Concrete Steps & Stoops in Green Bay, WI
Green Bay Concrete Pros replaces concrete steps and stoops for homes across Green Bay and Brown County, Wisconsin. We are a licensed and insured concrete contractor. Porch steps, front stoops, and side stoops that have tilted, cracked, or pulled away from the house come out and get rebuilt on a footing poured below the frost line so they stay where they belong.
The footing is the whole job. We dig below the Green Bay frost line and pour the footing on solid soil, then build the steps on it in 4000 PSI air-entrained concrete reinforced with rebar. That footing is why the new steps do not lift. A stoop poured on a shallow pad or straight on backfill sits inside the frost, so the ground heaves it every winter and it walks away from the house a little more each year.
Why Steps Lift and Pull From the House
Steps fail from the ground, the same as a slab, but the ground under a step freezes and grabs anything shallow. Deep frost lifts a step whose footing sits above it, then lets it back down out of line. Do that a few winters and the steps tilt, crack, and open a gap at the door. The fix is not a bigger step. It is a deeper footing.
Footings Below the Frost Line
We put the footing past where Green Bay ground freezes, on soil that does not move. Frost still comes and goes above it every year, but it passes over the part that carries the load. That is the difference between a stoop you rebuild once and one you keep chasing. The dig is deeper here than in a warmer state, and it is not a corner to cut.
Replace or Patch
Not every step needs replacing, and we say so when a patch will hold. But steps that tilt, split through, or have opened at the house have a problem below the surface, and surface work does not reach a bad footing. Replacing them puts a proper footing under the load. Patching the face leaves the cause in the ground.
What It Costs
Concrete steps and stoops in Green Bay run about $2,000 to $6,000. A small two-step stoop on a clean footing sits low. A tall set of porch steps, a wide landing, or a footing that has to be dug deep through clay sits higher. Every set of steps gets a free written estimate first.
Have steps that tilt or gap at the door? (920) 555-0163 gets you a free estimate. If the front walk ties into the steps, we reset both to meet clean, and we build steps in Allouez and Bellevue too.
Why do my front steps pull away from the house?
Their footing is too shallow. Green Bay frost drives deep into the ground, and steps poured on a footing above that frost line get lifted every winter and dropped every spring. Over a few years they tilt and open a gap where they meet the house. Steps built on a footing below the frost line sit still, because the frost passes above the part that holds them up.
How deep does a footing have to be for steps in Green Bay?
Below the frost line, which is deep in this part of Wisconsin. We dig the footing past where the ground freezes and pour it on solid soil, so the frost has nothing to grab under the step. This is the single reason a stoop stays put here, and it is the step most failed stoops skipped.
Can you patch my crumbling steps instead of replacing them?
A cosmetic patch on a corner can buy a little time, but steps that are cracked through, tilting, or pulling from the house have a footing or a base problem underneath, and a patch on the surface does not reach that. We replace the steps and pour a proper footing so the new set does not go the same way. We will tell you honestly which one your steps need.
Why is the surface of my steps flaking off?
Salt and freeze-thaw. Steps get salted hard for safety, and that salt drives water into concrete that has no air entrainment, so the surface scales and the edges crumble. We pour air-entrained mix and seal the finished steps, which is what lets a set of steps take the salt without shedding its face.