Cracked, sinking or pooling driveway? We build a new slab made for what you park, graded so rain runs to the street.
Concrete driveway building in Rancho Cucamonga is the whole job of preparing the ground, then forming, pouring and finishing a new slab that slopes toward the street, so you end up with a driveway that carries your vehicles and sends rain away from the house and garage.
Most calls start with a driveway that's cracked, sunk in spots or holding water by the garage door. Usually the concrete isn't what failed. The dirt under it was raked flat instead of dug out and packed, so it settled, or nobody checked where the water would run before the pour.
The price comes down to the size, how thick it is, whether it needs steel and whether the old driveway has to come out first. The schedule turns on whether your job needs a permit, a good day to pour and the cure before you can drive on it. Your own number comes in the written estimate after I've seen the site.
You deal with me from the first visit to the final walk-through. Call (909) 552-8210 or use the form below to set up a visit.
I've looked at every job myself since I started this business in 2013, and I'll ask what the driveway has to carry and how you use it. You get a written estimate that lists what's included, so you can lay it next to anyone else's.
Our own trained crew does the work, and I'm on site running it. The person who made the calls at the estimate is there when the truck pulls up.
When the forms come off, I walk the driveway with you and answer whatever you want to know. We're licensed and fully insured, and our word on the work is satisfaction guaranteed.
The first thing I ask is what you'll park on it, because a driveway has to hold up under whatever sits on it, and that answer drives our talk about thickness and steel. Steel, either wire mesh or rebar, which is steel bar set inside the slab, adds strength and matters most for heavy traffic, but it holds cracks together rather than stopping them. Then we dig out the soft dirt and pack a base that's the same all the way across, swapping soft spots for gravel or crushed rock, because uneven ground under a slab is what lets it settle and crack. If the budget's tight, the base is not where I cut. Nobody sees it on day one, and a nice finish over a bad base still sinks. We grade the whole thing so rain heads to the street instead of back at your garage.
Plenty of people do more of the yard while we're there. The same base work and grading carry straight over to concrete patio construction, and if you want the driveway to be more than plain gray, our stamped concrete services add pattern and color to the slab.
Most of a driveway's life is decided before the truck shows up. Once concrete sets, changing it means breaking it out, so we take these steps in order and get each one right.
If there's a driveway there now, we break it out and haul it off so the new one starts on clean ground. That's also when we see what the old base looked like, and it usually explains the cracks.
We dig to depth, pack the base and set the forms with the fall toward the street built in. I check the grade before anything gets poured, because a slab that tips toward the house can't be fixed with a trowel.
We pour when the day suits it, early on a hot one, because concrete placed in midday heat can end up with a weak, dusty top. Then we give it a broom finish, a light texture dragged across the surface so tires and shoes grip when it's wet.
We cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a place to crack along a line we chose, and they help keep random cracks from showing up. Concrete can still crack, and I'll tell you that straight, but a random crack is usually something you see, not a structural problem, and it doesn't shorten the driveway's life.
Tell us about the driveway and we'll get back to you within one business day to set a time. I'll come out, look at the site and leave you a free written estimate, with no pressure to book. Rather talk it through? Call (909) 552-8210, any day from 8 AM to 9 PM.
(909) 552-8210In the San Bernardino area a concrete driveway usually costs about $7 to $13 per square foot, not counting removal of an old one. Steel costs more per square foot than plain concrete, and tearing out the old driveway adds to the bill on a replacement. That's what the work runs in the area, not our price, so the written estimate after I've been out is the number to go by.
Thick enough for what you park on it, and for a lot of driveways that comes down to 4 inches or 5. Going to 5 inches adds about 20% to the concrete cost but lets the slab carry nearly 50% more weight. If you've got a truck, a trailer or anything heavy, that extra inch is usually money well spent.
Plan on at least a week before anyone drives on it. Curing is the slow hardening after the pour, and the slab needs that time to gain strength, so line up a spot on the street or somewhere else to park for that week.
We're based in Rancho Cucamonga and take driveway jobs in many cities around it across the Inland Empire, including Upland, Ontario, Fontana and Chino. If your driveway needs a permit, we apply for it with the city and keep track of it, so you don't have to. In Rancho Cucamonga, Building and Safety takes all permit applications online through its permit center.
California law counts building or replacing a driveway on a home as home improvement work, and the state licenses concrete contractors for forming, pouring and finishing pavement and flat concrete work like driveways. Someone without a license can only take a job under $1,000, and only when it needs no permit and they have no one working for them, which leaves out just about any driveway.
Call (909) 552-8210 or send the form with the driveway's rough size, whether the old one comes out and what you'll park on it, and I'll come out ready to talk specifics.
If you're still deciding on thickness or steel, reach out and I'll talk it through with you.
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