Concrete Pool Deck Contractors in Raeford, NC

Pool deck contractors in Raeford: city lot or county lot comes first

Raeford is the Hoke County seat, so the county's permit offices and the city's are both in town. That makes it easy to call the wrong one. Hoke County's zoning rules cover unincorporated land, and the ordinance leaves out land inside a municipality's extraterritorial area, so a lot inside the city doesn't follow the county's rules. The city lists a Code Administration department for enforcement, planning, zoning and building inspections. Call Raeford City Hall before anyone tells you a slab is approved.

As concrete pool deck contractors, we pour on both sides of that line, in town and out along US 401 toward the City of Fayetteville, 22 miles away in Cumberland County. A county-side lot in Rockfish or rural Hoke answers to the county offices here in Raeford, while a city lot answers to City Hall. Give us the address at the estimate and we'll sort out which desk reads your plan.

Hoke County's three steps for a lot outside the city

For a lot outside the city, Hoke County's residential page lays out three steps. Environmental Health handles septic, and you skip it on public sewer. Next comes a Zoning Permit from the Planning Department, which checks setbacks and confirms the lot isn't in a floodzone, wetland or easement. Last is the Building Permit from Building Inspections. The application needs a plot plan showing the lot, the buildings, and the location and dimensions of parking and driveways.

Under Rule 11.2.1 of the zoning ordinance, no land can be used and no building erected, moved or structurally altered until the Zoning Administrator issues a permit, and the permit is void if work doesn't begin within 180 days. In a Water Supply Watershed, a Watershed Protection Permit is required as well. The county's inspections office adds that permit cost doubles when work starts without the required permit. Whether a slab by itself needs its own permit is the county's call, so ask by address and get the answer in writing before we price the pour.

Built-upon area: why a slab counts in the watershed overlay

The county zoning ordinance includes a water-supply watershed overlay called WS-IV-PA. Inside it, a single-family lot needs 20,000 square feet or has to stay under 24 percent built-upon area. Built-upon area counts buildings, pavement and gravel roads, and the county zoning ordinance treats wooden slatted decks as pervious. A concrete surround isn't slatted wood, so its square footage goes into the total along with the house, the driveway and the storage building.

That's why we ask, before we price anything, whether your parcel sits in the overlay. County Planning can tell you. If you're close to the cap, the layout changes: a narrower band around the water, or part of the area left pervious. None of that applies to a lot inside the city limits, where City Hall decides, so settle the city-or-county question before you fall in love with a footprint.

Faceville, Wagram and "Urban land": well-drained ground with fill in it

The USDA survey at 60 random points inside the city found Faceville ground at 28 of them, counting the plain loamy sands and the Faceville-Urban land complex. Wagram loamy sand and Wagram-Urban land showed at 8, Blaney loamy sand on 8 to 15 percent slopes at 4, Duplin sandy loam at 4 and Lakeland-Urban land at 4. NRCS lists Faceville and Wagram as well drained, in hydrologic groups B and A, and rates both as not limited for dwellings without basements. A FEMA check at 50 random points came back with 49 in Zone X minimal hazard and one in Zone AE.

So flood isn't the story inside the city, and the ground is friendly to a slab. The catch is "Urban land." Those complexes mean fill and earlier disturbance, so a probe or a compaction check before the pour still makes sense. The Blaney slopes are the spot to plan runoff: a hillside yard sheds water toward whatever sits downhill, and we point the fall at a lawn or a drain instead of a neighbor's line.

Old surround giving out? Replace the failed panels or pour it new

If you searched for pool deck repair services in Raeford, here's what we price: tear-out and replacement. We mark the panels that have failed, saw them out, haul the broken concrete and pour new panels on a rebuilt base. A panel that dropped or tilted is telling you the base moved, and a surface coat over it leaves that cause alone. Two or three hairlines along a joint line aren't failure and don't need work.

Well-drained ground is easy on a slab, so when a panel sinks here, we look at the fill, at a downspout emptying onto the edge, and at roots. If the whole surround has cracked from end to end, we price the full replacement next to the partial one so you can compare dollars per square foot. Tear-out and haul-off appear as their own line in the written estimate, so you see what the old slab costs to remove before you decide.

Papers and photos to gather before we quote

When you compare pool deck contractors in Raeford, ask each one whether the lot is city or county and who files what. Our estimate is free and in writing before any work begins, and we're insured and locally owned. Bring or send these:

• Your address, and your tax bill if you're unsure of the jurisdiction.
• Your survey, with any easements marked.
• The builder's plan and the coping height.
• Gate width, and photos of the old slab if there is one.

Call (910) 996-0343 or use the contact page. For the rest of the yard, see our concrete page for this town, the service overview and our permit guide, which compares the offices we work with.