Harbor Costa Mesa Concrete pours drives, patios and slabs in Hawaiian Gardens, our one town in Los Angeles County, 16 miles up the 605 from Costa Mesa. The visit and written estimate are free.
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On a Hawaiian Gardens lot there is no ground left to soak up a storm. The house, the unit behind it and the drive between them cover it, so every slab must move its water to the street or a drain.
The lots were laid out small in the 1940s and 1950s and have been built on since, a garage at the back reached by a drive down one side, a patio between the house and the garage, and now a second unit where the patio was. Each slab was poured level by whoever poured it, and where four level slabs meet, the water sits at the seams and sinks into the silt beneath, which is Coyote Creek plain and slow to take it. That is the puddle at the back door and the garage floor wet till March.
So we pour a Hawaiian Gardens lot as one drainage plan even when only one slab is replaced. Every slab falls a quarter inch to the foot, the drive to the street, the patio to a drain or to the drive, and where the lot is closed at the back a trench drain at the low seam carries water to the front. The slabs are poured 4 inches on 4 inches of compacted rock, doweled into their neighbors so the seams stay level, and the joint between old and new is sealed so it is not the new low point.
Hawaiian Gardens is a square mile with more than 14,000 people on it, so a lot here carries a house, often a second unit, a side drive and a patio, and the concrete covers most of what the roofs do not. Every slab takes the rain a lawn used to.
A Hawaiian Gardens drive runs down the side of the house and is the way the water leaves the lot, so it is poured to fall to the street from the back. We pour 4 inches on compacted rock, 5 where the unit's car parks, dowel it to the patio at the top, and replace the approach.
A patio in Hawaiian Gardens is the low point of the lot, walled by the house, the garage and the fence. We pour 4 inches on compacted rock pitched to a trench drain at the seam with the drive, and the drain carries the water to the street, so the puddle at the back door goes.
Stamped concrete in Hawaiian Gardens goes on the front, where the lot shows, with the pattern stopping at the plain side drive. We cast it into a 4 inch slab pumped past the house, color it through, and seal it in 2 coats so oil from a parked car washes off the surface.
A walk in Hawaiian Gardens is the strip between the drive and the unit's door, and it is poured as part of the same drainage plan, falling to the drive. We pour 4 inches on rock, broom finished with joints every 5 feet, and replace a lifted parkway panel under the city's permit.
A garage at the back of a Hawaiian Gardens lot is the wettest slab on it, because the water off three other slabs reaches it. We cut the floor out, lay a trench drain across the door, compact 4 inches of rock over a 10 mil barrier, and pour 4 inches troweled flat and dry.
Exposed aggregate on a Hawaiian Gardens drive gives grip on a slab that carries the lot's water every storm, and hides the tire marks a plain gray shows. We pour 4 inches with a smooth banded border, wash the stone proud the same evening, and seal it once it has cured.
A wall in Hawaiian Gardens is a low one, holding the few feet of planting a lot has left or the step between a raised unit and the drive. We footing it 12 inches into firm silt, drain behind the stem to the lot's drain line, and cap it level, inspected by the city over 4 feet.
An interior floor in Hawaiian Gardens is the slab for the second unit, and the city inspects the forms and the steel before the pour. We lay a 10 mil barrier on compacted rock, pour 4 inches with a thickened edge under the walls, trowel it flat for tile, and joint it to the room.
Hawaiian Gardens is the only town on our list across the county line. Our office is on Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa and the crew takes the 405 north to the 605 and comes off at Carson Street, about 16 miles and half an hour with the mixer following. Plans go to the City of Hawaiian Gardens at City Hall on Pioneer Boulevard, and a new approach or a cut in the public walk takes an encroachment permit from the same city. The ground does not change at Coyote Creek, only the counter.
The city is a square mile bounded by Coyote Creek on the east and cut by Carson Street and Norwalk Boulevard, and every street on it is one we can name. Off Carson Street the lots are the narrowest, with the drive taking a good part of the width, and a mixer stays on the street while the concrete is pumped past the house. Toward the creek the lots are a little wider and a barrow does the same job. About 2 in 5 homes here are owner occupied, so a landlord calls as often as a resident.
The lot is full, so the schedule is tight in a way it is not on a Costa Mesa yard. The drive is the way in for the tenant, the bins and the crew at once, so the pump is booked for a morning and the slab is poured before noon, and the drain line goes in the same trench as the base so the lot is opened once. Winter is the season the work is asked for, after a storm has shown where the water sits, and we pour on a dry subgrade, which after rain on this silt means waiting 2 days.
Four stages from the visit to the last drain cover, and the water is planned first. Where every slab is going to send its rain is drawn before the estimate is written, so no slab is poured level.
Julian Mercado measures the slabs, finds the low seam where the water sits, and writes the estimate on the lot with the falls and drains in it.
A new approach or a parkway walk is filed with the City of Hawaiian Gardens, and the permit is in hand before the saw is on the lot.
The old slab comes out, the trench drain is laid at the low seam, and 4 inches of crushed rock is compacted around it before the forms.
The pump is on the street for one morning, the joints are cut that afternoon, and the drive takes a car again after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. The estimate is free and written on the lot, with the drains and the pump on their own lines, and the county line makes no difference to the terms.
Reviews
Reviews left on Google, Facebook and the BBB by residents and landlords across the towns we cover, Hawaiian Gardens among them, each naming the job and what the lot does in the rain now.
“Our driveway on the State Streets was the 1955 original, broken into plates that rocked underfoot. They dug out a foot of old planter fill, compacted it, poured 560 square feet at 4 inches with a 5-inch apron and pulled the curb permit themselves. Eighteen months in and it is flat.”
“I own a fourplex in Fountain Valley and the garage slabs were sweating every winter. They cut out all four, laid a vapor barrier and 4 inches of gravel, poured them at 5 inches over two days and gave me one estimate per unit. First winter since, the floors are dry.”
“We needed a slab for a detached studio behind our Newport Beach house. The owner dug the footings 12 inches, set the rebar and the vapor barrier, had the City inspect it, and poured 400 square feet in one morning. The framer said it was the flattest slab he had worked on all year.”
What Hawaiian Gardens residents and landlords ask before booking. What moves the estimate on a small lot, the permit, the drive from Costa Mesa, the silt, how long the drive is closed, and the towns nearby.
The pump and the drains, before the slab. A mixer cannot reach a patio behind a Hawaiian Gardens house, so the concrete is pumped past it, and a lot with no ground left needs a drain where the slabs meet, and both are lines on the estimate the slab itself is not. Then what comes out, the base and the thickness the drive needs. Every estimate is measured and written on site, drains and pump included.
Not for a drive, patio or walk inside your lot line, which the California Residential Code exempts. The approach at the curb and the walk in the parkway are the city's and take an encroachment permit from the City of Hawaiian Gardens at City Hall on Pioneer Boulevard, and a slab under a unit takes a building permit from the same city. We file both, and the county line changes which counter, not what is inspected.
Yes, most weeks. It is about 16 miles, the 405 north to the 605 and off at Carson Street, half an hour with the mixer following, and it is on the way to Cypress, Los Alamitos and La Palma, which we cover from the same office. We call back within 1 business day to book the visit, and a Hawaiian Gardens job is scheduled with those towns so the crew is on that side of the county line for the day.
Silt from the Coyote Creek plain, flat and slow to drain, under a lot that is nearly all covered. It holds water for days after a storm and softens under a slab poured straight onto it, which most of the old ones here were. We dig to firm silt, compact 4 inches of crushed rock so the base drains, and lay the drain line in the same trench, so the water has somewhere to go once the slab has shed it.
The pour itself is one morning, and the drive takes a car again after 7 days. Demolition, the drain and the base take a day before that, and the approach at the curb, if it is in the job, waits for the city's inspection of the forms. A tenant's car is moved to the street for the week, and we say the dates a week ahead so nobody comes home to a closed drive.
Cypress and Los Alamitos across Coyote Creek, and La Palma beyond them, each with its own page on this site, and all served from the same office on the same terms. Lakewood, Cerritos and Long Beach share the other sides of the square mile and are not on the list, so a street on one of those lines is a call to ask about before we book the visit.
Hawaiian Gardens faces Cypress and Los Alamitos across Coyote Creek, and we cover both from the same office, with La Palma a few minutes further east. If your street sits on the county line, the town next door has its own page and its own permit counter.
Open the Costa Mesa Office in Google Maps Send the form or call and we call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. The estimate is free and written on the lot with the drains drawn in, and the work is guaranteed.