Slab Repair in Shreveport

The vast majority of Shreveport and Bossier City homes are slab-on-grade: one concrete pad poured directly on red clay, with your plumbing buried underneath it. When that clay moves, the slab cracks, tilts, or pulls away from the soil — and we lift and stabilize it with methods sized to the problem.

How Shreveport Slabs Are Built — and Why They Move

From the 1950s through the 1980s, builders across Broadmoor, Spring Lake, Cedar Grove, and post-war Bossier City threw up thousands of ranch homes the same way: scrape the lot, pour a perimeter footing, lay a slab, frame the house. No basement — the slab is the ground floor. Some newer subdivisions (and many 1980s–90s builds) use post-tension slabs with tensioned cables that let the slab flex as a single unit. Post-tensioning changes crack patterns and drilling procedures, and we check for it before any pier work.

The enemy is the same in every decade: expansive red clay. It shrinks in our hot, dry summers and swells in wet Gulf-season weather, and the slab edges bear the brunt. Corners lose support and drop; center sections can heave when saturated. Plumbing lines under the slab crack from the stress too — a burst line then washes soil out from underneath, and a slow-motion sinkhole forms under your floor. The February 2021 freeze produced a wave of exactly this across the metro: burst pipes, sudden saturation, then weeks of drying shrinkage that exposed settlement that had been hidden for years.

Slab Repair Methods We Use

Pressed Steel Piers (Structural Stabilization)

For a settling foundation, this is the fix. Galvanized steel piers are driven through the active clay to stable bearing depth, then the slab is lifted — typically in one monitored operation — and locked off. Piers are placed at measured low points along exterior walls and, where needed, at interior beam lines via small access holes through the slab. We favor steel over concrete pilings in our soil because steel sections reach deeper, install faster, and can be load-tested every section.

Void Filling

When the slab is sound but the soil has pulled away, pumping flowable grout under the slab restores support and prevents future cracking. Often combined with piers at the perimeter so the fixed edge stays fixed.

Mudjacking for Flatwork

Driveways, sidewalks, and patio slabs are lifted by injecting cement grout through drilled holes. It’s the economical choice for non-structural concrete — and we’ll tell you honestly when that’s all you need.

Signs Your Slab Needs Attention

• Stair-step cracks in brick, especially at corners and window openings
• Diagonal drywall cracks above door and window corners
• Doors that stick or swing on their own; latching problems
• Floors that slope — a marble rolling one way is a measurement, not a party trick
• Separated garage slab, or a visible gap where the slab meets the brick ledge
• Slab leaks: warm spots on the floor, hissing under concrete, unexplained water bills

Slab Repair Pricing in Shreveport

The inspection is free and includes elevation measurements, so the quote is based on where your slab actually is — not where a salesperson hopes you’ll sign.