Fontana Concrete Pro builds patios, walls and drives across Yorba Linda, 23 miles from our Fontana yard by the 15 and the 91. Every estimate is measured and written on site, free.
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Most of Yorba Linda is built on the Chino Hills, and the hills are clay. They swell with the winter rain and shrink through the dry summer, and a slab poured onto them moves with the ground each year.
The graded tracts of the 1980s and after, East Lake Village, Bryant Ranch and the streets around Black Gold, sit on pads cut from that clay and filled with it, so the swell happens under the whole yard rather than at one edge. A patio poured on it heaves at a corner in its first wet winter, and a wall holding a cut lot leans once the clay behind it is wet and unrelieved. The older flats along Yorba Linda Boulevard toward Placentia are river sand and behave better.
So every slab here is built to move as a whole or not at all. The clay is cut out to a firm depth and replaced with 6 inches of compacted Class 2 base rather than 4, the slab is poured at 4 inches with number 3 steel on an 18-inch grid, and where it meets the house it is doweled. A wall is footed below the swelling zone, drained behind the stem to a pipe at its toe, and backfilled with gravel rather than the clay that came out, because a wall fails from the water it holds, not the soil.
Yorba Linda is a hill town with a river at its foot, and its concrete follows the slope. East of Fairmont Boulevard the lots were graded after 1990, so the work is a first patio and a wall for the cut. By Placentia, 1960s drives need replacing.
A drive on the 1960s streets of Yorba Linda near Placentia is the builder's original, and a drive on the hill is on clay that has lifted it. We take the old slab out, replace the clay under it with 6 inches of compacted base, and pour 4 inches with steel and a thickened edge.
Patios are the first job on the newer Yorba Linda lots, where the builder left a graded pad of clay behind the house. We cut the clay out to firm ground, compact 6 inches of base, pour 4 inches on an 18-inch steel grid and dowel it to the house slab, so the two move as one.
Stamped concrete in Yorba Linda goes on the patio and the pool surround, where owners want the look of the slate and travertine the newer houses were sold with. We cast the pattern into a 4 inch slab with an integral color and seal it in 2 coats against the hillside sun.
A walk in Yorba Linda is often a path down a slope rather than a strip at the curb, from the street to a house set below or above it. We form it in runs with a step where the grade asks for one, broom it so it grips wet, and on the flat streets replace a lifted city panel flush.
Yorba Linda garages on the hill were poured on the same clay as the yard, so a floor heaves at the door and cracks across the middle. We break it out, base it at 6 inches, pour 4 inches with steel and trowel it hard and flat, which is what an epoxy or a polished finish needs.
Decorative work in Yorba Linda is the pool deck and the view terrace, on lots where the yard ends at a slope and the concrete is what you look at. We do exposed aggregate, salt finish and a light integral color that reads cooler underfoot, on 6 inches of base so it stays flat.
Retaining walls are the job Yorba Linda asks for most, because a hill lot in Bryant Ranch or off Fairmont Boulevard ends at a cut or a fill. Over 4 feet the wall is engineered and permitted at the City of Yorba Linda Building Division, footed below the moving clay and drained.
Interior floors in Yorba Linda are the ADU on the wide horse lots in the middle of the city and the converted garage on the hill. We pour over a 10 mil vapor barrier on compacted base, trowel it flat enough for tile, and cut the joints to the room, with the barrier lapped up.
Our yard is in Fontana, 23 miles east in a straight line and a run down the 15 and west along the 91 through the Santa Ana Canyon, so a Yorba Linda crew is on site by 7 and the drive is made once for a week of work. Permits go to the City of Yorba Linda Building Division. A patio at grade needs none; a wall over 4 feet, a footing and anything on a slope gets plan check there, and a hillside lot often carries a soils report from the tract grading that we read before we dig.
The town is three eras stacked up the hill. Along Yorba Linda Boulevard and around the Nixon Library the houses are 1960s and 1970s, on flat lots with the garage forward and the original drive still down. East Lake Village is the 1980s, a tract built around its lake under an association that approves what shows from the street. Bryant Ranch and the streets off Fairmont Boulevard and around Black Gold are the 1990s and 2000s, cut into the hills with a slope at the back fence.
The river is the low edge, and the fire is the other thing to know. The Santa Ana River and the 91 run along the south of the city and every yard falls toward them, so a slab graded to shed downhill is working with the lot. The hills above burned in the Freeway Complex fire of 2008 and the rebuilt streets were regraded then, so a yard there has fresher fill than its neighbors. Summers on the hill pass 100 degrees, and we pour before 7 from July through September.
Four stages, one crew, and one figure written on the first visit. Andre Whitfield measures the yard and reads the slope before a number is put on paper, so nothing changes once the work is booked.
Andre Whitfield measures the yard, checks how it falls, probes for the depth of the clay and photographs the gate the concrete comes through.
The clay comes out to firm ground and 6 inches of Class 2 base goes in and is plate-compacted. Behind a wall, a drain pipe is laid at the toe.
A wall over 4 feet or a footing goes to the City of Yorba Linda Building Division. We file it, meet the inspector and show your association.
The pour is a morning, the joints are cut within 12 hours, you walk on it after 24 and park on it after 7 days. We leave the side yard swept.
Call or send the form and we call back within 1 business day to set a time. Andre Whitfield measures, checks the fall of the yard and the clay under it, and leaves the written figure with you. It costs nothing, and we run to Yorba Linda most weeks.
Reviews
Our own reviews, left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover. Yorba Linda is among them, and the yards behind these words are the ones this page describes.
“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 Yorba Linda homeowners ask before booking, covering what about a hill lot moves the estimate, who issues the permit, how far we come, what the clay does, how long a slab is out of use and the towns nearby.
The slope, then the clay, then the area. A flat lot on the 1960s streets takes a mixer at the form; a hill lot in Bryant Ranch takes a pump and a deeper base, and a wall to hold the cut adds a footing and a drain. Access through a side gate and the finish move it after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the figure comes off the yard itself.
The City of Yorba Linda Building Division, at City Hall. A patio, a drive or a walk at grade on your own lot needs no permit. A retaining wall over 4 feet, a footing that carries a roof and any work on a graded slope goes through plan check, and we file it, meet the inspector and show the association the drawing where one governs your street.
23 miles in a straight line from our yard in Fontana, down the 15 and west on the 91 through the Santa Ana Canyon. The crew leaves early enough to be on site by 7, and Yorba Linda jobs are booked in runs so the drive is made once a week rather than once a day. You are called back within 1 business day, as anywhere we cover.
The clay under it swelled. The Chino Hills are marine clay, and a slab poured straight onto a graded pad lifts at a corner the first February the ground is wet through, then drops in August. The fix is to take the clay out to firm depth, compact 6 inches of base in its place and run steel through the slab, so the whole panel moves as one piece or not at all.
A patio or a drive runs 2 to 3 days on site, and a wall with its footing and drain runs 4 to 5. Concrete takes foot traffic after 24 hours and a car after 7 days, and a wall is backfilled once the footing has cured a week. Joints are cut within 12 hours of the pour so the cracking, when it comes, stays in a straight line.
Yes, and the two are different jobs. On the 1960s and 1970s streets near Yorba Linda Boulevard the ground is river sand, the lot is flat, and a mixer backs to the form. Up the hill in East Lake Village, Bryant Ranch and above Black Gold the lot steps, the ground is clay, and the same patio is pumped, based deeper and finished with a wall.
Yorba Linda sits against Placentia, Brea and Anaheim Hills, with Chino Hills over the ridge to the north, and one crew covers all of them from Fontana. If your street runs along a city line, the page for the town next door is the one to read.
Open the Fontana Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call back within 1 business day. The figure is written in your yard, free, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.