Hebron Indiana Concrete Demolition Companies for Stoops

Hebron, Indiana sits in southern Porter County. The older houses near the center of town sit on modest lots. We see a short front walk and a small stoop on a lot of them. Those porch slabs went in thin, long before a modern pour. When one rocks under your foot or pulls away from the siding, people start looking for Concrete Demolition Companies in Hebron.

So the call usually starts the same way. The step feels loose. A crack runs from the house out to the front edge. One corner sits lower than the other. After a few winters, the old patch is loose again. Then you tap the slab and it sounds hollow.

Winters here freeze and thaw, and salt from the walk ends up on the stoop. We have seen the surface flake off while the slab under it was already cracked through. Water sits in that crack. When it freezes, the crack opens wider. That’s what we find when we start breaking the concrete.

We have broken out porch slabs that were thin at the edges and already separated from the house. Because the old concrete has settled, new material on top follows the low spot. For example, a cap over a rocking stoop cracks along the same line.

Concrete Demolition Companies in Hebron Break Out the Slab Before the New Pour

Older houses in Hebron often have thin, settled porch and stoop concrete. We have to break it out before a sound pour can go back in. A finished stoop is a solid step at the door, sloped away from the house. We break the old slab into pieces we can lift, and we haul the rubble off the lot. So the next pour sits on a base we can grade and compact.

People have asked us whether a thin overlay would save the step. We do patch work when the slab under it is still a solid mass. But on these older Hebron porch slabs, the concrete is usually too thin for a cap to hold. It’s already broken into pieces. So Concrete Demolition Companies in Hebron get the call once a patch has already failed.

After the breakout, we look at what else ties into that stoop. A service walk often meets the step, and a bad joint there lets water sit against the house. When that walk is tipped or cracked too, we take it out on the same visit. Concrete removal and a tear out and replace cover that walk. We pour the replacement stoop after that demo is done.

How Concrete Demolition Companies in Hebron Take Out a Failed Porch Slab

On a typical stoop we start at the edges and work toward the house. So we keep the hammer away from the siding. The slab comes up in chunks. We watch for porch post anchors and any wire left in the old pour. After the concrete is gone, we grade the base and set the slope away from the door. Then we set forms for the new stoop.

Because these entrances are small, a tear out and replace can fit in a short visit. We’re Cabe’s Concrete, a family owned and operated company, and we’ve been doing this since 2006. So we write the plan out line by line before we start breaking concrete. You hear the thickness we expect to find and where the new step will land.

Residential concrete on a front stoop is small, and the height at the door still has to match the threshold. When the new slab ties into a service walk, we form that joint so water runs away from the door. Concrete Demolition Companies in Hebron handle that breakout and the pour that follows.

A failed stoop shows up first from the street on an older Hebron house. Concrete Demolition Companies in Hebron cover the breakout and the new pour through our concrete demolition and removal services. Tear-outs and finished slabs from jobs like this are in the photo gallery. The Hebron, Indiana concrete contractor page covers the other concrete work we do around town.

Before we pour, we set the new stoop to the door threshold so there’s no trip lip. A broom finish gives the surface grip on wet days. We have already hauled the old concrete off the drive. We include an upper walk when it has failed with the stoop.