Ontario Concrete Pro pours driveways, barn floors and patios in Norco, 12 miles down the 15 from our yard on Holt Boulevard. Every estimate is measured and written on site, free.
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Norco is zoned for horses. Almost every lot allows animal keeping, the streets carry horse trails instead of sidewalks, and lots run to half an acre, so a job here is bigger and carries more weight.
That scale changes how a slab is built. A driveway that carries a truck and a two-horse trailer takes more weight on its edge than a tract driveway ever sees, so we pour it 5 to 6 inches thick where the trailer swings rather than the 4 inches a car needs. The ground is the old floodplain of the Santa Ana River on the flat west side, sand and silt that drains well but is soft where a corral has been worked for years, and decomposed granite on the Norco Hills, which sheds water fast.
So every job starts with what the ground has been used for. A corral or a paddock is stripped of its manure-rich topsoil to firm material before base goes down, because organic soil under a slab keeps settling for years. Base is laid 4 inches deep and plate-compacted, steel runs through anything a trailer or a tractor will cross, and a barn floor gets a broom finish coarse enough for a shod hoof. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the thickness is decided on your lot.
Norco lots are big and they keep animals, so the work here is barn floors, wash racks, trailer turnarounds and long driveways as often as it is a patio. Most of it is new ground rather than a replacement, poured on soil that was pasture.
A Norco driveway carries a truck and a horse trailer, and often a tractor, so we pour it 5 to 6 inches thick with steel where the trailer swings and 4 inches elsewhere. Most are long enough to need a mixer on the lot, which the half-acre lots allow, so a drive goes in on one day.
A patio in Norco is usually poured off the back of a ranch house facing the corral, on ground that was pasture or paddock. We strip the organic topsoil to firm material, compact 4 inches of base, and pour 4 inches with a broom finish, graded away from the house to the yard drain.
Stamped concrete in Norco tends to a flagstone or a wood plank pattern that suits a ranch house rather than the ashlar of the newer suburbs. We cast it into a 4-inch slab, color it integrally so wear from boots and hooves does not show gray, and seal it in 2 coats.
Norco has horse trails where other cities have sidewalks, and the city keeps it that way, so a walk here is a private path from the drive to the door or from the house to the barn. We pour it 4 inches thick with a coarse broom finish a shod horse can cross without slipping.
Garage floors in Norco do double duty as a workshop and a tack room, and a 1970s slab poured thin on native sand has usually settled at the door. We break out the settled section or the whole floor, compact base under it, and repour 4 inches with steel so it takes a lift.
Decorative concrete in Norco is asked for at the entry, where a wide drive meets a gate, and a plain gray slab in that much sun is hard to look at by July. We pour a light integral color with a salt or exposed aggregate finish, which reads cooler and hides trail dust.
Retaining walls in Norco belong to the Norco Hills, where the newer houses sit on cut pads and the lot steps at the fence, and to the river side, where a corral is held above the yard. We foot the wall into firm material, drain behind the stem, and permit anything over 4 feet.
Barn floors, wash racks and tack rooms are the interior slabs Norco asks for, and each one takes water every day. We pour a barn floor 4 inches thick with a heavy broom finish for grip, and grade a wash rack to a center drain at a quarter inch to the foot so it dries.
Our yard is on Holt Boulevard in Ontario, and Norco is a straight run down the 15 to the Second Street or Sixth Street exits, about 12 miles and 20 minutes without traffic. Permits go to the City of Norco Building Division, and the city's rural residential zoning is the first thing we check, because setbacks and animal-keeping areas decide where a slab can go on a lot as much as where you want it.
The flat blocks between Hamner Avenue and the Santa Ana River were dairy and farm ground before they were houses, and most of the homes on them are 1960s and 1970s ranch houses on big lots with a barn or a corral at the back. A mixer can drive onto almost any of them, which is rare in this valley and saves a day of barrowing. Up in the Norco Hills the newer houses sit on cut and fill pads, and the drive is often the only flat ground on the lot.
Runoff is the thing to plan for. The river wraps the north and west of the city and takes the drainage, so lots on the flats fall gently toward it, but a wash rack or a barn floor makes its own water every day, so we grade those to a drain rather than to the yard. The calendar is the Inland Empire's. Summer afternoons pass 100 degrees, so from June to September we pour at first light and keep the surface wet, and in the wet months a pour waits for the sandy ground to drain.
Four stages on one lot with one crew. The measure comes first and the figure is written before anything is agreed, because a Norco job is sized by where the trailer turns and where the horses walk, and that is only visible on the ground.
Victor Salgado measures the lot, walks the route a mixer or a trailer will take, probes the ground the animals have used and writes the figure.
Topsoil and anything organic come out to firm ground, then 4 inches of Class 2 base is laid and plate-compacted before a form goes in.
Where the city wants a permit, we file it with the City of Norco Building Division and meet the inspector. You do not go to the counter.
A Norco job runs 2 to 3 days on site. Walk on the slab after 24 hours, drive or lead a horse onto it after 7 days, and we leave the lot swept.
Call or send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to book a visit. Victor Salgado measures the lot, walks the access with you and writes the figure there. We are down the 15 in Norco most weeks.
Reviews
Our own reviews, left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover from Ontario. Norco is one of them, and the work behind them is the work described above.
“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.”
What people in Norco ask before booking, from what a trailer-rated driveway needs to what the city permits on a horse lot, how long a barn floor is out of use and how the ground differs between flats and hills.
Thickness and area, in that order. A Norco drive is longer than a tract drive and carries a trailer, so more of it is poured 6 inches thick with steel, and that is what moves the figure. Access rarely does, because a mixer can reach most lots here. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the thickness is set by what will drive on it rather than guessed from the street.
Not for a patio, a drive or a barn floor at grade on your own lot. Yes for a retaining wall over 4 feet, a footing that carries a roof, and any work at the street. We file with the City of Norco Building Division and meet the inspector, and we check the rural residential setbacks first, because where a slab can go on a horse lot is set by the zoning as much as by you.
Walk on it after 24 hours and lead a horse across it after 7 days, which is when the surface has hardened enough not to scar under a shoe. A wash rack needs the full week before it takes water every day. Joints are cut within 12 hours of the pour, so any cracking runs in a straight line under the joint rather than across the floor.
Sand and silt on the flats, decomposed granite in the hills. The west side of town is the old floodplain of the Santa Ana River, which drains well but has been worked as pasture and corral for decades, so the top foot is soft and organic and comes out before a slab goes down. In the Norco Hills the pads are cut into decomposed granite, which holds a grade but sheds water fast and needs a drain behind any wall.
Our yard is on Holt Boulevard in Ontario, about 12 miles up the 15, so a crew is in Norco in 20 minutes off-peak. Call or send the form and we call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. We are in Norco most weeks, so a measure is usually fitted around a job already under way a few streets over.
Yes, mostly in the ground and the grade. On the flats between Hamner Avenue and the river a mixer backs onto the lot, the ground is level and the job is about stripping soft topsoil. In the hills the newer houses sit on cut and fill pads, the drive is often the only flat ground, and a slab at the edge of the pad is footed into the cut rather than the fill, and drained behind.
Norco shares the Santa Ana River with Eastvale, and the same crew covers Eastvale, Chino and Chino Hills to the north from the Ontario yard. If your address sits across the river, the Eastvale page describes ground that was graded rather than grazed.
Open the Ontario Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call you back within 1 business day. The estimate is free and written on site, and the work has a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.