Ontario Concrete Pro pours driveways, patios and pool surrounds in Eastvale, 9 miles south of our Ontario yard down Archibald Avenue. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
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Eastvale was dairy land until the tracts came, and what a dairy leaves behind is a deep, soft, organic topsoil. Where the grader did not strip it, a slab will sink into it.
The house pads were cut to firm material and the corral soil was hauled off or buried under the streets, but the yards were another matter. A builder grades a yard to drain, not to carry weight, so the last 20 feet to the back fence often sit on the old surface with a few inches of imported topsoil over it. That soil holds water like a sponge, and a patio poured on it rocks as the ground under one corner wets and dries faster than the ground under the other.
So on an Eastvale yard the digging comes first. We take the yard down until the bar meets firm ground and haul the dark layer away rather than compact it, because organic soil never stays compacted. Then 4 inches of Class 2 base goes down and is plate-compacted, number 3 steel is tied on an 18-inch grid, and the slab is poured 4 inches thick and doweled into the builder's strip at the back door so the two cannot part.
Eastvale's houses were finished in one decade, and their first owners are calling now. The builder poured the drive and a strip at the back door and left the rest, so the work here is adding, on ground that was a dairy corral 25 years ago.
Eastvale driveways were poured by the builder for a 3-car garage and stop at the garage door, so what we are asked for is width, a pad beside the house for a boat or a trailer, and a wider apron. We match the builder's slab at 4 inches and dowel the new edge into it.
The strip the builder left at the back door of an Eastvale house is the start of a patio, not one. We take the yard beyond it down through the old dairy soil to firm ground, base it, and pour the new slab doweled to the strip, so the two never open into a lip.
Stamped concrete in Eastvale most often goes around a pool, where a plain broom finish reads as a builder's leftover. We stamp a 4 inch slab in a flagstone or wood plank pattern, run a light color through the mix, and seal it so the chlorine splash does not etch it.
The front walk of an Eastvale house is the builder's, narrow and often cracked where the lawn irrigation has softened the ground beside it. We replace it wider, on base rather than on soil, and match the association's finish where the walk shows from the street.
An Eastvale garage floor is the original 2000s slab, and the 3-car layout means a long tandem bay. Owners want it flat and sealed for a workshop, so we grind the trowel marks, fill the shrinkage cracks, and where the builder left a step at the door we pour a ramp as an overlay.
Decorative concrete in Eastvale is a pool deck or a front courtyard in a color and finish that suits a stucco house. We pour integral color in a sand or a tan and expose the aggregate or salt the finish, which grips a wet foot at a pool edge where a smooth trowel does not.
Eastvale is flat, so a retaining wall here is a planter wall or a raised pad around a pool, rarely over 3 feet. It still gets a footing dug below the old dairy soil into firm ground and a drain behind it, because a low wall on soft ground leans out within a few winters.
Interior slabs in Eastvale are mostly the detached unit at the back of the lot that the state ADU law allows. A yard slab someone will live on is dug deeper than a patio, poured over a vapor barrier on base, and finished with a power trowel to a flatness a floor layer accepts.
Our yard is on Holt Boulevard in Ontario, and Archibald Avenue runs from a mile east of it straight south across the county line into Eastvale, about 9 miles door to door. Ontario Ranch, the tracts going up on the Ontario side of that line, is the same former dairy belt on the same ground, so we are in the corridor most days. Permits are filed with the City of Eastvale Building and Safety Division, and with the association where one covers the lot, which in Eastvale is most of them.
The tracts either side of Archibald Avenue and along Schleisman Road went up in the same few years, so their yards are the same age and the builders' back strips are failing the same way at once, which is why one call from a street often turns into three. Toward Hamner Avenue and the 15 the lots run larger and the side gates wider, so a mixer can chute a pour straight into the back. Elsewhere the yard behind the house holds a pool, and the concrete we add is the deck around it.
The ground falls south toward the Santa Ana River, gently enough that a yard looks flat and drains nowhere, so we set the fall on every slab ourselves rather than trust the grade. Toward 65th Street the water table rises with the river, and a slab there goes over a vapor barrier whether it is indoors or out. The seasons are Ontario's, since the county line is a line on a map and not a climate. We pour from first light in summer and cover the base when rain is forecast.
Four stages from the call to the cure. The dig is the stage that varies, because the depth of the old dairy soil differs yard to yard, and it is why the figure is written after the measure and never before.
Victor Salgado measures the area, probes the yard with a bar for the depth of the soft layer, and checks the builder's strip for cracks.
The dark soil comes out to firm ground and is hauled, then 4 inches of Class 2 base goes down and is plate-compacted.
We file with the City of Eastvale Building and Safety Division where the job needs it, and with your association, and set the date.
The slab is poured 4 inches thick and the joints are cut the same day. Walk on it after 24 hours, and park on it after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we call back within 1 business day. The visit takes under an hour, the figure is written before we leave, and we are across the county line often enough that a measure in Eastvale rarely waits long.
Reviews
Our reviews from Google and Facebook, left by homeowners across the towns we cover from Ontario, with Eastvale among them. The patios and pool decks named in them are the work described on this page.
“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 questions from Eastvale, on what moves the estimate on a flat lot, which counter takes the permit, how far the crew comes, what the dairy soil does, how long the yard is out of use, and who else we cover.
The dig, then the area. On an Eastvale yard the depth of the old dairy soil sets how much is hauled away and how much base comes in, and that varies more than the slab does. Access moves it next, then finish. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the figure comes off a bar in the ground and a tape, not a satellite photo.
The City of Eastvale Building and Safety Division, in Riverside County. A patio, a walk or a driveway extension at grade in your own yard needs no permit. A footing under a patio cover, a wall over 4 feet, and any slab for a unit someone will live in do, and we file those and meet the inspector. Your association is a second review, and we send it the same drawing.
About 9 miles. Our yard is on Holt Boulevard, and Archibald Avenue runs south from a mile east of it across the county line into Eastvale, or Milliken becomes Hamner Avenue and does the same. Ontario Ranch is being built on our side of that line, so a crew is often already halfway there. We call back within 1 business day.
Because the yard was a dairy. The builder cut the house pad to firm ground but graded the yard only to drain, so the back of a lot often sits on the old organic soil under a few inches of imported dirt. That soil holds water and shrinks as it dries, and a slab on it rocks. We dig it out to firm ground and haul it, and base the slab on what is left.
Three days on site and a week of waiting. The dig and haul take a day, base and forms a second, the pour a third. The slab takes foot traffic after 24 hours and furniture after 7 days, and a pool deck is kept clear of splash for the same week, because water on green concrete leaves a mark in the finish.
Yes. Norco is across the 15 and Chino is across the county line, and both have their own page here. The crew and the specification do not change. The ground does, since Norco lots are half-acre horse properties with a long drive, and Chino's older streets sit on the same dairy belt but were built decades earlier, so the work there is replacement.
Eastvale touches Norco across the 15 and Chino across the county line, with Chino Hills just beyond, and we cover all three from Ontario. Norco is on the same run south, and the two Chino pages describe the same crew on the San Bernardino side of the line.
Open the Ontario Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call back within 1 business day. The written figure costs nothing, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.