Riverside Concrete Pro pours driveways, patios and garage floors in Upland, 25 miles from our Riverside yard by the 60, the 15 and the 10. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
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Upland is built on the San Antonio Creek fan. Every lot from the 10 up to San Antonio Heights sits on the gravel and cobble the creek carried out of the canyon, which drains in hours and never heaves.
Fast drainage is the good news. Water leaves the subgrade the same day, so a slab here never floats on wet clay the way it can on the valley floor south of the 10, and frost heave is not a factor. The trouble is what the cobble does to a base. A stone the size of a fist just under the slab is a hard point, and a slab that spans between hard points cracks over the gaps. Trenching a footing here takes a bar and a pick as often as a spade, so a wall takes longer in Upland than in Riverside.
So the base is worked, not just compacted. We dig the loose cobble out to a firm bed, replace it with 4 inches of Class 2 base that plate-compacts flat, and run number 3 steel on an 18-inch grid so the slab carries its own load across whatever the fan left underneath. Footings for walls and steps are dug to firm gravel and bored where the pick meets a boulder. The slab is then jointed every 10 feet, because a cobble base does not shrink with the concrete above it.
Upland houses span a century, from the bungalows below Foothill Boulevard to the tracts above it, so the work runs from replacing a cracked 1940s drive to finishing a yard that was never poured. Under both is the same cobble.
Most drives we replace in Upland are the original 1940s and 1950s slabs south of Foothill Boulevard, cracked into panels where the parkway trees pushed under them. We break out the old slab, cut the roots back to the parkway line, and pour 4 inches on compacted base with steel.
The tracts north of Foothill were handed over with a strip at the back door and a yard of decomposed granite. We pour a patio on 4 inches of base, joint it every 10 feet, and grade it a quarter inch per foot away from the house, because the fan's fall does not always run so.
Stamped concrete in Upland is asked for as a match to the brick and stone of the older houses along Euclid Avenue. We cast ashlar or a flagstone pattern into a 4 inch slab, color it in the mix, and seal it in 2 coats, so it reads as stone without joints that let weeds through.
Upland's parkway walks lift where the pepper trees along the older streets root under them, and a lifted walk is the city's inspection and your liability. We cut the failed panel, prune the root under it, and dowel the new panel to the old so the joint stays flush, not a step.
Garage floors in the 1950s houses of Upland were poured thin, and 70 years of a car parked on them has left them cracked and dusting. We break out and repour at 4 inches over a vapor barrier, or grind and coat the ones still sound after a moisture test, since the slab is old.
A back yard in Upland faces the mountains, and owners want a finish that looks up to them. We do exposed aggregate that shows the same cobble the yard sits on, salt and broom finishes in a light integral color that stays cooler in summer, and borders cut to the era of the house.
The fan's slope means a level yard in Upland is a cut and a fill, and the fill needs holding. We footing a wall 18 inches into firm gravel, drain it behind the stem with perforated pipe and rock, and take any wall over 4 feet through Upland's Building and Safety Division.
Garage conversions and detached units are going in on the larger lots north of Foothill and in San Antonio Heights, and each needs a slab someone will live on. We pour over a 10 mil barrier on compacted base, trowel it flat enough for tile, and joint it where the plan puts walls.
Our yard is on Chicago Avenue in Riverside, about 25 miles away, and we reach Upland by the 60 to the 15 and the 10 west to the Euclid Avenue exit, which is 35 to 45 minutes depending on the hour. Plans go to the City of Upland Building and Safety Division at the Civic Center on Euclid Avenue, in San Bernardino County. Most of the flatwork we do here needs no permit, but a wall, a footing or an apron at the curb does, and we file it and meet the inspector ourselves.
Euclid Avenue divides the city and Foothill Boulevard dates it. South of Foothill, around the old downtown and the Metrolink station, the lots carry 1920s bungalows and 1940s and 1950s ranch houses with the original drive in place, cracked into panels where the parkway trees pushed under it. North of Foothill toward the 210 and the Colonies the houses are 1970s to 1990s tracts whose yards were never finished. San Antonio Heights above the 210 is county land, permitted by the county.
The fan slopes hard. The ground falls about 2 feet in every 100 from the canyon mouth to the 10, so nearly every lot in Upland has a front higher than its back or a drive that runs downhill to the garage, and we grade a slab to shed water across the fall rather than down it into the house. Fall brings the Santa Ana wind out of San Antonio Canyon, which dries a fresh surface faster than the July sun, so from October to December we fog the slab and cover it the same afternoon.
Four stages and one crew, with the figure written on site before anything is booked. The cobble under Upland adds a day to a footing and nothing to a slab, and the sequence below says where that day goes.
Marco Delgado measures the area, sets the fall, and drives a probe to find where the cobble starts under the topsoil.
Topsoil and loose rock come out to a firm bed, 4 inches of Class 2 base goes in and is plate-compacted, and steel is set on chairs.
Flatwork at grade needs no permit in Upland. A wall, a footing or a curb cut goes to Building and Safety, and we file it for you.
Poured in one morning and jointed every 10 feet within 12 hours. Walk on it after 24 hours and park on it after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we call you back within 1 business day to set a time. Every estimate is measured and written on site, and it costs nothing. Upland is on our route most weeks, so the visit fits around your day rather than ours.
Reviews
Our own reviews, left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover from Riverside. Upland is one of them, and the jobs behind them are the ones 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 Upland ask before they book, covering what moves the estimate here, the permit counter, the drive from Riverside, the cobble under the yard, timescales and where else we work.
Area first, then what is under it. A slab on the Upland fan sits on cobble that has to be dug to a firm bed and topped with base, and a footing that meets a boulder is bored rather than trenched, which adds crew hours. Thickness, steel and finish move it after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the figure comes off a tape and a probe, never a rate.
Not for a patio, a walk or a drive replaced at grade on your own lot. Yes for a retaining wall over 4 feet, a footing that carries a roof, and any work in the parkway or at the curb. Those go to the City of Upland Building and Safety Division, and San Antonio Heights goes to San Bernardino County instead. We file the application and meet the inspector, so there is no counter for you.
About 25 miles, by the 60 to the 15 and the 10 west to Euclid Avenue, which is 35 to 45 minutes depending on the hour. That is why a site visit is booked as a fixed time rather than a window, and why we bring the whole job in one trip where we can. We call back within 1 business day to set the visit.
Not if the base is worked first. Cobble drains well and never heaves, but a fist-sized stone just under the slab is a hard point, and a slab that bridges between hard points cracks over the gaps. We dig to a firm bed, lay 4 inches of Class 2 base that compacts flat, and run steel on an 18-inch grid, then cut joints every 10 feet so the shrinkage has somewhere to go.
A drive or a patio takes 2 to 3 days on site, and a wall or steps with footings takes 3 to 4 because the footing is dug through cobble. Then 24 hours before you walk on it and 7 days before a car goes on it. From October to December the Santa Ana wind out of the canyon dries the surface early, so we cover the slab the same afternoon and the cure still runs its 7 days.
Montclair, which shares Upland's southern edge, from the same Riverside yard, and the towns listed at the foot of this page. San Antonio Heights above the 210 is covered with Upland, with its permits through San Bernardino County. If your street sits on a city line, the page for that town names its own permit office and its own ground.
Upland shares a boundary with Claremont, Montclair, Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga, and Montclair is on the same run from our yard in Riverside. If your street sits on one of those lines, the page next door names its own permit office and its own ground.
Open the Riverside Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call back within 1 business day. The estimate is free and written on site, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.