Riverside Concrete Pro pours driveways, patios and garage floors across Perris, 17 miles down Interstate 215 from our Riverside yard. Every estimate is measured and written on site, free.
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The Perris Valley is a flat floor of fine alluvium between granite hills, farmed and irrigated for a century before it was built on. Under most yards here is silt that holds water, not rock.
Silt is the difficult ground for a slab because it does two things a sandy fan does not. It swells when the winter rain sits in it, since the valley floor is flat and drains slowly, and it shrinks and turns to dust in a summer that runs past 100 degrees for weeks at a time. A driveway poured straight onto it lifts a little every January and drops every August, and the crack that opens after 3 or 4 of those cycles runs wherever the movement was greatest, never where a joint was cut.
So the base does the work the ground will not. We strip the silt to firm material, lay 4 inches of Class 2 base and plate-compact it in 2 lifts, and run number 3 steel on an 18-inch grid so that a slab which moves at all moves as one piece. On the old lots near downtown the tear-out comes first, because a 1950s slab poured with no base at all is what most of them are sitting on, and a new slab built on a broken one inherits every crack in it.
Perris is two towns. The blocks around D Street have slabs old enough to have failed, and the tracts north of Nuevo Road have yards the builder left as dirt. The work follows that split, replacement in the old grid and first pours in the new.
Driveways in the old grid south of Nuevo Road are the job Perris asks for most, because the slabs there went down in the 1950s with no base and the valley silt has been lifting them since. We break out the old one, compact 4 inches of Class 2 base and pour 4 inches with steel.
Patios in May Ranch and the newer tracts start from bare graded dirt, because the builders handed over a 10 foot slab at the back door and nothing else. We strip the silt to firm ground, compact 4 inches of base, and dowel the new slab to the builder's so the two move together.
Stamped concrete in Perris is asked for at the front of the house, where the association wants the drive to read as pavers. We cast ashlar or running bond into a 4 inch slab, color it through so a chip never shows gray, and seal it in 2 coats against a sun past 100 degrees.
Sidewalks along the older Perris streets sit in the public right-of-way, so a lifted panel outside your fence is a permit and an inspection, not just a pour. We file with the City of Perris Building and Safety Division, dowel the new panel to the old, and match the score lines.
Garage floors in the old blocks around D Street were poured thin and with no vapor barrier, so they sweat in January and dust in August. We break out the old slab, lay a 10 mil barrier over compacted base, and pour 4 inches troweled flat enough to coat after 28 days of drying.
A plain gray slab in a Perris back yard is too hot to stand on by mid afternoon from June to September. We pour a light integral color with a salt or broom finish, which stays several degrees cooler underfoot than a dark stamped surface, and cut the joints as part of the pattern.
The tracts on the north side of Perris were cut into the toe of the hills below Lake Perris, so a yard that looks flat steps 3 or 4 feet at the fence. A wall there is footed 18 inches into firm material, drained behind the stem with gravel and pipe, and permitted over 4 feet.
Converted garages and detached units are the growth in Perris, where the older lots are large enough for a second dwelling, and both need a slab someone will live on. We pour over a 10 mil vapor barrier on compacted base, trowel it flat for tile, and joint it on the room's grid.
Our yard is on Chicago Avenue in Riverside, and the drive to Perris is the 60 to Interstate 215 and south, about 25 minutes to the D Street exit. Permits go to the City of Perris Building and Safety Division, which handles flatwork at the counter and sends an inspector out for footings and walls. We have stood at that counter often enough to know what it wants drawn, so the application is ours to make and not yours.
The city grew in two pushes and they meet at Nuevo Road. South of it, the grid around D Street and 4th Street was laid out along the railroad in the 1880s, and the houses on it date from the 1920s to the 1960s, on lots wide enough to back a mixer in. North of it, May Ranch and the Villages of Avalon went up after 2000 on graded pads with side yards under 6 feet, where the concrete is barrowed in through a gate and the same patio takes a day longer.
Lake Perris sits at the north end of the city behind Perris Dam, and the valley floor falls gently south and west toward the San Jacinto River, so a yard that looks flat still has a direction to drain and we grade every slab to use it. The calendar is the valley's. Winter nights on the floor drop to frost, which stops a pour, and the summer runs past 100 degrees from June to September, so in those months we pour at first light and keep the slab wet through the afternoon.
Four stages, one crew from our Riverside yard, and one written figure. The measure happens on your lot before anything is agreed, so there is never a second number later in the week.
Marco Delgado measures the area, probes the silt for soft ground, checks the fall and photographs the side access before the figure is written.
The old slab and the topsoil come out, the silt is cut to firm material, and 4 inches of Class 2 base goes down in 2 plate-compacted lifts.
We file with the City of Perris Building and Safety Division where the job needs it, and we meet the inspector at the footing, not you.
Most Perris jobs take 2 to 3 days on site. Walk on the slab after 24 hours, drive on it after 7 days, and the lot is swept behind us.
Call or send the form and we call you back within 1 business day to set the visit. The measure and the written figure cost nothing, and a crew of ours is in Perris most weeks of the year.
Reviews
Our own reviews, left on Google by homeowners across the towns we cover from Riverside. Perris is one of them, and the work behind these 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 Perris ask before booking, on what moves the estimate, which counter the permit goes to, the silt under the valley floor and how long a new slab is out of use.
Whether there is a slab to remove first, then the area. On the old lots around D Street the tear-out of a 1950s drive is a full day before any base goes down, and on the tracts north of Nuevo Road the ground is bare and that day is saved. Thickness, steel and finish move it after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the figure comes off a tape and not off a phone call.
No for a slab at grade in your own yard, and yes for a retaining wall over 4 feet, a footing that carries a roof, and anything that touches the sidewalk or the street. Those go to the City of Perris Building and Safety Division, and we file them and meet the inspector, so the only paper you sign is the estimate.
Because the valley silt under them moves with the seasons and a slab poured with no base moves with it. Winter rain swells the silt and the summer heat shrinks it, and after a few of those cycles the crack opens where the movement was greatest. The fix is 4 inches of compacted base under the new slab, steel on an 18-inch grid, and joints cut within 12 hours of the pour.
About 17 miles down Interstate 215, and about 25 minutes at the hour we start. Marco Delgado comes out for the measure himself and calls you back within 1 business day to set that visit. The crew and the mixer leave from the same yard, so a Perris job sits on the same calendar as one in Riverside and not on a longer one.
24 hours before you walk on it and 7 days before a car goes on it. Most Perris jobs run 2 to 3 days on site, a day longer where the old slab has to come out first. In summer the surface is kept wet through the afternoons, because concrete that dries at 100 degrees cures weak on top, and that adds nothing to the calendar.
Yes, and it is the age of the lot that changes it. Around D Street and 4th Street the lots are wide and the drive is usually a replacement, so a mixer backs in and the old slab comes out first. In May Ranch and the Villages of Avalon the yards are new, the side gates are under 6 feet, and the concrete is barrowed in, so the same patio takes a day more and no tear-out.
Perris shares its valley with Menifee to the south and Canyon Lake and Lake Elsinore to the southwest, and we cover all three from the same yard. If your street is across a city line, the page for that town is the one that describes your ground.
Open the Riverside Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call back within 1 business day. The measure is free, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.