Riverside Concrete Pro pours driveways, patios and carport pads in Calimesa, 20 miles east of our Riverside yard on the 10. Every estimate is measured and written on site, free.
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Calimesa sits at about 2,400 feet, high enough that winter nights drop below freezing. Water in a green slab freezes, and a pour that ignores the calendar scales at the surface by its second winter.
The ground is the other half. Calimesa is an alluvial bench below the Yucaipa hills, and what comes out of a trench is decomposed granite with cobble through it, firm where it has never been disturbed and loose wherever a park pad or a tract lot was cut and filled. Decomposed granite drains fast and compacts hard, which is why old carport slabs along Calimesa Boulevard have lasted, but the fill at the edge of a graded pad does not, and that is where a patio drops at its outer corner.
So the season and the subgrade set the method. From November to March we pour after the frost lifts and blanket the slab overnight, and from June to September we start early, because the wind that comes through the San Gorgonio Pass dries a surface before it is finished. Under every slab the loose material is dug out, 4 inches of Class 2 base is plate-compacted, number 3 steel runs on an 18-inch grid, and every joint is cut inside 12 hours so the cold has a straight line to work on.
Calimesa splits in two at the freeway. South of the 10 it is carport pads, ramped walks and patio slabs in the manufactured home parks along Calimesa Boulevard. North of it, the mesa tracts want the back yard the builder never poured.
Driveways in Calimesa are replacements on the south side, where an old slab has broken up under a truck it was never built for, and widenings north of the 10 where the builder poured to the minimum. Both get 4 inches on compacted base, 5 where a trailer parks, jointed at 10 feet.
A patio is the job the mesa tracts ask for most, because Summerwind Trails and JP Ranch lots were handed over with a slab the width of the back door and dirt beyond it. We pour 4 inches on compacted base, dowel into the builder slab so the two move together, and grade it to fall.
Stamped patterns are asked for in Calimesa to match the paver aprons the tract builders laid at the front. We cast ashlar or running bond into a 4-inch slab and seal it in 2 coats, which matters more here than lower in the valley, because a sealed surface sheds frost.
Park walks in Calimesa are ramped as often as stepped, because so many homes along Calimesa Boulevard are in communities for residents over 55. We pour them at a gradient a scooter climbs, broom the surface for grip on a frosty morning, and dowel the new panel into the old.
A garage floor in Calimesa is a carport pad on the south side or a builder slab on the north, and both want a flat, dry surface to coat. We moisture-test first, because decomposed granite drains but fill does not, and grind the slab flat before an epoxy goes down.
Decorative work in Calimesa leans to integral color in earth tones, because the hills are the palette people match and a light slab reads cooler on a 100-degree afternoon. Salt and broom finishes are chosen over a smooth trowel, which turns slick under winter frost.
Lots on the mesa north of the 10 were cut into a slope, so many back yards end in a bank the builder left as dirt. A wall in Calimesa is footed into the firm decomposed granite below the fill and drained behind the stem, and over 4 feet it goes to the city with an engineer sheet.
Interior slabs in Calimesa are casitas, workshops and the floor under a manufactured home set on a permanent foundation. We pour over a 10 mil vapor barrier on compacted base, trowel it flat enough for tile, and cut the joints on a grid that suits the room.
We drive in from Riverside up the 215 and out the 10 through Redlands, about 40 minutes, and leave the freeway at Calimesa Boulevard or County Line Road. Permits go to the City of Calimesa Building and Safety Division, and where a job sits in a manufactured home park the park office signs off as well, so we submit to both before a date is set. The city only incorporated in 1990, so a slab older than that was permitted by Riverside County and its record is thin.
South of the freeway the older city runs along Calimesa Boulevard, the road that was Highway 99 before the 10 was built, and a large share of the homes on it are manufactured, many in parks for residents over 55. The concrete there is a carport pad, a ramped walk to the door and a patio slab beside the coach, poured to the park setback and sized for a mobility scooter as often as a car. Access is by the park streets, so a mixer reaches nearly every space.
North of the 10 the tracts at Summerwind Trails and JP Ranch went up on graded mesa in the last few years, and each lot came with a driveway, a slab the width of the back door and nothing else. That is where we pour patios, side-yard walks and the low walls that hold a rear slope, and the grading plan the builder filed tells us where the fill is. Lots on that side fall toward San Timoteo Canyon, and a slab graded to the same fall keeps runoff off the pad.
Four stages with one crew, and the same written figure from the first visit to the last day. Calimesa adds a step in the winter months, a frost blanket over the fresh pour, and a signature from the park office where the home sits in one.
Marco Delgado measures the area, probes the subgrade, checks the fall toward the canyon side and notes whether a park office has to sign.
We file with the City of Calimesa Building and Safety Division where the job needs it, and bring the park's own form for you to sign.
Loose fill comes out to firm decomposed granite, 4 inches of Class 2 base is plate-compacted, and steel is tied on an 18-inch grid.
Most Calimesa jobs take 2 to 3 days. In winter the slab is blanketed for 3 nights. Walk on it after 24 hours, park on it after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. We measure on site, write the figure before we leave the lot, and are on the 10 through Calimesa most weeks of the year.
Reviews
Our own reviews, left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover. Calimesa is one of them, and the slabs behind these reviews were poured the way this page describes.
“Our 1920s place in the Wood Streets had a driveway that was more crack than concrete. They took out 480 square feet, dug the old fill out to firm ground and poured 5 inches. Marco was there for the pour and the joints were cut the same afternoon.”
“The city tagged the sidewalk panel outside our house on Magnolia. Riverside Concrete Pro pulled the encroachment permit, met the inspector and poured the 5-foot section to the cross slope the city wanted. I never had to go to the counter myself.”
“We wanted a patio behind the house in Canyon Crest that would take the afternoon sun. They poured 380 square feet in a broom finish, cut the joints on a 10-foot grid and sealed it at 28 days. Two summers on it has not moved a millimeter.”
What people in Calimesa ask before they book, covering what moves the estimate, the city and park approvals, the ground under the mesa, how the cold changes the pour and how far we travel to get here.
Area first, then what is under it. A carport pad in a park along Calimesa Boulevard sits on ground that has carried a slab for decades, so tear-out is the main labor. A patio on a new lot north of the 10 needs the edge fill dug out before base goes down, which adds a day. Thickness, steel and finish move it after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the figure comes off a tape.
Not for flatwork at grade on your own lot. Yes for a retaining wall over 4 feet, a footing that carries a roof or a carport, and anything in the public right-of-way along Calimesa Boulevard. Those go to the City of Calimesa Building and Safety Division in Riverside County, and we file them. In a manufactured home park the park office approves the plan as well, and we take it to them first.
It sets the calendar. At 2,400 feet the town sees frost most winters, and fresh concrete that freezes in its first night loses strength at the surface for good. From November to March we pour after 9 in the morning once the ground has warmed, cover the slab with an insulated blanket overnight, and keep the blanket on for 3 nights. The pour itself is the same. The wait before we start is what changes.
Decomposed granite with cobble, carried down off the Yucaipa hills. Undisturbed it drains fast and compacts hard, which is why the old carport slabs on the south side have outlasted the coaches that stood on them. Where a tract lot or a park pad was cut and filled the edge is loose, so we probe the subgrade before the base goes down and dig out whatever moves under the bar.
Most jobs run 2 to 3 days on site, and a full driveway with tear-out runs 4. Concrete needs 24 hours before you walk on it and 7 days before a car parks on it, and in the winter months both stretch by a day because a slab cures slower in the cold. Joints are cut within 12 hours of the pour, which is what keeps the cracks in straight lines.
Yes. Yucaipa is across County Line Road in San Bernardino County, Beaumont and Cherry Valley are the next exits east on the 10, and Redlands is the next city west. We reach all of them from the same Riverside yard on the same freeway. Cherry Valley is unincorporated, so its permits go to Riverside County rather than to a city counter.
Calimesa borders Yucaipa at County Line Road, Beaumont at the next interchange east and unincorporated Cherry Valley between them, and we cover all three from Riverside. If your street sits on the county line, the page next door may be the one you want.
Open the Riverside Office in Google Maps Send the form and we will call back within 1 business day to book it. The figure is written on site and the work has a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.