Concrete contractor in Pomona, CA - driveways, patios and walls built from the base up

A lot of what we break out in Pomona is old concrete poured on dirt that was raked flat instead of dug out and packed. The subgrade, which is just the ground the slab sits on, settles over the years and the slab goes with it, so many older driveways here dip, crack across the middle or tip water back toward the garage. We dig down to firm ground, pack a base in layers and set rebar, the steel that holds a slab together if it cracks, in drives that carry cars. You won't see any of that once it's poured, and it's the last place I'd cut the budget.

Pomona also has a lot of street trees, and the city looks after about 37,000 of them along streets and in parks. Their roots are a common reason we find a walk or driveway apron pushed up near the curb. Since the city looks after those trees, we check with the city before cutting into a parkway tree's roots.

When a Pomona job needs a permit, it comes from the city's Building and Safety Division, which also reviews plans and handles inspections. That puts part of your schedule in the city's hands, because a pour waits on plan review and inspections, and I won't guess at those dates before the city sets them. We pull the permit and line up the inspections, and if the city wants a soils report or an engineer's plans first, I tell you at the start and help you get them. Business licenses in Pomona go through the city too, and it's fair to ask any contractor about theirs. We're fully licensed and insured, with satisfaction guaranteed on every job. Your price mostly comes down to how much old concrete comes out, how much base work the ground needs, the size and thickness of the slab, how easy it is to get a truck to the spot, and the finish you pick. The written estimate spells out each of those for your job.

Pomona is at the east end of where we usually work, and the drive matters because a concrete truck can't sit in freeway traffic with a load turning in the drum. We book the truck around the traffic, and when Fairplex has a big event the streets near it fill up, so we keep pours off those days for jobs close by. The crew you get here is the same one that pours in El Monte and South El Monte, doing the same base work.

Pomona is a big city with a lot of different housing in it. Near downtown and in the older neighborhoods around it, many houses still have their original driveways, front walks and steps, and some sit in the city's historic districts, where new steps and walks should look like they belong with the house. Out toward Phillips Ranch the houses are newer and the lots climb, so yards are terraced and walls and steps carry more of the work. There are also small apartment buildings and commercial lots, which is where our parking lot and walkway calls come from.

Next door in West Covina the hills are similar. Here, on the flat older blocks, a job usually starts with tearing out an old slab and fixing the base under it, and on the slopes it starts with what the ground behind a wall is doing.