Concrete Contractor in Bella Vista, AR - Steady Slabs on Sloped, Wooded Lots

The size, the slope and how much base work your lot needs move the price most, and I'll give you your own number once I've seen the place. A steep driveway takes more digging, more forms and sometimes steps or a short wall beside it, and tearing out old concrete adds to the job. If something has to give, I'd rather you pick a plain broom finish, the brushed texture that keeps shoes and tires from slipping, than cut back on the base, because the base is the one part you can't fix later without tearing it all out.

Bella Vista is in Benton County, and it has its own city government, the City of Bella Vista. We work there and in the other Benton County cities nearby, like Bentonville, Rogers and Centerton, from our base in Springdale.

Arkansas uses one code across the whole state, set by the state fire marshal and made up of the International Fire Code, the International Building Code and the International Residential Code. Those are national model codes, and the state adopts them with its own changes. If you're curious how that bears on your driveway or steps, ask me at the estimate and I'll explain what I'm looking at.

You can look up your address on FEMA's flood hazard map, which holds the current flood hazard data and shows how much flood risk you have and what kind of flooding to expect. It's worth a look before you add a patio or a slab near one of the lakes. I'll still walk your yard to see where the water actually goes on your lot, since that decides how we slope the concrete.

Plan on about a week before you park on it, and usually a day or two before you walk on it. That wait is the curing, when the concrete keeps hardening and builds the strength to carry a car. On a steep Bella Vista driveway, we'll work out where you'll park in the meantime before we ever pour.

Most cracks come from the ground moving under the slab, and on a slope that usually means loose fill settling or water running underneath and washing it out. We dig down to firm ground, pack the base, pitch the slab to shed water and cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the concrete a straight line to crack along instead of a random one. Concrete can still crack some, and I'll tell you that up front, but the cracks should land where we planned them.