Katella Anaheim Concrete pours the patios, side yards and pool decks the builders never did in Chino Hills, up the 71 from the 91. Every estimate is measured and written on site, and drawn.
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Chino Hills concrete is added, not replaced. The city incorporated in 1991 and most of its houses went up in the decades either side, so the builder's flatwork is sound and the yard behind it is bare.
A tract builder in Chino Hills poured the drive, the front walk and a 10 foot slab at the back door, and stopped. Behind that slab the pad runs to the top of a slope, on a fall the grading plan set, with a swale along the fence line. The side yards were left as dirt, and the pool that went in later has a deck someone else poured. Thirty years on the pad has done its settling, but it has an association over it and a grading plan under it, and a slab that ignores either gets taken out.
So a first pour on a Chino Hills pad is set to the plan the pad was graded to. We find the swale and the area drains, set the new slab to fall to them, and keep off the slope itself. The slab is 4 inches on 4 inches of compacted base with number 3 bar on an 18-inch grid, thickened at the edge nearest the slope so it bears on the pad, and doweled to the builder's slab so the two stay level. The finish and the color go to the association first, since that approval takes the time.
Chino Hills houses are young enough that the builder's drive and walk still stand, so the call is for what was never poured, the side yard, the patio beyond the back door slab, the pool deck, the wall that makes a level yard out of a sloped one.
A Chino Hills drive is the builder's, and it is sound, so the job is the extension beside it or the motor court a wider lot allows. We match the new slab to the old at 4 inches on base with a 5 inch apron, dowel the joint, and draw it for the association before it is cut.
The Chino Hills patio is a first pour on the bare pad beyond the builder's 10 foot slab. We set it to fall to the pad's area drains, stop it at the top of slope with a thickened edge, and pour 4 inches on compacted base, jointed at 10 feet and doweled to the house slab.
Stamped concrete is what most Chino Hills committees approve first, because it reads with the paver drives the builders laid. We cast the pattern into a 4 inch slab on base, color it integrally to the sample the board saw, and seal it in 2 coats so the hill sun does not fade it.
A Chino Hills side yard is the strip the builder left as dirt between the fence and the house, and it carries the pad's swale. We pour the walk 4 inches on base with the swale kept beside it or piped under it, so the yard drains as it was graded and the path stays dry.
A Chino Hills garage floor is a 1990s slab that is flat, sound and ready for a coating once it is dry enough. We test it for moisture first, because a pad on fill can push water up through an epoxy, grind it, and where it has cracked along the fill seam we replace it at 5 inches.
Exposed aggregate is the finish we put on a Chino Hills pool deck and the path to it, because the washed stone holds a wet foot on a slab that falls to a drain. We seed it into a 4 inch pour on base, wash it at the right hour, seal it, and band the edges smooth.
A retaining wall is how a Chino Hills pad gets bigger, and the city checks the plan for any wall outside its exemption. We foot it into the pad below the fill, drain it behind the stem to an area drain, engineer it where the height asks, and cap it for the fence above.
An interior floor in Chino Hills is a casita on the pad or a garage made into a unit. We pour over a 10 mil barrier on compacted base, tie it to the pad rather than the slope side, trowel it flat for tile or polish it, and cut the joints on a grid that suits the room.
Chino Hills is in San Bernardino County, the only town we cover there, and we reach it from Anaheim on the 91 east to the 71 north, coming off at Chino Hills Parkway or Soquel Canyon Parkway, or over Carbon Canyon Road from Brea when the job is on that side. It is the farthest drive we make, so a Chino Hills visit is booked with a Brea or Yorba Linda one. Permits are the City of Chino Hills at City Hall on City Center Drive, and a wall outside the city's exemption goes to plan check.
The tracts off Chino Hills Parkway, Peyton Drive and Butterfield Ranch Road are the pads we pour on most, and nearly every one sits under an association with an architectural committee that approves the finish, the color and anything visible from a neighbor's pad above. Los Serranos at the south end is older and flatter, a country club subdivision from the 1920s that filled in over the decades, and the work there is more often the replacement of an older slab than a first pour.
The slope below a pad is the line we do not cross. Every hillside lot in Chino Hills ends in a manufactured slope with its own drains, and a pool deck or a patio stops at the top of it. More flat ground comes from a retaining wall footed into the pad and drained behind, the one Chino Hills job the flat towns never ask for. The other thing the hills bring is fire, and a concrete patio, walk and side yard are the non-combustible ground a hillside house wants close around it.
Four stages, one crew, one written figure. The association's drawing is made at the first visit and goes in before anything else, because that approval sets the date more than the city does.
Omar Espinoza measures the pad, finds the drains and the top of slope, writes the figure and draws the plan your association will want.
The bare pad is scraped, any soft fill at its edge is dug and replaced, and 4 inches of Class 2 base is laid and plate-compacted.
The drawing goes to your association's committee first, then to the City of Chino Hills where the job needs a permit. No counter for you.
Poured to fall to the pad's drains, joints sawn the same day, walked on after 24 hours and used after 7. We hose the street clean.
Call or send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. The pad is measured and the figure written on it, the association's drawing is made at the same time, and none of it costs anything.
Reviews
Reviews left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover, Chino Hills among them. The pours behind them are the first pours this page describes.
“Our drive was the one the house came with, and the sand under it had washed away at the gutter end. They dug ten inches deeper, brought angular rock in and packed it in lifts, then put down 560 square feet at a five inch depth. It has been through two winters now without a mark.”
“Half our garage stands on cut and half on fill, which nobody had ever mentioned to us. Omar probed until he found the line, dug the fill side deeper, and set a joint straight along it. The floor went in at 440 square feet, five inches thick, and it is still one flat plane.”
“A ficus root had pushed our frontage walk up into a step the postman kept catching. The crew cut the root, stood a barrier against it, laid fresh base and poured 84 feet at four inches, and they sorted the paperwork with the city themselves. Flat all year since.”
What Chino Hills owners ask before booking, from what the association wants to see to whether a patio can go to the top of the slope, the drive from Anaheim, the ground and how long a pool deck takes.
The fall and the access, before the size. A pad that drains to one corner means the slab is set to a grade and sometimes carries a drain line under it, and a back yard a mixer cannot reach means the concrete is pumped from the street, which is written as its own line. Every estimate is measured and written on site, on the pad, so the pump and the grade are in the figure from the start.
In nearly every tract, yes, and before the work starts. The architectural committee approves the finish, the color and the layout, and a slab poured before the letter arrives can be ordered out. We draw the plan at the first visit in the form the committees ask for and submit it for you. The City of Chino Hills is separate, and only a wall over its exemption or a change to the pad's grade needs its permit.
To the top of it, and no further. The manufactured slope below a Chino Hills pad has its own terrace drains and its own stability calculation, and a slab that overhangs it or is cut into it changes both. The patio ends at the top of slope with a thickened edge bearing on the pad, and if you want more flat ground a retaining wall footed into the pad is how it is made, with the slope left as it was drawn.
About 35 minutes, on the 91 east to the 71 north and off at Chino Hills Parkway, or over Carbon Canyon Road from Brea when the job is on the west side. It is the farthest of the towns we cover, so we pair a Chino Hills visit with one in Brea or Yorba Linda and call back within 1 business day to fix the day. The mixer comes from the nearest plant, not from Anaheim.
Three days on site for the deck alone, four with the walk from the house. The coping is set first, the deck is poured 4 inches on base with the fall away from the water to the pad's drains, and the joints are sawn the same day. Walk on it after 24 hours, put furniture on it after 7 days. A pump is used where the yard is above the street, which adds set-up time but not days.
Yes, it is the eastern edge. Diamond Bar is next door over the county line, Brea and Yorba Linda are on the Orange County side of the hills, and all of them are worked from the same yard on Katella Avenue by the same crew. Chino and Pomona are not on our list, so a job anywhere inside the Chino Hills city line gets the same visit, and one past it does not.
Chino Hills touches Diamond Bar, Brea and Yorba Linda among the towns we cover, and the county line runs along the hills between them. Each has its own page, written for its own ground and permit office, so if your street sits on a line, read that one too.
Open the Anaheim Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call back within 1 business day. The figure is written on the pad, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.