Saddleback Mission Viejo Concrete pours drive aprons, courtyards and walks in Newport Beach, 20 miles up the 73 from La Paz Road. The visit is free and the estimate is written at your house.
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Newport Beach is built to its lot lines. A house on the Peninsula, Balboa Island or a flower street in Corona del Mar fills a 30 foot lot, and its concrete is reached by alley or through the house.
That changes the method before it changes the slab. A mixer cannot park in an alley 15 feet wide with garages both sides, and a courtyard behind a stucco wall has no gate a barrow fits through, so most of what we pour in Newport Beach goes in by line pump from a truck at the nearest street. The pump adds a morning to the job and decides the pour time, because the alley has to be clear of the neighbors' cars and the mix placed before it stiffens in the hose.
So the plan is written around the access. On the visit we measure the alley and the pump run, book the pour for a morning the neighbors are told about, and set the hose route before the crew arrives. The slab itself is the standard one, 4 inches of compacted gravel under 4 to 6 inches of concrete with the steel at mid-depth, and the joints cut the day of the pour. On the sand side the mix carries less water, because a porous slab lets salt reach the steel faster than it does inland.
Newport Beach lots are narrow and the houses fill them, so the concrete is short in length and high in finish. A drive apron off the alley, a courtyard behind a gate, a walk to the door, each on a lot with no room for a truck.
Drives in Newport Beach are often 20 feet long, because a lot on the Peninsula or Balboa Island is 30 feet wide and its garage opens onto the alley. We form the apron to the alley grade, pour it 5 inches thick in a sand finish, and pump it in when a mixer cannot.
A patio in Newport Beach is a courtyard as often as a back yard, walled on three sides and reached through the house. We pump the concrete over the wall from a line at the curb, pour 4 inches on compacted gravel, and finish it in the sand texture that sits with a stucco wall.
Stamped concrete in Newport Beach is asked for in slate and cobble rather than a bright color, because the houses are stucco, shingle and white paint and a loud pattern fights them. We stamp a 4 inch slab in a gray or sand tone, joint it on the pattern lines, and seal it twice.
Walks in Newport Beach front the street on the terrace and the boardwalk on the sand, and the panel between your gate and the curb is the city's, with an encroachment permit before it is cut. We apply, pour to the city's standard, and match the score lines either side.
Garage floors on the Peninsula and Balboa Island sit a few feet above the water table, so the fault is not the slab cracking but water coming up through it. We pour the new floor over a vapor barrier on compacted gravel, pitch it to the door, and seal nothing onto it for 28 days.
Exposed aggregate is the decorative finish Newport Beach asks for most, because it reads as beach pebble and hides sand tracked in off the boardwalk. We seed or wash the surface of a 4 inch slab, saw the joints, band it with a smooth border, and seal it against salt air.
Newport Coast and Corona del Mar lots step down toward the water, and a wall here holds a terrace more often than a slope. We set the footing into the terrace deposits below the topsoil, put drain rock and a pipe at its heel, and build it to the plan, permitted above 4 feet.
Interior slabs in Newport Beach go into rebuilds, because a house on a Peninsula or Corona del Mar lot is replaced more often than repaired. We pour the floor on compacted sand over a vapor barrier, finish it steel trowel flat for tile or polish, and dowel it to the footings.
We come from Mission Viejo on the 73, about 20 miles, and leave it at Newport Coast Drive for the hills, at MacArthur Boulevard for Corona del Mar, or run it to the end onto the Peninsula. Permits come from the Community Development Department at the Civic Center next to Fashion Island. A wall over 4 feet and anything in the right-of-way need one, a patio inside the lot does not, and in the coastal zone the same department checks the job against the Local Coastal Program.
The Peninsula, Balboa Island and Lido Isle are the alley towns, sand and fill a few feet above the harbor, where the lots are 30 feet wide and the garage opens onto the alley. Newport Heights, Westcliff and Corona del Mar are the terrace, older streets with a front drive, a parkway tree and a sidewalk the city owns. Newport Coast, built by the Irvine Company from the 1990s, is the hill, with long drives, terraced yards and an association that reviews the finish before the city does.
The three keep separate calendars. On the sand side the base goes in and is compacted on a dry day at a low tide, because the low streets on Balboa Island take water at a king tide and a wet base compacts to nothing. On the terrace the work is like anywhere else in the county and runs all year. On the Newport Coast hills the afternoon wind off the water is a help in summer and a problem in a Santa Ana, when the surface is kept wet for 7 days like every slab we pour.
Four stages, and the second one is the one that is different here. The pump, the alley and the neighbors are settled before a form is set, so the pour morning goes as planned on a street with nowhere to park.
Trevor Lindqvist measures the slab, then paces the pump run from the nearest place a truck can stand, and writes the estimate on site.
We file with the city, and with the association on the hill. Neighbors on the alley get a note with the pour date a week ahead.
The old slab goes out through the alley to a dumpster at the street, 4 inches of gravel is compacted, and the forms are set to the alley grade.
The truck stands at the street, the line runs the alley, and the pour is done by noon. Joints are cut that afternoon, feet on it after 24 hours.
Call or send the form and you hear back within 1 business day. Every estimate is measured and written on site, including the pump if the lot needs one, so the figure you sign is the whole job and not the part a truck could reach.
Reviews
The reviews below are the site's own, left on Google, Facebook and the BBB, and they run across every town we cover. The alley pours in Newport Beach are held to the same slab they describe.
“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 people in Newport Beach ask on the doorstep, about the pump, the coastal zone, salt air, the drive from Mission Viejo, how long the alley is blocked and which towns next door we cover.
Access first, then the finish. A lot that a mixer cannot reach adds a line pump for the morning, and a sand or exposed aggregate finish takes more hours than broom. Size, thickness and how much old slab comes out move it after that. Every figure is measured at your house and written before we leave, and the pump is a line on it rather than a surprise later.
Not for a patio or a drive replaced inside your lot line. Yes for a wall over 4 feet, a drive approach, and any walk or apron in the public right-of-way, which also takes an encroachment permit. In the coastal zone the Community Development Department checks the job under the Local Coastal Program, and most flatwork replaced in kind is exempt. We file all of it and meet the inspector.
Yes, in the mix and the seal. Chloride in the air works into concrete over years, and a bar of steel that rusts swells and cracks the slab from inside. On the Peninsula, Balboa Island and Lido Isle we pour a mix with less water in it, which cures denser and slower for the salt to cross, hold the steel at mid-depth, and seal the finished slab. On the terrace and the hill the standard mix is enough.
About 20 miles by the 73 toll road, and 30 to 40 minutes at the time of day we travel, because the crew leaves La Paz Road before 7. The distance does not change the estimate. The pour is booked as a full crew day whichever side of the bay it is on, and the pump truck is ordered to meet us at the street.
One morning. The pump truck stands at the street and the line runs down the alley, so the alley is passable on foot but not by car from about 7 until noon. Break-out and base take 1 or 2 days before that with a dumpster at the street. Keep feet off the new slab for 24 to 48 hours and cars off a drive for 7 days.
Laguna Beach down the coast and Fountain Valley and Westminster inland are on our list, and Tustin is up Jamboree Road. Costa Mesa and Irvine sit between them and are not, so a job that is on the Irvine side of the Newport Coast line is one we will tell you straight away we do not take. Each town on the list has its own page.
Newport Beach shares a coast with Laguna Beach to the south and a bay with the county's inland grid, and we cover Fountain Valley, Westminster and Tustin on that side. If your street sits on a line, the town next door's page is the one to read.
Open the Mission Viejo Office in Google Maps Send the form and you hear back within 1 business day. The visit is free, the figure is written at your house with the pump on it, and the work carries a written guarantee.