Concrete Leveling in New Braunfels, TX
We lift sunken driveways, patios and slabs back to grade by injecting foam or slurry through small ports, then correct the runoff that caused the sinking.
New Braunfels Foundation Repair HQ has leveled sunken concrete across New Braunfels, Texas for over 18 years. When a driveway drops at the apron, a front walk slopes back toward the house, or a garage floor cracks and sinks along one edge, our crew lifts that flatwork back to grade by injecting material through small drilled ports. There is no tear-out and no repour, and in most cases you can drive or walk on the slab soon after it is lifted.
Concrete leveling fixes sunken flatwork: driveways, patios, sidewalks, garage floors, pool decks, and porch slabs. It is not the same job as lifting your house. If the slab your home sits on has moved, that is structural work handled through bringing a settled home back to level with piers, and we tell you plainly which one your problem is when we look at it.
Signs You Need Concrete Leveling
Concrete Leveling on New Braunfels Slabs and Flatwork
Concrete sinks here for the same reasons the region is hard on foundations. Underneath a slab, the soil is meant to stay put and carry the weight evenly. Three things break that in Comal and Guadalupe County.
The first is soil washout. New Braunfels sees heavy Hill Country downpours, and water running along a driveway edge or off a downspout scours the soil out from under the slab. Once there is a void, the concrete has nothing to bear on and it drops.
The second is poor compaction. A lot of flatwork, especially at newer homes, was poured over fill that was never compacted tight. That loose fill keeps settling for years, and the slab follows it down.
The third is expansive clay. The same clay that swells and shrinks under local homes does it under driveways and patios too, heaving a slab up in a wet spell and dropping it in a drought until a corner sits low for good.
Because the cause is in the soil and the water, lifting the slab is only half the work. If a downspout or a bad grade is still feeding water under the concrete, we point it out, and correcting that runoff and grading is often what keeps the slab from sinking again.
Mudjacking vs Polyurethane Foam Leveling
There are two ways to raise a sunken slab, and both work by filling the void underneath through small ports drilled in the concrete.
Traditional mudjacking, also called slab jacking, pumps a cement-based slurry under the slab to float it back up. The material is heavy and the drill holes are larger, around an inch to an inch and a half across. It has been done for decades and costs less per slab, but the slurry adds weight to soil that was already struggling, it can wash out over time, and it takes longer to cure before you can use the slab.
Polyurethane foam leveling injects a two-part foam through smaller holes, roughly the size of a dime. The foam expands, fills the voids, and cures hard in minutes, so a driveway is usually ready to drive on again quickly. It weighs a fraction of what slurry does, so it does not overload weak fill, and it does not wash out when water comes back. It carries a higher material cost, but on New Braunfels soils it is the method we reach for most.
We walk you through which method fits your slab, your soil, and your budget before any holes are drilled.
Our Concrete Leveling Process
Concrete Leveling Cost in New Braunfels
Recent Concrete Leveling Projects
The photo below shows what a concrete leveling job looks like before and after: a driveway panel that had dropped below its neighbor, lifted back flush through a handful of dime-sized ports. This is an illustration of the work rather than a specific customer's job.
Across New Braunfels and the Hill Country we lift driveways at the street apron, patios that had begun draining back toward the house, garage floors sunk at the door, and pool decks lifted at the coping. The common thread is always the same: find the void and the water, raise the slab, and stop the runoff that caused it. Where a slab is broken into pieces or the soil below has failed too far to hold a lift, we say so, because leveling only makes sense when there is sound concrete left to raise.
Call (325) 880-1512Why Choose New Braunfels Foundation Repair HQ
We handle both concrete leveling and the structural repairs behind it, so if your assessment shows the problem is the house and not just the flatwork, the same crew you already called can take care of it. You can reach our New Braunfels foundation team for either one.