Harbor Fullerton Concrete pours for Stanton's small lots, its mobile home parks and the shared drives between its 1950s houses, a run down Beach Boulevard from our yard. The measure is free.
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Stanton is one of the densest cities in Orange County, 38,000 people on 3 square miles, and its lots are paved nearly to the fence. On ground this flat, a slab with no fall is a pond after one storm.
The houses are 1950s and 1960s tracts on small lots, and over 70 years the yards have been paved piece by piece, a patio here, a side path there, a parking pad where the lawn was, each poured flat and each by a different hand. The result is a lot with nowhere for rain to go. It pools against the house, runs under the fence to the neighbor, or sits on the slab and lifts the paint off the stucco. Add the mobile home parks and the townhome courts, where paving is shared, and grade is all.
So we start with a level, not a shovel. Every slab we pour in Stanton is set to fall a quarter inch per foot toward the street, a drain or a planter that can take it, and where a yard is enclosed on four sides we put a drain through the wall or a channel across the gate. The slab itself is 4 inches on 4 inches of compacted base with steel through it, jointed every 10 feet the day it is poured, and doweled into whatever old concrete it meets so the two do not step apart.
Stanton fits 38,000 people into 3 square miles, so a lot here is small and most of it is already paved. The work is a drive shared with the neighbor, a court behind a row of units, a patio that is the whole yard, and all of it has to drain.
Half the drives on the older Stanton streets are shared, one strip of concrete serving two 1950s houses down to a pair of garages. We replace the whole strip rather than one side, pour it 4 inches on compacted base with steel, and grade it so neither house takes the other's rain.
A Stanton patio is often the entire back yard, wall to wall behind a small house, so it is poured to drain first. We set a fall of a quarter inch per foot to a drain or a gate, pour 4 inches on 4 inches of base, and joint it every 10 feet so the one slab behaves like several.
Stamped concrete in Stanton goes on the entry court of a townhome row or the front walk of a house off Western Avenue, where the owner wants the one piece of hardscape they have to look chosen. We stamp a stone or ashlar pattern into a 4 inch slab, color the mix and seal it.
Walks along the Stanton streets are the city's, and the one along Beach Boulevard belongs to the state highway, so a lifted panel there is reported, not replaced by us. Private paths, the walks through a mobile home park and the ways between units are ours, poured flush.
A Stanton garage floor is usually replaced when the garage becomes a room, since the state's rules on converting one made that the commonest addition in the city. We break out the old floor, pour 4 inches over a 10 mil barrier, and level it for the flooring that is going on top.
On a lot that is mostly concrete, color is what keeps it from reading as a car park. We tint Stanton patios and courts an integral sand or buff with a salt or light broom finish, which stays cooler in August than plain gray and makes a small paved yard look like an outdoor room.
Stanton is flat, so a retaining wall here is a planter along the drive, a step between two pads, or the low wall that holds a mobile home park's landscaping off its roadway. We footing it 18 inches into compacted ground, drain it behind the stem and finish it to suit the fence.
New floors in Stanton go under the garage conversions and the small additions the lots allow, and the rule is that they meet the existing slab without a step. We pour over a 10 mil barrier on compacted base, dowel into the house foundation, and trowel it ready for tile or plank.
We come down Beach Boulevard from the 91, about 8 miles from our yard on South Harbor Boulevard in Fullerton, which puts a crew in Stanton in 20 minutes on a weekday morning. Beach Boulevard through the city is State Route 39, so a drive approach or a walk onto it is a Caltrans matter as well as the city's, and we say so at the visit. Everything else goes to the Building Division at Stanton City Hall on Katella Avenue, and we file it and meet the inspector ourselves.
The tract streets between Katella Avenue and Cerritos Avenue, and west of Beach toward Western Avenue and Dale Avenue, are the 1950s houses with shared drives and 4 foot side yards, where everything is barrowed and a mixer stays on the street. The mobile home parks along Katella and Beach are a different kind of job, a park roadway or a common walk poured in sections so nobody loses their way in, and the townhome rows built since the 1980s have courts that drain to one grate.
Nearly half the homes in Stanton are rented, so as often as not the call comes from a park operator, an association or a landlord rather than the person who lives there, and the job is scheduled around the people who do. Stanton Central Park on Western Avenue is the one large piece of open ground in the city and a useful landmark for a crew. Summer here runs into the 90s in August, and we pour from 6 in the morning then and cover a slab for its first day.
Four stages for a lot where the neighbor's fence is 4 feet from the work. The measure and the figure happen at the first visit, and the pour is planned around whose drive, court or walk is closed and for how long.
Grant Yoshida measures, shoots the levels to find where the water goes now, checks the gate width and writes the figure at the lot.
The old slabs come out as one job, barrowed to a bin on the street. The subgrade is compacted and 4 inches of base laid and plated.
A cover, a wall over 4 feet or an approach goes to Stanton City Hall on Katella Avenue, and a Beach Boulevard frontage to Caltrans as well.
Poured to its fall in a morning and jointed before dark. Walk on it after 24 hours, park on it after 7 days, gate swept behind us.
Call or send the form and we will get back to you within 1 business day with a time. Every estimate is measured and written on site, whether it is one drive or a whole park roadway, and the visit is free.
Reviews
Left on Google and Facebook by the people we have poured for across north Orange County, Stanton among them, for drives, courts and patios 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 owners, landlords and park operators in Stanton ask before they book. What moves the cost on a tight lot, which permits the city and the state want, how far we drive and where the water goes.
Access, before area. A Stanton lot with a 4 foot side yard means every yard of concrete is barrowed from a mixer on the street and every yard of the old slab is barrowed back out, and that is crew hours the same slab on a wide lot does not need. Drainage comes next, since a drain through a wall is part of the job here. We measure all of it at the visit and write the figure there.
A city permit for a drive approach, a wall over 4 feet or a slab that carries a cover or a room, from the Building Division at Stanton City Hall on Katella Avenue. A patio or a drive replaced inside the lot needs none. The one local twist is Beach Boulevard, which is a state highway through the city, so any work at its edge needs a Caltrans encroachment permit too, and we file both.
About 8 miles, down Beach Boulevard from the 91, and 20 minutes on a weekday morning. It is close enough that we come with the base and the steel for the day and go back for nothing, and close enough that the first visit to measure is usually inside the week. The visit costs nothing whether or not you book the work.
Wherever the slab sends it, which on most older lots is nowhere. Stanton is flat and its yards have been paved in pieces over 70 years, each piece level, so water sits or crosses to the neighbor. A replacement is poured to fall a quarter inch per foot to the street or a drain, and if the yard is walled in we core a drain through the wall or run a channel under the gate, so water has a way out.
Nine to 10 days for both houses, and we book it with both. The old strip comes out in a day, the base goes in, the pour takes a morning, and then it is 24 hours before anyone walks on it and 7 days before a car does. Where two garages sit at the end of it we pour in 2 halves a week apart if either household needs a car out, which adds a week but keeps one lane open.
Yes, both, along with Westminster a short run south down Beach. Cypress shares Stanton's west edge and Buena Park its north-west corner, and the same crew covers all of them from our yard in Fullerton. Anaheim and Garden Grove wrap the rest of the city and are not listed on this site, so if your address is on one of the streets that cross a line, the permit and the page both follow the lot.
Stanton touches Cypress and Buena Park and sits a short run from Westminster and Los Alamitos, all of which one crew covers from the same yard. If your street crosses a line, the page for the town next door says how the work differs there.
Open the Fullerton Office in Google Maps Send the form or call and we will reply within 1 business day. The figure is written at the lot, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.