Concrete steps construction in Beaumont TX - steady steps up to your front door

Most calls start with steps that have sunk, cracked or opened a gap at the house wall, and the real question is whether to patch them or start over. The price turns on how many steps you need, poured or precast, how big the landing is and whether old concrete has to come out first, and the schedule turns on the weather, the curing time and what the city asks for. If the gap turns out to be the house moving and not the steps, that's a job for foundation raising first. We're based in Beaumont and work in the cities around it, and the written estimate you get after I've walked the job puts your own number on all of it.

I start by going over poured and precast with you and what each one gets you, then we break out the old steps and haul them off. We dig past the soft dirt and pack the subgrade, the ground the steps sit on, and set the treads so water runs away from your door instead of toward it. Poured steps get forms and rebar, the steel inside that holds the concrete together if it cracks, and every set gets an isolation joint, a soft break where the steps meet the house, because steps poured tight to the wall pass their settling into the house slab and crack both. We pour early, before the midday heat bakes a weak, dusty top into the treads, and give them a broom finish, a light texture so wet shoes don't slide. If the budget gets tight, I'd rather you skip the fancy finish than skimp on the base, because nobody sees the base on day one and you live with it for years.

Steps often come at the end of bigger work. On a new house we can handle the slab foundation building and the foundation installation too, and set the step heights to the finished floor while the forms are still going up.

The City of Beaumont's Building Codes office issues permits for construction and demolition projects, reviews site plans before a building permit goes out and inspects work while it's underway. Whether a new set of steps at your address needs a permit isn't something I'll guess at, and the city's office is the place that settles it. The city also keeps a list of residential work that doesn't need a permit on its permit resources page, and it's worth reading through with us before the job. We look up what the city or the county office for your address asks for, tell you what we found, and handle the paperwork and inspection bookings when the permit is ours to hold.

A lot of ground around here sits on what soil maps call the Beaumont series, a deep clay that drains very slowly and opens wide cracks that run deep when it dries out. Not every lot is on it, so I look at yours instead of assuming. Where it is, the dug-out base and the break at the house wall do more of the work, because clay that shrinks and cracks in a dry spell moves the steps on their own schedule. We build steps the same way on jobs in Nederland and Port Neches.