Concrete contractor in Leesburg, AL

Cherokee Rock Village and the ground around Leesburg

Cherokee Rock Village, a run of rock outcrops popular with climbers, sits five miles north of Leesburg. If you hit rock closer to the surface on your own lot, say so: it changes how we dig and set the footings.

Once we're there, the work is the same as any Leesburg job: driveways, patios, flatwork and foundations for whatever the lot needs.

Getting to a Leesburg job site

Highway 411 runs east to west through Leesburg, and Highway 68 heads north out of town toward the rock village. Between the two, most job sites here are a short trip off one or the other, with a dirt or gravel road usually finishing the last stretch.

Foundations and footings on a Leesburg lot

Home foundations for a new house get built to that house's own blueprint. Garage and shop foundations for a detached building follow a separate set of drawings, tailored to whatever's going up on the lot.

Before anything gets poured, a metal building foundation here gets squared, forms and all, to whatever drawings came with the carport or steel building. A barn, an addition or a shed usually needs footings instead of a full foundation, sized to whatever they carry.

What does a new driveway in Leesburg involve?

Some driveways here are a full new pour where gravel or dirt used to be. Others are an existing drive widened out, or a parking pad added to the side for a second vehicle. How thick the slab needs to be depends on what regularly parks on it, not on how long the driveway runs. Either way, the process starts with grading and a compacted base, then forms set before the pour goes in.

A patio that fits the house, and a landing at the back steps

A concrete patio can stay plain with a broom finish, or take on a pattern as stamped concrete. Which one fits usually comes down to the house it sits behind.

Slabs and flatwork cover what's smaller: a landing at the back steps, a short walkway, a pad for a propane tank. Small pours get the same base prep as a driveway.

Weiss Lake and the dam that shaped it

Leesburg sits less than a mile from Weiss Lake in places. A lot that low can need extra fill or a raised slab, so mention that when you reach out.

Weiss Dam itself sits just outside town. It was the first dam built in a run of Alabama Power projects that reshaped the Coosa River through the late 1950s and 1960s.

Between the rock village to the north and the lake to the south, Leesburg sits with two very different kinds of ground on either side of it. Centre, Cedar Bluff and Gaylesville fill out the rest of Cherokee County from here, and Gadsden, a bit further on, is easy enough to reach too.