Concrete poured for flatwoods sand, swales and a foot of water table.
Driveways, culverts and swale aprons, patios and lanai slabs, pool decks and resurfacing, stamped concrete, shed, boat and RV pads, foundation slabs, repair, leveling and removal across Palm Bay and the Space Coast — by a local, licensed, insured crew that compacts the base, gets the water right, pulls the Public Works permit and puts the whole price in writing first.
Licensed & insured · Registered with Palm Bay Public Works and the Building Division · Free on-site measurement · Written price before a truck is ordered
Concrete work for a city built on sand and drained by canals
Concrete driveways
New, replaced or widened, from the garage to the swale, on a base we compact ourselves.
Driveways →
Culverts & swale aprons
Pipe, mitered ends and a reinforced apron to the city spec — permitted and inspected by Public Works.
Culverts & aprons →
Patios & lanai slabs
Lanai extensions, screen-room slabs with column footings, summer-kitchen and hot-tub pads.
Patios & lanais →
Pool decks
New textured decks inside the cage, coping-tight, pitched away from the pool, sealed against the sun.
Pool decks →
Pool deck resurfacing
Knockdown and cool-deck overlays over a sound slab — the cheapest way to get a new deck.
Resurfacing →
Stamped & decorative
Flagstone, slate, plank and cobble patterns with integral color and borders, sealed for UV.
Stamped concrete →
Shed, boat & RV pads
Thick, reinforced pads with turned-down edges and anchor bolts — the side-yard boat pad Palm Bay lives on.
Pads →
Repair & leveling
Foam lifting of sunken aprons and decks, section replacement, crack and spall repair — with the cause fixed.
Repair →What's under a Palm Bay driveway, and why most of them fail from the bottom up
Almost every lot in Palm Bay is poorly drained flatwoods sand on a flat grid that General Development Corporation cut in the 1960s and '70s. In the wet season the water table can be a foot or two below the grass. A slab that's poured on that sand without compaction, without fall, and with a downspout or a swale eating at one edge, is going to move — and in Port Malabar, Lockmar and the older Emerson units, thousands of them have. This is the cross-section we build, top to bottom.
3,000 psi fiber-reinforced concrete, four inches on the lot, five to six at the swale apron and under boats, RVs and generators. Broom-finished for grip in the rain.
Welded wire on chairs or #3 and #4 rebar on a grid, held in the middle of the slab where it does something — not lying on the sand under it.
Organic muck and loose fill dug out, clean sand brought up in lifts and plate-compacted, graded to about a quarter inch of fall per foot toward the swale.
As little as 12–24 inches down in September. We keep the base above it, keep the downspouts off the slab, and keep the swale draining — because the water, not the concrete, decides how long it lasts.
Three numbers that decide most Palm Bay concrete calls
Palm Bay is the largest city in Brevard County — about 147,000 people by the April 2025 estimate, up from 119,760 in the 2020 census — and it was built in two waves: the GDC grid of the 1960s–'80s in the northeast, and the boom in the southwest that hasn't stopped. Those two waves are why the phone rings.
The year Port Malabar was platted
General Development Corporation laid out the grid, the swales and the canals that still drain the city. The oldest driveways in the northeast units are on their sixth decade, and the swale detail in front of them is not optional — it's what keeps the street from flooding.
The GO Roads bond — your street is next
Voters approved $150 million in November 2018 to rebuild Palm Bay's roads, and the city has improved more than 418 miles so far. When your street is milled, reclaimed or rebuilt, the road grade and the swale change, and the driveway apron often has to change with them. What that means for you.
How long a driveway permit is good for
Palm Bay's Public Works Driveway and Lot Drainage permit expires in 90 days unless extended, comes with the city's own pipe and grade spec, and gets a pre-pour and a final inspection. We pull it on the iMS portal, schedule both inspections, and it's a line on your invoice.
Read the permit and swale guide → What a driveway costs here →
Four things that keep our phone ringing
Sunken swale aprons
Silted culvert ends, an eroded swale, or a neighbor's fill send water under the apron and wash the sand out. The slab drops two inches at the road and cracks across the pipe. We lift it or replace it, and fix the drainage that did it.
Culverts & aprons →Worn-out Port Malabar driveways
Original GDC pours in the NE units — thin, unreinforced, and cracked by fifty years of laurel-oak roots, sprinklers and Chevys. Replacement, not patching, on a base that's compacted this time.
Driveway replacement →Tired pool decks
Chalky cool-deck, hairline cracks, a coping joint that's opened up. If the slab underneath is sound, a knockdown overlay gives you a new deck for a third of the price of a new pour.
Resurfacing →Boats, RVs and sheds with nowhere to sit
Big SW and Compound lots and no pad. A five- to six-inch reinforced side-yard pad with turned-down edges holds a center-console or a fifth wheel without settling — and a shed slab with anchor bolts passes the Building Division's inspection.
Pads →
A Palm Bay crew that knows which unit you live in
We've poured in every quadrant of the city — the canal lots off Port Malabar Boulevard, the HOA streets of Bayside Lakes, the new builds going up on Jupiter, Emerson and San Filippo, and the Lockmar and Emerald Lakes homes off Malabar Road — plus Melbourne, West Melbourne, the beaches, Malabar, Sebastian, Viera, Rockledge and Merritt Island. We know which streets are on the GO Roads list, which units flood in a September rain, what the Public Works inspector looks for at the pre-pour, and that a driveway on the Compound may need a truck that can get down a dirt road.
Every job is licensed and insured, permitted where the code says so, measured on site, and priced in writing before a truck is ordered. If the slab under your pool deck is fine, we'll tell you to resurface it instead of replacing it. If your apron just needs a foam lift and a culvert clean-out, that's what we'll quote.
From the phone call to the cure
Site visit
We measure, check where the water goes, look at the swale and the downspouts, and talk through what you want.
Written price
Itemized — demolition, base, thickness and steel, finish, joints, sealing, permit — good for 30 days.
Permit & prep
Public Works or Building Division permit pulled where one applies; old slab out, base compacted, forms and steel set, pre-pour inspection.
Pour at first light
The truck arrives before the heat and the afternoon rain; placed, screeded, floated, broomed and jointed the same morning.
Cure & final
Foot traffic in 24–48 hours, cars in 7 days, the boat in 14. Final inspection called, sealer applied, forms and debris gone.
Palm Bay and every town of 10,000 or more within about thirty miles
Palm Bay — all four quadrants
NE and Port Malabar, SE and Bayside Lakes, SW and the Compound, NW with Lockmar and Emerald Lakes — 32905, 32907, 32908 and 32909.
Palm Bay units →
Melbourne & West Melbourne
The county's second city and its fastest-growing suburb — from the Eau Gallie arts district to the new streets off Minton Road.
Melbourne concrete →The beaches, Sebastian, Viera & the north county
Satellite Beach to Melbourne Beach, Malabar and Grant-Valkaria, Micco and Barefoot Bay, Sebastian, Vero Beach, Viera, Rockledge, Cocoa and Merritt Island.
Full service area →What Palm Bay homeowners ask before they hire a concrete contractor
How much does a concrete driveway cost in Palm Bay?
For a typical two-car driveway of 500–650 square feet, a new 4-inch broom-finished slab with fiber and wire reinforcement runs about $4,800–$8,200 in 2026, and a full replacement — cutting out the old slab, hauling it, recompacting the sand base and pouring new — $6,200–$10,500. A new apron across the roadside swale with a culvert pipe and mitered ends adds roughly $2,400–$5,200 and needs a Public Works driveway permit. Stamped or colored work, a thicker boat-side pad, a long run on a Compound lot and a low corner that holds water all move the number, and you get every line of it in writing before a truck is ordered.
Do I need a permit for a driveway in Palm Bay?
If any part of it is in the city road right-of-way or an easement — the apron, the culvert, the swale — yes. Palm Bay Code § 176.020 requires a permit to build, remove, alter or repair a curb, culvert, sidewalk or driveway in a city road, and the Public Works Department issues it as a Driveway and Lot Drainage permit through the city's iMS online portal. The permit comes with the city's pipe and grade specification, expires in 90 days, and the work gets a pre-pour inspection (code 7000) and a final (7010). A patio or shed pad on private property is a different question — that's the Building Division — and we sort out which applies before every job. We pull the permit and it's on the invoice.
Why do driveways here sink at the street?
Because of the swale. Palm Bay was laid out by General Development Corporation as Port Malabar starting in 1959 on a grid of streets, roadside swales and drainage canals that carry rain to the Melbourne-Tillman canals, Turkey Creek and the Indian River Lagoon. Your driveway apron crosses that swale on a culvert pipe. When the pipe ends silt up, the swale erodes or a neighbor's fill blocks the flow, water runs under the apron, washes the sand out from beneath it, and the slab drops or breaks at the road. A sunken apron is usually a drainage fix and a concrete fix together — we do both.
How thick should a slab be in Palm Bay sand?
Four inches of 3,000 psi concrete over compacted sand is the standard for a driveway, patio or shed slab that carries cars and foot traffic; five to six inches with rebar for a boat pad, an RV pad, a generator pad or the apron at the road, where the wheel loads concentrate. The thickness matters less than what's under it: flatwoods sand that's been compacted in lifts, a base that sits above the wet-season water table, and edges that aren't going to get washed out by a swale or a downspout. That's where Palm Bay slabs fail, and it's what we spend our time on.
Does concrete near the lagoon or the beach need anything special?
On the barrier island — Satellite Beach, Indian Harbour Beach, Indialantic, Melbourne Beach — and along the Indian River in NE Palm Bay, salt air and storm-driven spray attack the steel inside a slab and pit the surface over the years. We use a lower water-to-cement ratio, keep the reinforcing steel at proper cover so salt can't reach it as fast, and seal the finished surface with a penetrating sealer. It doesn't change the price much, and it's the difference between a driveway that looks like coquina in ten years and one that doesn't.
Do you really answer at night?
24 hours a day, every day. A driveway isn't usually an emergency, but a slab that dropped under a car, a pool deck that's separating from the coping, or a swale apron that washed out in a storm gets a same-day look when we can, and a person picks up the phone when you call.