Concrete footings in Novato CA - support built for the soil under your house
Adding a room, a deck or a garden wall? We dig, form and pour the footings that carry its weight down to firm ground.
What concrete footings do for your house
Concrete footings are the buried pads and strips of concrete that spread the weight of a wall, a post or a new room into the soil. We pour them in Novato for additions, decks, garages and garden walls. Every one starts the same way. The ground gets dug out and packed firm, the forms go up and steel rebar gets tied in so the concrete holds together under load.
I care most about what's under the footing, because that's the part you can't fix later without tearing it out. We build from the drawings for your project, and I want any soil report in hand before we dig. Drainage and planting close to the house come up in that same talk.
Price moves with how much footing your plans call for, how wide and deep it runs and how hard the digging is. The schedule mostly waits on the drawings and paperwork, then on curing, the time concrete needs to gain strength before anything is built on it. You get your own number at the estimate. If a footing runs under an existing slab, we open it with concrete cutting. If the house is already sinking, foundation raising is the better call.
Concrete footings that fit the ground
Footings are the part nobody sees once the walls go up, so we've built this business since 2023 around getting that hidden work right the first time.
- I size up every job and work alongside the crew
- We're licensed and insured
- Quick, clear answers on what your ground needs
- We bring in an engineer when the ground needs one
How a footing job runs with us
Call or send a message
Reach out by phone or through the form, and tell us what's going on top of the footings and whether you have drawings yet.
I come out and look
I come out myself, walk the site, ask how you'll use what we're building and go over your drawings, then give you an estimate.
We build and walk it with you
Once you say go, we handle the paperwork, prep the ground, pour, clean up and walk the finished footings with you.
Tell us what your footings will carry
Send the address, a rough footing length and any soil report. We reply within one business day, and I come out for a free estimate with no obligation.
Footing questions from Novato homeowners
How much do concrete footings cost in Novato, CA?
Across the US, installed concrete footings usually cost about $5 to $20 per linear foot, counting concrete, labor and digging. A wider, deeper footing on weak soil can cost several times what a shallow one does, so I price your own plans when I come out.
Does my footing contractor need a California license?
Usually, yes. The state licensing board requires one to build or alter a structure if the job needs a building permit, uses hired workers or totals $1,000 or more in labor and materials, and a bigger job can't be split to stay under that. Ask which class they hold, since the board's concrete contractor class covers forming and pouring.
Which footing type works best on clay soil that swells?
Engineering guidance says a pier-and-beam design can work on swelling clay because its shafts pass through the unstable layers, and it keeps shallow footings for sand, gravel or soil that swells little. That kind of clay swells when wet and shrinks when dry, often more than a house can take, so cracked floors and walls are a common result.
What happens if my Novato lot is in a liquefaction zone?
If your lot is in a mapped zone, whoever builds there may be required to study the liquefaction hazard and reduce it during permitting. The state's maps show where a strong earthquake may make the ground lose its strength. When a job needs a permit, we find out which office handles it and put in writing who's pulling it.
More concrete work we do
- Concrete driveway building
- Concrete patio construction
- Stamped concrete services
- Concrete sidewalk building
- Garage floor concrete
- Decorative concrete
- Concrete retaining walls
- Concrete floor installation
- Concrete pool decks
- Concrete steps construction
- Slab foundation building
- Foundation installation
- Concrete parking lot building
- Foundation raising
- Concrete cutting
Talk footings before your build starts
Call (628) 209-1066, email team@novatoconcretecontractor.com or use the form while your plans are still on paper, and I'll come out before anything is poured.
