and businesses around Louisville. At a house, that means a front walk up to the door or a path out to the patio. At a business, it is the walk from parking to the entrance, part of our commercial concrete work.
Sidewalks are everyday work for us, right beside concrete driveways. Plenty of that work is replacing a walk that has heaved or cracked. We tear out the bad slabs and pour new concrete to meet the rest of the walk. It is all part of our work as a concrete contractor in Louisville.
Tell us about the job: the pour, the size and where it is. We look at the site and put the quote in writing.
Tree roots are a common cause of a heaved walk. A root grows under one slab and pushes its edge up. The slab beside it stays put, and the raised lip catches a toe.
Water does its share of damage too. A downspout that empties onto a walk can wash out the base, and the slab sinks or tips. Louisville winters freeze and thaw again and again. Concrete that stays soaked through those cycles can flake at the surface, which the trade calls scaling.
Louisville Metro Public Works has a clear yardstick for a heaved public walk. Its sidewalk repair plan counts any lip over a quarter inch as a trip hazard under ADA standards. Where a slab has risen more than 2 inches, the plan calls for a new slab.
Joints split a sidewalk into slabs, so one bad slab can come out on its own. When most of the walk has lifted or cracked, a whole new run often makes more sense. If the driveway needs work too, a new concrete driveway can go in on the same job.
A new slab is only as steady as the ground under it. Louisville Metro's spec for public walks has soft or frozen ground dug out and replaced before a pour. The same spec calls for score joints about every 5 feet and air-entrained concrete on all exposed work. That mix carries millions of tiny air bubbles that give freezing water room to expand.
A light broom finish is the standard for a walk, since it gives shoes some grip. A front walk can also take a stamped finish to dress up the entry. Where the walk reaches the house, poured concrete steps can carry it up to the door.
The public sidewalk along a street sits in the right of way. Since a 2010 ordinance change, Louisville Metro Public Works has taken on sidewalk repairs along Metro maintained roads. Before that, those repairs fell to the property owner next to the walk.
Many streets inside Louisville Metro are maintained by a suburban city or the state instead. Those offices set their own rules. Louisville's LOJIC maps show who maintains a given street.
Street trees have a rule of their own. Pruning or removing a tree in the public right of way takes a permit from Metro's Division of Community Forestry. If a street tree lifted the walk, start with that office before anyone cuts a root.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 40 miles around Louisville across Jefferson, Bullitt, Oldham, Shelby and Hardin Counties.
(502) 889-1624From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (502) 889-1624. Tell us what you want poured and where the job is, and send photos if you have them.
We come out for a free estimate and take measurements. We also look at the slope and where the water runs now.
The quote comes to you in writing before any concrete is poured. Once you say yes, we set a date for the work.
On a replacement, the old concrete comes out first. Then we prepare the ground and set the forms.
We pour the concrete, then give flatwork a broom finish or a stamped pattern. The concrete then cures, and we tell you when it is ready to use.
Common questions about sidewalks around Louisville and the Louisville area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We pour concrete slabs and pads for garages, sheds, pole barns, shops and HVAC units around Louisville. Tell us what the slab will carry, and we put the quote in writing.
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Poured concrete footings and foundation walls for homes, additions, garages and outbuildings. Footings go to the frost depth the state code sets, or deeper when the plans say so.
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Poured concrete retaining walls for sloped yards and drives around Louisville. We build them on footings, with drainage behind the wall.
Learn MoreWe come out to see the job and measure it before we price it. Then you get the price in writing, with the work spelled out.
We grade the ground and set the base before a drive or a patio goes in. The forms set a slight slope, so rain runs off the new concrete.
We pour for homeowners, and we pour for superintendents and project managers on commercial jobs. Commercial flatwork, pads, curbs and footings are part of the work.
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Read more →Tell us about the job in the form, or call or text (502) 889-1624. A free estimate on site comes first, and the quote follows in writing.
Tell us about the job: the pour, the size and where it is. We look at the site and put the quote in writing.