Riverside Concrete Pro pours driveways, patios and garage floors in Loma Linda, 11 miles from our Riverside yard up the 215 and the 10. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
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Loma Linda rises from the Santa Ana flood plain at the 10 to the ridge above the campus, and a slab on the flats sits on river alluvium while a slab on the hill sits on a graded cut or fill.
The alluvium along Redlands Boulevard and the older grid around Anderson Street is sandy and drains freely, which is good ground for flatwork and poor ground for a slab poured thin, because sand that is not compacted first shifts under the edge of a driveway and the panel rocks. On the hillside tracts the pad was made by a grader. The cut side of a lot is firm native ground and the fill side is loose material pushed downhill, and a patio that spans the two settles on the fill side.
So we start every Loma Linda job by finding out which ground we are on. On the flats the subgrade is compacted and 4 inches of Class 2 base goes under a 4 inch slab, with number 3 steel on an 18 inch grid. On a hill lot we probe for the cut and fill line before we form, thicken the slab where it crosses, and set a control joint over it so the movement has a straight place to show. The San Jacinto fault crosses the city too, and it changes nothing for flatwork.
Loma Linda is two towns on one lot map. North of Barton Road the streets are a 1950s and 1960s grid of flat lots beside the university, and south of it the tracts climb the hill on cut and filled pads, so one patio is built two ways here.
A driveway on the flats of Loma Linda is usually a 1960s slab that has heaved at the apron. We break out the old panel, compact the sandy subgrade, lay 4 inches of Class 2 base and pour 4 inches with number 3 steel, then cut the joints within 12 hours so it cracks where we chose.
Patios on the hillside streets south of Barton Road are built to the pad the grader left. We probe for the fill side of the lot before we form, thicken the slab to 6 inches where it crosses onto fill, and pitch it away from the house, because on a hill water runs one way.
Stamped concrete in Loma Linda goes on the back patio and the walk to the front door, and ashlar slate is asked for most because it sits well against the stucco of the newer hill houses. We cast it into a 4 inch slab, release it in a second color and seal it in 2 coats.
Sidewalks on the old grid between Redlands Boulevard and Barton Road are city panels, and the one in front of a house becomes the owner's problem where a tree has lifted it. We confirm the line with the city, dowel the new panel into the old and match the broom finish.
Garage floors in the 1950s houses near Anderson Street were poured thin and without steel, and 60 years of cars have cracked them into a map. We break them out, compact the subgrade, pour 4 inches over a vapor barrier and trowel it flat enough to coat.
A plain gray slab on a south facing hill lot in Loma Linda is too hot to stand on by early afternoon in August. We pour decorative work here in a light integral color with a salt or broom finish, which reads cooler underfoot, and run the score lines with the slope.
Retaining walls are what the hill side of Loma Linda needs most, because the tracts were cut in benches and the fence line is often a slope of loose fill. We pour a footing 18 inches into firm ground below the fill, drain the stem with rock and a pipe, and draw it for the city.
Interior floors in Loma Linda are mostly a converted garage or an addition for a relative working at the medical center. We pour a 4 inch slab over a 10 mil vapor barrier, tie it to the existing footing with epoxied dowels, and trowel it flat enough to take tile.
Our yard is in Riverside, 11 miles to the southwest, and the crew drives in on the 215 and east on the 10 to the Tippecanoe and Anderson Street exit. Plans go to the City of Loma Linda Community Development Department, and on the hillside lots the city looks at grading and drainage before it looks at the slab, because the hillside conservation rules govern how much of a slope can be cut. A retaining wall on the hill needs its drawing, a patio on the flats does not.
Loma Linda has more renters than owners, which is unusual for a town of its size, and it comes from the university and the medical center on Barton Road. Many of the houses we work on around Anderson Street and Mountain View Avenue are owned by a landlord in another city who wants the driveway replaced between tenants. Those jobs are scheduled to a move-out date and photographed at every stage, so the owner sees the base and the steel without driving over.
A large share of the town keeps the Sabbath from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, so we book pours here Monday to Thursday, and finish the cut of the joints before Friday afternoon rather than leaving a saw running on a quiet street. Summer runs hot against the hill, so from June to September we pour at first light and cover the slab by noon, and the winter storms off the San Bernardino Mountains decide which weeks in January the flats are too wet to form.
Four stages, one crew, one written figure. The lot is measured and probed on the first visit so the base and the steel are decided before anything is agreed, and the number written on that visit is the number on the invoice.
Marco Delgado measures the area, probes the pad for the cut and fill line, checks the fall away from the house and writes the figure there.
The old slab comes out, soft fill is dug and replaced with firm material, and 4 inches of Class 2 base is laid and plate compacted to the line.
A wall, a footing or a hillside cut goes to the City of Loma Linda Community Development Department. We draw it and meet the inspector.
Most Loma Linda jobs pour on day 2 or 3, joints are cut within 12 hours, and you walk on it after 24 hours and park on it after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to fix a time. The visit, the measure and the written figure cost nothing, and a Loma Linda job is a short drive from our Riverside yard.
Reviews
Our own reviews, left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover from Riverside. Loma Linda is one of them, and the work behind these words is the work described above.
“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 Loma Linda ask before they book, covering what moves the estimate, the city's permit counter, the ground on the flats and on the hill, how long a slab is out of use and the towns beside it.
The ground first, then the area. A patio on a hill lot south of Barton Road takes more work than the same patio on the flats, because the fill side of the pad is dug out and replaced and the slab is thickened where it crosses. Access comes next, since a side yard on a slope means concrete is barrowed rather than chuted. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the figure comes off a tape.
Not for a patio, a walk or a driveway at grade on your own lot. Yes for a retaining wall over 4 feet, any footing carrying a roof, an interior slab, and any cut into a hillside, because the City of Loma Linda Community Development Department reviews hillside work under the conservation rules before it reviews the concrete. We draw it, submit it and meet the inspector for you.
Our yard is in Riverside, 11 miles to the southwest, and the crew comes in on the 215 and the 10 to the Tippecanoe and Anderson Street exit, which is under half an hour outside the morning rush. We call back within 1 business day to book the visit, and once a job is on the calendar the same crew is on site each morning until it is finished, because a crew that changes mid-job is how a slab gets two finishes.
On the flats, yes. The alluvium along Redlands Boulevard is sand and gravel washed down from the San Bernardino Mountains, it drains and it compacts well, so a slab there sits on 4 inches of Class 2 base and stays put. On the hill it depends on where the grader put the fill. A pad is firm on its cut side and loose on its fill side, and a slab that ignores the line between them cracks along it.
A driveway or a patio runs 2 to 3 days on site, and a retaining wall with a patio above it runs a week, because the footing cures before the stem is poured and the stem cures before the backfill goes in. Concrete takes 24 hours before you walk on it and 7 days before a car goes on it. We book Loma Linda pours Monday to Thursday, so nothing is left half cut into the Sabbath.
Yes. Redlands, Colton, Grand Terrace and Highland are on our list from the same Riverside yard, and the Loma Linda work runs into all of them, because a house on Barton Road at the Redlands line and a house in Bryn Mawr are the same ground and the same drive for us. If your street sits on a city line, the permit goes to whichever city the parcel is in, and we check the parcel before we apply.
Loma Linda borders Redlands, Colton and Grand Terrace, with San Bernardino across the 10 to the north. We cover Redlands, Colton, Grand Terrace and Highland from the same Riverside yard, so if your street runs across a city line the next page is yours.
Open the Riverside Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call you back within 1 business day. The measure is free, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.