Asheville's freeze-thaw winters and steep mountain lots are hard on concrete. We lift your sunken driveway, patio, or slab back to level with foam injection — usually the same day.
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Up here, concrete settles for reasons the lower markets don't see as much — winters that freeze and thaw the ground all season, and hillside lots where the fill under a slab was never as solid as the cut beside it. We lift it back. Below are the eight services we run across Asheville. All of it is concrete leveling and repair work. All of it is concrete leveling and repair work. The concrete stays where it is and comes back to grade. Foundation drainage gets checked on the same visit, because a wet foundation undoes the leveling.
When a slab settles, you don't have to rip it out and start over. We thread foam in through a few small holes; it expands under the concrete, takes up the hollow the soil left, and floats the slab back to level. Holes patched, you're back on it the same afternoon. The repair is done in one visit, and the home is usable the same day. The repair is done in one visit, and the home is usable the same day. Concrete leveling does not need a cure window, so the concrete is ready immediately and the home is back to normal.
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A mountain driveway that's settled into a dip or dropped where it meets the garage is usually sitting on fill that gave way — common on the cut-and-fill lots around Town Mountain and the steeper streets. We lift the low section, fill the void underneath, and you're driving on it the same day. Driveway concrete leveling is the job we run most. Driveway concrete leveling is the job we run most, and the concrete is drivable the same afternoon.
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When one slab heaves up past the next — and a freeze-thaw winter is good at doing exactly that — you've got a toe-catcher. We raise the low slab to meet the high one, level the run, and patch the small holes. No jackhammer, no new pour. Sidewalk repair takes one crew and one morning. Sidewalk repair takes one crew and one morning. The concrete ends up flush at the seam, so the trip hazard is gone for good and the concrete sits level with its neighbour.
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A patio that's tilted back toward the house sends snowmelt and rain at the foundation instead of away from it. We lift the sunken edge, put the slope back, and the water drains where it should. Uneven concrete near the foundation is worth catching early. Uneven concrete near the foundation is worth catching early, before water reaches the foundation itself.
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Runoff and splash-out wash the soil from under a pool deck, and on a sloped lot it goes fast. We lift pool decks with foam — light enough to raise the slab without leaning on the pool shell — and reset the drainage pitch the right way.
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A garage slab that's dropped toward the back — often the downhill, fill side of the pad — pulls water and oil toward the wall. We raise the low spots, fill the void under the floor, and you can park on it that day. Garage concrete lifting holds just as long. Garage concrete lifting holds just as long, and the concrete carries a vehicle the same day.
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Any settled slab — a porch, a stoop, a shed floor, an AC pad, a basement floor — comes back the same way: foam pumped underneath until it's level and fully supported. If a slab on your property has dropped, it's usually liftable. That covers every concrete surface at the home. That covers every concrete surface at the home, inside and out, and the foundation perimeter too, where most concrete problems begin. Foundation soil moves first, the concrete follows. Fixing the runoff protects the concrete underneath. Concrete leveling holds when the water is handled, and the repair lasts for years rather than seasons. Concrete that sits on solid fill does not drop again.
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Cold, water, and shifting fill open cracks as a slab moves. After a lift we fill them with a flexible sealant that moves with the slab and keeps water from getting back underneath and washing — or freezing — the soil out all over again.
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Point us at the slab that's bothering you and we'll be out to size it up — measuring how far it's dropped, getting under it to see what's going on, and pinning down whether the cold, the fill, or the runoff is behind it. The repair addresses the cause, not just the surface. The repair addresses the cause, not just the surface. Concrete that is properly supported stays level. Leveling without filling the void underneath is not a repair, it is a delay.
Before a single hole gets drilled, you'll know what's wrong, what the lift involves, and what it costs — in writing. And if the slab's past saving, we'll say so up front rather than take the job anyway.
Through a handful of dime-sized holes, we work foam in underneath in stages, watching the slab come up until it sits level again and the hollow beneath it is packed solid. Leveling and concrete lifting describe the same process. Leveling and concrete lifting describe the same process, and the concrete is never removed.
We fill the holes, tidy the site, and hand it back ready to use — no days of caution tape while concrete cures. Walk on it, park on it, that afternoon.
Most of our Asheville jobs run a few hours, start to finish. Somebody answers the phone seven days a week and we usually get out to look within a day — and on a mountain lot where the problem's only getting worse each freeze, you don't want to sit on it.
The price is written down before we start, and that's the price — no "starts at" teaser, no surprise add-on unless you change the scope. If we get under the slab and find something different, we stop and show you before we touch it. The written price covers the concrete repair in full. The written price covers the repair in full, with no second visit to pay for. The concrete work and the cleanup are both included, and the home is left clean. Every concrete surface gets swept before we go, and the home looks untouched. The concrete is the only thing that changed. Leveling is a quiet job.
Foam injection is light, sets in about fifteen minutes, and holds for years — you're back on the slab the same day instead of waiting on a fresh pour. And if a slab isn't worth lifting, we'll tell you straight instead of talking you into it.
Real jobs we've done. Same slab, lifted back to grade.
The questions we get most often during free assessments around the city.
Whatever it is, it's a fraction of tearing the slab out and pouring a new one. The figure depends on a few things — how big the slab is, how far it's sunk, and how much foam it takes to fill the gap underneath. A lone sidewalk square or a sunken step is on the low end; a whole driveway or pool deck climbs from there. We won't quote you blind over the phone — you get the exact price in writing once we've seen it.
Three things, mostly, and they're a little different up here than down the mountain. First, the cold: water gets into the soil under your slab, freezes, expands, and shoves the ground around — then it thaws, and the empty space it leaves lets the slab drop. That runs all winter at this elevation. Second, the lots: a lot of Asheville homes sit on a hillside pad that was cut into the slope on one side and filled on the other, and if that fill wasn't packed down tight, the slab on top settles. Third, the water: steep yards send runoff straight under driveways and decks and wash the soil out. We figure out which one's behind your slab before we fix it.
It's a clean process. A grid of small holes goes into the slab, and we inject polyurethane foam through them. As the foam expands it presses into every gap the missing soil left, and that steady pressure raises the slab — we control the rate so it comes up evenly, not all at once. A few minutes later it's set firm, the holes get patched, and that's it.
The lift is permanent as long as the soil underneath stays put; the foam itself holds for years and doesn't wash out or break down in the cold. What ends a lift early is water or another freeze working the soil out again — so where drainage or a bad fill is the real culprit, we'll point it out so it doesn't come back.
Usually not. Insurers treat settling from soil movement, washout, and freeze-thaw as wear-and-tear, not sudden damage — and that's nearly always what's behind a sunken slab. A sudden covered event, like a plumbing line letting go under the slab, is the exception. Check your policy, but plan on out of pocket; it's still a fraction of replacement. A repair beats replacing on price every time. A repair beats replacing on price every time, because the existing concrete is reused rather than hauled away. Leveling costs a fraction of a new pour, and the concrete keeps its original finish. Replacement changes the colour, leveling does not.
It comes down to the shape the concrete's in. If the slab itself is still solid and has only dropped, lifting it is the obvious move — far cheaper than a tear-out, and done in a day. It's only when the concrete is cracked to pieces or crumbling that replacement is the smarter spend. We'll look at yours and give you an honest call on which it is — we're not going to push a lift on a slab that's done.
Rapid Concrete Leveling levels concrete across Asheville — Montford, Grove Park, Kenilworth, Beaverdam, Haw Creek, North Asheville, and Town Mountain included. Every home there gets the same concrete repair work. Every home there gets the same repair work and the same crew. The concrete is treated the same everywhere.
We service the whole Asheville metro.