● ON-SITE NOW · S TAMPA · POURING SLAB
EST. 2012
FL CGC #1521940
$2M INSURED
Architectural Concrete & Masonry · Tampa Bay

Concrete
that's still flat
in twenty years.

Driveways, patios, pool decks, retaining walls, paver hardscapes, decorative concrete. Engineered subgrade. Proper rebar. Real control joints. The stuff that determines whether your slab cracks at year three or year thirty.

Crews
2 + Finishers
Booking
3-5 Weeks
Warranty
5 Year
Request Estimate (813) 555-0273
§ FL CGC LICENSE
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§ ACI-SPEC POURS
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§ 13 YEARS LOCAL
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§ $2M LIABILITY INSURED
Service Catalog

Six trades.
One standard.

Concrete and masonry break down into two halves at the residential scale: flat work (anything you walk or drive on — driveways, patios, pool decks) and vertical work (retaining walls, block walls, decorative features). We do both. Same finishers, same standards, same crews on every job.

01

Driveways & walkways

The single most common cause of cracked driveways in Tampa is improper subgrade prep — not concrete quality. We engineer the base before pouring: 4" compacted limerock, fiber-reinforced 4500-PSI mix, #4 rebar on chairs, control joints cut at 8-10 ft intervals. Done right, the slab outlives the house.

4500 PSI Mix Fiber + Rebar Control Joints
02

Patios & pool decks

Pool deck work demands more than a driveway: salt resistance, slip texture, pool-grade expansion joints, integral drainage to keep deck water out of the pool. We pour broom-finish standard, but the premium work is acid-stained, salt-finished, or stamped to match the architecture.

Salt Resistant Slip Textured Integral Drainage
03

Retaining walls

Block-and-mortar segmental walls for grade transitions up to 4 feet. Reinforced poured-concrete walls for anything taller (engineered with structural drawings and Hillsborough permitting). Geogrid backing on slope-retention work. Drainage tile behind every wall — the #1 wall failure mode in Florida is hydrostatic pressure.

Segmental Block Poured Concrete Drainage Tile
04

Decorative concrete

Stamped patterns (slate, ashlar, cobble), acid stains, integral colors, polished concrete for interiors. Custom forms for curved seat walls and landscape edging. Most of our decorative work goes around pool decks and patios where the visual matters as much as the durability.

Stamped Patterns Acid Stains Polished Floors
05

Paver hardscape

Brick and concrete pavers for driveways, walkways, patios, and pool decks. Engineered base layer (4" compacted base + 1" sand setting bed), polymeric joint sand, edge restraints. Pavers cost more upfront than concrete but they're modular — settle a section, lift it, fix the base, relay it. Concrete cracks; pavers don't.

Brick + Concrete Polymeric Joints Edge Restraints
06

Repair & resurface

Cracked driveway? Spalling pool deck? Failed control joint? We diagnose first — sometimes the right answer is overlay (resurface), sometimes it's slab-jacking (lift and re-level), sometimes it's tear-out and re-pour. We won't sell you a repair that's going to fail in two years just to win the job.

Crack Diagnosis Slab-Jacking Honest Quotes
How A Job Runs

Estimate to cure.
Most jobs in three days.

A standard 600 sq ft driveway pour is three days on-site: tear-out and prep day one, set forms and rebar day two, pour and finish day three. Cure for seven days before parking on it. We schedule weather-dependent — rain pushes pour days, never finish work.

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Estimate on-site

We measure the area, check existing grade, look at access for the truck, identify utility risks, and quote in person. Every quote is itemized — concrete, rebar, labor, permitting, haul-off. No bundled "$X per square foot" pricing.

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Permit & schedule

We pull the permit (Hillsborough/Pinellas), order the concrete with the supplier (we use Cemex and Argos exclusively), schedule the pump truck if needed, and book your dates. Standard work is 3-5 weeks out from permit issue.

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Prep & pour

Day 1: Demo and excavation to subgrade. Day 2: Compaction, vapor barrier on interior pours, rebar set on chairs, forms set with the right slope for drainage. Day 3: Concrete pour, screed, bull-float, finish, control joints cut.

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Cure & walkthrough

7 days minimum cure for foot traffic, 28 days for full design strength. We come back at day 14 for the joint-cut walkthrough and again at day 30 to confirm finish quality. Five-year warranty starts at the final walkthrough.

Why Foundry & Form

Four reasons
the slab holds up.

01

Subgrade before concrete

Florida soil is sandy and shifts. The single most common cause of driveway cracks is inadequate subgrade compaction — not bad concrete. We over-prep: 4 inches of compacted limerock base, plate-compacted in 2-inch lifts, moisture-conditioned, density-tested with a nuclear gauge on jobs over 1,000 sq ft.

02

Real reinforcement, not just fiber

Fiber mesh is great for crack-control on the surface. It's not structural reinforcement. We use #4 rebar on chairs at 18" centers (not laid on the ground) plus fiber. The combination is what keeps the slab integral when the soil moves under it.

03

Joint detail, cut on time

Control joints have to be cut between 6 and 18 hours after the pour, depending on temperature. Too early and you ruin the surface. Too late and the slab cracks where it wants, not where you cut. We schedule the saw cut as a separate visit timed to the pour — most contractors skip this step.

04

Five-year warranty in writing

We warranty against structural cracking (anything wider than 1/8") for five years from final walkthrough. About 4% of our slabs develop a hairline shrinkage crack in year one — that's normal concrete behavior. Anything beyond that, we come back and fix on our dime.

Wet concrete driveway with control joints reflecting sunset — Foundry & Form residential work
SOUTH TAMPA · 4 YR DRIVEWAY
"Still flat. Still no cracks."
From Real Tampa Bay Yards

184 reviews.
Three of them.

Pulled from Google. Real customers, real Tampa Bay neighborhoods, real concrete work that's still flat. The pattern in our reviews: people mention specific finishers by name — usually Lazaro or Hector. Same crews on every job is the difference.

"Got three quotes for our pool deck. Two were $2K cheaper than Foundry but neither mentioned drainage slope or expansion joints. Marco walked the deck with me, showed me where the water would pool on the cheap quotes, and we went with him. Three years later, no spalling, no cracking, water sheets to the drains exactly where he said it would."

JS
Jenna Spelman
Davis Islands · Pool Deck

"Original 1962 driveway, completely shot. Foundry tore the whole thing out, found that the previous contractor had laid the slab directly on uncompacted fill (no wonder it failed in 60 years). They re-engineered the base, doubled the rebar grid, and poured a new 6-inch slab. It's been four years and there's not a single crack."

DK
Daniel Korhonen
Hyde Park · Driveway

"Stamped concrete patio with curved seat walls and a fire pit pad. Came out exactly like the rendering. The detail I didn't know to ask about: the seat walls have proper drainage gaps every six feet, hidden in the joint pattern. Lazaro's the finisher to ask for. Real craftsman."

RM
Rashida Manning
Carrollwood · Stamped Patio
Service Coverage

Hillsborough & Pinellas.
Two crews,
two finishers.

Tampa shop, Brandon yard for materials and equipment. We hold the radius tight on purpose — same-day mobilization on emergencies depends on it. Manatee and Sarasota are referred out to a partner crew.

Tampa
South Tampa
Davis Islands
Hyde Park
Carrollwood
Westchase
Brandon
Riverview
Valrico
Apollo Beach
Wesley Chapel
Lutz
St. Petersburg
Clearwater
Largo
Palm Harbor
Get An Estimate

Free estimate.
Honest quote.

Concrete and masonry quotes need to be done in person — there's no honest way to quote subgrade work from a satellite photo. Marco or Lazaro will come out, walk the project, and write the estimate on-site. Same-day response on the form during business hours.

  • Quote in person. Itemized — concrete, rebar, labor, permitting, haul-off. No bundled per-square-foot pricing.
  • Five-year warranty against structural cracking. Written, signed, on every project over $4,000.
  • $2M liability + workers' comp. COI sent before mobilization. Permitting handled in-house.
  • Cemex and Argos concrete only. No off-brand mix. No water added on-site to make placement easier (the #1 cause of weak slabs).
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Request an estimate

Quotes are walked on-site, not over the phone. Standard 5-business-day turnaround on the estimate visit. Existing customers can also call (813) 555-0273 directly.