Basement Concrete & Floors in Chicagoland

Chicago has more finished basements per block than almost anywhere in the country, and almost every problem in them starts at floor level. A basement slab is the flattest, lowest surface in the building, so it is where groundwater arrives first, where a cracked or missing vapor barrier shows up as damp flooring two years later, and where an out-of-level pour turns into a bathroom that will not drain or a rec room where nothing sits flush. It is also the layer that gets covered up by everything else, which makes it an expensive place to have cut a corner.

We pour and repair basement concrete across the greater Chicagoland area: new slabs in basements that never had one, full tear-out and replacement where the existing floor is cracked, heaved, or badly out of level, partial pours after a plumber has trenched for new lines, and leveling work to get a floor flat enough for tile, vinyl plank, or an epoxy coating. Because basement floors and water are the same conversation, this work pairs naturally with interior drainage and waterproofing — and where that is what your basement actually needs, we will say so rather than pouring a new floor over the real problem.

Basement concrete work we do

• New basement slabsFull floor pours over compacted stone and a vapor barrier, finished flat and to the elevations you need.
• Tear-out and replacementRemoving cracked, heaved, or badly settled floors and replacing them with a slab built on a proper base.
• Trench patches after plumbingClosing up trenches cut for new drain lines, ejector pits, or bathroom rough-ins, tied cleanly into the existing slab.
• Floor levelingGetting an uneven floor flat enough for tile, luxury vinyl plank, or an epoxy coating to sit right.
• Vapor barrier and stone baseClean stone for capillary break and drainage, with sheet vapor barrier lapped and sealed under the pour.
• Interior drain tile integrationPerimeter drain line, stone, and sump connection set in before the slab goes over it.
• Sump pits and ejector pitsPit set at the right elevation and the slab formed and finished around it.
• Crack and joint repairRouting and filling working cracks in a slab that is otherwise sound and worth keeping.