4.7 ★ on GoogleCarolina Custom Concrete
Concord, NC · Insured concrete contractor
Concrete Contractor in Concord, NC
Driveways, patios, stamped work and repair across Concord and Cabarrus County. Free written estimates, given after we have walked the job.
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01 · What we pour
Concrete services in Concord
The same crew, the same base prep and the same jointing plan whether the job is a front walk or a full replacement.
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Driveway replacement
Tear-out, haul-away, re-grade and repour.
Driveways & walkways
New pours, extensions, aprons and front walks.
Stamped & decorative
Slate, brick, paver, tile, stone and wood patterns.
Patios
Broom, stamped or exposed, with seat walls.
Pool decks
Textured finishes with banded borders and drainage fall.
Concrete repair
Section replacement and trip-hazard correction.
Resurfacing & overlays
A new surface over a slab that is sound but tired.
Cleaning & sealing
The cheapest visible change to a sound slab.
02 · The county line runs through here
Same street. Different county.
Concord is the one town we serve where a homeowner genuinely may not know which authority handles their driveway — and the reason is Highland Creek.
Highland Creek straddles the Mecklenburg–Cabarrus county line and the Charlotte–Concord city line. It is one of the largest master-planned communities in North Carolina, roughly 4,400 residences and more than 14,000 residents, and the city of Concord completed annexation of its portion in June 2007. Two houses a few hundred feet apart can sit in different counties, be served by different school assignments, and answer to different permitting authorities.
That is not trivia. It decides who reviews the work, and it is the single most common thing worth establishing before anyone quotes a job out here. We check it as part of walking the property rather than assuming from the postcode.
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Counties
Highland Creek sits in both Mecklenburg and Cabarrus.
2007
Annexation
Concord completed annexation of its portion of Highland Creek.
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03 · Selected work
Work we have poured
Captions say the service and the finish — a photograph cannot prove a postcode, so the geography stays in the copy where it can be checked.
Broom · stamped · stained · sealedCaptions say service and finish — the towns are named in the copy
04 · What we get called for
Concord neighborhoods, and what they ask for.
The eastern side of our area is newer on average than the lake towns, and the work reflects that.
Highland Creek. Large, mixed in age, and split across two counties. The concrete here ranges from original slabs now well into their service life to recent work, so we see both ends: replacements on the older sections and decorative upgrades on the newer ones.
Moss Creek. A master-planned Concord community north-east of Highland Creek and Skybrook, built out roughly between 2005 and 2011, with Cabarrus County schools. That build window matters practically — drives poured then are now old enough to be showing their first genuine cracking rather than surface wear, which is exactly the point at which the repair-or-replace question becomes worth asking properly.
Christenbury. Christenbury Village sits near Moss Creek, and we quote in the area. We are not going to characterize its covenants or its housing stock, because we have not verified either.
Across all of them the two most common calls are the same as everywhere else we work: a driveway that has run out of road, and a patio somebody wants to actually use.
05 · Built for this ground
Cabarrus ground is Piedmont ground.
Cecil soil is the North Carolina state soil and it runs under most of this county. It swells wet and shrinks dry, and the Piedmont gets dozens of shallow freeze–thaw cycles a winter rather than one long freeze. The soil does not change at the county line, which is worth saying plainly: what changes in Concord is the paperwork, not the base preparation.
The base
The base carries the slab
Clay moves; a compacted aggregate base does not. On a lot graded for a builder rather than for a driveway, that difference is most of the job.
Compacted base · graded to drain
The joints
Cracks go where we cut them
Concrete cracks. Control joints decide where, on a grid planned before the pour rather than cut wherever is convenient afterwards.
Sawcut · tooled · planned
The dig
Where it ties in matters
An apron, a walk and a garage slab all meet at levels somebody decided. Those tie-ins are where a drive looks right or does not.
Dug to grade · tie-ins set
06 · Permits
Concord runs on two desks, plus NCDOT.
Cabarrus is not administered the way Mecklenburg is, and knowing that early saves the schedule.
Applications for construction in Concord are reviewed by the City of Concord for zoning and by Cabarrus County for building. Cabarrus County Construction Standards publishes (704) 920-2128, and ACCELA Citizen Access at citizenaccess.cabarruscounty.us is the shared permitting system for Cabarrus County, the City of Concord and the City of Kannapolis.
We publish the authorities and not their process. We have verified who holds what and what they publish as their contact; we have not verified current sequences, fees or review times, and a confidently written process that is a year out of date is worse than none because you would plan around it.
And in Highland Creek there is a prior question: which county are you actually in? The line runs through the subdivision, so the answer is not the same for every address.
| Situation | What applies |
|---|---|
| Replacing in place | Same footprint, same entrance. Generally no NCDOT driveway permit — the access is not changing. |
| New entrance | Cutting a drive onto a state-maintained road where there was not one. NCDOT permit required. |
| Widening at the road | Altering the existing access onto the state system. Treated as a change to the access. |
| Change of use | Anything that changes how the property is used or developed triggers the permit path. |
| County & town rules | Zoning and subdivision rules apply on top of NCDOT, and they are set locally. |
07 · Reviews
What Concord says.
Carolina Custom Concrete holds a 4.7 rating across 52 Google reviews. They sit on the Google Business Profile, where you can read them in full rather than take our word for any of it.
08 · Straight answers
Concord, answered.
The questions we get asked standing in driveways here.
Do you actually work in Concord?
Yes. Concord is the eastern edge of our area rather than the middle of it, so we schedule it deliberately rather than squeezing it between two lake jobs — but the estimate is free and we do come out.
Which county handles a Concord driveway?
Cabarrus, and it is not the same arrangement as Mecklenburg. Applications are reviewed by the City of Concord for zoning and by Cabarrus County for building. Cabarrus County Construction Standards publishes (704) 920-2128, and ACCELA Citizen Access at citizenaccess.cabarruscounty.us is the shared permitting system for Cabarrus County, Concord and Kannapolis.
I am in Highland Creek. Which county am I in?
It depends which part. Highland Creek straddles the Mecklenburg–Cabarrus county line and the Charlotte–Concord city line — Concord completed annexation of its portion in 2007. Two houses on the same subdivision can answer to different authorities, and school assignment differs the same way. Worth confirming which side you are on before anyone assumes.
Do I need an NCDOT permit?
Only if you are creating or altering an access onto a state-maintained road, or changing the use it serves. Replacing a driveway in place with the entrance unchanged generally does not trigger it. See our permit guide.
Is the ground different out here?
The Piedmont red clay runs across all four counties we work in, so the base preparation argument is the same in Concord as it is on the lake. What changes is the administration, not the soil.
Can you match what my neighbors have?
Often closely. Bring us a photograph of what you are trying to sit alongside, and we will tell you honestly how near we can get — new concrete never matches weathered concrete exactly.
Do you do stamped and decorative work in Concord?
Yes — the full range travels with the crew. See stamped and decorative concrete.
09 · Free estimate
Tell us what you are pouring in Concord.
Tell us the address and the job. In Highland Creek, tell us the street — we will work out which county you are in before anything else.
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