Truecast Rancho Cucamonga Concrete is a concrete contractor based next door in Rancho Cucamonga and working across Fontana, CA. We replace cracked driveways, pour patios, walkways and garage floors, and build footings and foundations.
Fontana is a big city, and the work changes depending on which part you're in. The older neighborhoods tend to have deeper lots, long driveways that have been patched more than once, and backyards with room for a patio, a shop slab or a second unit. Further north, the newer tract homes sit on tighter lots, and the call is more often a wider driveway, a side-yard walkway or a patio that's pulling away from the house. A lot of it looks like what we see in Rialto and in our home city of Rancho Cucamonga.
On the older lots, the first question is what's under the old concrete, because a slab poured over raked dirt years ago usually explains its own cracks. On the newer ones, it's where the water goes, since there's little yard for it to soak into and a slab that falls toward the house sends it right to the foundation.
When a driveway has cracked or sunk, we break it out, dig to firm subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, and pack it before we pour.
Explore serviceYou want a patio that drains away from the house. We set the slope before anything else, then cut control joints, grooves that tell cracks where to go.
Explore serviceStamped concrete gives a slab the look of stone or brick. We settle the pattern and color at the estimate, because neither changes once it sets.
Explore serviceWe pour walkways from the driveway to the front door and down side yards, graded so rain runs off the path instead of pooling at the step.
Explore serviceA garage floor has to carry a car's weight and shed what drips off it. We pour it on a packed base, sloped slightly toward the door.
Explore serviceDecorative work means color, exposed aggregate with the small stones showing at the surface, and contrasting borders. It's a good way to dress up a plain front walk.
Explore serviceWhere a yard steps up or down, a retaining wall holds the soil back. Rebar, the steel inside, and drainage behind the wall decide whether it stays straight.
Explore serviceFor a shop, room addition or outbuilding, we pour interior floors level and trowel them smooth, because indoors you don't need outdoor grip.
Explore servicePool decks get wet bare feet, so we give them a broom finish, a light brushed texture for grip, and slope them away from the water.
Explore serviceSteps need even heights top to bottom or people trip. We form each riser to match before the pour, because a set step can't be adjusted.
Explore serviceSlab foundations for additions, garages and backyard units start with the ground. We dig out, compact and tie in rebar so the slab carries the walls evenly.
Explore serviceFor new construction or an addition, we lay out, form and pour the foundation to your plans, checking every measurement before the truck arrives.
Explore serviceBusiness lots and shared drives take heavier traffic. We build them thicker on a deeper packed base, and plan joints and drainage around how vehicles move.
Explore serviceFootings are the buried concrete under posts, walls and patio covers. We size them for the load they carry, because a shallow footing lets the structure lean.
Explore serviceWhen part of a slab has sunk, raising it can beat tearing it out. I find out why it dropped first, or the lift won't last.
Explore serviceNeed a doorway, a trench for a pipe or a cracked section removed? We saw-cut clean along a marked line, so the rest of the slab stays intact.
Explore serviceFor homes inside Fontana city limits, the city takes the building permit application. If your job needs one, the city's side usually sets the start date more than our crew does, so we apply for it and keep track of it, and you don't have to. The city also requires every business working in Fontana to hold a Fontana business license, even one based somewhere else like us, and it renews every year, so ask any contractor you're comparing whether theirs is current. We're licensed and fully insured.
The price here turns on what's underneath and what's in the way: how much old concrete we break out and haul off, how deep we dig to reach firm ground, how close the mixer truck can get, and whether you want color or stamping over a plain broom finish. On older streets lined with parked cars and on tight tract lots, we work out where the truck sits before pour day, because if it can't reach, we pump or wheel the concrete in, and that adds cost. The schedule turns on the permit, if there is one, and on curing, the days the slab sits untouched while it gains strength. It's the same planning we do just south in Jurupa Valley, and your written estimate spells out what's included so you can see where the money goes.
Tell us what you've got in mind for your driveway, patio or slab, repair or new pour. We reply within one business day to set a time, then I come out to your Fontana property, look at the job myself and write a free estimate that spells out what's included. There's no obligation and no pressure to book, and if you'd rather talk it through, call (909) 552-8210.
(909) 552-8210Let your contractor pull it, because the city's permits page says an owner who gets a permit for a contractor's work takes on the liability for the project, including taxes and personal injury. Once the fees are paid, only the contractor on record or the property owner can sign for the permit, and anyone else needs written permission notarized by one of them. On our jobs, the permit goes in our name.
Fontana's Building & Safety office encourages applicants to set up an account on the Build Fontana Public Portal. Paying permit fees online carries a service fee of 3% plus $0.20 per transaction, or a flat $3.00 if you pay by ACH bank transfer. When we pull your permit, we handle the portal side of it.
It can, because concrete shrinks as it cures and nearly every slab cracks somewhere, but we plan where. Along with the packed base, we cut control joints soon after the pour so cracks land in the grooves instead of running across the middle. I'd rather tell you that now than promise a slab that never cracks.
Longer than it takes before you can walk on it, because the slab has to cure before it can take a car's weight. I'll give you both dates on pour day, since the mix and the weather move them. On a full replacement we can sometimes pour in sections so you keep part of the driveway in use.
We're based in Rancho Cucamonga and take jobs in many cities around it across the Inland Empire. These are the cities with their own page, and if yours isn't listed, call and ask.
Call (909) 552-8210 or send the form, because a base or drainage problem is easy to catch on a walk-through and means breaking out concrete once it's set.
If you're not sure yet what your driveway or patio needs, send us a message and I'll give you a straight answer.
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