Footings for a new house
This is the first concrete on your lot, and everything built after it sits on what we pour, so we make sure the layout and the trench match your plans before the truck comes.
Concrete footings in Prattville AL - a pour lined up with your permit and inspection
Building a house, addition or shop and need the footing in? We line up the permit and inspection first, then pour it right.
- Licensed and insured.
- Free estimates at your property.
- Replies within 1 business day.
What a footing job looks like in Prattville
Concrete footings in Prattville are the poured concrete under a new home, addition or outbuilding that carries its weight into the ground, and the city's Building Division gives the footing its own inspection.
Most people who call about footings already have plans for a new house, an addition or a garage out back, and they want the footing in without a hold-up at the city. The price moves with how much footing your plans call for, how easy the site is to dig and reach with the truck, and how much rebar, the steel bars that help the concrete carry the load, goes in. The schedule mostly turns on the permit, the inspection and the weather. I come out, measure it myself and give you a free estimate for your job.
Here in Prattville, permit forms get filled out, printed and taken to the Building Division at the City Hall Annex, 102 West Main Street, and residential applications typically take 3 to 5 days for first review. The city requires the work to follow its adopted codes, which for houses means the International Residential Code with Alabama's changes. We're based in Prattville and do the same footing work in Montgomery, Millbrook, Wetumpka, Pike Road, Clanton, Holtville and plenty of other cities around them.
I measure it and run it
I come out to look at your job and measure it myself, then run the work on site with my crew, so the person who priced it is the one watching the pour.
Ground work gets the time
What's under the concrete matters more to me than anything you see on top, so we take our time on the trench and the steel, the part that's buried once the walls go up.
Full time since 2013
I started out pouring weekend slabs for neighbors and went full time in 2013, and I'll still tell you straight what your concrete will and won't do before you pay for it.
How we pour a footing, start to finish
We don't book the concrete truck until the permit's in hand and the footing inspection is lined up. Part of that is money, because Prattville doubles the permit fee when work that needs a permit starts before the permit is issued. Part of it is not having a loaded truck sitting in your yard waiting on paperwork. Once the date's set, my crew and I dig, set the forms and tie the steel to your plans.
Summer is the hard part around here. When a load starts stiffening in the heat, it's tempting to loosen it up with a hose, but extra water in the mix makes the concrete weaker once it hardens. So on a hot day we handle the heat other ways and leave the mix alone.
Footings often come with other work. If the part of the house you're adding onto has settled, foundation raising may need to come first so the old and new sections meet level. If an old patio or walk sits where the footing has to go, we take out just that piece with concrete cutting instead of busting up the whole slab.
What we pour footings for
Room additions off the house
An addition sits right beside a footing that's been there for years, so we look at how the old house is sitting before we pour the new footing next to it.
Garages, shops and outbuildings
A detached garage or shop carries walls, a roof and often a slab inside, so its footing gets the same dig, steel and care we'd give the footing under a house.
Jobs where you're the builder
If you're running your own build, we can come in as your concrete crew for the footing, and I'll tell you plainly what's on us and what stays on you.
Get a footing estimate for your plans
Send your address and what you're building, and we'll get back to you within one business day to set a time. I'll come out, measure the job myself and give you a free estimate, with no obligation.
Have your plans handy
If you've got drawings or even a sketch of the building's outline, have them ready, because the footing follows those lines and I'd rather price from them than guess.
Tell us the address
Your address tells us which office covers the job, like the City of Prattville or the Town of Pike Road, and what it wants before we set a pour date.
Say when you need it
If a framer or a lender is waiting on the footing, tell us up front, so we can work back from that date through the permit and the inspection.
Examples of footings, slabs and foundation work
Example photos of trenches, forms, steel and slab layouts, handy for talking through what your own build will need.
Footing questions from Prattville owners
Answers to the permit, license, inspection and weather questions people ask before a footing goes in around Prattville.
Do I need a building permit for concrete footings in Prattville?
Ask the Building Division about your project, because its permit list names new homes, additions, outbuildings, fences and manufactured homes, not footings on their own. Every new one- or two-family home also needs a stormwater grading permit. We find out what your address needs before we set a date, then handle the application or walk you through it.
Who can pour footings for my home in Alabama?
When a contractor works directly for you on a home job over $10,000, the state Home Builders Licensure Board requires a licensed builder, and work that affects the structural integrity of your home needs an unlimited license. The builder also has to tell you in writing, before work starts, whether it carries liability insurance. We're licensed and insured.
Can I be my own contractor for a footing in Alabama?
Yes, you can skip the state builder license by acting as your own contractor and supervising the work on your own one- or two-family home. If you sell it or put it up for sale within a year of finishing, the state takes that as a sign it was built to sell, so this suits people staying put. A subcontractor you hire for a part over $10,000 still needs a license.
How fast does Prattville inspect a footing?
Prattville completes a footing inspection the same day when you request it before 10:00 a.m., and requests in before 5:00 p.m. go on the next business day. All stormwater controls, which the city calls BMPs, have to be in place for the job to pass. That timing is how we plan the pour day.
When should a summer concrete pour happen?
National hot weather guidance for concrete says to plan a summer pour for the time of day or night with the best weather, then keep the concrete from drying out while it cures, the stretch where it gains its strength. Heat trouble can come any time of year but mostly shows up in summer, and wind makes heat and dry air worse.
Work that often comes with footings
Get your footing on the calendar
Call (334) 788-0315 or use the form with your address and project type for a free estimate at your property, since the permit comes before the pour.