Built on the part
nobody sees.
Before Foundry, Marco spent eleven years finishing for a regional commercial concrete contractor — mostly retail center and apartment complex slab work. He saw the pattern: profit margins on residential concrete were thin enough that most contractors cut corners on subgrade and reinforcement to make the job pencil. The crack patterns he saw in three-year-old slabs across Tampa Bay all came back to the same root cause: the part nobody saw was where the corners got cut.
Foundry was built around the inverse principle. Spend what you have to spend on the subgrade and the rebar. Charge accordingly. Don't chase the bottom of the market. We're roughly 15% more expensive than the median Tampa Bay residential concrete quote. We're also still pouring slabs we poured in 2013 that haven't cracked.
Today we run two pour crews and two dedicated finishers. Marco walks every quote in person. Lazaro Mendoza is our lead finisher (19 years in the trade, does all the stamped work). Hector Rivera is our second finisher (handles broom and salt finishes, manages the polished concrete jobs). The crew doesn't grow during busy seasons by adding day-laborers — we just take fewer jobs.
