Concrete Contractor in Chickasaw, AL - New Slabs for Older Homes and Lots

We check that for your address before anything gets poured, since it turns on the job and the lot. One rule is clear. Under the city's subdivision rules, no building permit is issued for a newly split-off lot until it has final plat approval, signed by the chairman of the Chickasaw Planning Commission and recorded by the Mobile County Probate Judge's office, though some land divisions are exempt. When a job needs a permit, we help with the paperwork and work with the city or county office that covers your address.

If the work is on a house and costs more than $10,000, it likely does. Alabama law requires residential home builders to be licensed every year by the state Home Builders Licensure Board for paid work on a home someone else will live in, with no more than three floors and four units. To check whether your job is covered, the board says to call its office and ask for the Legal Division. Ask for a written contract too, since the board lists one as a requirement for its licensees.

Yes, Alabama's licensing law lets owners do this work on their own home or other real estate they hold. That covers you acting as your own contractor on a one-family or two-family house for your own use, but if you sell it or put it up for sale within a year after the work is done, the law treats that as evidence the work was done for sale. If you'd rather hand off just the base and the pour, we can bid that part.

The price comes down to size, thickness, how much old concrete we break out and haul off, and how much base work your ground needs. A stamped or colored finish adds to it, while a plain broom finish, the light texture that gives tires and shoes some grip, keeps it lower. We'll give you a written estimate on site with those parts priced out.

You can walk on a new slab well before you can drive on it, and how long each takes depends on the mix and the weather that week. Driving on it early is how a new driveway cracks at the edges, so we tell you when it's ready for feet and when it's ready for the car before we leave.

Most of it starts underneath, with a base that was raked level instead of dug out and packed, so the slab settles with the dirt. Water does the rest when nobody checked where it runs, and a slab that falls toward the house sends rain under it. We pack the base, set the fall away from the house, pour early so the summer heat doesn't leave a weak, dusty top, and cut the control joints on time. Concrete can still crack, but the joints decide where.