Harbor Fullerton Concrete pours drives, aprons and floors in Santa Fe Springs, where residential streets sit between warehouses and half the drives hold a work truck. Measured on site, free.
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Santa Fe Springs incorporated in 1957 around its factories and its oil field, and the houses came with the jobs. Its drives have carried work vehicles ever since, on slabs poured for a family car.
A 4 inch slab with no steel, which is what the 1950s tracts came with, holds a car indefinitely and a loaded truck for a while. The corner a rear wheel turns on goes first, and once one corner has dropped the panel rocks and breaks along its length. The other load in the city is history. The Santa Fe Springs oil field was drilled through the 1920s and 1930s, and some lots built over it later sit on filled ground near capped wells, which is a matter of record rather than a guess.
So a Santa Fe Springs job starts with what the slab has to carry and what is underneath it. A drive or a garage floor that will take a truck is poured 5 inches on 4 inches of compacted base with steel at 18 inches both ways, and a patio 4 inches. Where a lot is near a recorded well we read the state well map before we dig, and a footing is moved rather than poured over one. Every slab is jointed the day it is poured, and every figure is written on the lot once the ground is probed.
Santa Fe Springs is mostly industry, with about 18,000 people living in the pockets between it, and the concrete on those streets works harder than the concrete in a bedroom suburb. We build it for the load it will take.
A Santa Fe Springs drive is as likely to hold a loaded pickup or a box van as a car, because the trades that work the warehouses live on the streets beside them. We pour those drives 5 inches thick on 4 inches of compacted base with steel through them, and a family drive 4.
The residential blocks off Pioneer Boulevard and Florence Avenue have 1950s houses on modest lots, and the patio behind most is the builder's original apron. We take it out, pour one 4 inch slab on compacted base with a fall to the yard, and joint it every 10 feet.
Stamped work here is a front walk or a porch apron on the older houses near Heritage Park, where an owner wants the entry to look like stone against the stucco. We stamp a flagstone or slate pattern into a 4 inch slab, color it in the mix and seal it in 2 coats.
The public walk on a Santa Fe Springs street is the city's, and a panel heaved by a parkway tree is reported to Public Works before it is replaced. The path from the walk to your door and the side path are yours, and we pour those flush to the city panel and dowel the joint.
Garage floors in Santa Fe Springs take a shop's worth of use, since a garage on these streets holds a compressor and a bench as often as a car. We replace a broken floor with a 5 inch slab over a 10 mil barrier, trowel it hard, and grind it flat enough for an epoxy to hold.
Decorative work in Santa Fe Springs is mostly a light integral color with a salt or broom finish on a patio, chosen so a slab beside a warehouse yard does not read as one. We keep to buff, sand and a warm gray, because a strong color fades unevenly under this much sun and dust.
Santa Fe Springs is flat river plain, so a retaining wall here holds a raised bed or a step between two pads rather than a hillside. We footing it 18 inches into firm ground, drain the back of the stem, and near an old well site we check the record first, as it moves the footing.
Interior slabs here go under room additions, converted garages and the occasional small shop floor behind a house. A shop floor is poured 5 inches with steel and a hard trowel, a room floor 4 inches over a 10 mil barrier leveled for tile, both doweled into the foundation.
We reach Santa Fe Springs on the 5, north from the Buena Park interchange and off at Valley View Avenue or Carmenita Road, about 10 miles and a quarter of an hour from our yard on South Harbor Boulevard in Fullerton. It is the one town we cover across the Los Angeles County line, and permits go to the Building and Safety counter at Santa Fe Springs City Hall on Telegraph Road, not to Orange County. A drive approach or a wall over 4 feet needs one, flatwork inside the lot does not.
The houses are in a few pockets. The blocks between Pioneer Boulevard and Norwalk Boulevard, around Florence Avenue and Lakeland Road, are 1940s and 1950s single-story houses on lots that back onto industrial land, and the streets near Heritage Park and the Clarke Estate on Telegraph Road hold the older ones. West Whittier-Los Nietos, on the north edge, is not a city at all but unincorporated Los Angeles County, and a job there is permitted by the county, which is a different counter.
The San Gabriel River runs down the west side of the city in its channel, and the ground across Santa Fe Springs is the flat sand and gravel it left, which compacts well and drains. What we watch for is not the soil but what was put into it. The oil field left capped wells, some under yards, and the state keeps a map of them that we check for any lot near Telegraph Road or Slauson Avenue before a footing goes in. Beyond that the ground needs compaction and a base, no more.
One crew from Fullerton, four stages, and a figure written on the lot at the first visit. The only stage that differs from a job at home is the counter, which is the city's on Telegraph Road.
Grant Yoshida measures, asks what will park on it, probes the subgrade and checks the well map for the block, then writes the figure there.
The failed slab is sawn, broken and hauled in a day. The subgrade is compacted and 4 inches of base is laid, plate-compacted in 2 passes.
An approach or a wall goes to Santa Fe Springs City Hall for a permit, filed by us. A patio or a drive replaced inside the lot needs none.
Five inches where a truck will stand, 4 where it will not, jointed the same day. Walk on it after 24 hours, drive on it after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we will answer within 1 business day with a time for the visit. We come up the 5 most weeks, the measure is free, and Every estimate is measured and written on site.
Reviews
Left on Google and Facebook by the homeowners we have poured for across north Orange County and the towns over the line, Santa Fe Springs among them, for slabs built the way this page sets out.
“Our drive had dropped at the apron and split right across. Grant dug a hole before he wrote anything and showed me the clay sitting eight inches down. They took out 740 square feet, cut that clay back and poured five inches. He was here at half six on pour day.”
“The bank behind our garden had been creeping toward the house for years. They set a 34 foot wall four feet high, drained the back of it properly and got the encroachment paperwork through Engineering themselves. Two wet winters later and nothing has moved an inch.”
“Our 1958 garage floor was powdering every time the car came in and it was damp along the back wall. Out it came, a sheet went down over the base, and 420 square feet went back at five inches. It has stayed dry through two winters and I hose it off.”
What people in Santa Fe Springs ask before they book. What decides the cost of a drive that holds a truck, who issues the permit over the county line, how far we come, the old wells and how long a slab is shut.
What will park on it. A drive that holds a work truck is poured an inch thicker with more steel than one that holds a car, and that is the biggest thing after area that moves a Santa Fe Springs figure. Tear-out of the old slab and how close a mixer can get come next. We ask what parks there at the visit and write the figure at the curb, so the drive is built for the vehicle you own.
The city, at the Building and Safety counter at Santa Fe Springs City Hall on Telegraph Road, for a drive approach across the public walk, a wall over 4 feet or a slab that carries a cover. Flatwork at grade inside your own lot needs no permit. If your address is in West Whittier-Los Nietos, just to the north, it is unincorporated and the permit comes from Los Angeles County, and we file with whichever applies.
About 10 miles, or a quarter of an hour on the 5 from the Buena Park interchange, leaving at Valley View Avenue or Carmenita Road. It is across the county line from us but closer than several Orange County towns we cover, and we are on the freeway that early most days, so a first visit to measure is usually booked inside the week and costs nothing.
Possibly a capped oil well. The Santa Fe Springs field was drilled across much of the city from the 1920s, and houses were built over parts of it later, so a yard near Telegraph Road or Slauson Avenue can have a plugged well under it. The state keeps a public map of every well, we read it for your block before the first visit, and a footing is moved off a well rather than poured over it. The soil itself is sand.
About 10 days from the first saw cut to the first truck. The tear-out and base take a day, the pour a morning, then 24 hours before foot traffic, 7 days before a car and the full 10 before a loaded truck, because a thicker slab earns its strength on the same timetable and a truck on day 7 undoes it. Park on the street for the week and we sweep it before we leave.
Yes. Whittier lies to the north of Santa Fe Springs and La Mirada to the south-east, both are on the same run up the 5 and the 605, and one crew covers all three. West Whittier-Los Nietos between them is unincorporated and takes a county permit, which is the one difference in how the work is filed. Each town has its own page describing its ground and its streets.
Santa Fe Springs touches Whittier, La Mirada and West Whittier-Los Nietos, and one crew covers all of them from the same yard in Fullerton. If your street sits on a city line, the page for the town next door says how the permits and the ground differ.
Open the Fullerton Office in Google Maps Send the form or call and we will reply within 1 business day. The figure is written on the lot, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.