Second Pour Concrete Co. · Foard Bend & the flats · Re-pour specialists since 2001
A bad slab is not a personality flaw. It is a decision somebody made in a hurry — and a decision can be made again, properly.
The ledger of second chances
Why slabs come to us
Services & rates
The re-pour card
Rates from last year’s re-pours across the flats. Tear-out, base, steel, finishing, jointing and haul-off are one number; the only extra in the trade is rock we cannot see, and we call before we dig it.
Tear-out, base & re-pour — drives$11.90 / sq ft
Broken, hauled, six inches of aggregate, 5-inch 4,000-psi slab
Stamped re-pour — patios & courts$15.80 / sq ft
Ashlar, cobble or herringbone, powder release, sealed at day 28
Slab jacking & levelling — where the slab is soundfrom $6.40 / sq ft
Mud or foam, lifted and packed, joints re-sealed
Crack stitching & joint re-cutfrom $28 / linear ft
Stitched, epoxied, grid re-sawed where the map was wrong
Cure-and-seal renewal$1.25 / sq ft
High-solid acrylic, three-year cycle, our calendar not yours
The second opinion (just the verdict)$180
Save it, lift it or lose it — in writing; credited to any pour
How it goes
Tear-out to seal
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Visit 01
The second opinion
We look at what failed and say which of three things is true: the slab is fine and the ground is lying, the slab can be lifted and saved, or it is a re-pour. The verdict is in writing and the $180 is credited if we pour.
Day 0
The tear-out
The old slab broken and hauled, the base opened and inspected — this is where the first crew’s story comes out of the ground. Aggregate re-placed in lifts and proof-rolled before anything new arrives.
Day 1
The re-pour
One continuous placement, 4,000 psi and 5.7 percent entrained air, pitched to move water wherever the original forgot to. Broke, stamped or exposed, finished while the sheen is on.
Hour +12
The joints it never had
Control joints sawed within twelve hours on a grid mapped to the slab’s real geometry — the map travels with the ticket so the next owner knows where movement is supposed to live.
Day 28
Cure-and-seal handover
Sealed at full cure, warranty in your name, and the story of what went wrong the first time written on the back — because a re-pour should end the argument, not win it.
The diagnosis
What a failing slab is trying to tell you
Tripping at the joints
The joints are doing their job and the base is not — settlement under a joint is a subbase story, and no sealer ever fixed a subbase. Lift it or lose it.
A spiderweb in the middle
Shrinkage cracks from a pour that cured too fast or a joint grid that was cut too late. Stitching and re-cutting can quiet it; the middle of a slab never forgets.
Corners breaking downward
Water is taking the base with it. Fix the drainage first, always — a re-pour over a wet base is the second mistake, priced the same as the first.
The flats, 2025 — 2026
Second chances, first light
Six re-pours from the last two seasons. In four of them the original pour was older than the customer’s children; in two, newer than the truck that delivered it.
From the ledger
One story, told with permission
Our driveway was the neighbourhood cautionary tale — poured by a crew that left before the joints were cut, cracked by the first frost, and treacherous by the third. Winnifred’s second opinion said the base was honest and the pour had been rushed, quoted the re-pour against the lift, and told us which one she would choose for her own house. She re-poured it in a weekend, sawed the joints the same night, and left the old slab’s story written on the back of the ticket. Two springs later it is the slab the neighbours come to stand on.
They lifted our ferry-cottage slab for a third of what two outfits quoted to replace it, and told us the honest number for both before we chose. The pump, the porch and the original 1931 pour all survived the operation.
The second opinion document is the best $180 I have spent on this property — and it turned into a credit, because they poured. The joint map lives in the deed folder now.
Winnifred told a customer of mine to fix a downspout before she would quote his apron, and then quoted it anyway with the drainage line drawn in. The apron is four winters clean. She is on my speed dial for a reason.
Fair questions
Asked before the tear-out
The five every re-pour customer asks, usually while standing on the evidence. The shop line at the bottom runs seven to five; the crew phone runs later in pouring season.
Fix it or replace it?
That is the second opinion, and it has three answers. Sound slab, lying ground: lift it. Sound ground, tired surface: stitch and reseal. Structural failure or a base that never existed: re-pour. We quote all three and tell you which one this house would get if it were ours.
Why did it fail in the first place?
Almost always one of three: no joint grid cut in time, a base that was spread not compacted, or water moving through it all. The tear-out opens the ground and the ground tells us which — you get the story in writing, on the back of the new ticket.
Can you match the old slab’s colour?
Close, not twin — concrete is batched from the same ingredients but never the same afternoon. On visible additions we pour sample pads in your base colour, and integral colour closes most of the distance. What we will not do is dye a patch and call it a match.
What about the landscaping and the fence?
Tear-out is done by hand at the edges — plate and pry bar, not just the hammer — and everything you want kept is sheeted and fenced before the first swing. The haul-off leaves by the drive, not across the lawn you just paid for.
How long is the drive out of action?
Tear-out and pour inside a week for most residential slabs; foot traffic at three days, vehicles at seven, sealed at twenty-eight. We will stage the pour so the garage is reachable the whole time, because living through a re-pour is the part nobody bills for.
Second opinions year-round; pours April to November · (555) 310-4768 · crew@secondpour.example
Send us the evidence
A photograph of the cracks, the year it was poured if you know it, and what it does in rain. The verdict comes back in plain words and the $180 is credited if we pour. crew@secondpour.example