Foundations
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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A concrete slab is the flat floor under a garage, a shed, a shop or a piece of equipment. Muddy Boots Concrete pours concrete slabs and concrete pads for homes and businesses around Louisville, Kentucky. That includes garage floors, shed pads, pole barn floors and shop floors. It also includes HVAC pads, equipment pads, basketball courts and slab on grade for home additions.
Muddy Boots is a concrete contractor serving Louisville and about 40 miles around it. Every slab starts with the ground under it, since a slab is only as solid as its base. Tell us what will sit on the slab, and we size the job from there. Call or text (502) 889-1624 for a free estimate and a written quote.
Tell us about the job: the pour, the size and where it is. We look at the site and put the quote in writing.
A garage slab carries your cars and everything else you roll across it. Its edge meets the driveway at the garage door, so the two have to line up. When the old drive is cracked too, a new concrete driveway can be poured to match.
Pole barn and shop floors are big slabs with posts and walls around them. Industry guidance calls for isolation joints where a slab meets a wall or a post. Those joints let the floor and the frame move on their own, and that helps limit cracks. The joint layout gets planned before any concrete arrives.
A new garage or an addition also needs footings under its walls. We pour those as part of our concrete foundations and footings work. Slab on grade for an addition follows the builder's or the engineer's plans.
A concrete pad gives equipment a flat, level place to sit. An HVAC pad has to stay level and shed water away from the unit. Where a pad meets the house, the trade's guidance calls for an isolation joint against the foundation wall.
A basketball court is one big slab, so the joint layout matters as much as the pour. Concrete industry guidance keeps each panel square or close to it. No panel should run more than one and a half times its width. The same guidance caps joint spacing at 15 feet, even on a thick slab.
Pads and slabs at a business are part of our commercial concrete work. That includes dumpster pads and slabs poured for general contractors and project managers.
For a floor slab, the Kentucky Residential Code has the sod and topsoil removed and any fill compacted. Fill can run up to 8 inches deep in dirt or 24 inches in clean sand or gravel. Deeper fill needs the building official's approval. Site grading sets that base and the fall that carries water off the slab.
Next comes the mix. The code rates every Kentucky county as severe weathering for concrete. For a garage floor or a carport slab, that means at least 3,500 psi concrete with entrained air. Entrained air is millions of tiny bubbles that give freezing water room to expand.
A new slab is still wet inside and gaining strength, so its first winter matters most. The ready-mix industry says to skip deicing salt that first winter. Every winter, hose off the road salt that cars drag onto a garage slab. The same guidance urges care with outdoor pours in the cold months, when wet concrete could freeze.
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 concrete slabs around Louisville and the Louisville area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
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.
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New concrete steps and stoops for front and back doors, with even risers and a landing at the top. We also replace cracked or settled steps.
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.
What does a concrete slab cost in Kentucky? Market ranges per square foot, per job and per cubic yard, plus what moves the price near Louisville.
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What does a concrete foundation cost in Kentucky? Market ranges by foundation type, 2,000 square foot totals and the code rules that move the price.
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.