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This is the work of forming, pouring, and finishing concrete, driveways, patios, walkways, slabs, and house foundations, along with brick and block masonry. Most of the job happens before the truck arrives: grading the ground, setting forms, and putting down a base that will not shift. The pour itself is fast, but the prep and the finish are what decide whether the concrete lasts twenty years or cracks in two.
Acadiana sits on heavy clay, and clay is the whole story with concrete around here. It swells when it rains and shrinks when it dries, so a slab poured on unprepared ground gets pushed up in one spot and left hanging in another, and that is where cracks start. Our rain comes hard and often, which means water has to be able to drain away from a slab instead of pooling under it or against a foundation. Fresh concrete also cures differently in high humidity and summer heat, so timing the pour and the finish matters more than people think. If you are near a bayou or coulee in places like Broussard, Youngsville, or Breaux Bridge, the water table is high and the ground stays soft longer, which is worth telling anyone who quotes the job.
A homeowner can handle a small pour, a step, a mower pad, a short walkway, if they are willing to do the prep right and work fast. Concrete does not wait for you once it starts to set. Where you should stop is anything structural or anything large: a driveway, a foundation, a big patio, or any slab that has to tie into your house. The reason is not just the pouring, it is the base prep, the slope, the reinforcement, and the finishing window, and getting any of those wrong on a big pour is expensive to fix because the only real fix is breaking it out and starting over. Foundation work in particular is not a DIY job. If the slab under your house is moving, that needs someone who can read why it is moving before anyone pours anything.
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The clay soil here moves a lot with our wet and dry cycles, and that movement puts stress on anything poured on top of it. Some hairline cracking is normal in all concrete as it cures. The cracks that matter are the wide ones and the ones where the two sides no longer line up, because those usually mean the ground underneath shifted.
Sometimes, but it is often a bad idea. Whatever caused the old slab to crack or sink is usually still down there in the base, and a new layer poured on top will tend to follow the same cracks. In most cases the honest answer is to break out the old concrete, fix the base, and pour fresh. Have someone look at why the old one failed first.
You can usually walk on it within a day, but concrete keeps gaining strength for weeks. Most crews will tell you to keep vehicles off a new driveway for several days at least, and heavy weight longer than that. In our humidity and heat the curing timeline shifts, so ask the crew that poured it for their specific number and follow it.
Yes. Pouring right before heavy rain can ruin a fresh surface, and pouring onto soaked, soft clay causes problems with the base. A good crew watches the forecast and will move the date rather than fight the weather. That is a sign they care about the result, not a sign they are stalling.
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