Concrete floor installation in Moses Lake WA - a floor that holds up to everyday wear

Most people who call about a floor have a shop, an outbuilding or a room where the old slab is cracked or dusty, or where there's no slab at all yet, and they want to know two things: what it'll cost and how long the space is out of use. The price moves with the floor's size and thickness, how much digging out and base work it needs, whether there's old concrete to tear out, and extras like a moisture barrier or insulation for a heated floor. The schedule turns on any permit, the prep work and the cure time before you load the floor up, and you get your own figure in a written estimate after I see the site. If it's the garage you're redoing, our garage floor concrete page covers that job.

We start by digging out to firm ground and packing the subgrade, the dirt and gravel the slab sits on, because a base that's only raked level settles later and takes the floor down with it. Then we set forms, lay any moisture barrier and rebar, which is the steel that helps hold the slab together, and time the pour so we aren't finishing in the midday heat. Finishing, joint cuts and curing each have their moment on a floor, so I plan the whole pour around that timing. We trowel the top when it's ready for it, cut control joints, which are shallow lines that give the slab a place to crack where we chose, and then cure it, which means holding moisture in long enough for the concrete to gain its strength. If you plan to put flooring or a coating on top, tell us early so we can talk about the moisture barrier below the slab. The base is the part nobody sees on day one, and it's the first thing people want to cut from a budget. I won't cut it, because a nice finish on a bad base is still a bad floor.

A floor is often one piece of a bigger project. If the new slab steps down from a door, we can form and pour concrete steps on the same job so you're not stepping onto a stack of blocks. If a pool area is part of the plan, our concrete pool decks start with the same base work and get a finish that's made for wet bare feet.

Before I price a floor in Moses Lake, I check with the city or county office that covers your property. The City of Moses Lake requires a permit before any grading and clearing on a property, and its online portal takes building permit applications for new construction, remodels, additions and ADUs. Whether your floor needs a permit depends on what the project includes, and that's the city's decision. When a permit is needed, we handle the application or help you with yours, and we build to what the office decides. Grant County's design criteria also put the frost line at 18 inches, and that's the depth we work from for any footing that ties into the floor.

If you want a heated floor, state rules require at least R-10 insulation between the soil and the entire area of a heated slab that sits on the ground, so budget for insulation under the whole floor and not just the edges. We pour floors for shops, garages and outbuildings around Moses Lake, and we do the same work on jobs in Ephrata, Othello and other cities around the area.