Garage floor concrete in Junction City KS - a floor that drains toward the door

Most people call when the floor has cracked across, sunk near the door or flaked off in patches after a few winters, and water sits where it shouldn't. The price turns on the size of the garage, whether the old slab has to come out and whether you want it reinforced. The schedule turns on the weather, because temperature, wind and humidity change how fast concrete cures, and on how long you can keep the car out. I measure and walk the site with you, then send a written estimate, so you get your own figure instead of a guess. If the driveway outside is in the same shape, we build concrete driveways too.

I start by walking the garage with you and checking where water runs now, because a floor that falls toward the back wall leaves puddles where you store things. If there's an old slab, we break it out and haul it off. Then we dig down to the subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, and pack it firm, since a base that's only raked level settles and takes the floor down with it. You'll never see that part once it's poured, and it's the first thing people want to cut from the budget. I'd rather spend your money there than on the surface, because a nice finish on a soft base cracks anyway. We set the forms so the floor falls toward the door. We pour early in the day so midday heat doesn't leave a weak, dusty top, and we trowel the surface smooth. Before the pour, you and I decide where the control joints go. Those are shallow saw cuts that give shrinkage cracks a planned place to happen, and we cut them on time. Then the slab cures, which is the wait while it hardens and gains strength. I'll tell you when it's ready for foot traffic and when it's ready for the car. I also go over the first winter with you, since salt dripping off the car is hard on a new floor.

A garage floor often comes with other work around it. If you'd like color or a pattern on the apron or the walk to the side door, our decorative concrete work can tie it to the new slab. If the ground beside the driveway keeps washing toward the garage, concrete retaining walls can hold it back so dirt and runoff stay off your new floor.

The city's building and code enforcement office handles permits for construction that needs one. Its list names building a garage but not pouring a garage floor, so the list alone doesn't tell you whether your job needs a permit. I check with the city on every job before we start. When a permit's needed, we pull it first and call in the inspections as the work reaches them. That order matters here, because the city charges double the permit fee, up to $500, when a permit is taken out after a project has started. The same office handles contractor licensing, and anyone doing contracting work in Junction City or Geary County has to get a license from the city. If your house is in Geary County outside city limits, we'll work out on the call which office to check with.

On garage jobs around Junction City, we mostly see older floors that have settled at the door, cracked where no joint was cut or flaked on top from years of road salt. We see the same floors on jobs in Manhattan and Abilene, and we work in other cities around Junction City too.