La Porte Concrete Company is a concrete contractor based in La Porte, IN, and we pour driveways, patios, garage floors, steps and foundations in Westville, starting with a dug-out, packed base under the slab.
Westville is a short drive from our base in La Porte, and most calls here come from homeowners with a driveway that's settled and cracked, a patio holding water, steps pulling away from the porch or a garage floor that's started chipping. We also hear from property and business owners who need a slab, a footing or a lot poured.
I look hardest at the ground here. Soil around Westville can change a lot over a short distance, so I don't plan your base from the yard next door, and wet ground with a high water table is a poor fit for basements or anything set below grade, which matters when we plan footings and foundations.
We dig out the old driveway and the soft dirt under it, pack a new base and pour a slab thick enough for what you park on it.
Explore serviceWant a patio that drains? We slope it away from the house and cut control joints, grooves that tell cracks where to go.
Explore serviceWe press a stone or brick pattern into the wet surface, and we have to hit it at the right point in the set or the pattern blurs.
Explore serviceA walk from the driveway to the front door needs a packed base so sections don't sink and leave a lip somebody trips on.
Explore serviceWe pour garage floors to carry the weight of parked cars, with a slight fall toward the door so water tracked in runs out instead of sitting.
Explore serviceDecorative concrete covers color, exposed stone and custom edges. We settle the look with you first, then pour it on the same packed base as any slab.
Explore serviceWhen a yard drops off or a driveway cuts into a slope, we pour a wall on a footing with drainage behind it to hold the dirt back.
Explore serviceFor basements, shops and outbuildings, we pour interior floors flat and level, with the base and any steel planned around what the floor will carry.
Explore serviceA pool deck has to grip bare wet feet, so we give it a broom finish, a light dragged texture, and slope water away from the pool.
Explore serviceSteps that pulled away from the porch usually sat on a weak base. We tear them out, form new ones on solid ground and keep each rise even.
Explore serviceA slab foundation carries the whole building, so we pack the subgrade, the ground it sits on, and set rebar, steel that ties it together, before the pour.
Explore serviceFor a new house, addition or garage, we form and pour the footings and walls your plans call for, and what's under them decides how deep we dig.
Explore serviceBusiness and property owners call us for lots that take traffic every day, so we build a heavier base and slab and plan where water leaves the lot.
Explore serviceDecks, porches, additions and garages start with footings, the concrete under the walls or posts, poured down to firm ground so the building above stays put.
Explore serviceIf a slab or foundation has sunk and left cracks or gaps, we find out why first, because lifting it without fixing the cause won't hold.
Explore serviceWe saw through slabs and walls for new doorways, drain lines or a clean edge where old concrete meets new, without cracking what stays.
Explore servicePermits for every construction project in the Town of Westville come from its Building Department, and Town Hall asks you to allow up to 30 days to process permits and contractor registrations, so that wait goes on the calendar before any pour date. Every contractor working in Westville has to register there, which means showing proof of insurance, and you can call Town Hall at (219) 785-2123 to check that whoever you hire has.
We're licensed and fully insured, and before any work starts I check with Town Hall on your address and take care of the permit or registration when the job needs one. Price mostly follows the size and thickness of the slab, how much old concrete and soft dirt we haul out, how much base it takes to reach firm ground and any finish like stamping, while the schedule turns on the permit, the inspections and a good day to pour. I come out, look at the job and write you an estimate with your own figure. We do the same work in South Bend and Chesterton.
Tell us what's going on with your driveway, patio, steps or foundation, or call (219) 258-7141, and we'll get back to you within one business day. I come out myself, look at the slab and the ground around it, and write up the estimate on site. It's free, and there's no obligation to book.
(219) 258-7141Westville requires a permit when work is done on a structure, and the town's Building Department issues permits for all construction projects in the Town of Westville. Whether your job counts is their call, so I check on your address before we start and handle the permit if it needs one.
The property owner is responsible for the permit, though the contractor doing the work can apply, and the permit is issued in the homeowner's name. Applications go to Town Hall in person, by mail or by email, and when your job needs one, we take care of it.
A Westville building permit is valid for one year from the day it's issued. Processing comes first, as covered above, so we line up the pour date once the permit is in hand.
The 2020 Indiana Residential Code applies to all construction on one- and two-family homes and their accessory buildings everywhere in Indiana, and local governments are required to enforce it. Westville can still set its own permit and inspection rules on top of it, so we work to both.
Westville is one of the cities we work in from our base in La Porte. These have their own page, and if your city isn't listed, give us a call and ask.
I answer my own phone at (219) 258-7141, so you'll talk to the person who'll be on your job from the estimate through cleanup.
If you've got a cracked, sinking or puddling slab in Westville, tell us about it and we'll come take a look.
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