Concrete contractor in Chino, CA - driveways and patios built for the heat

Chino summers are hot. In a normal year about 99 days reach 90 degrees, and 23 of those hit 100 or more. Heat is hard on fresh concrete, because the top dries out before the slab underneath is ready, and a few years later you've got a weak, dusty surface that chips. So in summer we pour early in the morning and keep the slab damp while it cures, which is the slow hardening it does over the first days and weeks. Rushing that part is how you get a driveway that looks fine at the walk-through and tired by the second summer.

The other thing we see a lot here is old slabs poured on a subgrade, the ground a slab sits on, that was only raked smooth instead of dug out and packed. That dirt settles, the slab follows it, and you get the sinking, uneven edges and pooling water people call us about. We dig down to firm ground, pack the base and set the grade so water runs away from the house.

Building permits here come from the city's Building Division, which requires one for all work except what the state codes exempt, so on some jobs the paperwork and inspections set the pace more than the concrete does. When your job needs a permit, we pull it and handle the paperwork with the city. Before you hire anyone for concrete in Chino, ask to see a California contractor license and a City of Chino business license, because the state and the city both require them, and the questions below explain when. The price moves with the size of the slab, how much old concrete has to be broken out and hauled off, how much base work the ground needs and the finish you pick. The schedule turns on the permit, the weather and the cure, and your written estimate puts your own numbers on all of it.

We're based in Pomona, a short run down the 71, and that matters more than it sounds, because in summer we want the truck at your curb and the concrete placed while the morning's still cool. The crew that comes to Chino is the same one pouring driveways and patios in Chino Hills, where hillside lots mean more forming and drainage work, and over in Diamond Bar.

Chino mixes older neighborhoods near the center of town with newer subdivisions to the south like The Preserve, and a lot of industrial and old farm land around the edges. Our calls here usually come from homeowners and split two ways. On the older houses it's a driveway, walkway or garage floor that's had its day, and on the newer tracts it's a patio, a side-yard path or a wider driveway added after the builder left. Property managers and builders call us here too.

Chino borders Ontario to the north, and the houses on both sides of that line give us much the same work. On the older lots most of the job is underneath, getting the base right before anything new goes down, and on the newer ones it's tying fresh concrete into what's already there without sending water toward the house.