Your concrete is uneven. The useful question is why - and what it actually needs.
Most sunken concrete is not failed concrete. It is sound slab sitting on soil that moved. Slabstead explains what is happening under your driveway, walkway, patio, or steps, helps you judge whether lifting or replacement makes more sense, and - in the areas we cover - connects you with an independent local contractor who inspects it in person.
- ✓ Free for homeowners, with no obligation
- ✓ Plain explanations before anyone asks you for a decision
- ✓ We are not a contractor - we connect you with independent local ones
What settling concrete looks like
Slabs move because the ground under them changes: soil that swells and shrinks with moisture, fill that is still compacting years after construction, freeze-thaw cycling, and water that washes fines out from under slab edges. The concrete is usually the innocent party.
A slab that dropped
A driveway panel, walkway section, or patio sitting visibly lower than it started - usually because the soil beneath it moved, not because the concrete failed.
A lip at a joint
One section standing proud of its neighbor. Small offsets are the most common trip hazard on a residential property, and among the cheapest things to correct.
Water going the wrong way
A slab that has tilted back toward the house now sends every storm at your foundation. That is a drainage problem wearing a cosmetic disguise.
A hollow sound underfoot
A drum-like sound when you walk or drive across a slab means there is space beneath it. The void comes first; the settlement follows.
A visible gap under an edge
Daylight under a step, stoop, or slab edge is soil that has washed out or compacted away. Left alone, water keeps widening it.
Steps that changed height
A stoop pulling away from the door, or risers that are no longer even, is settlement announcing itself in the place you are most likely to trip.
Lift it, replace it, or call somebody else entirely
This is the question worth getting right, because the three answers differ by thousands of dollars and by which trade you should be calling. Here is how to think about it before anyone quotes you.
How Concrete Leveling Works
What slab lifting actually is, why concrete settles, and what a leveling visit looks like from the first drilled hole to the patched surface.
Read more →Mudjacking vs. Polyurethane Foam Lifting
A fair comparison of the two lifting methods, including where each genuinely wins and why the recommendation you get may reflect what the company runs.
Read more →Concrete Leveling vs. Replacement
How to tell whether your slab should be lifted, torn out and re-poured, or handed to a different trade entirely.
Read more →Wondering what any of it costs? What actually drives a concrete-leveling price.
Start with the slab in front of you
Driveway Leveling
The apron dropped away from the garage, the panels stair-step at every joint, and a tire thumps off a lip each time you pull in.
Read more →Sidewalk & Walkway Leveling
One panel heaved, the next one settled, and now there is a hard vertical edge right in the middle of the path everyone uses.
Read more →Patio Leveling
A patio that has tipped back toward the house quietly turns every rainstorm into water delivered straight to the foundation.
Read more →Pool Deck Leveling
Thin deck slabs poured over backfilled excavation, and a bare foot finds every new edge the moment it shows up.
Read more →Garage Floor Leveling
The floor has pulled down away from the foundation wall, leaving a step at the perimeter and a crack running across the bays.
Read more →Concrete Steps & Stoop Leveling
One riser taller than the rest at the front door is the kind of small change nobody notices until somebody falls.
Read more →What happens when you send us a project
You describe the slab
A couple of minutes: where the property is, which concrete is misbehaving, and what you have noticed. No account, no fee.
We review it honestly
We check that it is genuinely a leveling question and that we have coverage where you are. Foundation and structural descriptions get flagged for a person to look at rather than routed as leveling work.
A local contractor takes it from there
Where we have coverage, an independent local concrete-leveling contractor contacts you to inspect the site and quote the real job. They set scope, method, price, and warranty - not us.
More about how Slabstead works · What we check before a contractor receives requests
Where we can currently match you
We would rather cover a few metros properly than claim national coverage we cannot honor. Right now that means 3 metros:
Kansas City metropolitan area
Slabstead currently matches homeowners across the Kansas City metro with independent local concrete-leveling contractors. We do not perform concrete work, we do not employ crews, and we are not a party to any agreement you sign. Coverage depends on which contractors have capacity in your part of the metro at the time your request comes in, so submitting a request does not guarantee that a contractor will be available for your project or your timeline. If we cannot match you, or if what you describe is not a leveling job, we will tell you that instead of passing your information along anyway.
All Kansas City-area coverage →St. Louis metropolitan area
The St. Louis metro is a newly opened Slabstead market, and we are honest about what that means today: our independent contractor coverage here is still being established, so no request from this metro is handed off automatically. Every St. Louis-area request is read by a person, kept with its market and city attribution intact, and answered with a straight yes or no about whether we can match you yet. We do not perform concrete work, we do not employ crews, and we are not a party to any agreement you sign. Submitting a request does not guarantee that a contractor will be available for your project or your timeline, and if what you describe is not a leveling job, we will tell you that instead of passing your information along anyway.
All St. Louis-area coverage →Indianapolis metropolitan area
The Indianapolis metro is a newly opened Slabstead market, and we are honest about what that means today: our independent contractor coverage here is still being established, so no request from this metro is handed off automatically. Every Indianapolis-area request is read by a person, kept with its market and city attribution intact, and answered with a straight yes or no about whether we can match you yet. We do not perform concrete work, we do not employ crews, and we are not a party to any agreement you sign. Submitting a request does not guarantee that a contractor will be available for your project or your timeline, and if what you describe is not a leveling job, we will tell you that instead of passing your information along anyway.
All Indianapolis-area coverage →Everywhere else
We are adding metros deliberately, one at a time, and only where we have real contractor coverage. We do not list markets before they are live.
If your property is outside the areas above you can still send us the project. A person will read it and tell you honestly whether we can help - we will not quietly hand it to somebody three states away.
Send us your project →Who we are: Slabstead is a free homeowner information and contractor-matching service. We are not a concrete contractor and we do not perform, supervise, or warrant repair work. We help you understand what is happening to your concrete and connect you with an independent local contractor who inspects the site in person. That contractor determines the scope, method, price, warranty, and availability of any work. Submitting a request does not guarantee that a contractor is available, and you are never charged by Slabstead for requesting help.
Not sure whether your concrete should be lifted or replaced?
Tell us what you are seeing. We will review your project and, where we have contractor coverage, connect you with an independent local concrete-leveling contractor who can inspect it in person. Free for homeowners, with no obligation.
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