Harbor Costa Mesa Concrete pours drives, side-yard pads and garage floors in Stanton, half an hour up the 405. The pad for the truck, the trailer or the boat is the job we are called for most.
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In Stanton the concrete asked for most is not the drive but the strip beside it. A pad through the side gate for a work truck, a trailer or a boat, on a lot where the drive holds two cars and no more.
A side-yard pad carries more weight per square foot than the drive it leads off. A loaded trailer stands on 2 wheels for months, a work van sits with its tools in it every night, and a boat on a trailer puts the hull on one axle, so a 4 inch slab poured for cars cracks along the wheel line within a few years. We pour the pad 5 inches, 6 where a van or a loaded trailer lives, over 4 inches of compacted gravel, with steel on an 18-inch grid and a thickened edge where the tires cross.
Getting there is the other half. The gate is 8 to 10 feet wide and the strip beyond it runs between a wall and the house, so the mixer stays at the curb and the concrete goes in by chute extension or pump line. The pad is graded to fall toward the drive rather than the neighbor's wall, because on a lot this tight the runoff has one place to go, and the apron at the curb is widened under a City of Stanton encroachment permit so the trailer swings in without crossing the lawn.
Stanton lots are small and fully used, with a work truck, a trailer or a second household's cars on ground the builder never paved for them. The work is a slab poured for that weight, and a way to get the concrete through the gate.
A Stanton drive was poured for one car in the 1950s with nothing under it, and the second car has stood half on the lawn since. We replace it wider, 4 inches on compacted gravel with a 5 inch apron, and file the City of Stanton encroachment permit for the new curb cut.
A Stanton back yard is short, so the patio runs the width of the house and stops at the fence. We pour 4 inches on compacted gravel, pitch it away from the slab the house sits on, and joint it every 10 feet so the one crack it will take runs where we put it.
Stamped concrete in Stanton goes on the front walk and the entry, where a ranch house shows little else to the street. We cast the pattern into a 4 inch slab with an integral color, seal it in 2 coats, and it needs no sand and no weeding, unlike a paver walk.
The public walk in Stanton is the City's, and a lifted panel in front of your house is cut only under an encroachment permit. We file it, cut the root that lifted the panel, dowel the new panel into the old and pour it to the City's standard for the inspector.
Stanton garage floors were poured thin on bare dirt and a lot of them have broken where a vehicle turns in. We break out the old slab, compact the ground, lay gravel and a vapor barrier, and pour 5 inches with a thickened edge at the door, 6 where a work van lives.
Exposed aggregate is the finish we are asked for on Stanton pads and walks, because it hides the tire marks and drips that show on a broom slab. We wash the stone proud of a 4 inch pour, band it with a smooth border, and seal it so oil wipes off the stone.
A wall in Stanton is low, because the plain is flat, and it holds a raised bed or the edge of a pad that sits above a neighbor's yard. We foot it 12 inches into compacted ground, drain behind the stem, and permit anything over 4 feet with the City of Stanton.
An interior floor in Stanton is most often a converted garage or a room added at the back of a ranch house. We pour it over a vapor barrier on compacted gravel, trowel it flat enough for tile or a polish, and joint it on a grid that suits the room.
A crew leaves our office on Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa, takes the 405 north and comes off at Beach Boulevard, then runs north through Westminster into Stanton, about 14 miles and half an hour. Beach Boulevard is State Route 39 through the city, so a drive apron or a walk that opens onto it is a Caltrans encroachment as well as the City's. Everything else goes to the City of Stanton at City Hall on Katella Avenue, for a wall, a footing, a slab under a roof or a curb cut.
The city incorporated in 1956 and its ranch houses went up in the years either side, on lots that were poultry farms and fields a decade earlier. The drives were poured for one car with no base under them, and the side yards were left as dirt with a gate on them, which is where the second vehicle went as households grew. Between the tracts are apartment courts and mobile home parks along Beach Boulevard and Katella Avenue, whose slabs are the owner's to replace.
The ground is the flat plain the rivers laid down, fine and silty, and it holds a slab once compacted and lets it settle if it is not. Under a side yard that has been driven on for years the top foot is rutted and loose, so we dig it out, plate-compact what is under it and bring in gravel before a form goes up. The plain has no fall to speak of, so every pad is pitched by us, a quarter inch to the foot toward the drive, and the drive toward the gutter.
Four stages, planned around the gate. The visit fixes where the mixer stands and how the concrete travels, the estimate is written at the property, and the pad and the apron are poured on the same morning from one load.
Julian Mercado measures the strip and the gate, digs a test hole in the rutted ground and writes the estimate at the property before he goes.
The rutted top foot comes out, the subgrade is plate-compacted and 4 inches of gravel goes in and is compacted again before the forms.
We file the encroachment permit with the City of Stanton for the widened apron, and with Caltrans too if the drive opens onto Beach Boulevard.
The pad and the apron go in from one load, 5 or 6 inches thick. Walk on it after 24 hours and back the trailer on after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we call back within 1 business day to set the visit. Julian Mercado measures the strip, the gate and the apron and writes the estimate at the property, and the thickness the vehicle needs is on it.
Reviews
Reviews on Google, Facebook and the BBB from owners across the towns we pour in, Stanton among them. The pads, drives and garage floors they describe are the work set out above.
“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 Stanton owners ask before booking. What sets the estimate for a pad, whose permit a wider apron is, how far we come, what the ground needs, how long before the trailer goes back, and what nearby we cover.
What will stand on it, then how the concrete reaches it. A pad for a loaded trailer or a van is poured thicker with more steel than one for a car, and a strip behind a gate is placed by pump or chute extension rather than straight from the mixer, and that adds hours. Digging out rutted ground and widening the apron are their own lines. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so nothing on it is guessed.
A pad or a drive at grade inside your lot does not. Widening the apron at the curb does, because the apron and the parkway are the City's, and the encroachment permit comes from the City of Stanton at City Hall on Katella Avenue. If the drive opens onto Beach Boulevard the same work also goes to Caltrans, since Beach is State Route 39. A wall over 4 feet or a slab under a roof needs a building permit.
About 14 miles and half an hour, up the 405 and north on Beach Boulevard through Westminster, or the 22 to Beach when the 405 is stopped. Stanton is the far north of our list, so a job here is booked as a full day with the concrete ordered to the lot, and the pour is set for the morning so the crew is off Beach Boulevard before the afternoon traffic.
Yes. The plain under Stanton is fine silt that carries a slab well when it is compacted and lets it settle where it is loose, and a side yard that has been driven on for years is loose to a foot down. We dig that out, plate-compact the subgrade, lay 4 inches of gravel and compact it again, and run steel on an 18-inch grid through the slab so a wheel load is spread rather than carried at one point.
7 days for a car or the trailer empty, and 28 days before a loaded trailer or a van full of tools stands on it, because concrete reaches its full strength at 28 days and a point load before then leaves a mark it keeps. The crew is on site 2 days for most pads, the demolition and base on one and the pour on the next, and you can walk on it 24 hours after the pour.
Cypress and La Palma to the west, Buena Park to the north and Westminster to the south, each with its own page, and Los Alamitos and Seal Beach beyond Cypress on the way to the coast. Stanton sits among them at the top of our list, and the same crew and the same written estimate cover all of them from Costa Mesa.
Stanton touches Cypress, Buena Park and Westminster, and La Palma is a few minutes on along Katella Avenue, so a crew booked for Stanton is often in one of them the same week. If your address is on a city line, call and we will say which page is yours.
Open the Costa Mesa Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. The estimate is measured and written at the property, free, and the pad and drive carry a written guarantee.