Concrete Slab Contractors in Fort Liberty, NC

The post's two names and the lots we pour around it

People still search for Fort Liberty, so that's the name on this page. The Army renamed the post Fort Bragg again in February 2025, now honoring Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, and the rechristening ceremony followed in March. The newer name ran from 2023 to 2025, and some maps, signs and mailing lists haven't caught up. Same post, same ground, either name.

We pour on the lots around the post: the neighborhoods off the gate roads and Bragg Boulevard, the streets in Spring Lake and Fayetteville that border it, and the rural parcels past them. Work behind the gate is federal contracting, so this page is about civilian homes and businesses. If you rent on post, your housing office is the first call.

The installation covers more than 251 square miles across Cumberland, Hoke and Harnett counties. That spread matters to a slab. It decides who signs off on yours.

Three counties, several permit desks, one phone call first

Where your lot sits decides the office. Inside Spring Lake, the town's Inspections Department issues permits for accessory structures such as garages, carports and storage buildings, and it wants every inspection scheduled through the town even when the county helps. Inside Fayetteville, Permitting & Inspections takes the application through its online portal. On unincorporated ground, Cumberland County Planning & Inspections handles it. A lot on the Hoke County or Harnett County side goes to that county outside town limits, and inside a town you start with town hall.

Spring Lake's town limits take in parts of the post, and the post itself reaches into Hoke and Harnett counties, so your mailing address is a poor guide to who permits your lot. Look up the parcel before you assume.

A detached garage or shop with walls and a roof is a building, and it gets permitted before the first stake goes in. For a bare pad with nothing on it, ask the office that covers your street before you book the forms, because the answer changes by jurisdiction. Name the street when you call. If it's an NCDOT road, the apron at the street edge needs a state driveway permit.

The Cumberland County concrete permits guide lists the offices side by side.

What a garage floor near the post has to be made of

Garage floors have a written spec in the North Carolina Residential Code, and the 2018 code is the one enforced now. Table R402.2 calls for 3,000 psi at 28 days for garage floors, and that mix must be air-entrained, with total air between 5 and 7 percent. If the floor gets a hard steel-trowel finish, the code allows air as low as 3 percent when the strength goes up to 4,000 psi. Pick one path with your finisher before the truck is ordered, because the two mixes don't swap.

The code wants the slab itself at least 3 1/2 inches thick. We price and pour garage floors at 4 inches with reinforcement, which is the basis for the $7 to $12 per sq ft range. Add control joints cut at one quarter of the thickness and no more than 18 feet apart, and the slab knows where to crack.

A garage floor takes oil, jack stands and a truck, and a 4 inch air-entrained pour handles all three. Set the top of the slab level with the apron at the door, with a slight fall toward the street, so washing a car doesn't send water to the back wall. Keep the delivery ticket from pour day with your house papers, because it records the strength that was ordered.

The code excepts garages and other unheated utility buildings from its under-floor vapor retarder rule. A shop you plan to heat, finish and live in later is a different build. Say so at the estimate walk, because the poly vapor retarder and the permit both change when the room gets conditioned. North Carolina requires termite protection statewide under Section R318, and any soil treatment has to happen before the truck arrives.

RV, boat and trailer pads off the gate roads

A pad for a camper, a bass boat or a utility trailer is a pour with a different job. It carries a point load on each wheel, it sees weight shift when you hitch and unhitch, and the edge takes a beating from tires turning. For a loaded RV we size the pour thicker than a car floor, with added steel and a thickened edge where the tires roll on and off, and price that extra at the walk.

Size the pad by the rig. A 12 by 40 foot RV strip is 480 sq ft, and at the 4 inch rate of $7 to $12 per sq ft that works out to $3,360 to $5,760 before extra thickness or grading. Give the camper room to open its slide on one side and walk around it on the other, which adds a few feet to the width on your first sketch. Chalk or cone the pad outline and park the rig on it before the forms go up. You'll know in ten minutes whether the turn-in angle works.

Where the pad meets the street you may need a curb cut or apron approved by whoever owns the road, so sketch the entry before the estimate walk. Keep the pad clear of big tree roots too, which push on the edge as they grow. The driveway page for this area covers the approach in more detail.

Sandhills sand under every slab here

Natural Resources Conservation Service data for Cumberland County shows how sandy the ground is: about 96 percent sand in the upper layers of Candor soil, 94 percent in Lakeland, 85 in Blaney and 80 in Wagram. Hoke County's leading soils include Blaney and Candor sand too, with Johnston soil along creek bottoms. Sand drains fast, which keeps water from sitting under a floor, but it also shifts under a poorly compacted base, so subgrade work matters more than frost here.

We compact the sand in lifts, check it is free of roots and topsoil, and set the forms to a slight fall so water leaves the slab edge. Where a creek bottom or a low spot holds water, we say so on the walk and price a stone base to match. A Web Soil Survey lookup on your address tells you what's under the lot before we arrive.

Send the downspouts well past the pour, because roof water undercuts a sand slab edge in a few seasons. Winter pours need a plan too: Fayetteville logs 46.9 mornings a year at or below freezing, and concrete placed below 40 F gets cold-weather protection.

Which slab types we install near the post

Around Fort Bragg we pour the same short list for homes and small businesses: garage floors, workshop and pole barn slabs, equipment and utility pads, basketball and sport courts, and bases for sheds and storage buildings. We work on private lots in the towns and neighborhoods that border the post, not on the installation itself.

A garage floor and a boat or trailer pad look alike on paper but get built differently. Tell us what will sit on the slab, and we'll size the pour, the steel and the joints to that load and put the price in writing.

What to compare between concrete slab contractors in Fort Liberty

When you compare concrete slab contractors in Fort Liberty, look for the same things in every bid: size, thickness, mix strength, base work and the finish, in writing. Ask who calls NC 811 before digging, because that call is the contractor's job and it takes three working days. Ask who will talk to the permit desk for your side of the line, and ask for a walk on the actual lot instead of a phone quote, because the lot lines, the road owner and the low spots only show up on site.

If you're on orders or have a move date, give us that date when you call. A pour that has to be cured and cleared before a deployment or a PCS gets scheduled backward from it, and the timeline goes in the written estimate. The service page shows how a job runs, the town page lists the other work we do around the post, and the Spring Lake page covers lots inside town limits.

Fayetteville Concrete Pros is insured and locally owned, with 40+ years of experience. Call (910) 996-0343 or use the contact page for a free written estimate.