Concrete Contractor in Davie, FL - Driveways and Slabs Built on Solid Ground

Your price comes down to the driveway's size and thickness, the base work your lot needs and the finish you choose, and I give you that number at a free estimate on your property. If you have to trim the budget, cut the finish before the base, because a plain broom finish, the light texture that keeps it from getting slick, on a well-packed base will outlast a fancy surface poured over raked dirt. The base is hidden on day one, which is why it's the first thing people want to cut and the last thing I'd let go.

Permits in Davie go through the city's Online Application Submittal system, and the Building Division no longer accepts paper permits or emails sent to individual staff. When the job value on an application is $100,000 or more, a drop-off and application fee is paid before review starts. If you pull the permit yourself as an owner-builder, you bring the application in personally, and on our jobs we handle the application for you.

A request the city receives before 4:30 p.m. goes on the schedule for the next business day. Requests made on a Friday, a weekend or a holiday the city observes shift to the next business day, and the inspection comes the business day after that. Inspections can't be cancelled after 8:30 a.m., and a late cancellation can add fees to the permit, so we only book one once the forms and base are truly ready.

Yes, the Broward County Tax Collector says anyone doing business in the county needs a county Local Business Tax Receipt unless they're exempt, and that includes one-person and home-based businesses. It takes one receipt for each location and each business category. A state-certified contractor with a receipt from their home Florida county can work statewide without the Broward one, but some Broward cities may still ask for it before issuing a permit, so it's a fair question to put to anyone you're thinking of hiring.

If your lot is in the flood hazard area, a new building or one getting a large enough renovation will usually have to sit higher, because the city's guidance says the new base flood elevations call for higher elevations. The updated maps may raise the level homes had to be built to before. That's why we look at where your lot sits on the new maps before we plan a slab foundation, so the height is settled before the forms go up.

Most sinking starts under the slab, when the subgrade, the soil and base the concrete sits on, was raked level instead of dug out and packed, so it settles and the slab follows it down. Low spots where water collects soften that ground further, and cracks land in odd places when control joints, the cuts that tell the slab where to crack, were cut late or skipped. We dig out, pack the base, slope the slab away from the house and cut joints on time, and I'll be straight with you that concrete still cracks, our job is getting those cracks into the joints.