We pour driveways, patios, slabs and retaining walls across Chino, from the townsite blocks off Central Avenue to the new streets on the old dairy preserve. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
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Chino is 5.1 miles from our yard on Holt Boulevard, straight down Euclid Avenue, and it is the town nearest us with close to 90,000 people in it.
The Chino Valley was the state's largest dairy region, and the Agricultural Preserve still holds working parcels between the new tracts. Ground grazed for a century is not ground you pour on as found: it carries organic-rich topsoil, buried corral fill and old irrigation lines, and all of it compresses under a slab at a different rate than the soil beside it. That is what cracks a driveway inside five years, so we over-excavate and replace. Your parcel is on the USDA Web Soil Survey.
The second condition is water. Historic groundwater in the southern half of Chino sits high, and the tracts built out of the preserve since 2005 stand on engineered fill placed over it, next to century-old farm parcels that were never touched. Two properties on the same street can want two different base depths. We measure at the property rather than quote off a plan, and the number we write is the number we build to. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
Eight jobs, on a town whose housing runs from 1920s townsite lots to tracts finished last year, and whose ground was the largest dairy region in California within living memory.
A Chino driveway sits either on a townsite lot off Central Avenue, poured before 1960 and unreinforced, or on engineered fill in a tract built since 2005. We dig out the soft organic topsoil the dairy years left, compact the subgrade and cut the joints to the run.
Chino back lots are deep, and a patio out there is the room a family uses from April to October. Ours are graded to carry summer storm water away from the house rather than into it, which matters on the southern streets where the water table sits near the surface.
Stamped concrete is what most of The Preserve and the newer Chino tracts use at the front door, because the frontages are narrow and a pattern reads better there than a plain slab. We stamp and color in one pour, so the finish runs through the surface rather than over it.
The public walk and the drive approach in front of a Chino house belong to the city, so replacing a panel takes an encroachment permit and an inspection. On the townsite blocks near D Street the street trees have lifted panels; we cut the roots back and rebuild to grade.
Garages on Chino houses built between 1950 and 1975 sit on thin slabs poured straight onto farm ground with no vapor barrier, which is why the floor sweats and the paint lifts. We replace the slab over compacted base and sheeting, so it stays dry enough to coat and to park on.
Decorative work is the finish rather than the shape: exposed aggregate, salt finish, saw-cut patterns, integral color. On the wide frontages north of Schaefer Avenue it is a border and a field; on the smaller Preserve lots it is one finish carried from the drive to the patio.
Chino has real grade where the old field parcels meet newer pads and along the drop toward Chino Creek. A poured wall on footings taken below the disturbed farm soil holds that step and drains behind the stem, where dry-stacked block on shallow ground leans within a few winters.
Interior slabs go into ADUs on the older Chino lots and into the units around Chino Airport. Both want a flat floor over a vapor barrier, poured to a finish the covering can take. We read the moisture in the pad first, because a floor is the one slab nobody digs out later.
Permits come from the Building Division at the City of Chino, and anything in the parkway, at the curb or across the public walk needs a separate encroachment permit from Public Works engineering. We file both, post the plans and meet the inspector on site. A homeowner does not deal with the counter on Central Avenue at any point in the job.
The town reads in layers. The original townsite around Central Avenue and D Street is 1900s to 1950s, deep lots with long side driveways and street trees old enough to have moved the walk. The middle of Chino is post-war and 1970s tract. Below Kimball Avenue, The Preserve and the streets around it are new build on former dairy land, still going in. Euclid Avenue carries State Route 83 through all of it, past the state prison and out toward Chino Airport on the eastern edge.
We work Chino most weeks, and the crew knows which streets need a soil check before a number is written. Chino Hills is over the ridge to the south west, Montclair and Pomona sit on the northern and western lines, and Eastvale is across the county line, all of them within the 20 towns we cover, so a crew already in Chino is not making a special trip for one drive approach.
Four steps, from the first call to the closed permit. The distance from our yard to any Chino street is under fifteen minutes, so the site visit is usually the same week as the call.
You call or send the form and we answer within 1 business day, with a visit booked for a Chino address usually inside the same week.
We walk the ground, look at what is under the existing slab, check the fall and write the estimate at your Chino address before leaving.
We file with the Chino Building Division, add the encroachment permit where the work touches the walk, and set a start date once both are back.
We break out, build the base, pour and finish, then walk the job with you, hand over the cure dates and close the permit with the inspector.
Tell us the address and what you want built. We come out, dig a look at what is under it, and write the price on site, no drawings needed and nothing owed for the visit.
Reviews
Reviews from homeowners and property managers across the towns we cover, Chino among them. Every one is for a job we measured on site and built to the written estimate.
“Our place off Euclid is from the 1920s and the drive still ran back to the alley. They replaced 400 square feet at 5 inches, matched the fall to the alley apron and cut the joints the same day. Victor was there from start to finish.”
“We built an ADU in the back garden and needed the slab done properly. They over-excavated the old dairy ground, brought in engineered fill and poured to the soil report. It passed inspection first time, which is not what I expected.”
“The warehouse yard on Jurupa Street was breaking up under the forklifts and we could not shut down to fix it. Ontario Concrete Pro poured 2,800 square feet at 6 inches over two weekends so we never stopped shipping. A year on the joints are still tight.”
Six things people in Chino ask before they book: what moves the number, who issues the permit, how fast we get there, what the old dairy ground does, and how long a pour ties up the drive.
Four things, in this order: how much old farm soil has to come out and be replaced before anything is poured, the thickness and reinforcement the use calls for, access for a truck and a saw, and whether the work touches the public walk and so needs an encroachment permit. Square footage matters less than what is under it. South of Pine Avenue the excavation is often the largest line on the estimate.
The Building Division at the City of Chino handles the structural side, and Public Works engineering issues the encroachment permit for anything in the parkway, at the curb or across the public walk, a new drive approach needs both. We file them, post what the plan checker asks for and meet the inspector at the pour. We start the paperwork the day a job is signed rather than the week the crew is due.
Chino is 5.1 miles from our yard on Holt Boulevard, down Euclid Avenue, which is under fifteen minutes outside the commute. We reply to every inquiry within 1 business day and usually have an estimator at a Chino address that week. Once a job is booked the crew starts on site at the hour agreed rather than after another job across the county, because there is no county line and no freeway run between us and you.
Yes, and it is the main reason Chino concrete fails early. A century of dairying left organic-rich topsoil, buried corral fill and old irrigation trenches across the valley, and it keeps settling under load long after a slab is poured. The fix is not a thicker slab. It is taking the soft material out, replacing it with compacted base, and reinforcing where a tract's fill meets an untouched farm parcel.
Demolition and base work take a day or two, the pour is one day, and the finish and joint cutting close out that afternoon. You keep off it for a day and keep vehicles off for a week while it gains strength, longer if we pour in a Chino July when the mix is kept wet longer to slow the set. Permits are the variable, not the concrete, which is why we file early and give you a start date only once they are back.
Yes. Chino is one of 20 towns inside our 25 mile radius, and the ones beside it, Chino Hills over the ridge, Montclair and Pomona on the north and west lines, Ontario Ranch above Pine Avenue and Eastvale across the county line, are covered from the same yard. That matters for scheduling: a crew already on a Chino street can be at a neighboring address the next morning rather than a fortnight later.
Chino is one of 20 towns inside our 25 mile radius. Each has its own page, because the ground and the permit counter change from one town line to the next even when the job does not.
Open the Ontario Office in Google Maps Call and we will be out at a Chino address inside the week with a written estimate, measured at your property, and a start date you can hold us to.