Slab foundation building in Concord NC - a firm, dry base for the house you build

A monolithic slab is poured as one piece, while a stem wall slab gets its footings or short walls first and the slab poured on top or inside them. The stem wall helps carry the outside walls and keeps frost from heaving the slab, and a monolithic slab gets a thicker outer edge for the same reason.

A new slab foundation in the Charlotte metro area usually costs about $5 to $11 per square foot installed, and that's the area's going rate, not a quote. Your number depends on the size, the design and how much site work the lot needs. Our written estimate lists what's included and what isn't, so you can compare bids.

Cabarrus County's Construction Standards Division handles building permits across the county, and in Concord your application gets city zoning review and county building review together. When your slab needs a permit, we handle the application and the scheduling with them. If you'd rather check with them yourself, we'll point you to the right office.

State guidance says the soil under and around a slab must be treated for termites after the fill goes in and before the concrete is poured. If a slab ever gets poured without it, a release form tells the owner which areas went untreated, and only the owner should sign it.

Concrete usually cracks somewhere, so we cut control joints, straight seams that give it a place to crack, so the cracks usually follow lines we chose. Joints guide cracks rather than stop them, so ask us where they'll run on your slab. Gaps where a slab shrinks away from the wall can also let termites reach the wood above.

Under North Carolina law, a general contractor has to be licensed through the NC Licensing Board for General Contractors when the total project cost is $40,000 or more. That's the cost of the whole project, not just the slab, so ask whoever is running your build whose license covers it.