Concrete Contractors in Beaumont, TX

As concrete contractors in Beaumont, we treat water as the first design problem on every driveway, patio and slab. The city lies along the Neches River roughly 30 miles in from the Gulf, at about 16 feet of elevation, and Wikipedia says the Beaumont area receives the most rainfall in Texas, with 65.07 inches a year listed in its climate table. The heaviest months fall between April and October. Land this flat gives runoff few places to go, so a slab that is level, or tilted back toward the house, will push water at your foundation in every storm. Grade, base and drainage come first here; the surface finish comes last.

What Beaumont's climate means for concrete

Northern contractors fight freeze-thaw. Here it barely matters: the record low is 10 degrees and snowfall averages a tenth of an inch a year. What we fight is heat, damp air and rain. Highs average about 92 degrees in July and August, and summer nights rarely drop below about 75. Concrete sets faster in that heat, so we pour soon after sunrise in summer and keep new slabs wet or covered so the top layer cures at the same pace as the core. A downpour on fresh concrete can ruin the finish, so we track the forecast and keep plastic sheeting on the job.

Water stays the main threat long after pour day. When runoff soaks the base or cuts under a slab edge it carries soil off with it, and the slab sinks, cracks or tilts. Rita and Ike both caused significant damage in the city, and Wikipedia records historic flooding across Beaumont from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019. A firmly compacted base, a correct slope and edges that runoff cannot dig under count for more here than in most of the country.

Older homes, older concrete

Beaumont's housing has some age on it. Point2Homes, working from American Community Survey data, lists the median home in the city as built in 1978, with 17.2% of homes from the 1960s and 18.6% from the 1970s. A large share of local driveways, walks and patios are therefore 40 to 60 years old. Flatwork that old tends to fail in familiar ways: root heave near big trees, low panels under downspouts, broken edges beside drainage ditches, and one-car drives too narrow for a modern household. Some of it can be repaired and some of it is past saving, and we will say which.

Permits and inspections in Beaumont

The Engineering Division of the City of Beaumont's Public Works department issues a right-of-way permit for construction inside the public right-of-way. For most homes that means the driveway approach between the lot and the street. Separately, private-property work that disturbs over 450 square feet calls for a grading permit. The city's driveway handout puts the residential fee at $37 and lists two inspections booked by calling 311: a pre-pour check of dimensions, location, reinforcement and forms, and a final once the work is done. Its minimums for a residential approach are 4 inches of 3,000 psi concrete with No. 6 wire mesh or No. 4 rebar at 12 inches on center. Our approaches meet those numbers and we book the inspections. Outside city limits, we ask the local city or county what applies.

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Six kinds of work

• Driveways: new pours, widenings, full replacements and street approaches over culverts
• Patios: back patios, add-ons to an existing slab and slabs ready for a future cover
• Stamped concrete: stone, brick and plank patterns with color and a sealer
• Sidewalks and walkways: front entries, side-yard paths and single replaced panels
• Slabs: pads for sheds, shops, garages, carports and AC units
• Repair: crack sealing, slab lifting, resurfacing and cutting out bad sections

Pour day and the days around it

The first meeting happens in your yard. We measure, put a level on the grade and ask where water sits after a hard rain. The quote that follows breaks out demolition, base, thickness, steel, finish, sealing and joint layout, with a total at the bottom. By the morning of the pour, the old concrete has been hauled off, the base is compacted, forms are staked and the steel rests on chairs at mid-depth. We place and finish the concrete, saw the joints and start the cure. Before leaving, we give you one date for walking on the new surface and a later one for parking on it.

Beaumont is home base, from the Oaks Historic District to the newer streets on the west side. We also work across Jefferson, Orange and Hardin counties: Port Arthur, Nederland, Port Neches, Groves, Central Gardens, Fannett and Hamshire to the south and west; Orange, West Orange, Pinehurst, Bridge City, Vidor and Mauriceville to the east; and Lumberton, Silsbee, Kountze, Sour Lake, Pinewood Estates, Bevil Oaks and China to the north and west. Each of those towns, and the unincorporated areas between them, can have its own permit rules, so we confirm them for your address before we price the job.