Concrete Contractor in Pomona - New Slabs for Older Homes and Tree-Lined Streets

Pomona has a great many trees along its streets, and the city's Street Tree Maintenance Unit looks after about 37,000 public trees in parkways, parks and other city property. When one of those trees stands beside your front walk or driveway apron, its roots are usually what lifted the concrete, and it's a tree the city cares for rather than one you can simply take out. Before we dig, I look at where the roots run, and I'll tell you honestly if a new slab in that spot is likely to be pushed up again.

Much of the housing here is older, and we often find driveways and patios that were poured over dirt raked level instead of dug out and packed. Those slabs settle with the ground, crack in places nobody chose, and sometimes tip water back toward the house. We dig down to firm soil, pack the subgrade, the ground the new slab rests on, and set the grade so water runs to the street or the yard.

Building permits in Pomona come from the city's Building Safety Division, which also reviews plans and sends inspectors out, so a job that needs a permit waits on that review before we start and on the inspections along the way. The exemptions in the city's code name things like short walls and fences rather than driveways or patios, so I'll tell you at the estimate whether I expect your job to need a permit, and if it does, we take care of the application and the inspections. We're licensed and insured, and Pomona also takes local business license applications through the city, which is separate paperwork from a building permit.

As a concrete contractor in Glendora, we work Pomona much as we work West Covina and the other cities nearby, and the price here moves on a few things: the size of the slab, how much old concrete we break out and haul away, how deep we have to dig to reach firm ground, how close a truck can get and the finish you choose. The schedule turns mostly on whether a permit is needed and on the curing time after the pour, and the written estimate I leave you lists what's included so you can see where the money goes.

Pomona is a large, established city on the eastern edge of the San Gabriel Valley, with older houses near downtown, quiet streets lined with parkway trees, apartment buildings and a good many small businesses along the main roads. On our jobs here, that usually means original concrete that has done its time, such as driveways cracked through the middle, front walks lifted by roots and porch steps poured long before anyone thought much about drainage.

We come over from Glendora by way of San Dimas, and we also work next door in Diamond Bar. In Pomona, the job is mostly shaped by what lies under the old concrete and how long it has been there, so most of our work here begins with digging out and rebuilding the base.