Harbor Costa Mesa Concrete pours pool decks, patios and drives in Laguna Niguel, half an hour from Costa Mesa by the 73. Every estimate is measured and written on site, deck edge probed first.
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The ground around a pool is not the pad. A Laguna Niguel pad was compacted by the grader to carry the house, but the ring of soil around the pool shell was dug out and shoveled back in after.
That ring is the softest ground on the lot, and the deck sits on it. Backfill dropped in around a shell is never compacted the way a pad was, and every summer it takes on splash and every winter it takes on rain, so it settles and the deck above it drops at the edge nearest the pool. That is why a 1980s deck in Marina Hills or Rancho Niguel slopes toward the water instead of away from it, why the coping has opened from the deck by a finger's width, and why the first panel cracked first.
So a deck here is built for the ring it sits on. On the visit we probe the backfill at the deck edge, and where it is soft it is dug out and replaced in compacted layers to firm ground. The deck is thickened at the pool edge, steel runs through it on an 18 inch grid, and it is doweled into the bond beam so the deck and the shell move as one piece rather than two. The surface is pitched away from the pool, so splash goes to the yard drain and not back into the backfill it came from.
A Laguna Niguel back yard was built around a pool more often than around a lawn, and the pool deck poured with it is now the oldest concrete on the lot. The work here is the deck, the patio off it and the drive at the front, in that order.
A Laguna Niguel drive was poured with the house, so on the 1970s pads off Alicia Parkway it is now 50 years old and cracked at the apron. We cut it out, compact the base, pour 4 inches for cars and 5 for a truck, and keep the fall to the street as the plan intended.
A patio on a Laguna Niguel pad usually runs off the pool deck to the house, so it meets the softest ground on the lot at one edge and the pad at the other. We compact both, dowel the patio into the deck so the joint stays flush, pour 4 inches and pitch it to the yard drain.
Stamped decks and patios in Laguna Niguel are asked for in slate, to go with the tile roofs the master plan built in. We cast the pattern into a 4 inch slab colored through the mix, keep a broom band at the pool edge for grip, and seal it in 2 coats against sun and chlorine.
A walk in Laguna Niguel runs along the side of the house between the pool yard and the front, and on a terraced lot it carries the runoff as well as the feet. We pour it at 4 inches with a fall to the front, tool the edges, and keep the grade so nothing pools at the foundation.
Garage floors in Laguna Niguel sit on the fill side of the pad at the front of the house, so the failure is a settled corner more than a damp slab. We cut out what has dropped, rebuild the base in compacted layers, pour 5 inches over a vapor barrier and joint it on the line.
Exposed aggregate is the finish that suits a Laguna Niguel pool deck, since it grips wet feet, hides the dust the slopes give off and stays cooler by the pool. We seed the surface with river stone, wash the paste back the same day and seal it against chlorine and sun.
A retaining wall in Laguna Niguel holds the edge of a terrace with another pad below it, so it is built to drain rather than to dam. We footing it into firm ground below the fill, run drain rock and a perforated pipe behind the stem to an outlet, and draw it for the association.
Interior floors in Laguna Niguel are slabs for a room built out over the old patio or a garage converted to living space. We pour over a vapor barrier on a compacted base, trowel it flat for tile or a polished finish, and cut the joints where the walls will stand.
Our office is on Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa, and the 73 toll road starts there, crosses the San Joaquin Hills and meets the 5 near the top of Laguna Niguel, so a crew is on Crown Valley Parkway in about half an hour without a mile of the 405 in the morning. The mixer comes the same way. Permits, where a job needs one, come from the Building Division at Laguna Niguel City Hall on Crown Valley Parkway, and the association's approval comes before the city's on most streets.
The town runs from the 5 down to the regional park and the coast hills, and the eras run with it. Rancho Niguel and the streets off Alicia Parkway are the 1970s pads, Marina Hills and the tracts along Pacific Island Drive and Golden Lantern came in the 1980s and 1990s, and the pool deck poured with the house is now 30 to 50 years old on all of them. The lots are terraced, one pad above another, so what one yard sheds the yard below receives.
The ground is the same coastal hill as Laguna Hills next door, cut and filled to make the pads, with clay in the fill that takes on winter water and gives it back in summer. Sulfur Creek runs through the regional park to the lake and Salt Creek runs down to the coast, and both valleys are fill at their edges. Summer here is inland summer, hotter than Costa Mesa by the afternoon, so a pour starts at first light, is jointed by noon, and is kept damp under cover.
Four steps, one crew, one written figure. The backfill at the deck edge is probed on the first visit, before the deck is drawn, because in Laguna Niguel that ring of soil is where the job is won or lost.
Julian Mercado measures the deck, probes the backfill along the pool edge, checks the coping and the fall, and writes the estimate at the house.
The drawing goes to your association first and, for a wall, a footing or a slope cut, to the Building Division on Crown Valley Parkway too.
The old deck comes out, soft backfill is dug and replaced in compacted layers, gravel goes down and dowels are drilled into the bond beam.
One morning to pour, pitched away from the water, joints cut that afternoon and the slab kept damp. Foot traffic in a day, furniture in 7.
Call or send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. Every estimate is measured and written on site, with the backfill at the pool edge probed before the figure is written, base and pour as their own lines.
Reviews
Three reviews from Google, Facebook and the BBB, from customers in Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley and Newport Beach. A job in Laguna Niguel is estimated and built by the same crew to the same lines.
“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.”
The questions we hear on Laguna Niguel doorsteps. What moves the estimate on a pool yard, who approves the plan, how far the crew comes, why the old deck tilted, how long the pool is closed, the towns nearby.
The backfill, before the square feet. A deck whose edge sits on soft ground around the shell needs that ring dug out and rebuilt in compacted layers, and doweling the new deck into the bond beam is crew time a patio on the pad never needs. A pump where the truck cannot reach a terraced yard adds more. Thickness and finish come after. Every estimate is measured and written on site, with each on its own line.
Your association first, on most streets, because the master plan left nearly every tract with one that reviews anything outside the house, and then the City of Laguna Niguel through the Building Division at City Hall on Crown Valley Parkway for a wall over 4 feet, a footing or a cut into a slope. Flatwork inside the lot that changes no grade needs no city permit. We prepare one drawing and file it with both.
About half an hour from our office on Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa, by the 73 toll road to the 5 and off at Crown Valley Parkway. The toll is ours, not yours, and it is what lets the crew and the mixer arrive together at the hour the forms are ready rather than an hour apart in traffic on the 405. The day is booked for the whole crew.
Because it sits on the backfill around the shell, and that backfill has settled. The pool crew dug wide to set the pool and shoveled the soil back without the compaction the grader gave the pad, so for 30 or 40 years the ring has been sinking under splash and rain and taking the deck edge with it. So the ring is rebuilt in compacted layers, the deck is thickened at the edge, and it is doweled to the bond beam.
The pool is closed on the pour day and the day the old deck comes out, and open otherwise. The crew is on site 3 to 4 days for a full deck. Walk on the deck after 24 hours and put furniture back after 7 days. A drive takes cars after 7 days and a work truck after 28. Where the yard allows it we pour a deck in two halves so one side of the pool is always usable.
Laguna Hills and Aliso Viejo are up the 73 on the way in, Mission Viejo is across the 5 and Laguna Beach is over the hills on the coast, and all of them are on our list from the same office in Costa Mesa. Each town has its own page because the ground and the permit counter change at the line, and the list ends at the city's southern edge.
Laguna Niguel shares its lines with Laguna Hills, Aliso Viejo, Mission Viejo and Laguna Beach, and every one of them is covered from the same office in Costa Mesa. Each has its own page, and if your street is on a line, the page next door may be yours.
Open the Costa Mesa Office in Google Maps Send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. The estimate is free and written at the house, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee.