About AAA Concrete Raising

Family-owned. Denver-based. Lifting Front Range concrete since 1988.

38+ Years on the Front Range
10-yd Material truck, about 2x the norm
Portable Pump brought to the slab
Free In-person estimates

Howard Denton started AAA in 1988. Today the company is owned and run by Trevor Gaines, who took over from Howard and kept everything that made AAA work. The work hasn't changed much since. Estimates still happen in person, with Trevor walking the slab with you, and the truck still pulls up to driveways across the metro most days of the week.

Howard Denton, founder of AAA Concrete Raising
Howard Denton, who founded AAA Concrete Raising in 1988. Trevor Gaines runs the company today.

What we do

We raise sunken concrete back to where it should be. Driveways. Patios. Garage floors. Basement slabs. Sidewalks that became trip hazards. The technical name is mudjacking. We pump a slurry of water and sandy loam soil under the slab through 1-1/2" holes, the slurry fills the void, the slab lifts back to grade, and the holes get patched flush with concrete.

No demolition, no haul-off, no new concrete curing to a different color than the rest of your slab. Timing depends on the job, and Trevor covers it at the estimate.

How we work

Trevor quotes every job in person. Free. He walks the slab with you, measures the drop, checks the drainage, and tells you what to fix and what to leave alone. You get a written estimate, and the price on it doesn't change unless you ask for work that wasn't on the original.

The lift gets its own scheduled day, and Trevor sets that schedule with you at the estimate.

The truck

Our truck carries up to 10 yards of material. That's about two times what other contractors bring. The reason matters: when a crew runs out of slurry mid-lift, the slab settles unevenly while they leave to refill. We don't run out. We finish the job in one sitting.

The pump is the other half of the story. Ours is portable, with a short hose, brought right to the slab. Contractors who park at the street and pump through a long hose are stuck with whatever thin mix will survive the trip. We batch the slurry at the slab, to the thickness your job needs, and fill every void.

The mix

Water and sandy loam soil. That's it. No foam chemicals, no proprietary polymers, no two-part anything. The exact mix changes job to job because soil and slabs change job to job. Once the slurry cures, it's hard, heavy fill, far heavier than foam, which is exactly what you want under a slab in Front Range soil.

The Front Range factor

Colorado clay swells when it's wet and shrinks when it dries. The dry side is what kills slabs. A dry summer pulls moisture out of the soil under your driveway, the soil contracts, and the slab follows the void down. Then a wet spring rehydrates the clay, the soil expands, but it doesn't push the slab back up. It pushes around it. After a few cycles you've got a slab sitting an inch or two below where it started.

The fix isn't replacing the slab. The fix is filling the void with something the soil can't shrink away from. Mudjacking does that. The cured slurry doesn't wash out or shrink the way loose fill does, so a lift done right stops fighting the soil that caused it.

Who we serve

We work the greater Denver metro: Denver, Aurora, Arvada, Lakewood, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Westminster, and Thornton. Not sure whether we reach you? Call and ask.

Most of our customers are homeowners. We also do commercial work for property owners, managers, and HOAs across the metro.

Why we don't do foam

Foam is fine. It's the right tool for some jobs: thin slabs, indoor work, very tight access. We don't use it because for the work we do, the math says concrete every time. Heavier fill holds better in clay, and the long-term hold is what matters under a slab that carries your car.

If a contractor pushes foam for an exterior driveway in Colorado clay, ask them how the whole cavity gets filled. Grouting experts have documented foam lifts that expanded into pedestals at the drill holes and left much of the area underneath untreated. That's not the same as a stabilized slab.

The owner

Trevor Gaines

Owner · AAA Concrete Raising · Denver, CO

Trevor runs every estimate himself. He'll tell you when a lift is the right call, when it isn't, and when you'd be better off replacing the slab. That's the call most contractors won't make. It's why customers come back to us when the next slab moves.

Call Trevor: (303) 526-2222

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