Fontana Concrete Pro replaces driveways and pours patios in La Verne, west along the 210 from Fontana, on old lots over granite. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
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La Verne is built on the outwash of San Dimas Canyon and the canyons beside it. The ground is decomposed granite over cobble, which drains in minutes and carries a slab well once it is compacted.
The trouble in La Verne is not the ground but what is already on it. A 1920s drive in Old Town was poured 3 inches thick with no steel, and the parkway trees have had a century to lift it. A 1950s ranch south of Foothill Boulevard has a slab 2 inches lower than the house at the door, because the yard was topped up with soil over 70 years of gardening. And the hillside lots north of Baseline Road were cut and filled in the 1970s, so the back of a pad is fill and the front is granite.
So the job begins with what is there. The old slab is broken out to the granite and the level is read against the house before anything is designed. Base is 4 inches of Class 2, compacted on the native ground, and where a lot changes from cut to fill we run number 4 steel across the line so the slab bridges it. Tree roots are cut only with the city's consent and never on a street tree without it.
La Verne is a finished town, so nearly every job is a replacement. The bungalows of Old Town, the 1950s ranches below Foothill Boulevard and the hillside houses above Baseline Road each wear out their concrete in a different way.
A La Verne driveway is a replacement almost every time, and the long Old Town drive beside a bungalow is the one we do most. The old 3-inch slab is broken out to the granite, the parkway roots are handled under the city's rule, and the new drive is 4 inches on 4 of base.
Patios in La Verne are asked for on the ranch lots south of Foothill Boulevard, where a 1950s yard has a small slab at the door and lawn behind it. We set the new slab level with the old one, dowel the two together, and grade a quarter inch a foot of fall away from the house.
Stamped concrete in La Verne is usually a front walk or a pool deck matched to a 1920s house, so the patterns asked for are flagstone and brick rather than ashlar. We cast the pattern into a 4-inch slab with a tan integral color that sits with the stucco, and seal it twice.
La Verne sidewalks on the Old Town grid are in the city right-of-way, lifted by street trees the city has kept for a century. We remove the lifted panel, shave the root with the city's consent, and pour the replacement level with its neighbors, under a permit and an inspection.
Garage floors in La Verne are most often a detached garage at the back of a deep lot, poured decades ago as a thin slab that has cracked into pieces. We break it out, compact the granite, and pour 4 inches with steel, over a vapor barrier where the garage is to become a room.
Decorative work in La Verne runs to the front of the house, where a bungalow's entry wants concrete that does not look new. We do a salt finish or a light exposed aggregate in a warm tone, with a scored border along the porch line, so the walk reads as part of the house.
Retaining walls in La Verne are a hillside job north of Baseline Road, where the 1970s pads step 4 to 6 feet between lots. We drain the wall with a perforated pipe in gravel, set the footing into native granite rather than fill, and take engineering to the city over 4 feet.
Interior slabs in La Verne are garage conversions and additions on the deep Old Town lots, where a room goes on behind the house. We pour on compacted granite over a 10 mil vapor barrier, level the floor to the existing house rather than to grade, and trowel it for tile.
Our yard is in Fontana, about 22 miles east along the 210, so a crew is off at Fruit Street and on a La Verne driveway inside 35 minutes. Permits go to the City of La Verne Community Development Department, which handles building permits for the city, and the counter is a short walk from the D Street blocks of Old Town. La Verne is in Los Angeles County, and the county has no part in a permit inside the city line.
Old Town, between Foothill Boulevard and Arrow Highway around the University of La Verne, was laid out in the 1880s as Lordsburg, and the lots there are narrow and deep, with a drive running the length of the house to a garage at the back. That drive is the job we do most here, and it is barrowed or pumped, because a mixer will not fit the side of a bungalow. South of Arrow Highway, near Brackett Field, the lots are 1950s and 1960s and wide enough for a truck.
North of Baseline Road the town climbs into the foothills toward Marshall Canyon, and the lots step with the hill. A patio there is designed around the fall, with a wall or a step rather than a long ramp. The weather runs cooler than Fontana by a few degrees, and the canyon breeze in the afternoon dries a surface fast, so we finish before it picks up and cure under a blanket for the first day.
One crew, one measured figure, and a tear-out before the pour on nearly every lot, because the concrete in La Verne is older than the concrete anywhere else we cover.
Andre Whitfield reads the levels against the house, records the tear-out, checks the side access, and writes the figure on site.
We file with the City of La Verne Community Development Department for any right-of-way work, and ask the city before a root is touched.
The old slab is broken out to the granite and carried past the house. The ground is compacted and 4 inches of Class 2 base goes down.
Morning pour, joints cut the same day, a blanket for the first night. Walk on it after 24 hours and park on it after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. Andre Whitfield measures the old slab and the levels on site, and the written figure is free. La Verne is on our route every week.
Reviews
Our own reviews, left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover from Fontana. La Verne is one of them, and the jobs behind these are the jobs described on this page.
“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.”
What La Verne owners ask before a job, from what an Old Town tear-out means for the estimate, to the city's rule on street trees, to how a hillside lot north of Baseline Road changes the pour.
Tear-out and access, before the size of the new slab. Nearly every La Verne job starts by removing old concrete, and a long Old Town drive beside a bungalow has to be broken out and carried past the house by hand, then the new mix barrowed or pumped in the same way. Thickness, steel and finish move the figure after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so it comes off the tape.
Not for a patio, a drive or a walk at grade inside your own lot. Yes for any sidewalk or drive approach in the city right-of-way, a retaining wall over 4 feet, and a slab that carries a roof or becomes a room. We file with the City of La Verne Community Development Department and meet the inspector, and a street tree is never cut without the city's say.
Not for the same reason. The old slab cracked because it was 3 inches thick, unreinforced, and laid on granite that was never compacted. A new one is 4 inches on compacted base with steel on an 18-inch grid, and the joints are cut within 12 hours at 10-foot spacing, so any crack runs in a straight line inside a joint where nobody sees it.
With the city, not around it. The oaks and camphors on the Old Town grid are city trees, and cutting a root without consent is an offense. We expose the root, photograph it, and ask the city what may be shaved. Where a root must stay, the walk is ramped over it or a panel is cast with a gap, and that costs a day rather than a tree.
Three days on site for a long Old Town drive, because the tear-out is a day on its own, and 2 for a ranch patio. Then the slab needs 24 hours before foot traffic and 7 days before a car goes on it. Afternoon canyon wind dries a surface fast here, so the pour is scheduled for the morning and covered for the first day.
Yes, in the ground and in the shape. In Old Town the ground is native granite and the constraint is the narrow drive beside a bungalow, so everything is carried or pumped. North of Baseline Road the lots are 1970s cut-and-fill on a hillside, so the constraint is the fall and the fill line, and a patio there gets a step and steel that bridges the change.
La Verne borders San Dimas to the west, Claremont to the east and Pomona to the south, and Glendora is the next exit up the 210. We cover every one of them from the same Fontana yard, and the page for your own town is the one to read.
Open the Fontana Office in Google Maps Send the form, we call back within 1 business day, and the measured estimate is free. The slab carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.