Harbor Costa Mesa Concrete pours pool decks, patios, walks and slabs for outbuildings in Villa Park, 35 minutes up the 55. Most of a lot here is behind the house, and so is the concrete.
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A Villa Park lot is half an acre by law, and the house takes a fifth of it. Behind the house are the pool, the patio, the outbuilding and the walks between them, and that is where the concrete is.
The back of a half acre is a long way from the street. A mixer chutes about 15 feet, so a pool deck 150 feet from the curb is pumped, and the line runs along the drive and through the side yard, which on these lots is wide enough for a skid steer as well. That changes the day. A pump is ordered with the concrete, the pours are grouped so the pump runs once, and the deck, the patio and the walk go in on one morning from the same loads. A 4 inch slab across a yard here is 3 or 4 loads.
Under it is what Santiago Creek left on its way out of the canyon, sand and gravel on the lower streets and finer ground with clay toward the hills, and it varies across one lot, so we dig a test hole at each end. Where it is gravel it is plate-compacted and gets 4 inches of base. Where it is clay the top foot comes out first. A deck also meets the pool's own shell, and it is jointed off the coping rather than tied to it, so the two move without cracking each other.
A Villa Park lot holds a pool, a patio, a walk to a casita or a workshop, and a drive long enough to turn a trailer on. The work is measured in truckloads rather than yards, and it is planned so a pump reaches the far fence.
A Villa Park drive is long enough to turn a trailer on and often the only paved edge at the road, so it is poured 5 inches on compacted gravel to carry what stands on it, with a wide apron and a fall that sends the road's water past the house rather than to it.
A Villa Park patio is the room between the house and the pool, so it is poured with the deck from the same loads and jointed to match it. We pour 4 inches on compacted gravel, pitch it from the house, and cut the joints the afternoon it goes in.
Stamped concrete in Villa Park is asked for on the deck and the patio, where a half acre of plain gray reads as a parking lot. We cast a flagstone or ashlar pattern into a 4 inch slab with an integral color, band it, and seal it in 2 coats against pool water.
Villa Park has no public walks, so a walk here is yours, from the drive to the door and from the patio to the casita. We pour it 4 inches on gravel, wide enough for two, and thicker with a joint where it passes within reach of an oak or a camphor root.
A Villa Park garage holds three cars and a workshop, and the floor is poured for that. We break out the old slab, compact the ground, lay gravel and a vapor barrier, and pour 5 inches, 6 under a lift or a machine, with a thickened edge along the doors.
Exposed aggregate is the finish for a Villa Park pool surround, because wet feet grip it and pool water leaves no mark. We wash the stone proud of a 4 inch pour, band the edge with a smooth border along the coping, and seal it every few years.
A wall in Villa Park holds the step where a lot falls toward Santiago Creek, or a raised bed under a tree. We foot it into firm ground, drain behind the stem, and permit anything over 4 feet with the City of Villa Park before the pour goes in.
An interior floor in Villa Park is a casita, a workshop or a converted garage, poured over a vapor barrier on compacted gravel with the clay dug out under it. We pour it flat enough for tile or a polish and cut the joints on a grid the room sets.
Villa Park is the farthest inland we go. A crew takes the 55 north from our office on Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa to Katella Avenue, then east until Katella becomes Villa Park Road at the city line, about 20 miles and 35 minutes, so a job here is booked as whole days with the concrete ordered to the lot. Permits come from the City of Villa Park at City Hall on Santiago Boulevard for a footing, a wall over 4 feet or a slab under a roof. Flatwork at grade needs none.
The city incorporated in 1962 to keep its lots at half an acre, and it is still one of the smallest cities in Orange County by population, with fewer than 6,000 people on the ranch lots the citrus groves became. Almost every house is owned rather than rented, so the concrete is poured to be lived with rather than to sell, and the ask is usually a whole back yard at once, the deck, the patio, the walk to the casita and a slab for a workshop in one estimate with each on its own line.
Santiago Creek runs along the south of the city and the ground falls toward it, so a yard on the north side sits above its street and one on the south side sits below it. That decides which way a deck drains and whether a wall is needed at the fence. Trees are the other fact. The lots kept their oaks, camphors and pepper trees when the groves went, and a walk within reach of a mature root goes on a thicker base with a joint at the trunk side, since a root lifts a thin slab.
Four stages, with the pump and the loads grouped at the first. The visit measures every slab in the yard together, the estimate is written at the property, and the pours are set so the pump runs one morning.
Julian Mercado measures the deck, the patio and the walks together, digs a test hole at each end of the lot and writes the estimate on site.
A footing, a wall over 4 feet or a slab under a roof is filed with the City of Villa Park at City Hall on Santiago Boulevard. Flatwork is not.
Clay comes out, the subgrade is plate-compacted and 4 inches of gravel goes down, with the pump line's route along the side yard cleared.
The loads and the pump arrive together and the yard is poured in one morning. Walk on it after 24 hours and drive on it after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we call back within 1 business day to set the visit. Julian Mercado measures the whole yard at the property and writes the estimate there, with the deck, the patio, the walks and the pump each on its own line.
Reviews
Reviews on Google, Facebook and the BBB from owners across the towns we pour in, Villa Park among them. The decks, patios and slabs they describe are the ones set out on this page.
“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 Villa Park owners ask before booking. What sets the estimate on a big lot, which work is permitted, how far we come, the creek ground and the trees, how long the yard is out of use, and what else we cover.
Distance from the street, then area. A deck at the back of a half acre is pumped, and the pump is a line on the estimate that a front walk never has, so grouping every slab in the yard into one morning is what keeps that line to one. Area moves it next, since a back yard here is 3 or 4 loads, then the base under it and the finish on it. Every estimate is measured and written on site, each slab written separately.
Not for a deck, a patio, a walk or a drive at grade in your own yard. A footing for a casita or a cover, a wall over 4 feet and a slab under a roof are permitted by the City of Villa Park at City Hall on Santiago Boulevard, and the inspector sees the steel before the pour. A deck that meets a new pool is inspected with the pool, and we work to the pool contractor's schedule for it.
About 20 miles and 35 minutes, up the 55 from Newport Boulevard to Katella Avenue and east to where Katella becomes Villa Park Road. It is the farthest inland town on our list, so a job here is planned as whole days with the crew and the loads arriving together, and the concrete comes from a plant near the lot rather than from our side of the county.
It is what Santiago Creek left, and it changes across a lot. The lower streets toward the creek sit on sand and gravel that compacts and drains, and the ground toward the hills is finer with clay in it that swells in winter. We dig a test hole at each end of a half acre, dig out clay where we find it, plate-compact the rest, and lay 4 inches of gravel with steel on an 18-inch grid through every slab.
The crew is on site 3 to 4 days for a full yard, the demolition and base first and the pour in one morning once the pump is in. Walk on it after 24 hours, put furniture on it after 7 days and drive on a slab after 7 days too, with a heavy vehicle kept off until 28 days. The pool stays covered for the pour and is usable again the day the deck is walked on.
Placentia to the north and Tustin to the south, both by the 55 and each with its own page. Villa Park is the inland end of our list, and the same crew that pours here works the coast from Seal Beach to Laguna Niguel from the office on Newport Boulevard. An address in Orange around the city is not on our list, and we say so on the phone rather than at the door.
Villa Park sits inside Orange with Placentia to its north and Tustin to its south, and both are on our list by the same 55, so a Villa Park week often takes in one of them. Each has its own page, written for its own lots rather than for a half acre.
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 on site, free, and every slab in the yard carries a written guarantee.