Concrete Contractor in Rancho Cucamonga - Driveways and Patios Built on a Solid Base

Much of Rancho Cucamonga filled in quickly in the 1970s, when families from Los Angeles and Orange County came looking for homes they could afford, and growth that fast usually meant flatwork, the driveways, walks and patios around a house, poured on a builder's schedule. I learned this trade pouring for builders, so I know the base under that kind of work was sometimes raked level rather than dug out and packed, and when we break out an older slab here we look at what it was sitting on before we pour anything new. If the budget is tight, I'd ask you to choose a plainer finish before a thinner base, because a finish can be redone later and the base can't be fixed without tearing the slab out again.

Most of the homes we work on here are lived in every day, so the driveway is how the cars get in and the front walk is how everyone gets to the door. We plan the tear-out and the pour around that, keep the street and the neighbors' driveways clear, and clean up the yard before we leave.

Permits for work in Rancho Cucamonga come from the city's Building & Safety office, and the jobs its list names are solar, reroofs and patio covers rather than driveways or patios. That list doesn't settle whether your slab needs a permit, so I check with the city on each job, and where one is needed we handle the application and set up the inspections, though waiting on it can push back the start date. Before you hire anyone, please ask for two things, a state contractor license from the Contractors State License Board and a Rancho Cucamonga business license, because the state license is separate from the city one and one doesn't stand in for the other. We're fully licensed and insured, and we're glad to show you.

The price of a job here turns on the size and thickness of the slab, whether an old one has to come out, how much base work the ground needs and whether the truck can reach the pour or we have to wheel the concrete in. A broom finish, a lightly brushed texture that gives shoes and tires grip, costs less than stamped or colored work. The schedule depends on any city step, our calendar and curing, the days new concrete needs to harden before you use it, and you'll see your own figures on the written estimate I leave after the visit. We come over from La Verne, and our crew does the same work next door in Upland and as far west as El Monte.

Rancho Cucamonga brought together three older communities, Alta Loma, Etiwanda and Cucamonga, and each kept something of its old center as the city grew around it. We work across all three, and the drive from La Verne is about like our jobs in Ontario to the south.

Because the city filled in around those centers at different times, the houses on one street can differ in age and build from the next, and so can the concrete around them. That's why I don't quote from a photo. A driveway on an older lot may need its base rebuilt and the slab regraded to carry water away from the garage, while a newer patio may only need a cracked section cut out and replaced, and I'd rather see which one you have before we talk numbers.