Katella Anaheim Concrete replaces drives, walks and steps in La Habra, up Harbor Boulevard from Anaheim. Some of it was poured before the war. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
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The oldest flatwork in La Habra is close to a century old. Walks, steps and porches near downtown were poured for houses on raised foundations in the 1920s and 1930s, thin and unreinforced.
That concrete has done its work and cannot be patched. A slab with no steel in it breaks into pieces that move on their own, and a 90 year old walk near La Habra Boulevard is usually six or seven of them, each at its own height. Grinding the lips buys a year. Replacing the run at 4 inches on 4 inches of compacted base, with steel on an 18 inch grid, gives a walk that moves as one piece, and we set the top to the old porch step so the rise a family has climbed for decades does not change.
The 1950s and 1960s tracts to the south, off Idaho Street and toward Beach Boulevard, are a different job. The houses are on slabs, the drives are wider, and the concrete is 60 years old rather than 90, which usually means the drive is sound in the middle and failed at the apron and the garage door, where the wheels turn. There we replace the two ends and dowel them into the middle panels, or the whole drive when the middle has gone too, and the estimate says which before a saw starts.
La Habra incorporated in 1925 and grew in two pushes, the town around La Habra Boulevard before the war and the tracts south and west of it in the 1950s and 1960s. The eight jobs below are the ones each age calls for, in the order we are asked.
A La Habra driveway is a 1960s slab in the tracts or a pair of strips downtown, and both fail at the apron and the garage door first. We replace the ends and dowel them to sound middle panels, or the whole drive at 4 inches on compacted base with steel when the middle has gone.
Patios in La Habra go behind the 1950s tract houses off Idaho Street and toward Beach Boulevard, on ground the groves left loose. We dig through the old topsoil to firm material, compact 4 inches of base, and pour a 4 inch slab pitched from the house and doweled into its slab.
Stamped concrete in La Habra is asked for on the patios of the tract houses more than on the older lots downtown, which keep their plain walks. We stamp a 4 inch slab in flagstone or ashlar, run a plain border where it meets the house, and seal it in 2 coats against the sun.
Walks downtown in La Habra are the oldest concrete we replace, prewar, unreinforced and broken into pieces at different heights. We pour the run at 4 inches on compacted base with steel, joint it every 5 feet, and set the top to the old porch step so the rise does not change.
A La Habra garage floor from the 1960s is usually sound except at the door, where the panel has settled under turning wheels and the drive has pulled away from it. We cut out and repour the door panel level with the rest, or the whole floor at 4 inches when a third has failed.
Exposed aggregate suits the older lots downtown in La Habra because the washed stone sits well beside a 1920s porch and hides the dust a deep lot collects. We pour, wash the surface within hours, and band the walk in smooth broom so the aggregate reads as a path, not a pavement.
Retaining walls in La Habra hold the raised front yards downtown and the slopes on the streets under the Puente Hills, and the old ones are unreinforced block. We footing a new wall 18 inches into firm ground, drain behind the stem, and engineer anything over 4 feet for the city.
Interior floors in La Habra go under the raised houses downtown when a crawlspace becomes a room, and into garage conversions on the tracts. We pour over a 10 mil vapor barrier on compacted base, trowel the slab flat for tile, and joint it on the plan of the room, not the crew.
Our yard is in Anaheim and Harbor Boulevard runs north from it through Fullerton into La Habra with no freeway on the way, so a crew is here in about 20 minutes whatever the 57 is doing. Plans go to the City of La Habra Building Division at City Hall on La Habra Boulevard. The city permits work in the parkway and inspects the approach, and on the older lots downtown it wants the walk kept clear of the parkway tree, which decides where a new run can go.
Downtown La Habra sits along La Habra Boulevard between Euclid Street and Harbor, with the older houses on the streets north and south of it. These lots are deep and narrow, the house sits up on a raised foundation, and the concrete is a walk, a set of steps and a strip drive with grass down the middle. We keep the strips where the owner wants them, since they are the lot's own look, and pour them at 4 inches with steel so they stop breaking at the wheel line.
The Puente Hills stand along the north edge of the city and the ground falls south from them, gently but far enough that the north-south streets carry water in a storm. A slab on the uphill side of a house takes that water first, so it is pitched to a drain at the side yard rather than toward the house. The groves that covered the south of the city until the 1950s left deep, loose topsoil under the tracts, and we dig through it to firm ground before the base goes in.
Four stages for an old lot. The age of the concrete is read on the visit, because a 1920s walk and a 1960s drive are torn out and rebuilt differently, and the figure says which it is before a saw is started.
Omar Espinoza measures the run, reads its age from the break and the steel, and writes the figure on site, whole or in parts.
The old concrete is broken out and hauled, loose grove topsoil is dug to firm ground, and 4 inches of base is compacted in two lifts.
We file with the City of La Habra Building Division for the approach or the walk in the parkway, and meet the inspector. No counter for you.
The slab is poured at 4 inches with steel, jointed within 12 hours, and set to the old porch step. Walk after 24 hours, park after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day. Omar Espinoza measures the slab, reads its age from the break, and writes the figure before he leaves, whether it is a porch step or a whole drive.
Reviews
Reviews from homeowners in the towns we cover from Anaheim, left on Google and Facebook and quoted as written. La Habra is one of them, and the work behind these words was built as this page says.
“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 people in La Habra ask before booking: whether an old walk can be saved, which counter takes the permit, what the groves left under the tracts, how long a drive is closed, and which towns nearby we cover.
The age of what comes out. A 1920s walk breaks out in pieces and hauls light, a 1960s drive comes out in slabs and takes a breaker and a bigger truck. After that it is the base, since the grove topsoil under the southern tracts is dug deeper than the firm ground downtown. Area and finish come last. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
The City of La Habra Building Division at City Hall on La Habra Boulevard. Flatwork inside your own lot needs no permit. A new approach, any walk across the parkway, a wall over 4 feet and a footing for a porch cover do, and the city inspects the approach at the forms before the pour.
Rarely, and not for long. Prewar concrete has no steel in it, so a walk near downtown is already several pieces, and grinding the lips or lifting one of them leaves the rest to move. Replacing the run at 4 inches on compacted base with steel through it is the repair that lasts, and we match the top to the old porch step.
Deep, loose topsoil. The citrus and avocado groves were irrigated for decades, and when the 1950s tracts went in the builders graded across the tilled ground rather than down to firm material. A drive poured on that settles at the apron within 10 years. We dig through it, compact 4 inches of base, and pour on that.
8 days from the pour, a little more with the tear-out. Breaking out a 60 year old drive and laying the base takes a day, the pour is a morning, and then 24 hours before you walk on it and 7 days before you park. On a strip drive downtown the two strips are poured on one morning, so the closure is the same.
Yes. La Habra Heights is straight up the hill, Brea is east along Imperial Highway, and La Mirada and Whittier are west along Whittier Boulevard. One crew covers all four from our yard in Anaheim, and each has its own page written for its own ground and its own building counter.
La Habra touches La Habra Heights to the north, Brea to the east and La Mirada and Whittier to the west, and we cover all of them from the same yard. Each town on the list below has its own page, written for its own ground and its own building counter.
Open the Anaheim Office in Google Maps Send the form, we call back within 1 business day, and the measure costs nothing. The work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.