Owner, and the finisher on your pour
Curtis Ballard
CSLB C-8 concrete class, Orange resident, Writes every estimate himself
Curtis Ballard had 18 years behind him when Plaza Orange Concrete opened in 2018, and all of it was poured in this county. He came up on tract frontages, took over the finishing five years in, and by the time he had his own boards he had worked all three of the grounds this city sits on: the creek wash through the middle, the tighter slope material east of El Modena, and the made-up pads under the hill tracts. The mistake he sees most is a base built the same way on all three.
He lives in Orange, ten minutes away, and stands on the property while the truck is being emptied rather than sending out a crew and a number to ring. Finishing is the part that cannot be handed over. The window in which a broom or a trowel will still do anything useful is short, and how short depends on the morning, the mix and the wind, so the call has to be made by somebody with their boots on the concrete.
The C-8 license carries his own name at the California Contractors State License Board rather than a qualifier's. Every crew that leaves the office carries liability insurance on every job with it, the guarantee is printed rather than promised, and anything left on the Tustin Street line comes back within 1 business day, usually from him, because there is nobody in between. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
“You cannot read a lot off the street. Twenty minutes with a tape and a spade tells me more than anything a customer can describe down the phone.”
