Saddleback Mission Viejo Concrete pours drives, barn slabs and trailer pads on the acreage of El Sobrante past Lake Mathews, and writes the estimate at your gate for nothing.
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El Sobrante is horse country on decomposed granite. The lots along Cajalco Road are acreage with a barn and a trailer out back, and what is wanted is a drive or a pad that carries a loaded truck.
A residential driveway is poured for cars, and a trailer with two horses in it weighs more than any car, so a slab that would last decades under a sedan in Mission Viejo breaks at the corners here inside a year. The load is the whole specification. The ground helps, because decomposed granite compacts hard and drains, but a long drive also crosses a wash or an old cut, and that is where a thin slab cracks first, since the base under its edge is the base a storm washes out.
So a drive or a pad here is poured 6 inches thick on 4 inches of compacted base, with number 4 steel on a grid , and the joints cut on a grid set by the thickness. Where a drive crosses a wash the edge is thickened and the water is given a culvert rather than a slab to run over. A barn floor is pitched to a drain at the aisle so it can be hosed. Concrete comes by the full truck, because a short load on a long drive means a cold joint in the middle of it.
El Sobrante is unincorporated Riverside County, an acre or more to the lot, with a barn and a trailer behind the house. The work here is big and flat, a drive from the road to the barn or a pad for a horse trailer, ordered in whole trucks.
A driveway in El Sobrante runs from a county road to a barn and carries a horse trailer, so it is poured 6 inches on 4 inches of compacted base with number 4 steel on a grid. The approach at the road is permitted through the Riverside County Transportation Department.
A patio in El Sobrante is the one flat place on an acre, poured against the back of the house and pitched away from it, because the granite sheds a storm fast and the water has to go around the slab rather than under it. We pour 4 inches on compacted base on a 10 foot joint grid.
Stamped concrete in El Sobrante goes on the patio and the walk to the arena, where a plain slab reads as a work pad. We cast a flagstone into a 4 inch pour, color it in the mix to sit with the granite, and seal it at 28 days, because the sun fades an unsealed color in a summer.
Walks in El Sobrante run from the house to the barn or the tack room across ground a hose and a hoof cut up, and it is mud that a resident wants gone. We grade the route, compact the granite, pour 4 inches jointed every 5 feet and broom it so a wet boot and a shod hoof both grip.
A garage or shop floor in El Sobrante carries a truck, a tractor or a lift, so it is poured 6 inches with number 4 steel, not the 4 inch floor of a tract garage. We pitch it to the door, trowel it flat for a coating, and file the footing under a new shop with the county first.
Exposed aggregate suits an El Sobrante pool deck, because the stone grips a wet foot and a light matrix stays cooler than a colored slab once June passes 100 degrees. We seed the stone, wash it proud that afternoon, set an expansion joint at the coping and seal it once cured.
A retaining wall in El Sobrante holds a cut into the granite , and the granite behind it sheds water fast in a storm. We dig the footing to firm material, set rock and a pipe behind the stem, and file with Riverside County Building and Safety for a wall over 4 feet.
Interior slabs in El Sobrante are the barn aisle, the shop and the tack room, floors that carry a load and get hosed. We pour over a vapor barrier on compacted base, 6 inches where a vehicle will stand, pitch the aisle to a drain, and trowel the shop flat for a lift to sit level.
El Sobrante is the far end of our run, about 40 miles from La Paz Road out the 241 to the 91, the 15 south and east on Cajalco Road past the lake, so a job here is booked in whole days. There is no city hall. Plans, permits and inspections go to the Riverside County Building and Safety Department, and a new driveway approach onto a county road is permitted by the Riverside County Transportation Department. We file both and meet the county inspector at the footing.
The lots between Cajalco Road and the lake and up El Sobrante Road toward La Sierra Avenue are parcels of an acre or so, and most keep horses, a trailer or a boat. Water is on a meter but the sewer often is not, so a parcel has a septic tank and a leach field, and a slab may not be poured over the field. We find it on the county record or by probe before the estimate is written, and Riverside County Environmental Health answers if the record is silent.
The ground is decomposed granite off the hills that stand up as boulders around Lake Mathews, and it does two things at once. It compacts hard and drains, so the base under a pad is set to the load rather than the ground, and it erodes in a February storm faster than clay, so a drive that crosses a wash needs its water managed as much as its load. Summers pass 100 degrees by June, which is why a pour here starts at first light and the surface is kept wet for 7 days.
Four stages, one crew, and whole days at a time, because the drive from Mission Viejo is not one to make twice in a morning. The load the slab will carry is settled on the first visit, and it sets the thickness and the steel.
Trevor Lindqvist measures the run, asks what will park on it, probes the wash crossings, finds the leach field and writes the figure on site.
We file with Riverside County Building and Safety for a footing or a wall, and with the Transportation Department for a new road approach.
The run is graded to shed water, 4 inches of base is compacted, the culvert goes in at any wash, and number 4 steel is tied for the inspector.
Trucks arrive one behind the next from first light, the slab is poured 6 inches and jointed that afternoon, and it is cured wet for 7 days.
Call or send the form and you hear back within 1 business day. The visit is free, the figure is written at your gate before we leave, and we book El Sobrante in whole days so the trip out Cajalco Road is made once.
Reviews
Reviews left on Google, Facebook and the BBB by owners across the towns we work from Mission Viejo. El Sobrante is the farthest of them, and the drives behind them are the ones described above.
“Our driveway in Aegean Hills had dropped two inches on the fill side of the pad. They probed it, found the soft half, dug it deeper and packed the base in lifts. They poured 720 square feet at 5 inches, cut the joints across the slope that afternoon, and two winters on nothing has moved.”
“The wall holding our back slope in Laguna Niguel leaned a little more every winter. They took it down, dug the footing 18 inches into hard ground, set drain rock and a pipe behind the new wall and poured it in a day. The first storm since ran clear out of the drain, not over the top.”
“Our pool deck in Lake Forest was the original 1990s one and had lifted at the coping. They cut it out, set an expansion joint around the pool, poured 480 square feet with a salt finish and had it walkable in two days. Bare feet in August and it stays cool enough to stand on.”
The questions an El Sobrante parcel raises before a job is booked, on what moves the estimate for a long drive, where the county permit goes, how far we come, the septic field and how many days it takes.
What will drive on it, before its length. A drive poured for a horse trailer or a loaded truck is 6 inches thick with number 4 steel, half again the concrete of a car drive of the same size, and a wash crossing adds a culvert and a thickened edge. After that it is the grading of the run and the approach at the road. Every estimate is measured and written on site, with the load and the crossings walked first.
Riverside County, because El Sobrante is unincorporated and has no city hall. A flat drive or a pad on your own land needs no building permit, since the California Residential Code exempts it, but a wall over 4 feet, a footing under a barn or a shop, and a slab under any roof go to Riverside County Building and Safety. A new approach onto a county road goes to the Transportation Department. We file both.
About 40 miles, out the 241 to the 91, down the 15 to Cajalco Road and east past Lake Mathews, which is over an hour with a pump behind us. That is why El Sobrante is booked in whole days and never as a half day between two Orange County jobs. The crew leaves La Paz Road before 5 to be at your gate for the first truck, and a two-day job is booked on consecutive days.
No, and the county will say the same. Most El Sobrante parcels are on septic, and a slab over the leach field stops it breathing and puts a truck's weight on the lines, so the field fails and a new one is a job of its own. We find the tank and the field on the county record before the estimate is written, and lay the drive out around it. Riverside County Environmental Health answers if the record is silent.
Two to four, and consecutive. Grading, base and steel take the first day or two on a long drive, the pour is one morning of trucks arriving one behind the next, and the joints are cut that afternoon. Walk on it the next day, keep the trailer off it for 7 days, and full strength comes at 28. The county inspection sits between the steel and the pour, and it is booked the day the steel is tied.
Lake Elsinore and Temescal Valley, both back down the 15, from the same yard on La Paz Road. Riverside, Corona and Perris, the cities around El Sobrante, are not on our list, so a parcel inside the Riverside city line off La Sierra Avenue is one we will say no to on the phone rather than drive out to. If your lot sits near a line, call and we will check the parcel before anyone leaves.
El Sobrante sits between Lake Mathews and the Riverside city line, and the towns we cover from here are back down the 15, Temescal Valley at the Cajalco Road exit and Lake Elsinore beyond it. If your parcel is near one of those, read that page too.
Open the Mission Viejo Office in Google Maps Send the form and you hear back within 1 business day to fix a day. The measure and the written figure cost nothing, and the finished slab carries a written guarantee.