Concrete Contractor in Charlotte, NC

Most of our jobs in the city are patios, and they range from small slabs to large ones.

We pour driveways here too, like the new driveway and the driveway extension in the photos below.

The extension job also got a new front porch slab.

Some of our Charlotte patios are stamped. The one in our job photos has a charcoal border.

Stamping presses a pattern into the wet concrete, so the finished slab looks like stone, slate or brick. Broom finish is our standard, and stamped costs more.

A new driveway onto a city or state street, or a changed driveway apron, goes through the Charlotte Development Center. Driveway or sidewalk work that takes up a lane, planting strip or sidewalk needs a CDOT Right-of-Way Use Permit. On a state-maintained road, anyone who changes the existing access needs an NCDOT driveway permit. As your concrete contractor, we look up whether the city or the state maintains your street before we touch an apron.

Charlotte has eight local historic districts. Dilworth, Plaza Midwood and Wesley Heights are three of them. Fourth Ward in Uptown, where many of the city's remaining Victorian houses stand, is another. In a local historic district, construction work needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before it starts, even with no building permit. Driveways can often go to historic district staff review instead of the full commission. On a lot inside one of those districts, we wait for the certificate before we dig.

On Dilworth side streets, houses sit close together, often with a narrow drive back to a garage. A drive like that is a long, narrow pour, so we plan how the concrete reaches the back. Myers Park, along Providence Road and Queens Road, has wide streets lined with trees. Driveway work in the right-of-way, or where it may reach a protected city tree's drip line, needs a City Arborist permit. Near a big street tree, we check with the city about that permit first.

Uptown and South End map as urban land. That ground was already cut, filled and built over, so it varies lot to lot. Dilworth, Elizabeth and Myers Park map as Cecil soil mixed with fill, on gentle slopes. Cecil is the classic red clay, and soil surveys rate it low for shrink and swell. The ground gets steeper near the creeks. By Freedom Park on Little Sugar Creek it maps on 8 to 15 percent slopes. At Charlotte Douglas, about 58 nights a year drop to freezing, but only about one day stays below freezing all day. On a lot that tips toward a creek, we slope the slab so rain runs off it, where the yard allows.