Katella Anaheim Concrete replaces drives, walks, patios and parking pads in Stanton, 3 miles west of our yard on Katella Avenue. The figure is measured on your lot and costs nothing.
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What is under a 1950s Stanton drive is usually nothing. Three inches of concrete, no base, no steel, poured straight on the topsoil the day the house was finished.
That was the tract standard in 1956, when Stanton incorporated, and it explains what a homeowner sees now. A slab that thin has no dowels between its panels, so one panel tips at the joint and the next stays put, and the step it leaves is where a car scrapes and a foot catches. It cracks in a map pattern where the ground was never compacted, and each crack lets water into the soil and softens it further. Patching the surface treats none of that, because the fault is below the concrete.
So a Stanton replacement is a full dig, not an overlay. The old slab is broken and hauled, the subgrade is scraped to firm ground and plate compacted, 4 inches of Class 2 base goes down, and the new slab is poured 4 inches thick with number 3 bar on an 18 inch grid. Panels are doweled where they meet, and the saw cuts the joints the same day so the cracks run straight. It is the slab the 1956 house should have been given, on the same footprint.
Stanton lots are small and were finished 70 years ago, so nothing here is a first pour. It is a slab that has already had one life, replaced at the size the lot allows and to a specification the original never had.
A Stanton drive is short, 2 cars long between the walk and the garage, and usually the original 3 inch pour. We break it out to the walk, compact the subgrade, lay 4 inches of base and pour 4 inches with bar, then dowel the apron into the city walk so the two never step.
A Stanton back yard is often 20 feet deep, so the patio is most of it. We pour it to the fence at 4 inches, set the fall a quarter inch per foot away from the house toward a drain or the side gate, and joint it at 10 feet, so one small slab behaves like several.
Stamped concrete goes in as a front path or a patio border in Stanton, where a whole stamped yard would be more pattern than lawn. We cast an ashlar or a flagstone into the 4 inch slab, color it integrally so a chip does not show gray, and seal it in 2 coats. Nothing to resand.
The walk along the front of a Stanton lot is the city's, and the path from it to the door is yours. We replace the path at 4 inches with a broom finish and square panels, and where the public walk has lifted too, we file the encroachment permit and replace that panel.
A 1950s Stanton garage floor was poured the same day as the drive, to the same 3 inches, and the two have cracked together. We break it out, pour 4 inches over a vapor barrier, trowel it flat enough to coat, and dowel the threshold so a car does not bump the seam.
Exposed aggregate is the finish we pour in Stanton where plain gray would show every tire mark, on a drive or a front pad. Pea gravel is washed proud of the matrix the evening of the pour, the border is left smooth, and the darker surface hides what a small drive collects.
Stanton is flat, so a wall here holds a raised bed or the edge of a parking pad rather than a slope. We pour it on a footing 12 inches below grade, cap it level, and put a drain and gravel behind the stem, because even a knee high wall holds water against itself in February.
Garage conversions and small additions are how a Stanton house gains a room, and each needs a slab someone will live on. We pour it 4 inches over a 10 mil barrier, tie it to the existing footing with epoxied dowels, and trowel it flat enough for tile to go straight down.
Our yard sits on West Katella Avenue in Anaheim, and Katella runs straight into Stanton at Dale Avenue about 3 miles west, past the Civic Center at Beach Boulevard where the city's building counter is. That makes Stanton the closest town on our list and the one a crew can reach between other jobs. Permits go to the City of Stanton, since it has been its own city since 1956, and a drive approach or a walk on Beach Boulevard also touches Caltrans, because Beach is State Route 39.
The city is 3 square miles with 38,528 people on it, which is the densest ground we work, and the lot sizes show it. A 1950s house on a 5,000 square foot lot east of Beach Boulevard has a drive that serves 2 cars if they park nose to tail, a side yard a barrow just fits, and a back yard where a patio and a path use up everything that is not fence. A mixer parks on the street and every yard of concrete travels in by wheel, so the crew is sized for that and the day is planned around it.
Because Stanton is close, we also take the jobs that do not justify a long drive elsewhere, a single step, a trash pad behind a court, a walk from the gate to the door, a patio behind one unit in a row. They are poured to the same sheet as a full drive, on base, with steel, jointed and cured, because a small slab poured thin fails exactly as fast as a large one. In July and August the pour starts at 6 in the morning and the slab is covered for its first day.
The nearest town gets the shortest gaps. A visit, a written figure, a dig and a pour, with the crew back on the same avenue it left from, and no second number after the first.
Omar Espinoza drives the 3 miles, measures, checks the side gate for a barrow, finds where rain runs now and writes the figure at the lot.
The old 3 inch slab is broken and hauled by barrow, the subgrade plate compacted, and 4 inches of Class 2 base laid and compacted on top.
A curb cut or a cover goes to the City of Stanton, and an approach onto Beach Boulevard to Caltrans too. We file both and meet the inspector.
Four inches with bar, jointed the same day. Walk on it after 24 hours, park on it after 7 days, and the barrow leaves by the gate it came in.
Call or send the form and Omar Espinoza will be in touch within 1 business day to set a time. Stanton is 3 miles from the yard, so the visit is easy to fit in, and the figure is written on your ground before you decide anything.
Reviews
Google and Facebook reviews from the people we have poured for across the towns we cover. Stanton is the closest of them, and the drives and patios described above are the jobs behind them.
“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 Stanton homeowners, landlords and park managers ask at the visit, on what moves the figure on a small lot, whose permit a Beach Boulevard approach needs, and how long a shared drive is closed.
Tear-out, before anything else. Almost every Stanton job starts by breaking and hauling a slab that is already there, and on a lot with a 4 foot side yard that rubble leaves by barrow the same way the new concrete arrives. The area and the thickness set the material, the access sets the crew hours, and a step or a drain adds a day. Omar Espinoza measures all of it at the visit and writes the figure there.
The City of Stanton, and Caltrans as well if the approach opens onto Beach Boulevard, because Beach through Stanton is State Route 39. A drive or a patio replaced inside your lot line needs no permit at all. A new curb cut, a wall over 4 feet, or a slab that carries a patio cover goes to the city's building counter at the Civic Center on Katella Avenue, and we file it and meet the inspector ourselves.
The same day, for a visit, because our yard is 3 miles east on the same avenue. We reply to a call or the form within 1 business day, and a Stanton measure is usually booked for the next morning we are passing, which is most of them. The job itself is scheduled once the written figure is agreed, and a small Stanton pour can often be slotted between two larger ones rather than waiting for a full week to open.
Not for long. A 1950s slab here is 3 inches with no base and no steel, and an overlay bonds to a surface that is still moving underneath. The old cracks come through the new skin within 2 winters, and the money is spent twice. A slab with a hairline crack and no lifted joint can be left alone. One that has stepped at a joint or broken into pieces is replaced, on 4 inches of base so it does not repeat the fault.
Nine days from the first break to the first car. The dig and the pour take 2 days on site for a 2 car drive, then the concrete needs 24 hours before it is walked on and 7 days before it is driven on. Where a drive is shared between two 1950s houses we replace the whole strip in one pour, so both households park on the street for the same 9 days rather than one of them doing it twice.
Yes, and it is a good part of the Stanton work. A park roadway, a common walk, a trash enclosure pad or a court behind a row of townhomes is poured in sections, so no resident loses the way to a door for more than a day. The call comes from the park operator or the association, and the figure is written to the board as it is to a homeowner, measured on site, one number, liability insurance on every job.
Stanton borders Cypress to the west and Buena Park to the north, and Westminster and Los Alamitos sit just south and west of it. One crew covers all four from the Anaheim yard, and each has its own page saying how the ground and the permits differ there.
Open the Anaheim Office in Google Maps Send the form or call, and we reply within 1 business day with a time for the visit. The written figure is free, and the slab carries a written workmanship guarantee.