Saddleback Mission Viejo Concrete pours walls, patios and steps on the canyon lots of Laguna Beach, down Laguna Canyon Road from Mission Viejo. The estimate is written on your doorstep, free.
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Laguna Beach reviews what it can see. Any wall, and anything visible from a street or a neighbor's lot, goes to the Design Review Board before a permit, and most of the city is in the coastal zone.
A patio inside a fence at grade can be poured with a permit or without, but a wall holding a canyon lot, a terrace seen from the street below or steps down a bluff are drawn, noticed to the neighbors and heard in public, and the drawing is what the crew builds to. The ground is the second reason. The canyon sides are marine sediment that moves when wet, and Bluebird Canyon has slid twice in living memory, so a hillside wall is engineered against a soils report rather than sized by eye.
So every job in Laguna Beach starts on paper. The wall is drawn with its footing into firm ground and a pipe behind it, the terrace with a drain to the street and never onto the lot below, and the steps with their risers set to the grade, and that packet goes to the Design Review Board and the coastal review together. On the day the concrete is pumped from the nearest street a truck can stand on, and the wall is poured in one lift so there is no cold joint to leak.
Laguna Beach is built up canyon walls and along a bluff, on streets a mixer cannot turn on, and every change the neighbors can see is reviewed before it is built. The work here is the wall, the steps and the terrace, drawn first and pumped in.
A driveway in Laguna Beach is short and steep, on a lot where the garage sits below or above the road. We pour 5 inches on compacted gravel with a swale at the door and joints across the fall, and the apron goes through the city's encroachment permit before the old one is cut.
A patio in Laguna Beach is a terrace cut into a slope and held by a wall, because the lot has no level ground the width of one. We draw it with the wall, pour 4 inches on gravel once the wall has cured, and pitch it to a drain piped to the street and never onto the lot below.
Stamped concrete in Laguna Beach is asked for where the Design Review Board wants a terrace to read as stone from the street below. We cast a slate into 4 inches of concrete colored to the sample the board approved, and seal it at 28 days and again every 2 to 3 years.
Walks in Laguna Beach are steps, from a street to a door below it or up to a house on a bench, and the risers go first where the soil moves. We take out the failed run, dig each riser into firm ground, pour 4 inches with a landing every few steps and tie into what stays.
A garage floor in Laguna Beach is small, tucked under a house on a slope and low at the door where the street sends rain in. We break out the front run, pour 4 inches with the fall to the door and a trench drain across it, and trowel it flat enough for a coating a month later.
Exposed aggregate goes on a Laguna Beach terrace where the board wants a natural finish and a bare foot wants a grip on a slope. We seed a buff stone into a 4 inch pour, wash it proud that afternoon, and seal it once cured so the sea air does not dull the stone.
The retaining wall is the job in Laguna Beach, holding the house's bench or the yard's terrace on a canyon side that moves wet. We build it to the engineer's drawing, footed into firm siltstone with a pipe behind it, pour it in one lift, and take it through Design Review first.
Interior slabs in Laguna Beach are the room under the house on a hillside lot and the cottage addition in North Laguna, both drawn and inspected. We pour over a vapor barrier on gravel, tie the new footing to the old for the inspector, and trowel the floor flat enough for tile.
Our yard on La Paz Road is about 12 miles away, out El Toro Road and down Laguna Canyon Road, which at 6 in the morning is 25 minutes and at 9 on a Saturday is not. Plans go to the City of Laguna Beach Community Development Department at City Hall on Forest Avenue, where the Design Review Board hears anything visible from a street or a neighbor and the coastal development permit is issued under the city's Local Coastal Program. We ask that counter what your lot needs before we draw.
North Laguna and Emerald Bay are the 1920s and 1930s cottages that have become something bigger, on small lots with the street above or below. Bluebird Canyon, Canyon Acres and Laguna Canyon climb the canyons on lots that step up the wall, the house on a bench and the yard a slope held by walls. Top of the World and Arch Beach Heights sit on the ridge with streets a mixer cannot turn on, and South Laguna and Three Arch Bay run along the bluff, where the yard ends at the edge.
The ground is the marine siltstone and sandstone of the San Joaquin Hills, steep, bedded and slow to drain, and the slope decides everything, since a lot here is rarely level for the width of a patio. Water off a hillside yard cannot be sent onto the lot below, so every terrace drains to a pipe and the pipe drains to the street. The marine layer sits on the town from May to August and burns off by early afternoon, which gives a morning pour a cool set.
Four stages on one crew, with the drawing and the reviews first, because in Laguna Beach the approvals take longer than the concrete. The pump and the street closure are booked to the day the permit clears.
Trevor Lindqvist measures the lot, shoots the slope, finds where the water can go and writes the figure on site, then the wall is drawn.
The packet goes to the Design Review Board and the coastal counter on Forest Avenue, the neighbors are noticed, and we attend the hearing.
The footing is dug into firm ground, the pipe and rock go behind the wall line, and the pump is set on a street a truck can stand on.
The wall is poured in one lift and the terrace in one morning, the joints are cut that afternoon, and the slope is cleaned up before we leave.
Call or send the form and you hear back within 1 business day. The visit is free, the figure is written on site with the review allowed for, and we are in Laguna Beach most weeks, from North Laguna to South Laguna.
Reviews
Our reviews, left on Google, Facebook and the BBB by homeowners in the towns we cover from Mission Viejo. Laguna Beach is one of them, and the walls behind the words were drawn and reviewed as 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.”
What we are asked on a Laguna Beach lot before a job is booked, on what moves the estimate on a hillside, which reviews the work needs and how long they take, the drive down the canyon and the ground.
The reviews and the pump, before the concrete. A wall on a hillside lot needs an engineer's drawing, a soils report the city may ask for and a Design Review hearing, and a street a mixer cannot reach adds a pump and a hose run for the morning. After that it is the footing depth the slope sets and the drain to the street. Every estimate is measured and written on site, with the water and the truck routed first.
Not if it is at grade inside your fence and nobody can see it, which the city decides. A wall, a terrace seen from the street or a neighbor's lot, and anything on a bluff or in the canyon goes to the Design Review Board, and most lots also need a coastal development permit under the city's Local Coastal Program. We take your address to the counter on Forest Avenue before we draw, and file whatever it says.
Down Laguna Canyon Road, about 12 miles from La Paz Road out El Toro Road and past the 73, which is 25 minutes at 6 in the morning and twice that once the beach traffic starts. The crew is on your street before it does, and the mixer is timed to the pump rather than to us, because a truck in a canyon lane has one place to stand. On a summer weekend we do not pour in Laguna Beach at all.
Yes, if the footing reaches it and the water is kept away from it. The canyon sides are bedded marine siltstone, firm dry and moving wet, which is what slid in Bluebird Canyon, so a wall here is footed into that firm layer to the depth the engineer sets, and drained behind with rock and a pipe to the street. A wall footed in the soil above and left to hold water leans in its second winter..
Two to four days on site, and weeks of review before it. The footing is dug and the steel tied on the first day, the wall is poured in one lift on the second and backfilled at 7 days, and a terrace against it is poured on the third morning with the joints cut that afternoon. Design Review and the coastal permit sit in front of all of that, and on a hillside lot they are the longest part of the job.
Aliso Viejo and Laguna Niguel over the hills, Laguna Hills and Laguna Woods up the canyon and Dana Point down the coast, all from the same yard on La Paz Road. Newport Beach past Crystal Cove is on the list too. If your lot sits near the county park or the Dana Point line in South Laguna, call and we will say which page is yours before anyone drives out.
Laguna Beach meets Newport Beach at Crystal Cove, Aliso Viejo and Laguna Niguel over the hills and Dana Point past South Laguna, and we cover all four from La Paz Road. If your street sits on one of those lines, the neighboring page may be the better fit.
Open the Mission Viejo Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call back within 1 business day to book the visit. The measure and the figure are free and written on site, and the finished work carries a written guarantee.