Katella Anaheim Concrete pours drives, courts, patios and walls in Villa Park, 3 miles from our yard along Katella Avenue, which turns into Villa Park Road at the city line. Measured on site.
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On a Villa Park lot the driveway does the work a sidewalk and a gutter do elsewhere. It carries the cars, takes the rain, and meets a street edge the city never built up, so it is drawn as drainage.
The lots were held at half an acre when the city incorporated in 1962 for that purpose, and the ranch houses on them sit well back from the road. That makes a drive of 60 to 100 feet, a circular one across many fronts, and a turnout beside the garage for the boat or the trailer. A 4 inch slab is right for the cars and wrong for the trailer, so the pad is poured thicker and on steel. Where the street has no curb the apron is flared and its edge thickened, because wheels drop off it daily.
Water is the other half. With no gutter at the road, rain that runs down a drive has nowhere to go but the shoulder, and a drive graded toward the house is how it gets into a garage. We set the falls on the lot with a level before a form goes in, cut a trench drain across the apron where the garage is downhill of the road, and pipe it to daylight at the shoulder. Under all of it is the gravel Santiago Creek left behind, which drains and carries a slab well once the roots are out.
Most Villa Park streets have no sidewalk and many have no curb, so the concrete on a lot begins at the garage door and ends at the asphalt. The drive is long, often circular, and it is the one surface everybody sees from the road.
A Villa Park drive runs 60 to 100 feet from the garage to a road with no curb, so it is poured 4 inches on compacted base, flared and thickened at the apron, and graded to shed across the shoulder. A circular drive is jointed at every turn so it cracks nowhere else.
A patio behind a Villa Park ranch house is sized to the lot, 400 to 800 square feet, and it meets a lawn that has been watered for 60 years. We strip the soft topsoil to firm ground, compact 4 inches of base, and set the fall so the yard drains past the house and not into it.
Stamped concrete in Villa Park is the entry court where a circular drive meets the door, in ashlar or a flag pattern colored to the house. We pour it 4 inches on base, stamp it the day it is placed, and seal it in 2 coats so the color holds through the summer sun.
Villa Park has few public walks, so a walk here is your own, from the drive to the door or round the side of the house to the pool. We pour it 4 feet wide and 4 inches thick, broomed for grip, with a joint every 4 feet and a fall of a quarter inch a foot away from the house.
A Villa Park garage holds 3 cars and often a workshop, and its 1960s floor is cracked where the slab was poured thin. We break it out, lay a barrier over compacted base, and pour 4 inches troweled flat so an epoxy or a tile goes down without grinding the high spots first.
Decorative work on a Villa Park lot is the border and the court, an exposed aggregate band along a plain drive or a colored field at the door. We sample the color on the lot in the afternoon sun before we order, because 800 square feet reads lighter than a chip does.
Retaining walls in Villa Park hold a sloped lot off Serrano Avenue or the edge of a pool terrace, and a wall over 4 feet is engineered and permitted through City Hall. We foot it into the creek gravel below the topsoil and drain it behind the stem to a pipe at the low end.
An interior slab on a Villa Park lot is a casita, a pool house or a barn floor, and there is room for all three on half an acre. We pour 4 inches over a 10 mil barrier on compacted base, trowel it for tile, and give a barn or a wash rack floor a fall to a drain in the middle.
Katella Avenue runs east from our yard in Anaheim through Orange and becomes Villa Park Road at the city line, so a crew is on a Villa Park lot in about 10 minutes. The city incorporated in 1962 to stop its half acre lots being cut up, and it still has one shopping center and little other commerce. Permits for a wall over 4 feet, a footing or a covered patio go to the City of Villa Park at City Hall on Santiago Boulevard. Flatwork at grade needs none.
The older drives in the city are on the flat streets around Santiago Boulevard and Wanda Road, poured in the 1960s and 70s, 3 and a half inches thick with the joints too far apart and the roots of trees as old as the houses under them. Off Serrano Avenue and toward the hills the lots came later and sit on more of a slope, and a drive there has a grade to manage as well as a length. Both kinds are measured foot by foot on the lot, because on a lot this size the length is the job.
Villa Park still keeps horses on some lots, so a barn slab, a wash rack or a tack room floor is an ordinary request here, poured with a fall and a drain like a garage. The other request is the court. A circular drive on a half acre gets an entry court where it meets the front door, and owners want it colored or stamped to sit against the house. We sample that on the lot in the afternoon sun, because a color chosen from a chart looks different across 800 square feet.
Four stages. The first is the walk from the garage door to the road with a level, because on a lot with no curb the falls are the design, and the figure is written on that walk before anything is agreed.
Omar Espinoza shoots the levels from the garage to the shoulder, measures the drive and the pad, and writes the figure on the lot.
The old drive is broken out and hauled, roots are cut back, and 4 inches of Class 2 base is placed and plate-compacted on the creek gravel.
A drive or a court at grade needs nothing from the city. A wall, a footing or a cover goes to City Hall on Santiago Boulevard first.
A long drive is poured in one morning and sawn that afternoon. Walk on it at 24 hours, drive on it at 7 days, park the trailer at 14.
Call or send the form and Omar Espinoza calls you back within 1 business day to fix a time. Every estimate is measured and written on site, the walk down the drive with a level is part of it, and Villa Park Road is 10 minutes from our door.
Reviews
Our own reviews, left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across north Orange County. Villa Park is the closest town to our yard, and the drives above are the work they describe.
“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 Villa Park owners ask before a drive or a court is agreed, on what moves the figure, on the city, on the shoulder and the rain, on the trailer pad, on trees and on the time the drive is out of use.
Length, then what parks on it. A Villa Park drive runs 60 to 100 feet and a circular one longer, so the yardage is most of the job, and a pad for a trailer or a motorhome is poured thicker and on steel. Trees move it after that, because a 60 year old root under the old drive has to come out or be bridged. We measure every foot on the lot and write the figure there.
Not for a drive, a court or a patio at grade on your own lot. A retaining wall over 4 feet, a footing under a cover and a wall holding a slope all go through the City of Villa Park at City Hall on Santiago Boulevard, and we file it and meet the inspector. Where a street does have a curb the apron beyond it is city ground, and we check that line before cutting.
Across the shoulder, on purpose. We grade the drive to fall toward the road at a steady pitch, flare the apron so the water spreads rather than channels, and where the garage sits below the road we cut a trench drain across the apron and pipe it to the shoulder. A drive that falls toward the house is how a Villa Park garage floods in a January storm.
Yes, if it is poured for it. A car needs 4 inches on compacted base. A loaded trailer or a motorhome needs 5 to 6 inches with steel on a grid, and a turnout beside the garage is poured that way while the rest of the drive stays at 4. We ask what will park where before the forms go in, because thickening a slab afterward means replacing it.
Not if the roots are dealt with first. The roots that lifted the old drive are cut back on the trunk side of the form line, the base is placed over a root barrier where a tree stands close, and the slab is jointed at each tree so a lift, if one comes, opens a joint rather than a crack. A tree the owner wants kept sets the line of the drive, and we route around it.
About 3 miles along Katella Avenue, which becomes Villa Park Road at the city line, so a crew is on the lot in 10 minutes and a return trip for a fitting costs a quarter of an hour, not a morning. You hear from us within 1 business day, and the same crew is on your drive each day until the last joint is sawn.
Villa Park sits on the east side of Orange County with Yorba Linda across the river to the north and Placentia beyond it, both covered from the same yard, and Tustin south down the 55. A lot on a city line gets the same crew and a different permit counter.
Open the Anaheim Office in Google Maps Send the form, hear from us within 1 business day, and get the figure written on your own drive. The work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.