Grantsville has been our home for over 20 years. Lift Right Concrete is the family-owned business we started here in 2010, lifting and leveling concrete across 84029: driveways, sidewalks, entryways, patios, garage floors. We treat every job here like work for a neighbor, because most of the time, it is.
Most settled concrete in Grantsville comes down to one thing: clay soil.
The majority of the town sits on heavy clay subsoil. That includes the newer subdivisions on the east and south sides (Anderson Ranch, the South Willow area, and the Wells Crossing developments off Williams Lane), as well as the historic downtown core. Clay soils swell when they take on water during our wet seasons (winter snowmelt and spring rain), then shrink as they dry out through the summer. That seasonal wet-dry cycle is what settles most of the slabs we lift in Grantsville: the saturated clay shifts under the slab's weight during the wet months, and as the soil dries, it contracts and leaves voids that the slab follows down. Compounding the problem, the soil around new construction often isn't properly compacted in lifts during the build, so the ground around the foundation keeps settling for years afterward and the slab settles with it.
The soil changes character once you head west on Main Street, up toward the Stansbury foothills. There it shifts from clay to rockier, coarser material as the elevation climbs. Slabs in the foothills settle for different reasons: less seasonal movement from expansive clay, more about how the original base was prepared on rocky ground.
Either way, the visible result is the same: cracks, trip hazards at the front step, driveways that sit lower than the garage floor, and patios pitching the wrong way.
Watch for these around your home:
If you've got any of these, the slab has settled. Most are a one-day fix.
Across hundreds of Grantsville projects, these are the slabs we lift most often:
The most common job. Driveways settle at the garage joint, creating a step and a snow-shoveling nightmare.
Public sidewalk panels and front walkways with lifted or dropped joints.
Front steps and landings where settlement creates a hazard right at the door.
Interior slab repair when a corner has dropped or cracks have widened.
Back patios leveled when they're pitching toward the house or pooling water.
We've completed projects throughout 84029, including:
If you live in Grantsville, you're in our service area. Period.
Most other Utah concrete lifters drive equipment out from Salt Lake for each Grantsville job. We keep ours here. That means we can usually respond same-day or next-day for Grantsville estimates, and the crew knows what to expect from Tooele Valley soils before they pull onto your driveway.
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For most Grantsville jobs we now recommend polyurethane foam. The injection holes are smaller, the foam cures in about 15 minutes (so you can drive on the slab the same day), and it weighs roughly 1/20th of mudjacking slurry. That weight difference matters in Grantsville. Most of the town's settled slabs are sitting on clay that's already moved once. Polyfoam doesn't add hundreds of pounds back on top of soil that's already struggling.
We still use mudjacking when it's the right call: larger slabs, deep voids, or jobs where budget is the deciding factor. The cement-based slurry has been proven in Utah for decades and lifts concrete reliably at a lower price point than foam.
When we come out we'll tell you which method we'd use on your specific slab and why. If you want a quote for both, just ask.
For most jobs, lifting your existing concrete runs about half the cost of tearing out the old slab and pouring a new one. The exact number depends on the size of the slab and how much lift it needs, so we come out and look at the job in person before quoting. The estimate visit is free, and you'll get a firm written price before any work starts.
We can lift most settled slabs, but some jobs really do need replacement. We'll recommend replacement when the slab is no longer structurally sound, when it's broken into more than a couple of pieces that are hard to control, or when it was a bad pour from the start (sloped the wrong way, poured with low spots that hold water like a bird bath, or with a crumbling, spalling surface). If none of those apply, lifting almost always makes sense: it's faster, it's roughly half the cost, and the slab is ready to use the same day.
Yes, in most cases. One or two cracks is no problem. Where lifting stops being an option is when the slab has broken into multiple smaller pieces that are hard to control during the lift. If you're not sure where your slab falls, send us a photo or have us come out for a free look.
If the soil underneath has finished settling, the lift will last the lifetime of the concrete. If the soil is still moving, we can pair the lift with a deep injection: driving pipes into the ground at multiple depths and injecting polymer compounds that bind the soils together and compress them, stabilizing the soil itself. Once the soil is stable, the slab stays where we put it.
Yes, in three tiers:
For polyurethane foam jobs, you can drive on the slab by the time we've finished cleaning up our equipment. If we sealed joints or cracks, we recommend waiting at least 4 hours so the sealant becomes tack-free. For mudjacking jobs, the rule is 4 hours before driving.
Three things to look for, depending on where the problem is.
Heads up: if the foundation has settled, the surrounding concrete usually has too. We can tell the difference at a free estimate and we'll be straight with you if the problem is bigger than concrete lifting can solve.
Spring through fall. In winter, slabs can be frozen to the ground or frost-heaved up by the cold soil underneath. If we lift other pads to match a frost-heaved slab while the ground is frozen, that slab ends up lower than the others once the ground thaws in spring. We can do emergency winter work when it's needed, but the predictable results come from the warmer months.
We'll come out to your Grantsville property, look at the slab, and give you a firm written estimate before any work happens. No pressure, no upsells, no obligation.
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