Years of shrink-swell clay and a season of hard winter freezes will pull a Lubbock stoop away from the house a little at a time, until the bottom step is short and the top one is a trip. We rebuild stoops, porch steps, and entry stairs with even risers, footings set below the frost, and a finish that grips on the mornings it ices over.
Credibility comes from how it's built, not from promises. Here's the order of operations on every concrete steps & stairs job.
We check how the stoop settled against the house, where the risers drifted out of even, and whether the slab under it can be saved or has to go. On the South Plains the move is usually clay and frost working together, and both get accounted for.
The new footing goes into steady subgrade below the local frost depth, never onto bare clay. Lubbock freezes hard enough that water under a shallow footing will freeze, expand, and shove a set of steps up and off the house, so we seat it where the cold cannot reach it.
Risers formed uniform within a tight tolerance and treads sized so nobody has to think about their feet. A stair someone catches a toe on twice was built wrong, and uneven risers are the most common reason it happens.
Steel ties the steps together so they travel as a single piece through the freeze-thaw instead of separating tread by tread, and we place an air-entrained mix so the treads do not scale over the first few winters.
A broom or textured tread as standard, with extra grit where the entry sees the most traffic. Ice is only a handful of mornings a year in Lubbock, but it shows up overnight, and a slick trowel finish on an entry stair is a bad trade the rest of the year too.
Most contractors vanish after the deposit. We pick up the phone, show up when we say, and stand behind the work after the truck leaves. The follow-through is the difference.
A foreman we know runs your job and a vetted crew does the work, managed by Lucky's, one company accountable from the first call to the final walkthrough.
COI and lien waivers on file before we break ground. The documentation that lets commercial clients pay and gives homeowners peace of mind.
Prepped subgrade, reinforced and mixed to spec for the job, and proper curing. We build credibility through the process, not promises. On concrete steps & stairs, that starts with measure what moved.
Step work usually runs about $300 to $500 per step, moving with the riser count, how deep the footing has to go, and how much base repair the old stoop is hiding. We firm the number up after seeing it in person; a set of steps is exactly the job where a blind phone quote goes wrong.
Almost always a footing that sat on bare clay above the frost line. The clay swelled and shrank across wet and dry years while winter freezing under the shallow footing lifted it, and between them they walked the steps off the porch. We reseat the new footing below frost in steady ground so it stays where we put it.
Yes. Building code sets riser and tread dimensions and how much they may vary from step to step, and we form to those as a matter of course. Even risers are not only about code; they are the difference between a stair you climb without thinking and one that catches a toe.
It depends on what moved. Light surface chipping can sometimes be patched, but a set that has tipped on shifting clay or split through a riser has usually run out of repair, and a rebuild on a proper footing is the answer that lasts. We give you a straight call either way.
We set anchors or sleeves for a rail while the concrete is still wet, which beats drilling finished steps later. Depending on the number of risers a rail may be required, and we flag that during the estimate rather than after the pour.
We keep a path you can walk during the job wherever the layout allows, and a new set takes light foot traffic in a couple of days, longer if a cold snap rolls in and slows the early cure. Full strength takes a few weeks, but normal use comes back quickly.
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