Riverside Concrete Pro pours driveways, patios and pool decks in Redlands, 17 miles from our Riverside yard by the 215 and the 10. Every estimate is measured and written on site, free.
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Redlands runs downhill from the San Timoteo badlands on the south to the Santa Ana River wash on the north, and the ground changes on the way. Clay on the hills, sand on the flats, the 10 between.
On the south hills the San Timoteo formation is clay and silt that swells in a wet January and shrinks by August, and a slab poured straight onto it lifts and drops with the season until it cracks at a corner. On the flats north of the freeway the ground is Santa Ana sand and Mill Creek gravel that drains in minutes, a better bearing but one that runs out from under an edge the moment a trench is opened beside it. The old citrus blocks between are deep loam, never compacted.
So the specification follows the ground. On the hills the clay is dug out 6 inches deeper than usual and replaced with compacted base so the slab bears on something that does not change size, and the steel is heavier. On the flats the base is laid in 2 lifts, because loose sand compacts further than most people expect. Everywhere in Redlands the slab is 4 inches on Class 2 base with number 3 steel on an 18-inch grid, and the joints are cut the same day.
Redlands has a century of housing on three kinds of ground. The citrus-era streets south of the 10 need replacement, the postwar tracts of North Redlands need repair, and the hillsides above Sunset Drive need slabs that hold on a slope.
The citrus-era drives south of the 10 were laid in the 1920s, 3 inches thick and unreinforced, and they have broken into plates that rock underfoot. We break them out, dig the loam to firm material, and pour 4 inches on compacted base with number 3 steel on an 18-inch grid.
A patio on the hills above Sunset Drive sits on clay that swells every wet winter, so it is dug 6 inches deeper than one on the flats and rebuilt on compacted base before the 4 inch slab goes down. On the Lugonia tracts the same slab is doweled to the builder's pad at the door.
Stamped work in Redlands is asked for to match a Craftsman porch or a brick walk in the historic blocks, so we cast a running bond or flagstone into the 4 inch slab and color it a warm tan that reads with the house. Two coats of sealer, and it never needs resanding as pavers do.
Front walks in the Smiley Park district run under century-old trees whose roots have lifted a panel at nearly every house. We cut the failed panel out, trim the root where the tree can spare it, and pour the new panel 4 inches thick, doweled to its neighbors, so the step is gone.
Garage floors in the North Redlands tracts were poured in the 1950s with no barrier under them, and the sand beneath carries water up into any coating. We replace them over 4 inches of compacted base and a 10 mil vapor barrier, troweled flat enough to take an epoxy coat later.
A slab in a Redlands yard is unusable by mid-afternoon in July, when the town runs past 100 degrees. We pour a light integral color with a broom or salt finish that stays cooler underfoot, or an exposed aggregate that shows the rounded Mill Creek gravel the flats are made of.
Hillside lots above Sunset Drive and along Live Oak Canyon Road were cut and filled to make level pads, so the yard drops several feet at the back fence and the clay behind it holds water. A wall here is drained behind the stem and footed 18 inches into cut ground, not the fill.
State law allows a detached unit on most single-family lots in Redlands, and the citrus-era lots are deep enough to take one at the back. The floor goes over a 10 mil vapor barrier on compacted base, leveled for tile, and jointed under the wall lines so no crack crosses a room.
Our yard is on Chicago Avenue in Riverside, so a crew is in Redlands in about 30 minutes by the 215 north and the 10 east, off at Alabama Street or Tennessee Street. Plans go to the City of Redlands Building and Safety Division, and in the Smiley Park Historic District a change that shows from the street can go before the city's historic preservation review as well, so we draw those to suit the house rather than fight it.
The blocks between Olive Avenue and Cypress Avenue are the citrus colony of the 1880s, Victorian and Craftsman houses on deep lots with a driveway laid in the 1920s, 3 inches thick and broken into plates. North of the 10, along Lugonia Avenue, the tracts date from the 1950s and 1960s on slab foundations, and the work is a patio or a drive sunk at one edge. Above Sunset Drive the hillside subdivisions date from the 1980s onward, on cut and filled pads with a slope at every fence.
The Mill Creek Zanja still runs through town, and the grove irrigation it fed for a century left the loam under the older lots soft well below the surface, so we probe deeper here than anywhere else we work. The calendar matters too. Redlands sits high enough to frost on a clear January night, which is why the groves kept smudge pots, so a winter pour is covered through its first night, and from June to September the crew is on the lot at 6 because the afternoon runs past 100.
Four stages and one crew, from the measure to the last sweep. Marco Delgado writes the figure on the lot before anything is agreed, and the figure written then is the figure on the invoice, because the measure is the estimate.
Marco Delgado walks the lot, probes the ground for clay or soft loam, checks the fall to the street and writes the figure there.
The old slab and the soft ground come out, deeper on the hills than on the flats, and 4 inches of Class 2 base is compacted in 2 lifts.
A wall or a footing is filed with the City of Redlands Building and Safety Division, and a historic district job goes to review first.
Two to three days on site for most Redlands jobs, covered on a frosty night. Foot traffic at 24 hours, a car at 7 days, then we sweep.
Call or send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to set a visit. The measure and the written figure are free, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.
Reviews
Reviews left on Google and Facebook by homeowners in the towns we cover, Redlands among them, about the same crew and the same specification 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.”
The questions we get from Redlands before a job is booked, on cost, permits and the historic district, the clay under the south hills, the drive from Riverside, how long a slab is out of use, and nearby towns.
The ground and the tear-out. A job on the clay above Sunset Drive is dug deeper and rebuilt on more base than one on the sand north of the 10, and a 1920s drive broken into plates takes a day to remove that a bare yard does not. Finish and steel move it after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the figure comes off the tape and the probe, not a photo.
Not for a patio, a walk or a driveway at grade on your own lot. A retaining wall over 4 feet, a footing that carries a roof and any work in the public right-of-way go to the City of Redlands Building and Safety Division, and in the Smiley Park Historic District a change that shows from the street can also go before the city's historic preservation review. We file both and meet the inspector.
It moves it. The San Timoteo clay under the hills takes on water in a wet winter and gives it back by late summer, and a slab poured straight onto it rises and drops with the season until a corner cracks. We dig the clay out 6 inches deeper than usual, replace it with compacted base, and run the steel heavier, so the slab bears on the base and not on ground that changes size.
About 17 miles by the 215 north and the 10 east, which is 30 minutes outside the rush. We call back within 1 business day to set the visit, Marco Delgado measures on the lot himself, and Redlands is on the schedule most weeks, so the crew arrives with the truck rather than making a second trip for it. The distance changes nothing on the estimate, because the figure is written from what the lot needs.
Foot traffic at 24 hours and a car at 7 days, whatever the season. The job itself is 2 to 3 days on site for a patio or a driveway and 4 for a wall with a footing. In winter a Redlands pour is covered through its first night because the town frosts on a clear January night, and from June to September we pour at first light and cut the joints before the afternoon heat.
Loma Linda to the west, Highland across the Santa Ana wash, Yucaipa and Calimesa up the 10, and Colton and Grand Terrace beyond the 215. Each has its own page here. Mentone is unincorporated San Bernardino County and sits outside the towns we list, so if your street runs past the city line toward it, call and we will say whether we come.
Redlands touches Loma Linda on the west, Highland across the wash to the north, and Yucaipa and Calimesa up the 10 to the east, with Mentone unincorporated beyond the city line. We cover the incorporated ones from the same yard, and each has its own page.
Open the Riverside Office in Google Maps Send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to book the measure. The estimate is free and written on the lot, and the crew that measures is the crew that pours.