Replacing a worn, cracked floor or adding a room? We pour a level slab set up for the tile, wood or carpet you'll lay.
Concrete floor installation in Balch Springs means pouring a slab over a dug-out, packed base, with moisture protection underneath that suits the tile, wood or carpet you'll lay, so your flooring has a firm, flat surface to sit on.
Most folks call us when they're adding a room, finishing out a space or replacing a floor that's cracked, sunk or gone uneven. The price comes down mostly to the size of the room, how much digging and fill the base needs, whether an old floor has to be broken out first and how easy it is to get concrete to the spot.
The schedule turns on the permit and inspection, the weather on pour day and the wait before your flooring can go down. Some of that I can't know until I've seen the ground, and I'll say so plainly, because your own figure comes from the estimate, where I measure the job and write down what the price covers.
From the first visit to the last bag of trash hauled off, here's who you'll deal with at each step.
I come out for every estimate myself and look the site over with you, checking the ground, the access and anything that has to come out first. I started this business in Balch Springs in 2023 after learning concrete beside my dad, and I'd rather tell you what I don't know yet than guess.
Once you say yes, we check with the city or county office on what your job needs, file the permit when it needs one and book the inspections. The pour date gets tied to those inspections, so concrete doesn't go in ahead of them.
I'm on the job with our crew from setting the forms through the pour and the cleanup, and I check the forms twice before a truck gets called. We're licensed and insured.
The first thing I ask is what's going on top, because tile, wood or carpet changes how we protect the slab from moisture coming up through it, and that protection goes in before any concrete does. From there we dig out and pack the base, set the forms, place the steel, pour and finish the surface smooth for your flooring instead of giving it a broom finish, the rough texture for grip we'd put on a walk outside. If the budget gets tight, I'll steer you to save somewhere other than the base, because it's buried on day one and it's the part that decides whether the floor stays flat.
A new floor often comes with work outside the room, like concrete steps construction at a new door or landing. If the backyard is next on your list, we also pour concrete pool decks, and it's usually easier to plan both together.
Most floor trouble starts under the concrete or in the first hours after the pour, so that's where we spend our care.
We dig past the loose dirt and pack the subgrade, the soil and base the slab rests on, because a base that's only raked level settles with the dirt and takes the floor with it. We also look at where water runs outside so it isn't headed under the new floor.
We set the forms square and measure them again before anything else goes in. Then we lay the moisture protection your flooring calls for and set the rebar, the steel bars inside the slab, up off the ground where it can do its work.
We plan the pour away from the worst of the afternoon heat when we can, because concrete that sets too fast in the sun can leave a weak, dusty top. Once it's firm enough we cut control joints, straight grooves that give shrinkage cracks a planned place to form, and the right moment for those cuts depends on the temperature and the mix that day.
Curing is the stretch after the pour when the concrete is kept from drying too fast so it gains strength, and we'll tell you when the slab is ready for foot traffic. Then we strip the forms, haul off what's left and walk the finished floor with you.
Tell us about the room and the flooring you're planning, and we'll reply within one business day. Then I come out to measure and look the site over with you, and the estimate is free, done in person and comes with no obligation.
(214) 286-6733A new concrete slab in the Dallas area usually costs about $4 to $11 per square foot, and that's the going rate around Dallas, not a quote from us. The range is wide because so much of the cost sits under the slab, which is the part I look at closest when I measure for your estimate.
A few fine cracks are likely, because even with good design and careful work, a floor with no cracks or curling at all isn't realistic on any job, and curling just means the edges lift a little. Steel won't stop cracks, but when it's sized and placed right it keeps the ones that form tightly closed, and the joints we cut give them a planned place to go. Your satisfaction, guaranteed.
Not right away, because the moisture from construction and the moisture left inside a new slab take a long time to dry out. The slab should be cured and left to dry before it's tested for moisture, since vapor still coming up through it can break down flooring adhesive and leave tile or wood lifting, warping or discolored, which can turn into a trip hazard. Build that wait into your plans instead of booking your flooring installer right behind us.
The City of Balch Springs issues a building permit for most kinds of construction and a separate driveway and flatwork permit for flatwork, so expect your floor to fall under one of them. We confirm which one with the city before the job starts and handle the filing and inspections as part of the work.
Balch Springs is in the Blackland Prairie, a region running from north of Dallas down to San Antonio where the clay soils shrink and swell a lot as their moisture changes. That's a trait of the region, not a reading of your lot, but it's one more reason we pack the base instead of raking it smooth, because a floor needs even support from end to end. We're based in Balch Springs and do the same work across the cities around it, including Mesquite, Garland, Forney and Lancaster.
The city requires every contractor to be registered with it, so ask any contractor you're weighing about that, us included. If your job needs the driveway and flatwork permit, the city's permit requirements call for a site map showing the work, so a simple drawing of the room and where it sits on the lot helps, and if you're in an HOA, have their approval letter ready when it's needed.
Call (214) 286-6733 any day from 7 AM to 11 PM or email support@balchspringsconcrete.com, and have the room size and your flooring choice handy so the first visit can go straight to measuring.
If you haven't settled on tile, wood or carpet yet, call anyway and we'll talk through what each one means for the slab.
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