Riverside Concrete Pro pours driveways, steps and retaining walls in Yucaipa, 21 miles from our Riverside yard by the 215 and the 10. Every estimate is measured and written on site, free.
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Yucaipa is a bench that tilts. The town rises several hundred feet from the 10 to the north bench under the Crafton Hills, so a slab poured level here is a slab poured against the ground it sits on.
The ground under that tilt is granite that came down off the Crafton Hills as sand and cobble, dropped by Wilson Creek and Oak Glen Creek where they slow. It is hard to dig and slow to settle, which is why 1950s slabs in Dunlap Acres are still in one piece, but on a grade it carries water sideways under a slab whose fall was not planned. A driveway that runs downhill toward the garage is the Yucaipa failure. Runoff undercuts the low edge and the panel breaks along the garage line.
So every job here starts with the fall. We shoot the grade before the estimate is written, set a slab to shed water toward the street or a drain, and cut a channel across any drive that runs toward the house. Under it, cobble is broken out to a plane, 4 inches of Class 2 base is plate-compacted, and number 3 steel runs on an 18-inch grid. On the north bench the pour is blanketed through winter nights, because at that elevation the town sees frost most years and snow in some.
Yucaipa climbs from the freeway to the foot of the Crafton Hills, and almost no lot in it is level. The work here is driveways that hold a grade, steps between a street and a door, and walls that keep a bank where the tract grader left it.
A Yucaipa driveway is long and it runs on a grade, because the ranch lots in Dunlap Acres set the house back from the road and the north bench sets it above it. We pour 4 inches on base, 5 under a horse trailer, and cut a drain across any drive that falls to the garage.
Patios in Yucaipa are extensions of a slab that has been added to before, because the ranch houses were built with a small pad and each owner since has poured a strip beside it. We take the old pieces out to one plane, pour 4 inches on compacted base, and dowel into the house.
Stamped work in Yucaipa is asked for as flagstone more than ashlar, because the stone of the place is the granite in its creek beds and a pattern that matches it reads as local. We cast it into a 4-inch slab and seal it in 2 coats, and the sealer is what keeps frost out.
Walks in Yucaipa are steps as often as paths, since the way from the street to a door on the north bench climbs. We pour a walk at a grade that drains, broom it for grip on frosty mornings, and where the slope passes what a ramp allows we cast steps at one rise the whole flight.
Garage floors in Yucaipa are the lowest point of a sloped lot more often than they should be, so the first question is where the water goes. We moisture-test the slab, grind it flat, and cut a drain across the door line before a coating goes down, or an epoxy lifts.
Decorative concrete in Yucaipa leans to earth tones and exposed aggregate, because the granite in the ground is the color people match and a rough surface holds a foot on a frosty step. Color goes in the mix rather than on the surface, so a chip shows the same color underneath.
Retaining walls are the work Yucaipa asks for that flat towns do not, because every tract lot was cut into a hill and left with a bank at the back. We foot a wall 18 inches into the firm granite below the fill, drain it behind the stem, and take anything over 4 feet to the city.
Interior slabs in Yucaipa go under barns, workshops and the accessory units the ranch lots have room for. We pour over a 10 mil vapor barrier on compacted base, so the moisture that drains through granite sand does not come up through the floor, and trowel it flat for tile.
Our crew comes from Riverside up the 215 and east on the 10 through Redlands, leaving at the Yucaipa Boulevard exit about 40 minutes after loading. Plans go to the City of Yucaipa Building and Safety Division at City Hall on Yucaipa Boulevard, and an engineered wall or a footing under a roof is what needs a set of drawings there. Yucaipa incorporated in 1989, so the older lots were permitted by San Bernardino County, and the record for a 1950s slab is usually thin or missing.
The town keeps the shape of what it was. Dunlap Acres and the streets around California Street were chicken ranches and orchards cut into half-acre and acre lots, and the houses on them are 1940s to 1960s with long gravel drives and a slab at the back that has been added to three times. Chapman Heights, off Oak Glen Road, is the opposite, a 2000s master plan on graded pads with an association that approves anything visible from the street, and we submit to it before the city.
Access decides the day more than anywhere else we work. On the ranch lots a mixer drives to the pour and a drive is placed in one morning. In the tracts off Bryant Street the side yards are narrow and everything is barrowed through a gate. On the north bench above Yucaipa Boulevard the streets are steep enough that a loaded truck is parked at the bottom and the concrete is pumped up, which we allow for once we have seen the street, not after the pour.
Four stages, one crew and one written figure. Yucaipa adds a grade shot at the first visit, because the fall of the lot decides the drainage, whether a pump is needed and the figure itself, before a shovel goes in.
Marco Delgado shoots the fall with a level, measures the area, probes for cobble and photographs the street a truck will have to use.
We file with the City of Yucaipa Building and Safety Division where a wall or footing needs it, and with the association in Chapman Heights.
Cobble is broken out to a plane, loose sand dug to firm ground, 4 inches of Class 2 base compacted and steel tied on an 18-inch grid.
Most Yucaipa jobs take 2 to 3 days. Pumped where the street is steep, blanketed in winter. Walk after 24 hours, park after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to set a visit. Marco Delgado shoots the grade, measures the area and writes the figure on the lot before he leaves it.
Reviews
Reviews left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover, Yucaipa among them. The driveways and walls behind them were built the way this page says they are.
“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 Yucaipa homeowners ask before booking, covering what moves the estimate on a sloped lot, which counter issues the permit, how rock and frost change the pour and how long the slab is out of use.
Grade first, then rock. A lot on the north bench that needs a pump and a channel drain takes more crew time than the same slab on a flat ranch lot in Dunlap Acres, and cobble in the subgrade is broken out by hand where a bucket cannot reach. Area, thickness, steel and finish move it after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the figure is off a tape and a level.
Not for a driveway, patio or walk at grade on your own lot. Yes for a retaining wall over 4 feet, a footing that carries a patio cover, and any work in the public right-of-way. Those go to the City of Yucaipa Building and Safety Division at City Hall on Yucaipa Boulevard, and we file them. In Chapman Heights the association reviews anything seen from the street, and we submit there first.
It changes when we pour, not what we pour. Yucaipa sits higher than Redlands and gets frost on the north bench most winters and snow some years, and concrete that freezes in its first night never reaches its strength at the surface. From November to March we start once the ground has thawed, cover the slab with insulated blankets overnight, and leave them for 3 nights. Cure times stretch by a day in that weather.
Granite sand and cobble off the Crafton Hills, laid down by Wilson Creek and Oak Glen Creek. It is firm once the loose top is off and it drains fast, which is why old slabs in Dunlap Acres have held. The rock is the difficulty. A trench meets stones the size of a football, so we break them out to a plane and lay 4 inches of base, rather than pouring over a subgrade that is half air.
Most jobs run 2 to 3 days on site, and a long ranch driveway with tear-out runs 4. Walk on the slab after 24 hours and park on it after 7 days, both a day longer in winter on the north bench. Joints are cut within 12 hours of the pour, and on a sloped drive we cut them across the fall as well, so water runs off the panel rather than along it.
Calimesa, across County Line Road in Riverside County, Redlands and Mentone at the next exits west on the 10, and Beaumont to the east. Mentone is unincorporated, so its permits go to San Bernardino County rather than a city counter. All of them are reached from our Riverside yard on the same freeway, and each has its own page on this site.
Yucaipa meets Calimesa at County Line Road, Redlands and Mentone along the 10 to the west and the Oak Glen hills to the north, and we cover the towns among them from Riverside. If your lot straddles the county line, try the page next door.
Open the Riverside Office in Google Maps Call or send the form and we will call back within 1 business day to book it. The estimate is free and the work has a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.