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How long has that crack been there?
Most people can’t say. It showed up one spring, looked small enough to ignore, and now it’s wide enough to catch a shoe. That’s how concrete fails around here. Not all at once, but one winter at a time.
The frustrating part is that two contractors can look at the same slab and tell you two completely different things. One says patch it. The other says tear it out. Neither one explains why. So you’re left guessing whether you’re about to waste money on a fix that won’t hold, or spend on a replacement you didn’t need.
We’d rather start somewhere else. Before we quote anything, we want to know what pulled that slab apart in the first place. Because a crack is a symptom, and patching a symptom is how repairs end up back on your to-do list two seasons later.
What Pittsburgh Does To Concrete That Other Climates Do Not
Concrete in Phoenix and concrete in Pittsburgh are the same material living completely different lives. A slab in a dry, mild climate can sit for forty years and look fine. The same slab here starts showing its age in fifteen.
That’s not bad luck and it isn’t cheap concrete. Five specific things stack up in Western Pennsylvania, and they hit the same slab at the same time. Understanding which one is driving your problem is what separates a repair that lasts from one that doesn’t.
Freeze-thaw cycles do the heavy damage
A typical Pittsburgh winter brings somewhere between fifty and seventy freeze-thaw cycles. Every time the temperature crosses 32°F, water sitting inside the pores of your slab expands, then relaxes. Repeat that dozens of times a season.
Concrete handles this fine when it’s air-entrained and properly cured. Microscopic air bubbles give the ice somewhere to go. Older slabs, or slabs poured with too much water in the mix, don’t have that relief valve. The pressure builds until the surface gives up.
Road salt drives the damage deeper
Salt makes the freeze-thaw problem worse in a way most homeowners never hear about. Chlorides pull moisture into the concrete and keep it there. Then they lower the freezing point, so the slab cycles through freeze and thaw more often than the air temperature alone would cause.
Look at where damage usually starts on a property. The driveway apron. The garage floor right where the car parks. The bottom two steps. Those are the spots where salt drips off a vehicle or gets tracked in by boots, and they fail years ahead of everything else.
Red bed clay sits under a lot of Allegheny County
The Allegheny Plateau under this region runs through the Glenshaw and Casselman formations, and both carry layers of red bed claystone. That clay swells when it’s saturated and shrinks when it dries out.
It’s the same soil behavior that makes Pittsburgh one of the most landslide-prone cities in the country. On a smaller scale, it’s what lifts one corner of a patio and drops the other. The slab didn’t break because the concrete was weak. It broke because the ground underneath it moved.
Much of the region sits over old mine workings
The Pittsburgh Coal Seam was mined out under enormous stretches of Allegheny, Washington and Westmoreland counties. Those voids don’t always stay stable. Pennsylvania runs a state Mine Subsidence Insurance program through the DEP for exactly this reason.
When a slab settles evenly across its whole footprint rather than at one edge, subsidence is worth ruling out before anyone starts drilling injection holes. Lifting a slab that’s sitting over a moving void is a temporary fix at best, and we’ll say so.
Hillside drainage finds the base course
Pittsburgh averages close to forty inches of rain a year, and very little of this region is flat. Water moves downhill fast, and it doesn’t care what’s in the way.
Give it a season or two and it will wash out the compacted stone under a walkway or driveway edge, leaving a void the slab eventually drops into. Nine times out of ten, when we trace a settling problem back to its start, we find a downspout dumping directly onto grade a few feet uphill.
Find Your Concrete Problem On This List
You don’t need to diagnose this yourself. But knowing roughly what you’re looking at makes it a lot easier to tell whether a contractor is being straight with you.
Here’s how the common failures around here actually break down, what’s usually behind them, and what a real fix looks like.
| What you’re seeing | What’s usually behind it | What actually fixes it | If you leave it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thin surface cracks in a web pattern | Crazing from surface drying too fast during the original pour | Cosmetic only. Sealer or an overlay if appearance matters | Rarely spreads. Mostly a looks issue |
| A single straight crack, edges still level | Shrinkage or a missing control joint | Rout and seal with a flexible filler | Water gets in, freeze-thaw widens it |
| Crack with one side higher than the other | Settlement. Something moved underneath | Lift and stabilize first, then seal | The lip grows into a trip hazard |
| Surface flaking off in thin sheets | Scaling from de-icing salt and freeze-thaw | Resurfacing or a polymer overlay once the loose material is off | Flaking exposes aggregate, then accelerates |
| Chunks breaking away, aggregate showing | Spalling. Often salt plus a shallow original finish | Partial-depth repair, or replacement if it’s widespread | Deepens until the slab loses structure |
| Slab rocks or sounds hollow underfoot | A void under the slab | Void fill and slab lift | Slab cracks under its own unsupported weight |
| Steps pulling away from the house | Backfill settling beside the foundation | Lift and re-support, address the drainage | Steps keep separating, become unsafe |
| White chalky residue on the surface | Efflorescence. Salts moving through with water | Clean it, then find and stop the moisture path | Not structural, but it’s telling you water is moving |
| Standing water where it never used to pool | The slab has settled out of pitch | Lift back to grade and correct the fall | Standing water accelerates every problem above |
One thing worth flagging. A crack that’s still level on both sides is a very different conversation from one where the sides have shifted. Level means the concrete moved. Shifted means the ground moved. The second one costs more to ignore.
Repair Or Replace: How To Tell Before You Pay Anyone
This is the question we get asked more than any other, and it deserves a straight answer instead of a sales pitch.
Repair makes sense when the slab itself is still sound. If the concrete is dense, the surface is intact across most of the area, and the problem is localized, repair is almost always the better call. Lifting a settled but otherwise healthy slab back into position is faster, less disruptive, and keeps concrete out of a landfill.
Replacement makes sense when the slab has run out of life. Cracking in multiple directions across the whole surface, spalling deep enough that you can see aggregate over large areas, or a base that’s failed underneath and can’t be stabilized. At that point a repair is just a down payment on doing the job twice.
The gray zone is where honesty matters. A driveway with a settled section and a sound section is a legitimate judgment call, and it depends on how long you plan to stay, what the rest of the slab looks like, and whether the drainage problem that caused it can actually be corrected. We’ll walk that with you on site and tell you which way we’d lean if it were our own property.
Concrete Repair Services We Take On
Concrete fails in a handful of predictable ways, and each one has a method that’s genuinely right for it. Matching the method to the failure is most of the job.
Here’s the work we handle, and what each one is actually for.
Concrete Leveling and Mudjacking
When a slab has dropped but the concrete is still in good shape, lifting it beats replacing it every time. We drill small ports, fill the void underneath, and bring the slab back to grade.
This is the right call for settled driveways, sunken sidewalk sections, patios that have started holding water, and garage floors that have dropped near a door.
Crack Repair
Not every crack gets the same treatment. A dormant shrinkage crack needs a clean rout and a flexible sealant. A crack that’s still moving needs the movement addressed first.
Filling an active crack with rigid material just relocates the failure a few inches over. We check for movement before we pick a product.
Spalling and Surface Repair
Spalling is Pittsburgh’s signature concrete problem. Salt and freeze-thaw work together until the top layer breaks down and starts letting go in pieces.
The fix depends on how deep it goes. Shallow scaling can often be resurfaced. Deep spalling with exposed aggregate over a wide area usually needs partial-depth repair or replacement of that section.
Joint and Sealant Repair
Control joints and expansion joints are the parts nobody thinks about until they fail. Once the sealant dries out and cracks, water runs straight down into the base course.
Resealing joints is the cheapest thing you can do to protect a slab you’ve already paid for, and it’s the step most often skipped.
Concrete Overlays
An overlay puts a new wearing surface over a slab that’s structurally fine but looks rough. Polymer-modified toppings bond to properly prepared concrete and can be finished smooth, textured or stamped.
The catch is preparation. An overlay will only ever be as good as the surface under it, so we test bond and moisture before we commit to one.
Driveway Crack Repair
Driveways take more abuse than any other flat work on a property. Vehicle loads, salt, plow blades, and the apron sitting right at the edge of the public right-of-way.
We handle driveway-specific repair separately because the failure patterns and the permit questions are different from the rest of a property.
How A Repair Gets Diagnosed Before Anyone Quotes It
A quote written from the driveway window isn’t a quote, it’s a guess. Here’s what actually happens when we come out.
We look at the whole property, not just the section you called about, because the cause is often somewhere else entirely.
We trace the water first.
Downspouts, grading, the direction of fall, where runoff enters the area. This is where most settling problems begin and where most repairs quietly fail.
We check the joints and edges.
Open joints and crumbling edges tell us how long water has been getting into the base course.
We test for voids.
Sounding a slab tells us where it’s still supported and where it’s spanning air. That determines whether lifting is even on the table.
We check crack movement.
Width, edge alignment, and whether the two sides sit level. A moving crack and a dormant crack get different treatments.
We look at the concrete itself.
Surface hardness, depth of any spalling, whether the aggregate is exposed and how widely.
We put the scope in writing.
What gets repaired, what method, what’s included, and what we’re deliberately not touching. You should be able to hand that page to another contractor and get a comparable number back.
Repair Methods And When Each One Is The Right Call
The method matters as much as the crew. Here’s a plain comparison of what’s available and where each one belongs.
None of these is universally better. They solve different problems, and a contractor who only offers one will naturally recommend it for everything.
| Method | Best for | Not right when |
|---|---|---|
| Mudjacking (limestone slurry) | Larger slabs, driveways, general settlement | Access is tight or the void sits over unstable ground |
| Polyurethane foam injection | Precise lifts, smaller ports, faster return to use | The slab is already fractured into loose pieces |
| Compaction grouting | Deeper soil stabilization under a slab | The problem is surface-level, not subsurface |
| Epoxy injection | Structural cracks in walls and footers | The crack is still actively moving |
| Rout and seal | Dormant cracks in flat work | The two sides have shifted out of level |
| Partial-depth repair | Localized spalling and broken edges | Damage covers most of the surface |
| Polymer overlay | Sound slab, rough appearance | Delamination or trapped moisture underneath |
| Full replacement | Widespread failure, failed base | The slab is sound and only needs lifting |
Included In Every Concrete Repair We Do
Scope gaps are where repair jobs go sideways. Two quotes can look similar until you notice one of them stops at the edge of the patch.
Every repair we take on covers the surrounding surfaces before we start, protects landscaping and siding from slurry and dust, and cuts clean edges rather than feathering into loose material. We re-establish joint lines where they were cut originally, because a repair that ignores the joint layout tends to crack along a new line of its own.
Cleanup is part of the job, not an add-on. Drill ports get patched, slurry gets removed, and the work area gets washed down before we leave. You also get cure guidance in writing for that specific repair, since walking on a joint sealant and driving on a lifted slab have very different timelines.
What We Will Not Do
Some of the most useful things a contractor can tell you are the things they’re willing to turn down.
We won’t patch a crack that’s still moving and call it fixed. If the ground under a slab is active, sealing the top does nothing except hide the evidence for a few months. We’d rather stabilize first or tell you the slab needs replacing.
We won’t put an overlay on a surface that’s delaminating or holding moisture. It will bond for one season and then sheet off, and you’ll have paid for the privilege of doing it twice. We test before we commit.
We also won’t seal a slab that’s still wet underneath or recommend a lift over ground we can’t verify. If a settling pattern looks like subsidence rather than washout, we’ll say that out loud, even when it means the job isn’t ours.
Why One Repair Bid Is Half The Price Of Another
Two numbers with a big gap between them usually aren’t measuring the same work. Once you know what to compare, the gap stops being mysterious.
Ask every contractor to put these on paper, and the bids become comparable in about five minutes.
We’re not going to publish numbers here, because a real price depends on all seven of those. But if a bid doesn’t tell you where it lands on each one, you don’t have enough information to compare it to anything.
- Depth of the repair. A surface patch and a partial-depth repair are different jobs. So are a slab lift and a slab replacement.
- Whether base work is included. If the stone underneath washed out, does the price include restoring it, or just lifting the slab back over the same hole?
- Whether drainage is addressed. Correcting the downspout or grade that caused the problem is often the difference between a repair that holds and one that doesn't.
- Square footage and edges. How much area, and where the repair stops. Edges are where quotes quietly shrink.
- Joint work. Whether existing joints get resealed and whether new ones are cut where they're needed.
- Site access. A backyard patio reached through a side gate takes longer than a driveway you can back a truck onto.
- Cleanup and restoration. Whether sod, mulch and disturbed areas get put back.
What Another Season Of Freeze-Thaw Does To A Crack You Left Alone
Concrete problems don’t hold still. They compound, and winter is when the compounding happens.
An open crack is a funnel. Rain runs into it, sits in the base course, and freezes. Ice expands roughly nine percent, which pushes the crack a little wider and pushes a little more base material out of the way. Come spring, the crack is wider than it was, the void underneath is bigger, and the slab has slightly less support than it started with.
Now add salt. Chlorides that get into that crack keep the surrounding concrete wetter for longer and cycle it through freezing more often. That’s how a hairline crack becomes a spalled edge, and how a spalled edge becomes a section that has to come out.
The practical takeaway is simple. The cheapest version of your repair is almost always the one you do this year rather than the one you do after another Pittsburgh winter has had a turn at it.
If The City Sent You A Sidewalk Notice
This one catches people off guard, because most homeowners assume the sidewalk belongs to the city.
In the City of Pittsburgh, the property owner is responsible for maintaining the sidewalk running along their property, and that responsibility includes keeping it free of hazards. When a slab lifts, settles or breaks up badly enough, the city can issue a notice with a timeline attached to it. Ignoring it doesn’t make it go away, and an uneven walk in front of your house carries liability exposure separate from anything the city does.
The good news is that a notice doesn’t automatically mean replacement. A lifted panel with a trip lip can often be brought back to level, and a settled section can frequently be lifted rather than torn out. What matters is that the finished surface meets the condition the notice is asking for.
If you’ve got a notice in hand, bring it to the estimate. We’ll look at what’s actually being cited, tell you whether it can be corrected by lifting or grinding, and scope the work so it addresses what the notice says. Municipalities outside the city handle this differently, so it’s worth checking your own borough or township if you’re not inside city limits.
Permits And Right-Of-Way Across Allegheny County Municipalities
Allegheny County contains roughly 130 municipalities, and they do not agree with each other about much.
Most straightforward repair work on private property, patching a patio, sealing joints, lifting a settled walkway behind the house, doesn’t require a permit anywhere in the county. The rules tighten up as you get closer to the street. Work in the public right-of-way, anything touching a curb, and driveway aprons are the three areas where requirements vary the most from one township to the next.
That matters because the apron sitting between your driveway and the street often isn’t yours in the way the rest of the driveway is. Some municipalities require a right-of-way permit and an inspection before that section can be touched. Others don’t ask for anything.
We handle the check as part of scoping the work. Before anything gets cut or drilled near the street, we confirm what your specific municipality requires, so the job doesn’t stop halfway through waiting on paperwork nobody thought to pull.
The Right Season For Concrete Repair In Western Pennsylvania
Timing affects results here more than in most parts of the country, and it’s worth planning around.
Spring through fall is the working window for most repair methods. Cementitious materials, overlays and resurfacers need consistent temperatures above roughly 50°F to cure properly, and they need that for more than just the day of the pour. A cold snap two nights after an overlay goes down can compromise the whole surface.
Late spring is genuinely the best time. Winter damage is visible, the ground has finished heaving and settling, and there’s a full season of good weather ahead to let repairs cure and get sealed. Fall works well too, with the caveat that the schedule gets tight once nights start dropping below freezing.
Polyurethane foam injection is the exception, since it cures chemically rather than by temperature and can run later into the season than most methods. If you’re calling in November, that’s usually the option still on the table. Either way, getting on a schedule before the first hard freeze is better than waiting until spring, when everyone else in the region has the same idea.
Commercial And Multi-Unit Concrete Repair
Commercial slabs fail for the same reasons residential ones do, but the stakes around downtime and liability are different.
We handle repair work on parking areas, loading docks, warehouse and interior floors, sidewalks fronting commercial buildings, and ADA ramps that have settled out of compliant slope. Trip hazards on a property open to the public are a liability problem before they’re a maintenance problem, and settled ramp landings are one of the most common things we’re called out to correct.
Scheduling is usually the harder part of commercial work. We scope around operating hours where we can, and phase larger areas so access stays open.
Recent Concrete Repair Work
A settled walkway looks a lot different in a photo than it does in a description. Here’s a look at recent repairs across the region, before and after.
What Pittsburgh Property Owners Tell Us
They told me the back half of my patio was fine and only the section by the steps needed lifting. Two other guys quoted me for the whole thing.
The city notice had me convinced I was replacing the entire sidewalk. They lifted two panels and ground down one lip. Done in a morning.
Found the downspout that caused it before they quoted anything. Fixed that first. Two winters later the driveway hasn’t moved.
Concrete Repair Across The Pittsburgh Area
Concrete doesn’t fail the same way everywhere in this region, and the reason usually comes down to when the neighborhood was built and what’s under it.
Here’s where we work and what we tend to find in each part of the area.
Pittsburgh city
The city has some of the oldest housing stock in the country, and a lot of the original flat work went in before anyone was cutting control joints or putting reinforcement in a residential slab. Sidewalks, steps and porch landings in Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, Point Breeze, Highland Park, Bloomfield, Lawrenceville, Brookline, Beechview, Carrick, Greenfield, Regent Square, Morningside, Mount Washington and Troy Hill are frequently well past their design life.
City lots also run narrow, which means a fair amount of this work is hand work with limited equipment access. Sidewalk maintenance responsibility falls on the property owner here, so notices come up more often in the city than anywhere else in the county.
South Hills
South Hills driveways are steep, and steep driveways move water fast. Add the clay layers common through this part of the county and you get settling at the bottom of a run where everything collects.
Much of the housing through Mt. Lebanon, Upper St. Clair, Bethel Park, Dormont, Castle Shannon, Whitehall, Brentwood, Baldwin, Pleasant Hills, Scott Township, Peters Township, McMurray, Bridgeville, Carnegie, Green Tree and South Park went up in the 1950s and 60s. Those original slabs are now at the age where salt exposure and freeze-thaw start showing up as spalling along edges and aprons.
North Hills
The North Hills story is newer construction on engineered fill, and fill settles. Most of what we see through Ross Township, McCandless, Wexford, Franklin Park, Pine Township, Marshall Township, Hampton, Shaler, Glenshaw, Allison Park, Fox Chapel, O’Hara, West View, Bellevue, Avalon, Sewickley, Cranberry Township, Gibsonia and Mars is settlement rather than surface failure.
That’s good news, because a sound slab sitting on a settled base is exactly what lifting is for. Newer neighborhoods in Cranberry and Marshall often see it within the first ten to fifteen years, usually at a garage apron or a patio edge where compaction was lightest.
East
Head east and the trees get bigger. Mature root systems under walkways and driveways are the leading cause of lifted, cracked flat work through Monroeville, Penn Hills, Plum, Murrysville, Churchill, Forest Hills, Wilkinsburg, Swissvale, Edgewood, Verona, Oakmont, Blackridge, Turtle Creek, Trafford, North Huntingdon and Irwin.
Root heave is worth diagnosing carefully, because lifting a slab that a root is still pushing on gets you a repeat problem. Sometimes the right answer is a partial replacement with the root path addressed, and we’ll tell you when that’s the case.
West and the Airport corridor
The corridor running out toward the airport carries a heavier mix of commercial and mixed-use property, and those slabs see loads residential concrete never does. Delivery traffic, dumpster pads and parking aprons take a beating.
We work throughout Robinson Township, Moon Township, Coraopolis, Crafton, Ingram, Kennedy Township, McKees Rocks, North Fayette, Findlay Township, Oakdale, Imperial, Collier and Heidelberg on both residential and commercial repair.
Mon Valley
The Mon Valley sits over some of the most extensively mined ground in the region, and old industrial-era concrete is still in service across a lot of these properties.
Settlement patterns through McKeesport, West Mifflin, Munhall, Homestead, West Homestead, Duquesne, Clairton, Glassport, Elizabeth, White Oak, Dravosburg and Port Vue are worth reading carefully. Even settlement across a whole slab points somewhere different than a dropped corner, and it’s the one situation where we’ll recommend ruling out subsidence before anyone starts lifting.
We also work into Westmoreland, Washington, Butler and Beaver counties.
Getting The Longest Life Out Of A Repair
A repair that’s done right will hold. What you do afterward decides whether it holds for eight years or eighteen.
Sealing is the highest-value thing on the list. A quality penetrating sealer, silane or siloxane based, keeps water and chlorides from soaking into the surface where freeze-thaw can work on them. Reapplying every few years costs very little compared to what it prevents, and it matters most on driveways and aprons that see salt.
Watch the joints. Sealant dries out and pulls away over time, and an open joint puts water straight into the base course you just paid to have stabilized. Checking them each spring takes ten minutes.
The last one is drainage, and it’s the one people skip. Extend downspouts so they discharge away from slab edges rather than beside them. If you can pick a de-icer that isn’t rock salt for the areas near your repair, that helps too. Most repairs we’re called back to look at years later failed because water found a new path, not because the repair itself gave out.
Concrete Repair Questions We Get Asked Most
How do I know if a concrete crack is structural or just cosmetic?
Run your hand across it. If both sides sit level and the crack is narrow and stable, it’s most likely a shrinkage crack and cosmetic. If one side has lifted or dropped relative to the other, something underneath moved, and that’s a structural conversation. Cracks that keep widening season over season also need a closer look.
Can cracked concrete be repaired, or does it have to be replaced?
Most cracked concrete can be repaired. Replacement becomes the better option when cracking runs in multiple directions across the whole slab, when spalling has gotten deep over a wide area, or when the base underneath has failed and can’t be stabilized. A single crack in an otherwise sound slab almost never justifies tearing it out.
Why is my concrete sinking in the first place?
Almost always because something under it went away. Water washing out the stone base is the most common cause in this region, followed by clay soil shrinking during dry stretches, poor compaction when the slab was originally poured, and in some parts of the county, old mine workings settling. The slab didn’t shrink. The ground under it did.
What causes concrete to flake and chip off in layers?
That’s scaling or spalling, and around here it’s usually salt combined with freeze-thaw. Concrete that wasn’t air-entrained, or that had too much water in the original mix, has no room to absorb the pressure when moisture inside it freezes. The top layer takes that pressure and eventually lets go.
Is concrete leveling a permanent fix, or will it settle again?
The lift itself is permanent. Whether it stays level depends entirely on whether the reason it settled got fixed. Lift a slab without correcting the downspout that washed out its base and you’ll be back in a few years. Fix the water and the slab generally stays put.
How long does a concrete repair last in Pittsburgh's climate?
It depends on the method and on aftercare. A properly sealed joint repair holds for years before it needs resealing. A slab lift with the drainage corrected can last as long as the concrete does. Surface overlays last longest when they’re sealed and kept clear of heavy salt. The variable that matters most is water management.
Can you resurface a driveway that already has cracks in it?
Sometimes. An overlay bonds to sound concrete, so the question is whether the slab under it is stable and whether the cracks are dormant. Active cracks will telegraph through an overlay and reappear on the new surface. We test bond and check for movement before recommending one.
What is that white powder showing up on my concrete?
Efflorescence. Water moves through the concrete, dissolves salts inside it, and leaves them behind when it evaporates at the surface. It’s not structural damage on its own, but it’s a reliable sign that water is traveling through the slab, which is worth tracing before it causes something that is.
My sidewalk has a lip that people trip on. Can that be fixed without replacing it?
Usually, yes. If the panel is sound and has simply settled, lifting it back to level is the straightforward fix. Smaller height differences can sometimes be ground down instead. Replacement only becomes necessary when the panel itself is broken up rather than just displaced.
The city sent me a sidewalk notice. What do I actually have to do?
You need to bring the walk back to a safe, even condition within the timeline the notice gives you. That doesn’t automatically mean replacement. Lifting settled panels or grinding a trip lip often satisfies it. Bring the notice to your estimate so the scope can be written against what’s actually being cited.
Do I need a permit to repair concrete at my house?
For most repair work on private property, no. Permits come into play near the street, where work touches the public right-of-way, a curb, or a driveway apron. Requirements vary quite a bit across Allegheny County’s municipalities, so we confirm what your township or borough requires before work starts.
How long before I can walk or park on repaired concrete?
It varies by method. Polyurethane foam lifts are typically ready for use within hours. Mudjacking needs longer for the slurry to set. Overlays and cementitious repairs need the most time, and cold weather extends all of it. You’ll get specific timelines in writing for your repair rather than a general rule.
Is winter too late to get concrete repaired in Pittsburgh?
Not necessarily. Most cementitious materials need temperatures above roughly 50°F to cure properly, which closes the window on overlays and resurfacing. Polyurethane foam injection cures chemically and can run later into the season. If you’re calling in late fall, that’s usually the method still available.
What makes one concrete repair quote so different from another?
Almost always scope. One quote includes restoring the base and correcting drainage while the other only lifts the slab. One reseals the joints, the other doesn’t. One includes cleanup and sod restoration. Ask each contractor to break out depth of repair, base work, drainage, joint work, access and restoration, and the numbers become comparable.
Other Concrete Work We Take On
Repair is one part of what we do. If your project is heading toward new work rather than a fix, these are the other services we handle across the Pittsburgh area.
Get A Free Concrete Repair Estimate
Send a photo or two if you have them, and tell us roughly when the problem showed up. That’s usually enough for us to know what we’re walking into.
We’ll come out, trace what caused it, and give you a written scope that spells out the method, what’s included, and what we’re deliberately leaving alone. No obligation, and no pressure to decide on the spot.