Lehigh Concrete Services

CONCRETE PLACEMENT & FINISHING

CONCRETE PLACEMENT & FINISHING

 Our Mission Statement

We are competitive with that smaller group of concrete contractors doing especially accurate work with a quality job as the finished product, but we are most anxious to distance ourselves from those out to provide only the cheapest price per square foot.  We would like to be your concrete contractor on projects you might have at present, but our goal is not to do just your next job, but to form a relationship in which you can count on our quality and expertise and we can count on earning a continuing commitment for the majority of your work.  Our goal is building long term relationships. 

If we can form a bond of mutual respect we will travel the southeast to make sure our quality follows your needs.   

Slabs on grade

Lehigh’s expertise is concrete slab installations which require exact and demanding accuracy standards.  We have been placing and finishing concrete that needs accurate and quality placement for over twenty five years.  Our jobs are on time and precision formed & poured.  We have extensive experience with commercial Slabs of all types including monolithic footing & slabs; post-tension; anchor bolt placement; column footings; and extremely heavy equipment footings that contain short walls with varying slabs heights and cantilevers.  We also do a great job with pea-gravel and stamped concrete finishes, both commercial and residential.

Post-Tension concrete               Also see Tennis Court Services

Post-Tensioned reinforcing consists of very high strength ½” steel strands or cables. Typically, cables are used in horizontal applications like foundations, slabs, beams, and bridges; and bars are used in vertical applications like walls and columns.  A typical steel strand cable used for post-tensioning has a tensile strength of 270,000 pounds per square inch. In comparison, a typical non pre-stressed piece of reinforcing (rebar) has a tensile strength of 60,000 psi.  Cables typically have a diameter of ½ inch and are housed in sheathing or duct to allow it to move as the tensioning force is applied after the concrete hardens.  Tension is applied to a stressed force of 33,000 pounds using a hydraulic jack, after the concrete is poured and hardened.  The steel stretches as it is tensioned, and it is locked into place using an anchoring component that forms a mechanical connection and keeps the tension force in the strand for the life of the structure. 

   Advantages & Uses: Post-Tension gives what would have been an ordinary slab without tensioning an unbelievable strength and life span compared to non tensioned concrete. 

It is also as an alternative to high cost or impractical soil stabilization under concrete slabs.

Retrofit/Rehab/Reconstruction of existing slabs

  Resurfacing of blemished or discolored concrete: We can save you thousands of $dollars with our special non-delaminating surface refinishing mix.  It will make all areas of your (new or old) slab the same color and texture without expensive tearing out or pouring an overlay.

  If you need replacement of old concrete, we can give new life to an existing installation, by tearing out old slabs and re-pouring with new concrete. 

 Another alternative is to tearing out structurally sound concrete is to add a 3/8” overlay of super-strong decorative or stamped concrete.  Guaranteed to never delaminate.

 HEAVY TRUCK traffic areas:  can be permanently repaired by utilizing POST TENSION as the choice of replacement reinforcing.  Many warehouses and industrial/building supply companies are choosing us to apply this alternative in lieu of constantly replacing their most used areas which have succumbed to the heavy truck loads of high traffic deliveries.

 Satisfied Customers

We install all of the commercial store slabs that one general contractor pours for a major Georgia 100 company in the southeast.  We have just finished a complex job the size of a football field for Weyerhaeuser in Lithonia under the guidance of the Lathrop Company.  Thomas Concrete recommends us for many complex jobs where the owner needs accuracy.  Only recently, as the last part of our slab was saw cut, the cutting contractor remarked that in his 17 years of saw-cutting he had never seen a better slab.