Concrete parking lot building in La Verne CA - a lot that drains and holds its shape

Most owners who call us either have a lot that has started to puddle and break up, or open ground beside a building that now needs parking. The price moves with the size of the lot, the slab thickness the engineers call for, how much old pavement and loose ground has to come out, and the drainage and striping the plan shows. The schedule turns on having the design ready, the city's steps and curing, the wait while new concrete hardens before cars can use it, and your own price comes in the written estimate I leave after visiting the site.

Before I price a parking lot, I ask for the engineers' design and a sense of how many cars you expect, because those set the thickness, the drainage and the joint layout we're building to. On site, our crew digs out to the subgrade, the ground the slab will rest on, then brings in base rock and packs it in layers so the lot doesn't settle along with the dirt underneath. We set the forms to the drainage grades on the plan and place rebar, the steel that holds the slab together across a crack, wherever the design calls for it. We pour in the cooler part of the day, because concrete placed in midday heat can set up with a weak, dusty top, and we give it a broom finish, a light texture that gives tires and shoes some grip. We cut the control joints, the straight grooves that tell the slab where to crack, as soon as the concrete will take the saw, and we plan them to line up with your stalls and lanes so they read as part of the layout. If the budget gets tight, I'd rather keep the base work and simplify the finish, because the base is hidden on the first day and it's the part that decides how the lot looks years from now.

A parking lot usually comes with other concrete around it. Light poles and sign posts sit on concrete footings, and we can set those during the same job so they're in before the slab goes down. If the building beside the lot shows signs of settling, we'd look at foundation raising first, so the new pavement meets a building that has stopped moving.

The City of La Verne decides which permits your parking lot needs, so we check with the city before every job rather than guess. The city's permits include ones for heavy hauling and for encroachment, and where a permit applies to your lot, we handle the application and set up the inspections. We're based in La Verne and work across the cities around it, so these city steps are a normal part of how we plan a lot here.

Lots here usually sit right against a building that stays open while we work, with neighbors, deliveries and customers coming and going. We plan where the trucks stand and how people reach the door during the pour, and we leave the street and sidewalk clean each day, the same way we work on jobs in Pomona and Claremont.