Concrete Contractor in Rancho Cucamonga - Driveways and Patios That Drain

A lot of Rancho Cucamonga grew fast in the 1970s, when families from Los Angeles and Orange County came looking for homes they could afford, so many of the driveways, walks and patios we see here have been down for decades. By now the usual problems show, like cracks running across the drive, a slab sunk at one corner or water pooling by the garage. Most of the time that goes back to the subgrade, the dirt and gravel the slab sits on, because when we break an old one out we usually find ground that was raked flat instead of dug out and packed. We don't pour over that. We take the ground down, pack a new base and only then form the new slab.

The other thing I check on every lot is where the water goes. A slab that tilts even a little toward the house sends sprinkler runoff and downspout water right at your foundation, so I look at the grade before I measure anything, and we set the forms to carry water away from your walls.

The City of Rancho Cucamonga issues the permits here, so on a job that needs one, the pour date waits on the city's review, not on our crew. When a job needs a permit, we pull it and handle the paperwork with the city. Before you hire anyone, check two licenses, because they're separate. The Contractors State License Board licenses contractors across California, and the city requires its own business license before any company starts work inside the city. We're fully licensed and insured.

What moves the price here is the size of the slab, how much old concrete has to come out and be hauled off, how much base work the ground needs and the finish you pick. The schedule turns on the tear-out, any permit and the cure, the wait while fresh concrete hardens before it can carry weight. I put your own figures in a written estimate after I've seen the lot. We come in from Pomona and work the cities around it, from Montclair to El Monte farther west, with the same crew and the same base work.

Rancho Cucamonga is three older places in one, because Alta Loma, Etiwanda and Cucamonga grew into a single city and each kept something of its old center. We work across all of them, the same as we do in Ontario just south.

Most of our calls here are residential, the driveways, front walks, patios and garage floors that come with a single-family house. Plenty of that concrete is old and some of it is newer, and the job changes with it. An older slab usually means breaking out concrete and rebuilding ground that was never packed right, while a newer lot is more about getting the grade and drainage right the first time. My old boss liked to say concrete remembers everything you did to it, so either way we start underneath.