Fontana Concrete Pro pours across Loma Linda from our Sierra Avenue yard, 12.5 miles west. The town has river alluvium north of Barton Road and hill clay south of it. We reply within 1 business day.
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Loma Linda covers barely eight square miles and the ground changes twice inside it. What has to go under your slab depends on which side of Barton Road you live on.
North of Barton Road the ground falls toward San Timoteo Creek, which joins the Santa Ana River at the edge of town. That is river alluvium: sand and silt dropped in flood after flood, with water sitting closer to the surface than at any other address we pour. It compacts properly at the right moisture and turns to pudding when it is wetter than that, so base there is built in shallow lifts and proved with a plate. The USDA Web Soil Survey maps the units under your own parcel.
The southern third of town climbs into the South Hills, and that is not alluvium at all. It is old sedimentary ground with clay through it, which takes up water in February and gives it back by August, and a slab laid straight onto it rides that movement every year. Every estimate names which of the two you are on. The work is done under a CSLB C-8 license, with liability insurance on every job, and it leaves with a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.
Eight jobs, in the order this town calls about them: worn flatwork on the 1950s and 1960s blocks around the university, and newer pours on the graded lots climbing south of Barton Road.
Driveways on the older streets near the university went in at three inches on river ground with nothing under them, so they break into panels and drop where a car turns off the street. We dig to material that takes a plate, compact it back in lifts and joint to the apron.
Back yards on the low end of town stay damp for days after the wash has run, so a patio here is a drainage job before it is a concrete one. We set the fall away from the house before a form goes down, hold the slab clear of the weep screed and joint it into the door threshold.
Houses south of Barton Road sit under the South Hills open space, and their terraces are seen from above as much as walked across. Stamped work is set out for that: pattern scaled to the terrace, color off the roof tile, then sealed, because a bad stamp comes out whole.
Walks around Anderson Street were poured while the hospital campus was going up, and the trees beside them have had sixty years to push the panels apart. We saw out what has lifted, take the root down to the depth the city signs off, and repour deeper so it does not come back.
Garage slabs in the 1950s and 1960s houses here went down with the house, four inches at best, with no membrane beneath. On the low ground the floor sweats through spring and spalls where a wet car sits. A replacement is cut free of the footing and rebuilt over a vapor barrier.
Color and finish are decided against a street where the ranch stock sits low and wide and the newer houses on the hill are stucco and tile. We pour a sample panel and look at it in the afternoon light, because integral color reads warmer here than it does on a chart.
The lots stepping up toward the hills are cut and fill, and the walls holding those steps are often block laid straight on grade with nowhere for water to go. A poured wall takes a footing down into competent ground, steel through the stem, and drain rock and weeps behind it.
Casitas, home offices and converted garages are common here, with two and three working adults under one roof near the hospitals. An interior floor is a new pour inside old walls: vapor barrier over compacted base, brought up to the thresholds already there and cured.
The town has been its own city since 1970 and keeps its own building counter, so flatwork is permitted at City Hall on Barton Road rather than through the county. We file it and meet the inspector. Anything that alters the driveway approach, the public walk or the way a lot sheds water goes to plan check; a rear patio replaced on its own footprint generally does not. The city also runs its own water utility, so a service line under a pour is located by the people who laid it.
The medical center and the VA hospital together employ more people than live on some of the streets we work, and the households around them keep shift hours rather than office ones. That decides when the trucks come. A blocked driveway from seven in the morning is a real problem in a house where somebody finished nights at half past, so the working window is agreed at the estimate and the start time is written on the paperwork instead of arriving with the crew.
Loma Linda is one of the handful of places researchers named a Blue Zone, and the practical version of that is a lot of owners in their late eighties still in the house they bought new. It changes what a walk has to be. We hold the cross fall to a quarter inch in the foot so a wheeled frame does not run off the edge of it, build a proper flight of steps where a single lip has been left at a door, and finish with a broom rather than a slick trowel.
Four stages. The second one carries the weight here, because it settles whether your lot is being built on river ground or on hill clay, and that answer sets the base for everything after it.
You call or send the form, we reply within 1 business day, and a visit to your Loma Linda address is usually held that same week.
We measure on site, probe the subgrade, settle which of the two grounds your lot sits on, and leave the written figure with you.
The application goes in at the Barton Road counter, we see any plan check through, and the start time is booked around your household.
Break-out, base in lifts, steel, then the pour and the finish. We walk the cured slab with you and hand over the written guarantee.
Tell us the street and what is failing, and we will come and put a tape on it. What comes back names the base depth your end of town needs, the joint layout and the figure.
Reviews
The reviews below cover the whole twenty-town area rather than Loma Linda by itself. None of them have been picked out or reordered, and we can tell you which was the job nearest your street.
“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 things owners here ask before they book, the counter on Barton Road, the two grounds, the drive over from Fontana, and how long a new slab is out of use.
Which end of town you are on, before anything else. Down on the river ground the base goes in shallow lifts and takes more compaction passes to pass a plate. Up on the slope the bad material usually has to come out and be replaced before anything flat can go down. After that it is the square footage, how much old concrete has to be broken up and hauled to the recycler, the thickness the load asks for.
Usually, if the job touches the driveway approach, the public walk or the way your lot drains. The city issues its own, at City Hall on Barton Road, and work sitting in the right of way needs an encroachment permit on top of the building one. We apply under our CSLB C-8 license and close the permit out ourselves. A patio replaced like for like behind the house often needs neither.
12.5 miles. The crews take Sierra Avenue down to the 10 and come off at Anderson Street, which is about twenty-five minutes once the morning peak has gone. Every inquiry is answered within 1 business day. We would rather send a truck out for one lifted panel in Loma Linda than have you save up three repairs to make a visit worth somebody while, and the short run over is what makes that possible.
Yes, and the difference is underneath rather than in the mix. A lot cut into the slope has native ground on the uphill half and imported fill on the downhill half, and the two settle at different rates. We open test holes at both ends before quoting, carry more base over the filled side and run steel across the join. Where the drop is more than a couple of feet the flatwork waits on a wall to hold the pad first.
Seven days for a car and one day before anyone walks on it. The pour itself is half a day; break-out and base take a day or two ahead of that. What changes things in Loma Linda is heat, the low end of town sits in the high nineties for weeks at a time, so the crew starts at first light and the slab is kept covered and damp while it cures. Concrete dried out fast finishes hard on top and weak underneath.
Twenty of them, inside 25 miles of the Fontana yard. Loma Linda shares a city line with Colton on the west and San Bernardino on the north, and Redlands is the next town east. Those places do not share one recipe: the base a Redlands slab wants is not the base a Grand Terrace slab wants, and each one is priced off what the probe finds. Ask and we will name the finished job closest to you.
Ordered nearest the Fontana yard first. Loma Linda sits at the eastern edge of the radius, and the towns immediately around it are reached on the same run down the 10.
Open the Fontana Office in Google Maps Send the address and say which side of Barton Road it is on. Whoever comes out to look has poured on both grounds and will tell you what yours needs before anything is torn up.