Concrete steps construction in Glendora CA - an even climb to your front door

Most people call us when their old steps have cracked, sunk or pulled away from the porch, or when a new door or patio needs a way up, and if a walk leads to the steps, it often makes sense to look at a new sidewalk at the same time. The price mostly turns on how many steps you need and how wide they are, whether they're precast or poured, whether there's a landing, and how much old concrete has to come out first. The schedule turns mostly on curing, the days the concrete is kept moist while it hardens, because the steps shouldn't take regular use until that's done. I'll give you your own figures in a written estimate after I've seen the entry.

I start by talking through precast or poured steps with you, because that choice sets the price and how closely the steps can be fitted to your entry. Then I plan how the steps will be supported underneath, since that decides the footing, the buried base that carries their weight, and the steel that goes inside. Before the forms go up, we lay out the whole rise from the ground to the door, so each step comes out the same height instead of small errors piling up into one tall or short step at the top or bottom. For poured steps, we tear out the old set, dig out and pack the base, set rebar, the steel bars that hold the concrete together, then pour, finish and keep the concrete curing. If the budget gets tight, I'd rather keep the finish plain than cut back on the base, because a nice surface on loose ground still settles and cracks, and the base can't be fixed later without tearing the steps out.

Steps often connect to other concrete work. When a new addition or garage needs a slab, we can plan the steps along with the slab foundation building so the two meet at the right height, and when steps tie into a house that's getting new footings or walls, we work them out alongside the foundation installation.

In California, concrete contractors are licensed by the state's contractor license board, and that license covers the people who form, pour, place, finish and install concrete. If you're hiring a general builder for a remodel in Glendora, a contractor with a B license may take on a set of concrete steps only if it holds the concrete classification itself or hands that part to a properly licensed specialty contractor. Please ask whoever you hire which license covers the concrete before you sign, and I'm glad to answer the same question at your estimate.

Most of the step jobs we see around Glendora are front entries on older houses, where the original steps have settled away from the porch, along with new steps from a back door down to a patio. We're based in Glendora and work across the cities around it in the San Gabriel Valley and the Pomona area, and we see the same kinds of entries on jobs in San Dimas and Covina.