4.7 ★ on GoogleCarolina Custom Concrete
North Charlotte, NC · Insured concrete contractor
Concrete Contractors Serving North Charlotte
We are a Lake Norman company, not a Charlotte one. What we are is close to the northern arc of the city — and that is the only argument for using us here.
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Pick the closest match — we will get the specifics when we walk the job.
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01 · What we pour
Concrete services in north Charlotte
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 · An honest starting position
Not a Charlotte company.
Most concrete companies claiming Charlotte are claiming all of it. We are not going to, because it would not be true and because you can check.
We are based on Lake Norman. What that buys you, if you are in the northern arc of the city, is proximity — a short enough drive that we walk a job before quoting it, and a short enough drive that coming back is not a project. Highland Creek, University City, Northlake and Davis Lake are all comfortably inside that. A job south of uptown is not, and we would tell you so rather than quote it.
That is a smaller claim than the ones around it, and it is the one we can actually stand behind. If proximity does not matter to you, there are a great many Charlotte contractors and some of them are very good.
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Northern areas
Highland Creek, University City, Northlake, Davis Lake.
2019
Blue Line
The LYNX Blue Line was extended to University City.
4.7
On Google
Carolina Custom Concrete.
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
The northern arc, area by area.
Four areas make up most of what we are called to on this side, and they ask for noticeably different things.
Highland Creek. One of the largest master-planned communities in North Carolina — roughly 4,400 residences and more than 14,000 residents — and it straddles both the Charlotte–Concord city line and the Mecklenburg–Cabarrus county line. Which side a house sits on decides who reviews the work, and it is the first thing we establish. The concrete is mixed in age, so we see replacements and decorative upgrades in roughly equal measure.
University City. North-east of uptown, wrapped around the UNC Charlotte campus and University Research Park, and served by the LYNX Blue Line since its 2019 extension. A dense mix of housing stock and commercial property, which means both residential drives and commercial flatwork.
Northlake. Roughly nine miles from uptown and immediately south of Huntersville, which makes it one of the shortest drives on this list for us. The area grew substantially after Northlake Mall opened in 2005, so a good deal of the residential concrete here is now around twenty years into its service life.
Davis Lake. Built around a 14-acre lake, near University City and minutes from I-485. Established, amenity-heavy, and the kind of neighborhood where patio and pool deck work comes up as often as driveways.
05 · Built for this ground
Same clay as the lake, same argument.
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. Nothing about the soil changes between Cornelius and University City, which is why the base-preparation case we make everywhere else on this site applies here without modification.
The base
The base carries the slab
Clay moves; a compacted aggregate base does not. In neighborhoods built out quickly, the sub-grade under a drive was graded for a builder's schedule rather than for a driveway's lifespan.
Compacted base · graded to drain
The joints
Cracks go where we cut them
Concrete cracks. Control joints decide where. On a twenty-year-old drive you can usually read whether anybody planned them.
Sawcut · tooled · planned
The tie-in
Where new meets old
Extensions and repairs put new concrete against old. Two slabs poured years apart move independently, so the joint between them is planned rather than hoped about.
Deliberate joint · planned edge
06 · Permits
Mecklenburg, LUESA, and the county-line exception.
Straightforward across most of the arc, with one address-specific complication.
For most of north Charlotte, county-level requirements run through Mecklenburg LUESA, with the code published at code.mecknc.gov. The city has its own requirements alongside that, and any HOA approval is a private matter separate from both.
The exception is Highland Creek, where the Mecklenburg–Cabarrus county line runs through the subdivision. Addresses on the Cabarrus side are reviewed by the City of Concord for zoning and Cabarrus County for building, not by Mecklenburg — our Concord page covers that side.
NCDOT sits outside all of it and applies only where you are creating or altering an access onto a state-maintained road.
| 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 north Charlotte 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
north Charlotte, answered.
The questions we get asked standing in driveways here.
Are you a Charlotte company?
No, and we would rather say so. We are based on Lake Norman and we serve the northern arc of the city — Highland Creek, University City, Northlake, Davis Lake and the neighborhoods around them. If your job is south of uptown, we are probably not your nearest sensible option.
How far south do you actually go?
The northern suburbs comfortably. Past that it becomes a scheduling question rather than a capability one, and we would rather tell you straight away than take a job we cannot service well.
Which permits apply in north Charlotte?
Mecklenburg County requirements run through LUESA, with the code at code.mecknc.gov. NCDOT is separate and applies only where you are creating or altering an access onto a state-maintained road — see our permit guide.
I am in Highland Creek. Does that count as Charlotte?
Partly. Highland Creek straddles the Charlotte–Concord city line and the Mecklenburg–Cabarrus county line, so some of it is Charlotte and some of it is Concord. Which side you are on decides who reviews your work.
Why should I use a lake-based contractor?
Only if it makes sense for you. The honest argument is that the northern arc is a short, reliable drive for us, which means we can walk a job before quoting it and get back to it afterwards. For a downtown address that argument does not hold and we would not make it.
Is the ground the same as on the lake?
Yes — the Piedmont red clay runs right across the metro. The base preparation argument we make on every page of this site applies identically here.
Do you do commercial work in north Charlotte?
Yes. See commercial concrete for the capability list.
09 · Free estimate
Tell us what you are pouring in north Charlotte.
Tell us where in the northern arc you are and what you are pouring. If you are far enough south that we are not the sensible choice, we will say so.
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