Do you pour slabs to an engineer's drawing?

Yes — for house, shed and suspended slabs that drawing governs thickness, reinforcement and footings, and it's what we price from. Send it through with your enquiry if you have it.

How big a shed slab can you do?

Shed slabs and aprons of 340, 410, 490 and 640 m² are on our feed, plus a 1,300 m² acreage driveway poured in sections. Large pours are planned around pump and truck access, and we bring the crew to finish them before they go off.

Can you do a suspended slab?

Yes, working alongside your builder — we've poured a suspended slab over a garage and wine cellar. Suspended work is sequenced with the build, so it gets programmed rather than squeezed in.

How long before we can build on it?

Concrete reaches its design strength at 28 days, though builders are often back on a slab well before that depending on what the engineer and the builder allow. We'll give you the timing for your pour.

What do you actually pour?

Driveways, paths, house and shed slabs, suspended slabs, pool surrounds, stairs, retaining walls and outdoor seats — across Lake Macquarie, the Central Coast & Newcastle. Most of the work is decorative: exposed aggregate first, then coloured, plain broomed, and honed or polished finishes.

Which exposed aggregate mixes do you use?

The ones you see on the jobs here: 100% Cowra white with oxide, 100% ivory with arctic oxide, 80% Cowra white / 20% basalt with black oxide, and the darker “ocean floor” blend of 80% limestone / 20% basalt. We'll bring samples so you choose the stone and the oxide against your house colours, not off a screen.

How do I get a quote?

Call, email or use the form and we'll come out, measure the job and talk through finishes on site. Quotes are free. If you've got plans or an engineer's drawing, send them through — for a slab that's what we price from.

Yes. East Edge Concreting Pty Ltd holds NSW Contractor Licence 478830C (class General Concretor) with Cameron as the nominated supervisor. ABN 38 663 400 477. You can verify the licence on the NSW Fair Trading register.

Do you do big slabs and acreage driveways?

Yes — shed slabs and aprons of 340, 410, 490 and 640m² are on the feed, along with a 1,300m² acreage driveway poured in sections and a suspended slab over a garage and wine cellar. Big pours are planned around pump and truck access, and we bring the crew to finish them properly before they go off.

Can you do the surround for a new pool?

That's a specialty. Exposed aggregate or a honed seamless-edge surround — including circle pools with a waterfall edge — with proper falls and drainage away from the water. We also make stainless-steel skimmer and inspection lids so there's no plastic square in the middle of your finish.

Who turns up on the day?

Cameron and his own crew, in the signwritten East Edge trucks. The person who quoted it is on the pour.

How long until we can use it?

You can generally walk on a new slab or driveway the next day and drive on it after about a week, with sealing on exposed aggregate once it has cured — we'll give you the exact timing for your job and the weather when we pour.

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Lake Macquarie, the Central Coast & Newcastle

Concrete slabs — house, shed & suspended

From a granny-flat slab to a 640 m² shed and a suspended slab over a garage and wine cellar — poured to the engineer's drawings, machine-floated flat.

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Large shed slab poured by East Edge on Hunter acreage, machine-floated flat

The slabs we've poured

Shed slabs and aprons at 340, 410, 490 and 640 m² are on the feed, alongside house slabs, granny flats and a suspended slab over a garage and wine cellar. Big pours get planned around pump and truck access before anyone books a truck.

House slabs and granny-flat slabs
Shed slabs and aprons, including large acreage sheds
Suspended slabs, working alongside the builder
Garage slabs and extensions onto existing work

Poured to the drawings

A slab is an engineered element, not a decorative one. Thickness, mesh or bar, footing depths and any piers come off the engineer's drawing for your site and its soil classification. We pour to that drawing, and if something on site does not match it we stop and get it resolved rather than guess.

If you have plans or an engineer's drawing, send them with your enquiry — for a slab that is exactly what we price from, and it means the quote you get is a real number rather than a rate per square metre with conditions attached.

Access and pumping

Most of the difficulty in a big pour is getting concrete to the far corner before it goes off. We plan the truck positions and whether a line pump or a boom pump is needed as part of quoting, not on the morning.

Where a slab is too large to finish by hand in the time available, we bring the crew and the machines to float it properly. A slab that has been finished late never flattens out afterwards.

What a slab quote covers

Site prep, formwork, steel to the drawing, the pour, the finish and the clean-up. What varies between quotes is usually what is excluded — excavation, spoil removal, piering, plumbing penetrations or a termite barrier. Ours says which of those are in and which are not, so you can compare it with someone else's properly. There is a longer explanation of slab types and what a per-square-metre figure does and does not include in the journal.

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Common questions

Do you pour slabs to an engineer's drawing?: Yes — for house, shed and suspended slabs that drawing governs thickness, reinforcement and footings, and it's what we price from. Send it through with your enquiry if you have it.
How big a shed slab can you do?: Shed slabs and aprons of 340, 410, 490 and 640 m² are on our feed, plus a 1,300 m² acreage driveway poured in sections. Large pours are planned around pump and truck access, and we bring the crew to finish them before they go off.
Can you do a suspended slab?: Yes, working alongside your builder — we've poured a suspended slab over a garage and wine cellar. Suspended work is sequenced with the build, so it gets programmed rather than squeezed in.
How long before we can build on it?: Concrete reaches its design strength at 28 days, though builders are often back on a slab well before that depending on what the engineer and the builder allow. We'll give you the timing for your pour.