We're a concrete contractor based in Redmond, WA, pouring and fixing driveways, patios, walks, steps and foundations for Issaquah homes and small businesses. If your old slab cracked or sank, we'll want to know why before we pour the new one.
(425) 285-8618
Issaquah gives us a bit of everything. Closer to downtown we see older driveways and walks that have cracked, lifted at a tree root or sunk where a downspout empties. In the newer neighborhoods it's longer driveways, patios off the back of the house and the odd wall on a tight lot. Either way, my first question is where the water goes, because it rains enough here that a slab sloped the wrong way spends every winter soaking the ground under it.
The city also maps its own special flood hazard areas and takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program. So on a new slab or foundation, I ask early whether your lot falls in one, because it's a lot easier to plan around that before the forms go up than after.
Send the form or call (425) 285-8618, and we'll reply within one business day to set a time. I come out to your Issaquah address myself for a free estimate on site, and there's no obligation to book anything.
(425) 285-8618Most Issaquah calls are about driveways, patios, walks and steps that have cracked, sunk or started holding puddles. Some are new work, like a slab foundation for a garage or an addition. We also take the jobs that need some figuring out, such as cutting into an old slab, raising a settled foundation or building a retaining wall where there isn't much room to work.
Work in Issaquah goes through the city's Permit Center, which issues both construction and land use permits, and a land use permit checks the job against zoning and environmental rules. That review is the part of the schedule nobody on our crew controls. So before we set a pour date, I find out what your address and your project call for, then tell you plainly who'll handle the permit and the inspections.
The price moves with the size of the slab, how much old concrete has to come out, how much digging and packing the base needs, how easy it is to get a truck close, and the finish you pick. The estimate is where you see each of those for your own job. The schedule turns on the permit and the weather, because we won't pour on a soaked base just to keep a date. It's the same way we run jobs up in Bothell East and back home in Redmond.
I come out to your Issaquah house myself, look at the old concrete and ask what happened to it. Our own crew does the work, with me running the job, so the person who looked at your driveway is the one standing there on pour day.
Nobody sees the base on day one, so it's the first thing people want to cut. We dig out soft dirt, pack the subgrade the slab sits on and set the fall away from the house, because a nice surface on a bad base cracks anyway.
We're licensed and insured, and we've been doing concrete around Redmond since 2013. I learned the trade by asking older finishers a lot of questions and breaking up failed slabs to see why they failed, and every estimate still starts that way.
Before we set a date, I walk you through what you're paying for, from hauling off the old slab to the base, the concrete and the finish, so you know where the money goes. Your satisfaction, guaranteed. Call (425) 285-8618 to set up a visit.
Most of the cost comes from the size of the driveway, hauling off the old concrete, the base work under it and the finish you choose. A plain broom finish, the light texture swept in so shoes and tires grip in the rain, costs less than stamped or colored concrete. I'll give you a number for your driveway once I've seen it.
Probably, because the city says most improvements on a residential lot in Issaquah need a permit. We check what your project calls for before we set a date. If you'd like to ask the city yourself, permit staff help by appointment or by phone at 425-837-3100.
You submit permit materials, and any resubmittals, through MyBuildingPermit.com, and city staff process what comes in there. Before we set a date, I'll tell you whether we or you will be the one filing, so nobody waits on a form that never got sent.
You'll wait longer to drive on it than to walk on it, because concrete keeps curing, slowly hardening as it holds onto its water, well after it looks dry. The weather that week moves both waits. We'll talk through the wait for your pour before we start, so you can plan where the cars go.
Concrete shrinks as it dries, so some cracking is normal, and the job is deciding where it goes. We cut control joints, shallow grooves that give a crack a straight line to follow, early enough to work, and add rebar, steel inside the slab that holds the pieces together, where the slab calls for it. Most of the ugly cracks we tear out trace back to a base that was raked flat instead of dug out and packed.
Sometimes, since the city says these meetings are often required, especially on large projects. You can email CPD@issaquahwa.gov to ask whether yours needs one, and if it does, I'd plan on being there.
