Saddleback Mission Viejo Concrete pours driveways, patios, pool decks and walls in Laguna Hills, the town our own La Paz Road runs into across the 5. The lot sets the method, so we measure it.
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In Laguna Hills the lot sets the method before the ground does. A drive in Nellie Gail Ranch can run 100 feet from street to garage, and a patio off Alicia Parkway is reached through a 36 inch gate.
On the long Nellie Gail driveways the pour is planned like a road. A mixer parks on the drive itself and pours in sections working back to the street, the joints are laid out on a 10 foot grid before the first load arrives, and the thickness goes to 6 inches on any run a horse trailer uses, because a trailer on 4 inches breaks the edge of a panel in a few seasons. On a tract lot the same footage is a different afternoon. The truck stops at the curb and the mix is pumped through the gate.
The ground under both is the same rock, and it is the reason the town has Fossil Reef Park. The hills of Laguna Hills are old seabed, a pale marine siltstone that grades level pads well and drains slowly, so the base under a slab here is 4 inches of compacted gravel whatever the lot. Where a Nellie Gail pad was cut deep into the hill the siltstone is at the surface and firm. Where a tract pad was filled at the back fence the base goes in two lifts, and the estimate says which yours is.
Laguna Hills is two kinds of lot. In Nellie Gail Ranch the driveways run long and the yards hold paddocks. Off Paseo de Valencia and Alicia Parkway the tract lots are ordinary, with a gate at the side. The same eight jobs are asked for on both.
A driveway in Laguna Hills is priced by its run, because a Nellie Gail Ranch drive can be 100 feet from the street and a tract drive off Alicia Parkway is 20. We pour 4 inches for cars and 6 where a trailer turns, on compacted gravel, with the joints cut across the fall.
A patio behind a Laguna Hills tract house is reached through a side gate, so the concrete is line-pumped from the truck at the curb. We pour 4 inches on compacted gravel, pitch it a quarter inch a foot away from the house, and set a joint at the old slab so the two move apart.
Stamped concrete in Laguna Hills is asked for most on a Nellie Gail Ranch frontage, where the owners association reviews the finish before the pour. We draw the pattern and color for the submittal, cast it into a 4 inch slab, and seal it twice so the color holds through summer.
A walk in Laguna Hills usually has a horse trail or a creek easement somewhere near it, so we check the lot lines before we cut. The new panel is doweled into the old at both ends and poured flush, because a walk that steps at the joint is a trip the association will ask about.
Garage floors on the Paseo de Valencia tracts date from the 1960s and crack through at the door where the apron settled. The apron comes out with the fill under it, a 5 inch slab goes in doweled to the garage, and the fall is set to the street so winter rain runs out and not in.
Exposed aggregate and salt finishes suit the pale light of the Laguna Hills hills better than a dark slab, and on a pool deck a light finish stays cool underfoot in August. We wash the aggregate proud the same evening, cut the joints on a 10 foot grid and seal it once cured.
A wall in Laguna Hills holds either a Nellie Gail Ranch paddock above a drive or the back slope of a tract lot above Aliso Creek. Both are footed 18 inches into the siltstone, drained behind with rock and a pipe, and permitted through City Hall once they pass 4 feet.
An interior floor in Laguna Hills is most often the slab for a room addition or a converted garage on one of the older tracts. We pour it over a vapor barrier at the level of the house slab, trowel it flat enough for tile, and set the joints on a grid that follows the walls.
Our yard is on La Paz Road in Mission Viejo, and La Paz Road crosses the 5 and keeps going into Laguna Hills, so a crew reaches most of the town without touching the freeway. That closeness is why the truck is timed rather than the crew, since a mixer leaves the plant on the clock and a job 10 minutes from the yard gets its concrete while it is still workable. Permits, where a job needs one, come from the Building Division at Laguna Hills City Hall on El Toro Road, and we file them.
Nellie Gail Ranch is the part of Laguna Hills that changes how we work. The lots are large, the streets carry horse trails beside the road, and the owners association reviews anything seen from the street, a widened drive, a new walk, a wall at the frontage. So a Nellie Gail job is drawn for the association before the estimate is signed, and the drawing shows the finish. A stable apron or a wash rack there is poured at 6 inches with a broom coarse enough for a shod hoof.
The tracts along Paseo de Valencia and Alicia Parkway are the older half of the town, laid out from the 1960s, and their slabs are at the age where a driveway has settled at the apron and a rear patio has lifted at the house. Aliso Creek runs along the west edge of town and the lots fall toward it, so on those streets the grade off the house is checked first and the new slab is pitched with it. Most of those jobs are tear-out and replace in the same footprint.
Four stages, and the first one is done on foot with a tape. A Nellie Gail driveway and a tract patio run through the same four, but the second stage is where they part, because access is measured before it is priced.
Trevor Lindqvist measures the slab, walks the route the concrete will take, and notes the gate width or the run from the street to the garage.
In Nellie Gail Ranch or under any Laguna Hills association, the frontage drawing goes in with the estimate so the review runs first.
The old slab is broken out, soft fill at the back fence dug and replaced, and 4 inches of gravel compacted on the siltstone.
The pour is one morning, the joints are cut that afternoon, and cars stay off a drive for 7 days. We leave the trail and gate as we found them.
Call or send the form and you hear back within 1 business day to book the visit. Every estimate is measured and written on site, whether it is a stable apron in Nellie Gail Ranch or a patio behind a side gate on Alicia Parkway, and it costs nothing.
Reviews
Left on Google, Facebook and the BBB by homeowners across south Orange County, each about one job and how it has held up. Laguna Hills is one of the towns they come from.
“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.”
Answers for Laguna Hills in particular, on what moves the estimate on a large lot, where the permit comes from, how far the crew travels, what the seabed under the town does and how long a slab is out of use.
The length of the run and the way in. A Nellie Gail Ranch driveway is priced by its footage and its thickness, since a trailer run goes to 6 inches, and a tract patio is priced by whether the concrete reaches it through a gate by pump or by barrow. Tear-out and the finish move it after that. We measure the lot, then write the number, so the estimate is the job and not a guess at it.
Not for a slab at grade inside your lot line, which the California Residential Code exempts. A retaining wall over 4 feet from the bottom of the footing, any wall holding a slope above it and a new curb cut need a permit from the Building Division at Laguna Hills City Hall on El Toro Road. In Nellie Gail Ranch the owners association reviews the frontage as well, and we submit to both.
One road. Our yard is on La Paz Road in Mission Viejo, and La Paz Road crosses the 5 into Laguna Hills, so the crew is at a house off Paseo de Valencia inside 10 minutes and in Nellie Gail Ranch by way of Moulton Parkway in a few more. Calls and the form are answered within 1 business day, and the visit is booked around your week.
Old seabed. The hills are a marine siltstone, the rock the fossils at Fossil Reef Park sit in, and it is firm where a pad was cut into it and slow to drain where a pad was filled over it. A slab on the cut side sits on 4 inches of compacted gravel straight over the rock. A slab on the fill side, usually the back fence of a tract lot, gets the soft material dug out first and the gravel placed in two lifts.
Three to five working days on site and then 7 days of curing before a car goes on it. A long Nellie Gail Ranch drive is poured in sections working back to the street so the family can park on the finished end within the week. A tract driveway is out for the whole run, so the days the cars come off and go back on are written on the estimate before we start.
Yes. Laguna Hills shares a boundary with Laguna Woods on the west, Aliso Viejo and Laguna Niguel to the south and Lake Forest to the north, and each has its own page on this site. Every one is reached from the same yard on La Paz Road, and a job on a street that sits on a city line is measured the same way whichever side the house is on.
Laguna Hills borders Laguna Woods, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel, Lake Forest and our own Mission Viejo, and the crew works all of them from the yard on La Paz Road. If your street sits on a boundary, the neighboring page is written for the same visit.
Open the Mission Viejo Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call you back within 1 business day to book the visit. The estimate is free and written at your home, and every job carries a written workmanship guarantee.