Our Riverside yard works north across the county line into Chino most weeks, driveways, patios, garage floors and slabs, from the pre-war lots off D Street to the new streets built on the old dairy preserve.
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Chino is 15.8 miles from our Riverside yard, north across the San Bernardino County line, and it is a town of about 89,797 people on ground that was dairy pasture inside living memory.
South Chino was the Agricultural Preserve, and the tracts going in there stand where corrals, feed lots and irrigation ran for decades. Organic material rots and keeps compressing under load, so it does not turn into a subgrade by being rolled, it has to be over-excavated and replaced with imported base compacted in lifts. Leave it and the slab above settles unevenly within a few winters, a crack no thickness of concrete prevents. Your own parcel is mapped on the USDA Web Soil Survey.
The second reading is water. Agricultural ground in Chino holds a shallow water table in places, and a high one changes the base depth, the sheeting under an interior slab and where the yard is graded to send storm water. Two houses on one block can want different answers, which is why nothing here is priced off a plan. Riverside Concrete Pro puts the figure on paper at the property, Every estimate is measured and written on site, and that figure is what the work is built to.
Eight jobs, on a town where a 1920s lot near the civic center and a house finished last year on reclaimed pasture need two different things done under the slab before anything is poured.
Chino drives split two ways. On the downtown lots it is a long narrow run beside the house, poured before reinforcement was standard and cracked end to end. On a Preserve tract the run is short, but the ground under it was farmed, so the base is rebuilt before the forms go in.
A Chino back yard faces heat from June into September, and shade is why most patios here get poured at all. We set the slab to fall a quarter inch to the foot away from the house, which matters on the southern streets, where the ground underneath takes its time letting water go.
Stamped work gets asked for most on the older Chino frontages, where a plain gray apron sits badly against a 1930s porch and its brick. We stamp and integrally color in the same pour, so the pattern belongs to the slab rather than sitting on top of it waiting to wear through.
The walk and the drive approach at a Chino curb are public, so a replaced panel is inspected by the city, not signed off by us. Downtown the parkways are narrow and planted, and a lifted panel brings its neighbor out with it, because the fall has to be right across the run.
Older Chino garages sit on a thin pad laid on farm soil, and where the water table is close the slab draws moisture up through it all winter. Salt blooms on the surface and coatings lift. We dig out, compact base, lay sheeting under the pour and finish flat enough to work on.
Decorative concrete in Chino is a question of what stands next to it: an exposed aggregate field against a 1940s brick porch downtown, or a saw-cut grid with a border color on the wider frontages south of Pine Avenue. That choice is made at the estimate, with the house in view.
Chino is close to flat, so a wall here is rarely holding a hillside back. It holds a raised planter, a low terrace left from a field, or the step where a graded pad meets ground nobody cut. We take the footing down to firm material and run gravel and a drain behind the stem.
Interior floors in Chino go into garage conversions, new units on the deep downtown lots, and the small industrial bays by the airport. We pour on a sealed barrier and grind flat, because vinyl plank and tile telegraph every hollow and nobody lifts a floor to fix the base.
Permits are pulled from the Building Division at the City of Chino, and work reaching the parkway, the curb or the public walk needs Public Works to issue for the right-of-way on top of that. Chino is San Bernardino County and our yard is not, so the plan check and the inspection routine are not the ones we follow at home. We file both applications, post what the checker asks for, and meet the inspector at the pour. You never stand at the counter.
The town reads as three ages of building. The original grid around D Street is pre-war and early post-war: bungalows on deep lots, a detached garage at the back and drives a foot narrower than anything built since. Above that sits 1960s to 1980s tract housing, whose flatwork is now at the end of its service life. Under the Kimball Avenue line the streets went in after 2005 and are still filling in, on land that was pasture while the houses to the north were already a half-century old.
Chino is one of the 20 towns we cover, and one of the few that means leaving Riverside County, up the 71 from the 60, about half an hour from the yard. Chino Hills is over the ridge to the south west, Montclair and Upland run north along the foothills, and Eastvale is back across the river on our own side. All four are ours, so a crew booked in Chino on the Tuesday is not making a special run for one drive approach on the Wednesday.
Four stages. The middle two are where a Chino job differs from one at home: a second county's counter issues the permits, and how much ground comes out before the pour is settled on the property rather than on the phone.
We answer within 1 business day and book a visit to your Chino address, usually inside the same week you call.
We open a hole to see what is under the existing slab, read the fall and the moisture, and write the figure before leaving.
We apply to the Building Division, add the right-of-way permit where the work meets the curb, and set a start date once both are back.
Break out, base, steel, pour and finish. We walk it with you, give the dates it can take weight, and close the permit out.
Give us the address and what you want built. We come out, look under whatever is there now, and hand you a written figure at the property, nothing owed for the visit, and no drawings needed to get one.
Reviews
Reviews left by owners across the 20 towns we work from Riverside, Chino among them. Every job behind one of them was measured on the property first, and built to the figure written there that day.
“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.”
Six things that come up on a Chino estimate: what decides the number, which counter issues the permit, how long a crew from Riverside takes to reach you, and what a century of pasture does under a slab.
How much unsuitable ground has to come out and be replaced, first and largest. Then the thickness and the steel the use calls for, then access for a mixer and a saw, then whether the work touches public right-of-way and adds a second permit. At a Preserve address the excavation and imported base often outweigh the concrete itself; on a D Street lot it is the demolition of what is already there.
The Building Division at the City of Chino, because Chino sits in San Bernardino County rather than the Riverside County our yard is in. Structural slabs and retaining walls are permitted there, and anything crossing the parkway or the walk needs Public Works to issue for the right-of-way as well. We file on the day a job is signed rather than the week the crew is due, since the plan check sets the start date.
About half an hour from the Riverside yard, 15.8 miles up the 71, outside the commute peaks. We reply to every inquiry within 1 business day and an estimator is normally at a Chino address inside the same week. The distance changes nothing after the pour either: a slab finished in a hot Chino week is looked at the following morning, and that is a booked visit rather than a favor.
It decides how the job gets built. Ground that carried stock and feed for decades holds organic material that keeps compressing under load, so a slab laid straight onto it settles at a different rate every few feet. The answer is removal and replacement with compacted base, not more concrete over the top. It counts most on the newer streets south of Pine Avenue, where the pasture was built on most recently.
Break-out and base take a day or two, the pour is one day, and the joints are cut the same afternoon. Stay off it for 24 hours, keep cars off for seven days, and it reaches its design strength at 28 days. Through a Chino August we wet-cure longer to slow the set, which does not move those dates but does mean the crew is back on your street to do it.
Yes. Chino is one of 20 towns inside the 25 mile radius we work from Riverside. Chino Hills over the ridge, Montclair and Upland along the foothills and Eastvale on the far side of the river are all on that list, and being booked in two of them in one week is what keeps a Chino start date from moving. Each has its own ground and its own counter, so each is quoted on its own.
Chino sits near the northern edge of the 25 mile radius we work from our Riverside yard. The towns below are the rest of that list, ordered by how far they are from the yard.
Open the Riverside Office in Google Maps Tell us what you want poured and where it goes. A visit to a Chino address is usually inside the same week, the figure is written at the property, and the ground work it needs is in that figure rather than found later.