Concrete Pads and RV Pads in Austin, TX
Heritage Concrete Austin pours concrete pads and RV pads in Austin, Texas: parking pads beside a driveway, pads for RVs and trailers, and slabs for sheds, workshops, hot tubs and equipment. Every new pad counts toward a lot's impervious cover, which Austin caps at 45% on lots zoned SF-2 or SF-3, together with the house and the drive.
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RV pads and parking pads
Thickness for the load
For passenger vehicles in the 3,000-to-6,000-pound range, 4 inches of concrete generally does the job. Large RVs may top 12,000 pounds, and a pad built for one may need 5 or 6 inches of concrete. The Tennessee Concrete Association's figures: a 5-inch slab carries nearly 50% more load than a 4-inch one, for roughly 20% more in concrete cost.
Steel and edges
As a rule of thumb, once a slab is deeper than 5 inches it should have rebar or welded wire fabric, above all under heavy loads. In driveway practice, slabs 4 to 5 inches thick take wire mesh, and slabs of 5 inches or more take ½-inch (#4) bars in a grid about 12 inches apart, set on blocks to keep the steel centered. Edges carry heavy loads with less soil support, so they can be thickened by 1 to 2 inches for the first 4 to 8 inches in.
Where a parking pad can go
Behind the property line, not in front of it. The City may not issue a permit for any project that places parking between the curb, or the edge of the pavement, and the property line. If reaching the pad means a new curb cut, the driveway approach also goes through a transportation review by Austin Transportation & Public Works.
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(512) 588-2862Pads for sheds, shops, hot tubs and courts
Sheds and workshops
Size decides how much paperwork a shed pad brings in Austin. No building permit is needed for a one-story detached accessory building of 200 square feet or less, 15 feet tall at most, that has no plumbing, isn't a dwelling and doesn't sit in a flood hazard area. Up to 500 square feet, a detached single-story garage or shed without plumbing or habitable space is spared the requirement for structural drawings of its foundation and is checked in the field instead. Past that, foundations on expansive soil need engineer-sealed plans from a Texas Registered Engineer. A poured foundation for a 10-by-16-foot shed runs about $825 in Austin (2026).
Hot tubs
A slab carrying a hot tub is generally poured 5 to 6 inches thick, against the 4-inch minimum for an ordinary patio.
Garage floors and courts
A pad that will be walled in later is really a garage floor, which carries its own code rules; see concrete garage floors. A slab for a hoop is a court, and the American Sports Builders Association wants court concrete at least 4 inches thick and 3,000 psi; see concrete basketball courts.
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Base, joints and the ground under a pad
Base
Under a slab, the subbase and base together need at least 4 inches. ACI 302's recommendation for that base is a compactable granular material whose fines run 10 to 30%, with no clay, silt or organic content. On expansive soil, driveway guidance calls for 2 to 8 inches of crushed rock, the amount set by how expansive the soil is, and for digging out soft spots. Base gravel costs $1 to $3 a square foot nationally (2026).
Joints
Control joints should be spaced at most 24 to 36 times the slab's depth, about 10 feet on a 4-inch pad and never past 15, with panels close to square, length no more than 1.5 times the width. Where the pad meets a driveway or a garage slab, an isolation joint lets each one move separately.
Clay to the east, limestone to the west
USDA's soil survey gives the deep east-side clays (Houston Black, Heiden, Ferris and Crawford) its lowest rating, "Very limited", for concrete driveways and sidewalks, citing high shrink-swell. The shallow limestone soils Eckrant and Speck get the same rating for a different reason: hard bedrock within 50 to 100 cm. Those ratings apply to slabs 3 to 6 inches thick, the range most pads fall in. Heritage Concrete Austin checks the base and drainage on your lot at the estimate; for larger slabs, see concrete slabs and foundations.
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Pads outside the city limits
Creedmoor
Heritage Concrete Austin also pours concrete pads in Creedmoor, a city of 458 people at the 2020 Census around Farm roads 1327 and 1625, where no structure or improvement of any type may be built or placed without a permit first. Every accessory structure there needs a permit and an inspection before a certificate of completion is issued, the City's checklist asks for a foundation plan with dimensions and a reinforcement schedule, and any foundation that will carry heavy machinery or equipment must be sealed by a licensed engineer.
Webberville
Fifteen miles east of Austin on Farm Road 969, Heritage Concrete Austin also pours RV pads in Webberville. The village's building permit list names accessory buildings, garages and patios, the residential application fee is $500, and its 2012 Development Guide keeps single-family impervious cover between 10% and 35% in the Uplands zone.
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(512) 588-2862Concrete pad cost in Austin
A small, 120-square-foot pad prices at $9.12 to $11.20 per square foot in Austin-area figures for September 2026, below the same source's national $10.09 to $12.38. A 2024 Austin guide puts an unreinforced pad at $5 to $10 a square foot, a reinforced slab at $6 to $10, with demolition of an old slab at $1.10 to $1.70 for each square foot removed. In 2026 Austin figures, rebar costs an extra $0.50 to $1 a square foot and fiber mesh $2 to $3, and nationally an RV pad sized 200 to 700 square feet costs $1,200 to $8,400 (2026).
None of these is a Heritage Concrete Austin price; they are published averages, and your own estimate costs nothing.
- RV pad (640 sq ft)
- $4,480
- Parking pad (200 sq ft)
- $1,400
- Shed foundation (10 × 16 ft)
- about $825
- Small shed pad (80 sq ft)
- $560
- Garage foundation
- $1,650–$5,800
Average Austin prices, 2026. Not a quote.
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(512) 588-2862Concrete pad and RV pad questions
How much does a 20x20 concrete pad cost?
Four hundred square feet of pad averages about $2,800 in typical Austin-area figures for 2026. With reinforcement, a 2024 Austin guide prices the same 20-by-20 at $3,400 to $5,900.
How much does a 1000 sq ft concrete pad cost?
None of the Austin price guides lists a 1,000-square-foot pad, but one 2024 Austin guide brackets it: a reinforced 30-by-30 slab of 900 square feet costs $7,700 to $13,200, and a 30-by-40 slab of 1,200 square feet costs $10,300 to $17,600. In 2026 figures, a 30-by-30 slab averages about $6,300.
Can I park an RV on my existing driveway?
It depends on the slab. A typical home driveway isn't engineered for heavy vehicles such as a large moving van or construction equipment, and a 4-inch slab is generally sized for vehicles weighing 3,000 to 6,000 pounds, while big RVs can exceed 12,000 pounds.
Does an RV pad need a permit in Austin?
Flatwork on your own lot, clear of the right-of-way, is exempt from a City building permit, though the codes still apply. The catches sit elsewhere: a new curb cut or driveway approach needs a right-of-way permit, the pad counts toward impervious cover, and parking can't go between the curb and the property line. A property owners' association can add rules of its own.
Should a pad have rebar or fiber?
They do different jobs. NRMCA's guidance puts synthetic fibers in at 1 to 2 pounds a cubic yard to curb plastic shrinkage and settlement cracking, and macro-synthetic fibers at about 5 pounds to help with cracks in hardened concrete. Rebar and mesh don't prevent cracking but keep cracks narrow, need at least 2 inches of concrete cover, and are the rule of thumb for any pad deeper than 5 inches.
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Call or send the form with the pad's rough size and what will park or sit on it. Heritage Concrete Austin prices RV pads, parking pads and shed slabs at no charge, at any hour.