Katella Anaheim Concrete pours drives, patios and garage floors in Cypress, 5 miles west along Katella Avenue, our own street. Every estimate is measured and written on site, line marked first.
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Half the concrete on a Cypress lot is not the owner's to replace. The walk at the curb is the city's, the drive in a townhome tract may be the association's, and the fence-line wall is shared.
Cypress lots are 1960s tract lots of about 6,000 square feet, and a good share of the housing built after them is townhomes with an association over the common ground. So the lifted panel at the curb belongs to the City of Cypress and is replaced to its standard under its permit, the shared drive in a townhome court belongs to the association and is poured only with its consent, and a block wall on the fence line is half the neighbor's. Pour first and ask after, and an owner pays twice.
So the first thing written on a Cypress estimate is the line. We check the tract map for the parkway width and the association's plan for what is common, mark the property line on the ground, and write the drive, the walk and the patio as separate items so the owner's part is clear and the association's can go to the board. The slab is the same on all of it, 4 inches on 4 inches of compacted base with number 3 bar on an 18-inch grid, 5 inches at the apron, falling away from the house.
Cypress went from dairies to tract houses inside fifteen years, and its lots are small enough that every slab touches a line, the city's at the curb, an association's at the common wall, a neighbor's at the fence. The jobs below begin there.
A Cypress drive is a 1960s two-car slab that has settled at the apron, or a court's worth of townhome drives on an association's list. Either way the old slab comes out, the topsoil is dug to firm silt, 4 inches of base goes in and the drive goes back 4 inches, 5 at the apron.
A Cypress patio is the builder's 10 foot slab pushed out to the fence, and on a 6,000 square foot lot that is most of the yard. We take the old slab out, dig to firm ground, lay base and pour 4 inches jointed at 10 feet, doweled to the house and falling from the door.
Stamped concrete in Cypress is a front walk and porch in one pattern on a 1960s ranch house being redone outside, or a court's walks matched for a board. We cast the pattern into a 4 inch slab on base, color it through and seal it in 2 coats, and the board sees the sample first.
A Cypress walk is either the city's panel at the curb, replaced to its standard under an encroachment permit, or the path and side yard that are yours. We pour the private walks 4 inches on base, dowel each new panel to the last, and keep the side yard falling to the street.
A 1960s Cypress garage floor has dropped a step below the apron as the topsoil under it settled, and it has no barrier under it. We break it out, dig to firm silt, lay base and a 10 mil vapor barrier, and pour 5 inches with steel, brought level with the drive and troweled flat.
Exposed aggregate goes on Cypress patios and the walks of a townhome court, where a plain broom finish shows every sprinkler stain on flat ground. We seed the stone into a 4 inch pour on base, wash it at the right hour and seal it, with a smooth band along each edge.
Cypress is flat, so a retaining wall here holds a raised bed or the step between a drive and a lawn, and stays under 4 feet. On a fence line it is half the neighbor's, and we say so before it is drawn. We foot it 12 inches into firm silt, drain it behind the stem and cap it.
An interior floor in Cypress is the garage made into a unit or a room built over the old side yard, both on ground that stays damp. We pour over a 10 mil barrier on compacted base, trowel it flat enough for tile or leave it to be polished, and cut the joints to the room.
Our yard is on Katella Avenue, and Katella runs west through Stanton and into Cypress without turning, past the race course and the business park to Valley View Street. A Cypress visit is a 15 minute drive with no freeway in it, which is why we are there most weeks. The city incorporated as Dairy City in 1956 and took its present name a year later, and permits go to the Building Division at City Hall on Orange Avenue, with work at the curb an encroachment permit from Public Works.
The single-family tracts between Lincoln Avenue and Katella Avenue, off Walker Street, Moody Street and Denni Street, are where most of our Cypress calls come from, 1960s ranch houses whose original drives and patios have settled into the dairy ground under them. The townhome communities of the 1970s are the other half of the work, and there the call comes from a board as often as from an owner, for a court's worth of drives or the walks between the units, poured to one specification.
Cypress is flat, and flat ground gives a slab no fall of its own. So the fall is built into the forms, a quarter inch to the foot away from the house, and where a yard has no outlet a drain is run to the street before the concrete goes down. The ground itself is the silt of the old dairy plain, firm once the old topsoil is dug through and the base compacted on it, and it is the same ground our west Anaheim jobs sit on, so the specification is the one we use at home.
Four stages, one crew and one written figure. The line between yours, the city's and the association's is marked at the first visit, so the estimate says who is paying for which slab.
Omar Espinoza measures the slabs, marks the property line and the parkway, checks the fall from the house and writes the figure on the lot.
The old slab comes out, the topsoil under it is dug to firm silt, and 4 inches of Class 2 base is laid and plate-compacted on it.
We file with the Cypress Building Division, take a curb permit from Public Works where needed, and send the board its quote. No counter for you.
Poured with the fall built in, joints sawn the same day, walked on after 24 hours and driven on after 7. We hose the street behind us.
Call or send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. We are on Katella Avenue too, so a Cypress visit fits most days, and the measure and the written figure cost nothing.
Reviews
Reviews left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover, Cypress among them, some from a board that had a whole court done. The crew is the same on every one.
“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 Cypress owners and board members ask before booking, from who pays for the walk at the curb to which office issues the permit, the ground, how far we come and how long a drive is closed.
The City of Cypress, on most streets, because the walk from the curb to the property line is the city's. Report it to Public Works and ask. If you would rather not wait, we replace the panel to the city's standard under an encroachment permit, and it goes on your estimate as its own line. The path from the public walk to your door is yours, and that we pour with the drive.
The Building Division at Cypress City Hall on Orange Avenue for anything structural, a retaining wall over 4 feet or a garage being made into a room, and Public Works in the same building for the approach, the curb and the public walk. A patio, a side-yard slab or a garage floor inside your own lot needs no permit at grade. In a townhome tract the association's consent comes before either.
Whose it is, then how much of it. A court's drives poured together under one permit cost the association less per drive than one owner's drive poured alone, because the mixer, the tear-out and the base come once. For a single owner the figure moves with the width at the curb and the depth of topsoil that has to come out. Every estimate is measured and written on site, and a board gets the court on one sheet.
Five miles along one street. Our yard is on Katella Avenue west of Euclid Street, and Katella runs straight through Stanton into Cypress, so the crew and the mixer are there in about 15 minutes with no freeway on the way. That is why Cypress gets the first pour slot of a morning more often than any other town we cover. We call back within 1 business day to fix the day.
Two to three days on site, then 24 hours before you walk on it and 7 days before you park on it. The tear-out of a 1960s slab takes a morning, digging the old topsoil to firm silt and compacting base takes the rest of the day, and the pour is the second morning. In a townhome court the drives are done two at a time so nobody is parked out for more than three days.
Stanton, Buena Park, La Palma, Los Alamitos and Hawaiian Gardens, all of which touch Cypress, are worked from the same yard on Katella Avenue by the same crew, and Anaheim is home. A lot on a city line gets the same base, the same steel and the same finish whichever side of the line it falls on, and the page for each town says what its own ground and permit office ask for.
Cypress touches Stanton, Buena Park, La Palma, Los Alamitos and Hawaiian Gardens, and every one is covered from the same yard on Katella Avenue. Each has its own page, written for its own lots and permit counter, so read the next one if you are on a line.
Open the Anaheim Office in Google Maps Call or send the form and we call back within 1 business day. The visit costs nothing, and every slab we pour carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.