We build driveways, patios, slabs and retaining walls across Yorba Linda, from the trail lots off Bastanchury Road to the graded hillside pads above Esperanza Road. Our yard is 14 miles away.
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Yorba Linda is 14.0 miles from our yard on Holt Boulevard, out over Carbon Canyon, and it sits across the Orange County line, a different building department, and a different inspector at the pour.
The hill tracts north and east of Yorba Linda Boulevard stand on pads cut into a slope, which leaves native ground on the uphill half and engineered fill on the downhill half. The two halves carry a slab at different rates, and a long approach crossing that seam is the classic Yorba Linda crack: one clean line, always in the same place. We dig to find where the seam falls, thicken and reinforce across it, and set the joints to the run. Your parcel is mapped on the USDA Web Soil Survey.
The north of the city also holds houses newer than the tract around them. The Freeway Complex Fire came through the hills on 15 November 2008 and took 314 homes in Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills, and what was rebuilt went back on pads graded thirty years earlier, so a 2011 house can stand on 1979 fill with a driveway of a third age between them. Our CSLB C-8 license, our liability insurance on every job and our written workmanship guarantee read the same on this side of the county line.
Eight jobs, on a town of large lots and long approaches, where the hill tracts built between 1970 and the mid-1990s stand on pads that were cut on one side and filled on the other.
Most of the drives we replace here are the original tract pour, unreinforced and jointed on a standard grid that ignores where the pad changes underneath. A new one gets a compacted base the full length, steel carried through the seam, and joints set to the run of the approach.
Back lots here are wide, and a patio on a hill tract sits at the top of a slope that falls away behind the house. Ours are poured to a fall that carries winter runoff out to a side yard rather than down against the footing, over base compacted on the fill half of the pad.
Stamped work is what the Vista Del Verde frontages and the Bastanchury Road builds ask for, because the entry courts are shallow and a pattern holds the eye where a plain field would not. We stamp and color in the one pour, so the finish is in the slab and not a coating over it.
The public walk and the drive approach at the curb belong to the city, so replacing a panel here takes an encroachment permit and an inspection of its own. On the townsite blocks near Main Street the street trees have lifted panels; we cut the roots back and rebuild to grade.
Garages on the 1970s and 1980s hill tracts sit on thin slabs poured on graded fill with no vapor barrier, so the floor sweats through winter and a coating peels inside a season. We take the slab out, sheet over compacted base and pour a floor dry enough to coat and park on.
Decorative work is the finish rather than the shape: exposed aggregate, salt finish, saw-cut patterns, integral color. On the wide hill frontages it reads as a field inside a banded border; on the townsite lots near the Nixon Library it is one finish from the walk to the patio.
Half of Yorba Linda is on grade, and a wall holds the step between a cut pad and the slope below it. A poured wall on footings taken past the fill into native ground, drained behind the stem, stands where dry-stacked block on a graded shoulder leans after two wet winters.
Interior slabs go into the ADUs the older townsite lots have room for and into the shop units along Imperial Highway. Both want a flat floor over a vapor barrier, finished so a covering bonds to it. We read the moisture in the pad first, because nobody digs a floor up later.
Plans go to the Building Division at the City of Yorba Linda, which sits under Community Development, and Public Works issues the encroachment permit separately. The city counts driveway approaches, sidewalks, parkways and trails alike as public right-of-way, so a new approach touches both counters. A lot carrying a recorded trail easement gets a third look, because the code bars new work placed across one. We file all of it, meet the inspector and close the permit out.
The town reads outward from the old center. Main Street and the blocks around the Nixon Library on Yorba Linda Boulevard are the original townsite, flat and planted with mature street trees. The hill tracts climb north and east from there through the 1970s and 1980s, East Lake Village went in around its 15-acre lake from the late 1970s, and Vista Del Verde is 2000s build on the golf course land. Imperial Highway carries State Route 90 through the middle of it.
Yorba Linda writes its lot sizes and its horse trails into its own planning language, over 100 miles of it, recorded as easements on the tract maps, and that shows in the work: a driveway here runs forty, sixty, ninety feet from the curb to the garage, side yards are wide enough to swing a truck into, and the trail line has to be found before a form goes down. Brea and Placentia sit on the western line and are covered from the same yard, so a crew is already on this side of the hills.
Four steps. The plan check runs through Orange County rather than San Bernardino, which changes the counter we file at but not the order of the work or the day the crew arrives.
Call or send the form and we reply within 1 business day, with a visit booked at your Yorba Linda address usually inside the same week.
We walk the lot, read where the cut meets the fill, check the fall and the trail line, and write the estimate before we leave the address.
We lodge the plans with the Yorba Linda Building Division, add the Public Works encroachment permit at the right-of-way, and set the start date.
We break out, build and compact the base, pour and finish, then walk the job with you, hand over the cure dates and close out with the inspector.
Send us the address and what you want built. We come out over the canyon, dig a look at what the pad is made of, and write the number at your property, nothing owed for the visit.
Reviews
Homeowners and property managers across the towns we cover, this one included. Every review is for a job measured at the property and built to the estimate we wrote there.
“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 we get from this side of the county line: what moves the number on a long approach, who issues the permit, how far we travel, what the graded pads do, and how the trails are handled.
Four things. How much of the pad has to be dug out and rebuilt where the cut meets the fill; the length of the approach, since a ninety foot drive is not three times the work of a thirty foot one but it is three times the concrete; access, because a hill lot with a narrow shoulder can mean pumping rather than chuting; and whether it touches the public walk or a recorded trail easement.
Two counters, and they are separate. The Building Division, part of Community Development, takes the structural side, and Public Works issues the encroachment permit for anything in the right-of-way, which here means driveway approaches, sidewalks, parkways and trails alike. A new drive approach usually needs both. We file the day a job is signed rather than the week the crew is due, so the start date holds.
Yes. Yorba Linda is 14.0 miles from our yard on Holt Boulevard, out through Chino Hills and over Carbon Canyon, and it is one of the 20 towns inside our 25 mile radius. Crossing the Orange County line changes which counter we file at, not what we charge to get there or how the crew is staffed. We answer every inquiry within 1 business day and usually have an estimator at the address that week.
It decides most of the job. A pad cut into the Yorba Linda hills sits on native ground uphill and on compacted fill downhill, and the fill keeps settling under load for years after the house is finished. A thicker slab on its own does not fix that. What does is finding the seam, over-excavating the soft side, replacing it with compacted base and carrying steel across the join so the two halves move as one piece.
Demolition and base work run two or three days on an approach of that length, the pour is a day, and the joints are cut the same afternoon. Keep off it for a day and keep vehicles off for a week while it gains strength, longer if we pour in high summer, when the mix is kept wet to slow the set. Permits are the variable rather than the concrete, so we file first and set a start date once they are back.
The pour stops short of it. Yorba Linda bars any structure or improvement placed across a public or private trail easement after January 2009, and those easements were recorded through tract maps and conditions of approval all over town. So we pull the map and mark the easement line before a form goes down, keep the slab clear of it, and take the frontage crossing under a Public Works encroachment permit.
Yorba Linda is one of 20 towns inside our 25 mile radius, and the ground, the trail rules and the permit counter change at a city line even when the pour does not.
Open the Ontario Office in Google Maps Give us the address and we will be out at a Yorba Linda property inside the week with an estimate measured on the lot, written before we leave, and a start date you can hold us to.