Concrete Leveling in Shreveport

The sunken driveway panel, the sidewalk lip your mower jolts over, the pool deck that tilts a lounge chair toward the deep end — on Shreveport's red clay, flatwork moves almost as reliably as the houses do.

Mudjacking or Foam: Two Ways to Lift a Slab

Mudjacking: The Classic Lift

Mudjacking drills one-and-five-eighths-inch holes through the sunken panel and pumps a cement-and-soil slurry underneath. The slurry flows into the voids, pressurizes, and floats the slab back to grade. It's been around for generations, it's the least expensive per square foot, and it works well on big, simple panels like driveway sections and patios. The material is heavy — a cubic foot runs over a hundred pounds — which matters on soil that's already soft.

Foam Injection: The Modern Alternative

Polyurethane foam injection uses smaller, fewer holes and a two-part expanding foam that lifts with controlled force and cures in about fifteen minutes. It's lighter than slurry by an order of magnitude, it won't wash out, and it tolerates moisture — which is why it's our default near pool decks, along shaded north-facing walls where the ground stays wet, and anywhere the clay is already struggling to carry load. You can drive on a foamed driveway by the end of the day; mudjacking wants a couple of days.

We install both. The quote says which one and why.

What We Level Around Here

• Driveways and aprons — the classic Broadmoor and Spring Lake ranch symptom: the driveway sinks an inch or two where it meets the garage slab or the street, sometimes cracking at the corners. Often it's the apron panel only, and the fix is a few hundred dollars, not a new driveway.
• Sidewalks — lifted panels are a trip hazard and a real liability concern for rental properties and anyone with older family visiting. Most sidewalk fixes run under an hour per panel.
• Pool decks — South Highlands and Spring Lake backyards, where a deck panel has dropped away from the coping or tilted toward the water. Foam is usually the right call here: light, moisture-proof, and fast.
• Patios, stoops, and walkways — including the classic Shreveport back-porch slab that shed toward the house for forty years and is now an inch below the door threshold.

When Leveling Works — and When the Slab Needs More

Leveling fixes concrete that has lost support: the soil underneath compacted, washed out, or shrank away, and the panel followed it down. Filling that void and lifting restores the slab. What leveling does not do is carry a structure. If the house slab itself is settling — doors sticking, brick cracking, floors out of level — that's a foundation repair conversation with piers and elevation surveys, not a foam hose. Same for a garage slab that's dropped because the fill under it was never compacted: sometimes soil stabilization is the right fix before we put a lifted panel back on top.

When Replacement Beats Lifting

And one more honest note: if a panel has broken into small pieces, or the concrete itself is flaking and spalling, replacement beats lifting. We'll tell you when that's the cheaper answer.

What Leveling Costs