Concrete contractor in West Covina - driveways and patios built on a solid base

On the streets that rise toward the San Jose Hills, many lots slope, and rain or sprinkler water runs downhill to whatever sits lowest, often the end of the driveway by the garage or a back patio. If a slab falls toward the house, it carries that water straight to the foundation, so before we set any forms I look at where the water goes now and set the new slab to drain away. Where the yard needs holding back, we plan a proper wall instead of asking the edge of a patio to hold up a hillside.

Summers here run hot, and concrete poured in the midday sun dries on top before it's ready, which leaves a weak, dusty surface later on. We pour in the cooler morning hours and keep the slab damp while it cures, the waiting stretch when concrete gains its strength, so it hardens evenly.

In West Covina, building permits come from the Building Section of the city's Building Division, and whether your driveway, walk or wall needs one turns on its height, where it sits and what it holds back. I check with the city on every job, and where a permit is needed, we handle the application and set up the inspections. That review, when there is one, is the part of the schedule we can't set ourselves, and the rest turns on the weather and on how long the slab cures before it takes weight. The city also requires every business operating in West Covina to hold a city business license, so it's a fair question to put to any contractor you're thinking of hiring, and we're fully licensed and insured. As for price, it moves with the size of the slab, whether old concrete has to be broken out and hauled away, how much digging and packing the ground needs and the finish you choose, and I'll put your figure in writing once I've seen the site.

Our concrete trucks come in on the 10, so I book pours around the freeway's busy hours, because concrete that sits too long in a truck is harder to finish well. It's the same work we do next door in Covina and farther east in Ontario, and what we learn about slopes and old slabs in one city carries over to the next.

West Covina sits in the San Gabriel Valley, between the Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino county areas, and away from the busy shopping along the 10 at Plaza West Covina and Eastland Center, it's mostly a city of single-family homes on residential streets. Many of the houses we're called to have had the same family in them for years, and the driveway, walks and steps often date from when the house went up. We see much the same housing toward El Monte to the west and Pomona to the east.

Because these homes are in daily use, we plan the tear-out so you keep a way in and out, protect the lawn and planters along the edges and sweep the street before we leave each day. On the sloped lots, the ground decides most of the job, so that's where I spend the most time at the estimate.