Concrete Slabs Rockhampton

A slab is only as good as what's under it. We start by excavating to the right depth, removing soft or organic material, and bringing the pad up with compacted road-base so the slab has uniform support and won't settle unevenly. On reactive CQ soils that move between the wet and the dry, getting this base right is what keeps a slab flat year after year.

From there we lay a vapour barrier to stop ground moisture wicking up through the slab, set steel mesh or bar reinforcement on chairs at the correct height for proper concrete cover, and pour to the thickness the job calls for. Reinforcement isn't optional on a slab that has to carry load — it controls cracking and ties the slab together so it acts as one piece.

The right slab type depends on your soil, your load and your engineer. A thickened-edge raft slab is the common choice on many CQ blocks — a flat slab with deeper, reinforced edge beams that spread the load and resist ground movement. A waffle pod slab sits on top of the ground over void formers, which suits certain sites and reduces excavation. For sheds, garages and outbuildings we often pour a slab with thickened edges and internal beams sized to the load.

Footings — strip footings and pad footings — carry walls, posts and point loads down to firmer ground. We pour footings as part of slab and shed jobs, set out accurately so your frame, columns and hold-down bolts land exactly where the plans say they should.

A house slab isn't something you eyeball. It's designed by an engineer to suit your soil classification, the building's load and the site, and it needs to be inspected and certified at the right stages — typically a pre-pour inspection of the steel and formwork before the concrete goes down. We pour strictly to the engineered drawings: the specified slab thickness, beam sizes, mesh and bar, cover and set-downs.

If you're building new or adding an extension, we'll work in with your builder, engineer and certifier so the slab is signed off and your build keeps moving. Shed slabs and many garage slabs are more straightforward, but we still set them out properly and reinforce them to suit the load rather than guessing.

A slab is a foundation, so we run it in a strict order and don't skip stages to save time — the steps that happen before the truck arrives are the ones that decide whether your slab stays flat. Here's how a slab job runs with us from the first call to handover.

Everything you build sits on the slab, so this is the one job where corner-cutting comes back to bite hardest. We're QBCC licensed and fully insured, and we pour to the engineer's design and the relevant Australian Standards — correct compaction, correct steel cover, correct slab and beam dimensions. Our crew pours shed slabs and house slabs across CQ regularly, so set-out, hold-down bolt positions and set-downs land where the plans say they should.

Slab pricing is where the guesswork verbals fall apart, because the fill, the steel and the site prep are exactly the bits a cheap quote leaves out. We give you a written fixed quote that itemises the excavation, base and compaction, vapour barrier, reinforcement and the pour, so the price you're quoted is the price you pay. If the ground throws up something genuinely unexpected once we dig, we stop and talk to you before any cost moves — no surprise variations dropped on you after the pour.