Concrete Foundations
We pour concrete foundations for detached garages and home additions around Monroe, plus workshops and other accessory buildings. Call or text for a free quote on a monolithic slab or footings with stem walls.
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A concrete slab gives a new shed or hot tub a solid, level base. Georgia Premier Contracting Group pours concrete slabs in Monroe and the towns up to about 60 miles around it. We pour shed pads, carport slabs, garage slabs and workshop floors. We also pour pads for hot tubs and HVAC units, plus slabs for pole barns and small buildings.
Slabs are one part of our work as a concrete contractor in Monroe. A slab that also carries a building's walls is a foundation, and our concrete foundations page covers that work. Call or text (770) 743-6706, and we look at the spot and put a free quote in writing.
Tell us about the job and where it is. We look at it and put your free quote in writing.
Georgia's residential code sets 3 1/2 inches as the minimum for a concrete floor slab on the ground. That rule covers a garage slab or a workshop floor. A car or a loaded trailer calls for a thicker slab than a garden shed does. A parking pad beside the house is driveway work, covered on our concrete driveways page.
Equipment pads have a rule of their own. The code says an HVAC unit set on the ground needs a level slab or other approved base. That base must stand at least 3 inches above the ground around it. The unit maker's install instructions apply as well.
A vapor retarder is a plastic sheet laid under the concrete to slow ground moisture. Georgia's residential code skips it under garages and other unheated buildings. It still wants one under a slab likely to be closed in and heated later. So if your workshop may get heat and air someday, tell us before the pour.
Inside Monroe city limits, the zoning ordinance allows sheds and other accessory buildings in side or rear yards only. Each one must sit at least 5 feet from any lot line and 5 feet from the house. An accessory building there can be no larger than half the heated floor area of the house. The same ordinance caps how much of a lot hard surfaces may cover, and a new slab counts.
In unincorporated Walton County, the accessory permit form sorts metal buildings by size. Under 500 square feet, it asks for the maker's anchorage requirements. Over 500 square feet, it asks for stamped engineered plans for the structure and its footing or foundation. Either way, get the anchor details before the pour, because the anchors go into the slab.
Georgia's residential code says garage and carport floors must slope toward a drain or the main vehicle door. A carport must stay open on at least 2 sides, or the code treats it as a garage.
Under most of Monroe, the USDA soil survey maps well-drained Piedmont red clay below a thin sandy loam topsoil. For a floor slab, Georgia's residential code says the topsoil and plants come out first. The code also wants any fill compacted, so the slab has even support.
NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals for the Athens airport put the average July high at 92 degrees. Heat makes concrete set faster, so the finishing has to keep pace. Industry guidance for hot weather says to skip the hottest part of the day when possible.
The same normals count about 46 nights a year at or below freezing. Industry guidance says fresh concrete should be kept from freezing until it reaches at least 500 psi. Dry air hurts too, since concrete cured dry can lose as much as half its potential strength.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 60 miles around Monroe across the Athens area and the east and north sides of metro Atlanta.
(770) 743-6706From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (770) 743-6706 and tell us about the job and the town it is in. Photos of the spot help.
We look at the spot and talk through what you want built. If an old driveway or deck has to come out, that goes into the plan.
The quote comes to you in writing, with the work and the price spelled out. Once you say yes, we set a start date.
Anything old comes out first. Then the new concrete, fence, deck or siding goes in, and pour days follow the weather.
We clean up and haul away the debris from the job. Then we look over the finished work with you.
Common questions about concrete slabs around Monroe and the rest of our service area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We pour concrete foundations for detached garages and home additions around Monroe, plus workshops and other accessory buildings. Call or text for a free quote on a monolithic slab or footings with stem walls.
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We pour new concrete patios and extend the patio you already have. Steps down from the back door and pool-side slabs are part of the work too.
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We pour new concrete driveways and replace cracked or sunken ones around Monroe. Driveway extensions and parking pads are part of the work too.
Learn MoreDriveways lead our concrete work, with patios, sidewalks, slabs and foundations close behind. Stamped and colored finishes are part of it too.
The company that pours your patio can build the deck or the fence beside it. We install siding as well, and we haul away the debris.
Every quote spells out the work and the price. You have it in writing before you say yes.
Monroe sits at the center of our service area, and all of it lies inside Georgia. Loganville and Athens are part of it, and so are Marietta and Kennesaw, at the far edge.
Tell us what you want built or replaced, and where. Call or text (770) 743-6706 or use the form to start your free quote.
Tell us about the job and where it is. We look at it and put your free quote in writing.
