La Porte Concrete Company is a concrete contractor working in Portage, IN. We build driveways, patios, walks, garage floors, steps and foundations for homes and businesses here, and I run the crew myself.
Portage is mostly single-family streets, older ranch houses mixed with newer subdivision homes, with commercial lots along the main roads. Most calls I get here are homeowners with a driveway that's cracked, sunk at the garage or holding water, or a patio that's tipped back toward the house. It's a short drive from us in La Porte, on the same route as the jobs we run in Porter and Chesterton.
A lot of the ground here is sandy, so it drains well but shifts and settles when it's only raked flat. Older driveways were often poured on whatever dirt was there, so when we replace one we usually dig past the old base and pack new stone in layers before any concrete shows up.
We dig out the old driveway, pack a stone base and pour a slab with a broom finish, a brushed texture that gives tires grip on icy mornings.
Explore serviceIf you want a backyard patio, we set it to fall away from the house so rain runs into the yard, not toward your foundation.
Explore serviceWe press patterned mats into the concrete while it's still soft so it reads as stone or brick. Pattern and color get settled before pour day.
Explore serviceA front walk that heaves usually sat on a thin base. We pour new walks on packed stone with control joints, grooves that give cracks a planned line.
Explore serviceGarage floors carry the car and the winter salt that drips off it, so we pack the base tight and set rebar, steel that holds cracks tight.
Explore serviceDecorative concrete covers colored, exposed-stone and stained finishes for walks, patios and entries. We'll show you samples and talk about which ones hold up to salt and frost.
Explore serviceWhen a yard drops off or a slope keeps washing out, a poured wall holds it back. Drainage behind it matters as much as the concrete.
Explore serviceWe pour interior floors for basements, shops and additions, set level so walls, cabinets and flooring go down true on top of them.
Explore serviceA pool deck gets wet feet and splashed water, so we give it a textured finish for grip and slope it toward drains, away from the pool.
Explore serviceIf your front steps have pulled away from the house or chipped at the edges, we tear them out and rebuild on footings with even rises.
Explore serviceA slab foundation for a garage, addition or new house starts with the subgrade, the ground the concrete sits on, dug and compacted before forms go up.
Explore serviceWe form and pour foundation walls and footings for additions, garages and new homes, set below the frost line to keep winter from lifting them.
Explore serviceBusiness owners call us for parking lots and drive lanes that take truck traffic. Thickness, steel and drainage get planned around what drives on it.
Explore serviceFootings are the concrete pads under posts, decks, porches and walls. We dig them to the depth your plans call for and pour them level.
Explore serviceWhen a slab or foundation has dropped at one corner, I look for the cause first, usually water or soft fill, then we lift and support it.
Explore serviceWe saw-cut concrete for new doorways, drain lines, patching and clean edges where old meets new, with water on the blade to keep dust down.
Explore servicePermits in Portage go through the city's Building Department, and a permit is what lets the work start and get inspected, so your start date depends partly on when it comes through. The city also requires contractors and subs working there to be licensed, bonded and insured, so ask anyone you're talking to whether they are. We're licensed and fully insured, and before work starts I check with the city on your address and take care of the permit or registration when the job needs one.
Price comes down to the size of the slab, how much old concrete we haul out, how deep the base has to go, the finish you pick and how close the truck can get. A backyard patio behind a fence can mean pumping the concrete or wheeling it in, and that's more labor. The schedule turns on the permit, the weather and curing, the days a fresh slab needs to harden before it takes feet or tires. We run Portage jobs the same way we do next door in Lake Station, and when I come out and write your estimate, you'll have the price and the plan for your own job.
Tell us what you've got, a cracked driveway, a sunken walk or a new patio, and where it is in Portage. We reply to every call and message within one business day, then I come out myself, look at the ground and the drainage, and write the estimate. It's free and there's no obligation, and if you go ahead, I run the crew on site through the pour and the cleanup. Satisfaction guaranteed.
(219) 258-7141Plan on one, because driveways are on the department's list of projects it issues building permits for. The department's forms page has a guide called "Permits - What, When, and How" if you want to read up. For a patio or walk, ask the department, or I'll check it for your address when I come out.
The city's permit form asks you to allow 5 to 10 business days for processing, and the department calls when the permit is ready to pick up. We set pour day once the permit's in hand and the weather looks right. If you want to ask about a permit yourself, the department's number is 219-762-5425.
Concrete can still crack, but a slab on a dug-out, packed base with joints cut on time usually cracks along the joints, where you won't notice it, instead of across the middle. Most old driveways we tear out failed from the ground up, from a thin base or water getting under the slab, so that's where we spend our time.
We're a concrete contractor in La Porte, IN, and we work across the cities around it, including the ones below. If your city isn't listed, give us a call and ask.
I answer my own phone at (219) 258-7141 seven days a week, so the person you talk to is the one who'll come look at your job and run the pour.
If you've got a driveway, walk or slab in Portage you're wondering about, send us a note and I'll take a look.
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