Concrete Foundations in Evergreen Park, Built to Your Plans

A foundation is hidden once the addition or garage is built, which is exactly why it deserves careful work. Every wall, floor and roof line above it inherits its accuracy. If a footing sits too shallow, frost can push it up in a hard winter. Should a wall end up out of square, the carpenters must improvise, and doors and windows may never sit quite right. So what goes into doing it well? It begins with your drawings. We confirm the footprint, footing width and depth, wall height and any openings or embedded hardware, and we raise questions before excavation rather than after. Next, the corners are staked and squared with string lines. Trenches are dug below the frost line and down to undisturbed soil that can carry the load. Footing forms are built to the specified size, and rebar is placed and tied at the spacing shown. If your village requires an inspection before concrete, the forms and steel are left open and ready. Walls are then formed, braced and checked for plumb, with anchor bolts set where the framer will need them. Where a garage or porch rests on a slab, we compact its base well and deepen the concrete beneath posts and edges. After the pour and cure, forms are stripped, dimensions are rechecked and the site is backfilled and cleaned.