B&C Lake Charles Concrete Company pours driveways, patios, garage floors and slabs at Moss Bluff homes people are living in. Our own crew does the work, and I'm on site while it's going on.
(337) 549-5674
Most of our Moss Bluff calls come from people who've lived in the house a while and are looking at a driveway that's cracked and dropped at the edges, a patio where water sits, or steps pulling away from the porch. There's usually a fence, a flower bed and a car that still needs somewhere to park, and I plan the job around all of it.
Water is the other thing we plan for. The parish says very little of its land sits outside the 100- or 500-year flood plain, and ground along the waterways floods most, so before we set forms I look at where your yard drains and pitch the new slab to shed water away from the house instead of toward it.
We reply to Moss Bluff calls and form messages within one business day. I come out myself to measure, look at the ground and the drainage, and write up exactly what's included. The estimate is free, with no obligation and no pressure to book.
(337) 549-5674We replace cracked and sunken driveways, pour patios and sidewalks where water has been sitting against the house, and build steps that meet the porch again. Inside, we pour garage floors and interior concrete floors, and for additions we pour footings and slab foundations or raise a foundation that's settled. When you want a pattern or color on a patio or walk, our stamped concrete work goes on the same packed base as everything else we pour.
Calcasieu Parish serves Moss Bluff, so it's the parish's planning office, not a city hall, that decides on permits here, and when a job needs one, the work waits until it's issued. We check with that office about your address before work starts, then handle the paperwork or walk you through it. On your side, ask any contractor for their state license or home improvement registration, and for the parish occupational license, which the parish requires every year, paid before work begins, from anyone working a trade outside a city.
Price here comes down to the size and thickness of the slab, how much soft dirt has to come out and be replaced with packed base, whether old concrete gets broken out and hauled off, how close the truck can get to the pour, and the finish you pick. The schedule turns mostly on the permit, the base work and the curing wait, and I give you your own price and timeline in the written estimate. It's the same work we do a short drive away in Lake Charles, where we're based, and over in Sulphur.
I come out, measure and write the estimate myself, and I'm on site while our own crew does the work, so the details we agreed on at your kitchen table don't get lost on pour day. We're licensed and fully insured on every job.
Before we start, we settle the small things, like who hauls the old concrete, where you'll park and how we get past the flower beds. When we pack up, the new concrete should be the only change you notice. Your satisfaction, guaranteed.
Nobody sees the base on pour day, so it's the first place people want to save money, and it's the last place I will. We dig out and pack what the slab sits on. To set up a visit, call (337) 549-5674.
Your job may need one, so we check about your address before any work starts instead of guessing. The parish requires a permit before construction, remodeling or demolition work, and before any construction in a high-risk flood area, and a permit official at the parish answers questions at 337-721-3610. The state contractor board treats starting work before a required permit is issued as a violation, so we don't pour until that's settled.
There's no honest number until I've measured your driveway and looked at the ground under it, so your price comes in a written estimate after I see it. The biggest swings are how much old concrete comes out, how much base has to be dug out and rebuilt, and whether you want a plain broom finish, a light texture that gives tires and shoes grip, or a stamped pattern. Thickness and rebar, the steel set inside the slab to hold it together if it cracks, add cost too, and I'll tell you where they're worth it.
Usually it's the ground under them, not the concrete. The parish's permit office warns that south Louisiana soils can cause foundation settlement and strongly recommends a geotechnical engineer to test the soil and a structural engineer or architect to design a foundation, and that same soft ground pulls on driveways and patios poured over dirt that was only raked level. We dig out and pack the subgrade, the dirt the slab sits on, and cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the concrete a straight place to crack, soon after the pour so any cracks land where we chose.
Ask for their state license or registration and confirm it with the state contractor board, because what they need depends on the size of your job. Home improvement work over $7,500 and up to $50,000 has to be bid or done by a home improvement registrant or a licensed contractor, and residential projects of $50,000 or more need a licensed Residential Building Contractor. The board's home improvement category leaves out structural work like footings, foundations and floor slabs, so for foundation work, ask exactly what they hold.
You're without it from the day we break out the old slab until the new one has cured enough to take a car, and I write the expected days into the estimate so you can plan around them. Curing is the wait while fresh concrete gains strength, so you'll walk on it well before you drive on it, and we pour early in the day so the top doesn't dry out weak and dusty in the heat. Before we start, we settle where you'll park and who hauls the old pieces, so nobody's surprised that morning.
Yes, if it's an enclosed area below the lowest floor of new construction or a substantial improvement, used only for parking, getting in or storage, and it can flood. The parish floodplain ordinance says floodwater has to flow in and out of that space on its own, with either an engineer's or architect's certification on the design or minimums such as two openings no higher than one foot above grade. If we're pouring the slab for that space, we'll settle those openings with you before the forms go up.
