Concrete Driveway Baton Rouge, LA

When a driveway cracks, dips or holds a puddle after two winters, the concrete almost never caused it. The dirt did. Nine times out of ten, the failed slabs we get called out to look at around Baton Rouge went down on soft clay with zero base and nobody thinking about where the rain would go.

South Louisiana clay acts like a sponge. Soaks up water and puffs up, dries out and shrinks back down. Throw in 60 plus inches of rain a year plus that Gulf heat, and a slab sitting on nothing is going to move. Those stair step cracks and sagging corners you notice three years in? That's the movement showing itself.

Poured concrete driveways are what we do, with actual subgrade prep, drainage, steel in the right spot and joints cut where they belong. Private jobs get built to Louisiana DOTD grade standards here. Both our asphalt and concrete crews work in house out of 11997 Airline Hwy. Free written estimate, just call or text (225) 464-5378.

Clay around here behaves more like a mattress than a foundation. Lifts one season, settles the next, sometimes both inside the same year. Two driveways poured the exact same way three blocks apart can age nothing alike.

Drive through Mid City, the Garden District or anywhere along the Airline Hwy corridor and you'll find older lots that slope toward the house instead of away from it. That gets checked before we put a number on paper. Every bid we write starts with one question: where does the water go?

• Clay that swells and shrinks depending on how wet it is
• More than 60 inches of rainfall a year
• Gulf heat that yanks moisture out of green concrete in a hurry
• Storm season standing water, plus washout along the edges