Riverside Concrete Pro pours driveways, patios and retaining walls in Temescal Valley, 20 miles from Riverside down Interstate 15. Every estimate is measured and written on site, free.
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Temescal Valley is an alluvial floor and the fans that feed it. Everything under a yard here washed down out of the Santa Ana Mountains, and the tract graders cut and filled it to make level pads.
Fan gravel drains well and sits still. The fill placed over it to level a pad is the problem, because it is uniform where the builder compacted it under the house and soft at the lot edge where nothing was built. A patio poured onto that outer fill settles at the corner farthest from the house within a few winters, and tilts back toward the foundation instead of away from it. The Elsinore fault runs along the valley too, which is why the county holds every footing to the seismic tables.
So the yard is treated as fill until the probe says otherwise. Soft ground at the edge of a pad is dug out and replaced, 4 inches of Class 2 base is laid and plate-compacted, and number 3 steel runs on an 18-inch grid so the slab moves as one piece. On the sloping lots in Horsethief Canyon Ranch and Sycamore Creek the slab is graded to fall away from the house at a quarter inch to the foot, because the runoff from a hillside pad has to go somewhere other than under the footing.
Nearly every house in Temescal Valley went up after 1990 in a planned community, so the work is rarely a replacement. It is the yard the builder left bare on a pad cut into the fan, with an association that has a say in what shows from the road.
Widening a driveway in Temescal Valley takes the association's approval before the county's, because the street side of nearly every lot here sits under one. We draw the added width, send it to both, and pour 4 inches on compacted base with the new slab doweled to the old.
Patios are the job we are asked for most in Temescal Valley, because the builders in Sycamore Creek and Wildrose Ranch left a graded yard and a small slab at the back door. We probe the fill at the lot edge, compact 4 inches of base, and dowel the new slab to the builder's.
Stamped concrete here is chosen to match the paver aprons the builders laid at the front, so ashlar and running bond are asked for by name. We cast the pattern into a 4 inch slab with the color mixed through, and seal it in 2 coats against the sun and wind that fade bare slabs.
Sidewalks in Temescal Valley are association or county right-of-way as often as they are yours, and the line runs somewhere across the front lawn. We check the tract map before we cut, file with the county where the panel is public, and dowel the new panel to the old.
A garage floor in Temescal Valley is seldom replaced, because most went down in the 1990s and 2000s on a proper base. What owners ask for is a floor that takes a coating, and that starts with a moisture test, since fill under a slab with no vapor barrier wets an epoxy from below.
The pool decks and patios on the west-facing pads below the Santa Ana Mountains take the full afternoon sun, and a dark slab there is unusable by two from June to September. We pour a light integral color with a salt finish, which stays several degrees cooler underfoot.
The hillside lots in Horsethief Canyon Ranch step down toward Temescal Canyon Road, so a wall here holds back the neighbor's pad as often as your own. It is footed 18 inches into firm material, drained behind the stem with gravel and pipe, and permitted by the county over 4 feet.
Casitas and converted garages are the growth in Temescal Valley, where lots in Sycamore Creek and Horsethief Canyon Ranch are large enough for one, and each needs a slab someone will live on. We pour over a 10 mil vapor barrier, trowel it flat for tile, and joint it to the room.
Temescal Valley has no city hall. It is unincorporated Riverside County between Corona and Lake Elsinore, so a permit goes to the Riverside County Building and Safety Department and not to a city counter, and the inspector who comes out is the county's. We file the application and meet the inspector. Our yard is on Chicago Avenue in Riverside, and the drive is the 91 west to Interstate 15 and south, about 20 miles to the Temescal Canyon Road exit.
The valley was built one community at a time along Temescal Canyon Road. Horsethief Canyon Ranch went up first on the hillside above Indian Truck Trail, Sycamore Creek and Wildrose Ranch followed on the floor in the 2000s, and Trilogy at Glen Ivy filled the land beside the golf course with single-story houses for owners past 55. Each has its own association and its own rule on what a driveway may look like from the street, and we read that rule before we draw the job.
Temescal Wash runs the length of the valley and takes every yard's runoff north toward the Santa Ana River at Corona, so a slab here is graded toward the street or the wash and never toward the fence line, where the neighbor's pad is. The season is set by the mountains. The Santa Ana winds come down the canyon in autumn and dry a fresh slab too fast, so on those days we pour early and keep it wet, and the summer runs past 100 degrees from June to September.
Four stages, one crew from Riverside, and one written figure. The measure happens on your lot before anything is agreed, and the county application is ours to make, so nothing waits on you.
Marco Delgado measures the area, probes the fill at the lot edge, checks the fall away from the house and photographs the side gate.
Soft fill is dug out and replaced, the pad is cut to grade, and 4 inches of Class 2 base goes down and is plate-compacted before any steel.
We file with the Riverside County Building and Safety Department where the job needs it, and send your association the street-side drawing.
Most jobs here take 2 to 3 days on site. Walk on the slab after 24 hours, park on it after 7 days, and the side yard 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 the drive down Interstate 15 is one we make most weeks.
Reviews
These are our reviews as homeowners across our coverage left them on Google. Some are from Temescal Valley, and all of them are about the work described on this page.
“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 Temescal Valley ask before booking, on the county permit, the association, the fill under a tract pad, how far we drive and how long a new slab is out of use.
Access first, then the slope. A side gate under 5 feet wide on a Sycamore Creek lot means the concrete is barrowed rather than chuted, and a pad that steps down at the back fence means a footing or a low wall before any slab. Area, thickness, steel and finish move it after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the figure comes off a tape measure on your lot.
Riverside County, because Temescal Valley is not a city. Flatwork at grade in your own yard needs none. A retaining wall over 4 feet, a footing carrying a roof and anything at the street go to the Riverside County Building and Safety Department, and we file the application and meet the county inspector. Your association gets a drawing as well where the work shows from the street.
Because the corner sits on the softest fill on the lot. The tract grader compacted the pad under the house and feathered the fill out to the fence, and a slab poured over that edge drops there within a few winters. We probe the edge, dig out what is soft, compact 4 inches of base and run steel on an 18-inch grid so the slab cannot settle in one place alone.
About 20 miles by the 91 and Interstate 15, and about half an hour at the hour we start. Marco Delgado does the measure himself and calls you back within 1 business day to set it. The crew and the mixer leave from the same yard on Chicago Avenue, so a job here sits on the same calendar as one in Riverside.
24 hours before you walk on it and 7 days before a car goes on it. Most jobs here run 2 to 3 days on site. On a Santa Ana wind day the surface is kept wet through the afternoon, because a slab that dries in an hour cures weak on top, and the joints are cut within 12 hours of the pour so the cracks stay in straight lines.
Yes, and it is the slope that changes it. Horsethief Canyon Ranch lots step down the hillside, so a patio there often starts with a low wall and a footing. Sycamore Creek and Trilogy at Glen Ivy sit on the flatter floor, where the question is the gate width and whether a mixer can reach the back. The fill under all of them is treated the same way.
Temescal Valley runs from the Corona line to Lake Elsinore, with El Sobrante and Lake Mathews over the hills to the east, and we cover all three from the same yard. If your street is across a line, the page for that place describes your ground.
Open the Riverside Office in Google Maps Send the form, and Marco Delgado calls back within 1 business day to set the measure. It is free, and the work has a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.