From the pre-war blocks around D Street to the new streets south of Kimball Avenue, we build driveways, foundations, patios and yard aprons across Chino. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
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Our yard is on Sierra Avenue in Fontana, 14.1 miles east of Chino, and the run is the 10 and then the 83. We are in the town most weeks of the year.
South Chino was dairy country until the mid-2000s, and the ground it left is why a slab there is priced by what comes out before what goes in. Organic topsoil, old corral fill and buried irrigation trenches compress for years under anything built on them, and a slab bridging soft ground beside firm splits between the two. On the Preserve side we dig out to competent material and replace it with compacted base. Which layer sits under your own lot is mapped on the USDA Web Soil Survey.
The other half of the work here is not residential. The agricultural and light-industrial parcels toward Chino Airport run loaded trucks and equipment over concrete daily, and an apron built to a house driveway spec fails at the first full axle. So we ask what crosses a slab before we design one, thickness, mesh or bar, joint spacing, the mix, and we write it down at the property, because Every estimate is measured and written on site is how Fontana Concrete Pro prices work.
Eight jobs, in a town where one back lot holds a patio, the next holds a shop building and the one after that turns a truck, and where the subsoil under all three was farmed long before it was built on.
Chino driveways divide by era. The lots around D Street were poured before the war onto approaches never sized for a modern vehicle; the tracts below Kimball Avenue sit on fill placed since 2005. We set the base depth to whichever you have and cut the joints to the run.
Back lots here are generous, so most patios we build are sized for shade and a table, not a landing at the door. The slab falls away from the house toward the side yard, because on the flat southern streets storm water has nowhere to go once the ground is saturated.
Stamping suits the newer Chino frontages, where the drive is the widest thing seen from the street and a plain gray field reads as unfinished. Color and pattern go in while the concrete is wet, so sun and tires wear the surface rather than strip a coating off it.
A walk panel or a drive approach in Chino sits in city right of way, which makes it an engineering matter before it is a concrete one. We pull the encroachment permit, build to the standard detail the city holds, and replace lifted panels rather than grind a hazard flat.
Half the garage slabs we replace in Chino are not parking a car, they are a workshop floor, and the 1960s pour under them never carried a jack stand. We break it out, compact the base, sheet it against ground moisture and finish flat enough for a coating to bond.
Decorative work changes the surface, not the structure: a broom field inside a banded border, an exposed aggregate apron, a saw-cut grid that lines up with the roof. On the wide Chino frontages it is what stops a large pour reading as a parking bay, and it is cast in one go.
Most walls we build in Chino hold a pad edge, a raised planter or the cut for a yard extension rather than a hillside. A poured stem on a keyed footing, with weep drains and gravel behind it, does that without the lean stacked block develops after one wet winter.
Interior floors are poured level to a number rather than by eye, because tile, epoxy and racking each fail at a different tolerance. In Chino they go into converted garages and the small units east of Central, so we read the pad moisture before a covering is ordered.
A footing, a wall above the height limit or a new approach is permitted through the City of Chino before a saw comes off the truck, and anything in the right of way carries a second encroachment file with Public Works. Both go in under our name rather than yours. The day the plan checker asks a question is the day a schedule slips, and a homeowner should not be the one taking that call, the foreman who pours the job is also the one who meets the inspector on it.
Downtown is a grid, D, E and F Streets crossing Central Avenue and Riverside Drive, and the houses on it are pre-war, on deep lots with side drives sized for one narrow car. South past Kimball Avenue the pattern changes to master-planned blocks laid out over the old preserve, short frontages and small yards. East of Central the parcels turn agricultural and industrial, and the concrete there is aprons, ramps and yard slabs instead of patios.
Chino Hills is 4.1 miles off, Eastvale 5.1 across the county line and Montclair 6.3 north, and all three are on the same list of 20 towns we cover. That matters on a calendar rather than on a map: a crew closing out a Chino job on the Thursday is not driving in from the far edge of the network to start yours on the Friday morning.
Four steps, and the one that sets the calendar is the plan check rather than the pour. We file the week a job is signed, so every date given after that is a date we can hold you to.
We reply inside 1 business day and book a visit at your Chino address, usually in the same week as the call itself.
The estimator walks the lot, checks what sits under the existing slab and where the ground falls, then writes the number before leaving.
We file with the City of Chino, add the encroachment permit where work meets the right of way, and set the date once both are back.
We break out, build and compact the base, pour and finish, then walk the job with you and leave the cure dates in writing.
Send us the address and a photograph of what is there now. We come out, look under it and leave a written estimate with you, nothing is owed for the visit, and no drawings are needed to get one.
Reviews
These come from homeowners and site managers across the towns on our list, Chino among them. Each one is for finished work, priced at the property before it started and invoiced at the figure written there.
“Our house south of Valley is one of the old steel-town builds and the driveway had never been replaced. They broke out 520 square feet, screened the cobble out of the base and poured 5 inches. Andre cut the joints himself before he left.”
“We are in one of the newer tracts up north and the builder patio was cracked across the middle in three years. Fontana Concrete Pro dug it out, put a proper base under it and poured 320 square feet with joints on a 10-foot grid. No cracks after two summers.”
“The slope at the back of our lot in Jurupa Hills was moving every winter and taking the fence with it. They poured a 40-foot wall on footings to 24 inches with drainage behind it. Two wet seasons on and there is not a crack in it anywhere.”
Six questions Chino callers ask first: what moves the number, who issues the permit, how far out we are, what the old preserve ground does to a slab, and how long a driveway stays out of use.
What has to come out from under it. On the streets built over the preserve, digging out and replacing soft farm ground is regularly the largest line on the estimate, while a firm downtown lot needs almost none of it. After the dig it is the thickness and steel the use calls for, truck and saw access down a narrow side drive, and whether the work lands in the right of way and so carries a second permit.
Structural plans go to the Building Division at the City of Chino, and Public Works engineering issues the encroachment permit for work in the right of way, a new drive approach needs one of each. Both are filed in our name and the foreman meets the inspector at the pour. Where a job needs no permit at all, a like-for-like patio slab behind the house being the usual one, we say so rather than sell you a file.
The yard is on Sierra Avenue in Fontana, 14.1 miles from Chino, which is about half an hour on the 10 and the 83 and less when the traffic is running the other way. We answer every inquiry within 1 business day and usually have someone measuring at a Chino address inside that same week. The town is well within the 25 mile radius we cover, so it is a route we already run.
Because the fill under it moves. A century of dairying left ground that was plowed, watered and trodden rather than engineered, and it settles unevenly under load for years after a pour. A thicker slab does not solve that; it cracks in bigger pieces. What solves it is removing the soft material, replacing it with base compacted in lifts, and reinforcing where an engineered pad meets an untouched parcel.
Plan on a week without a vehicle on it. Breaking out and building the base takes a day or two, the pour and the finish are one day, and the joints are cut before we leave the site. Walk on it after 24 hours and keep cars off for 7 days while it gains strength. Through a Chino summer expect us to keep it wet longer, because concrete that sets fast in heat sets weaker.
Chino Hills at 4.1 miles, Eastvale at 5.1, Montclair at 6.3 and Norco at 7.7 are on the same list of 20 towns, with Chino itself. The soil and the counter issuing the permit change at a city line even when the job does not. If a property straddles one of those lines, give us the address and we will tell you which department it answers to.
Twenty towns sit inside the 25 mile radius we work, and Chino shares a line with four of them. Follow any name below for what building there involves, the soil, the department, the streets, rather than this page with the town swapped.
Open the Fontana Office in Google Maps Call the number in the header, or send the form with an address on it. We will be at a Chino property this week to measure the job, write the estimate there, and give you a start date that accounts for the permit.