Plaza Orange Concrete pours drives, patios and garage floors in Buena Park, 15 miles west of our yard in Orange, planned from the gate inward. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
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Buena Park is one of the densest towns we cover, more than 3,000 people to the square mile, and the lots are narrow. So the first thing we measure here is the way in, and the slab comes second.
The tracts went up in the ten years after the city incorporated in 1953, single story houses with the garage on the front and a side yard a person fits down and a mixer does not. The drive is the only paved way onto the lot, so it is the haul road for the tear-out, the path for the barrow and the last thing poured. Nearly half the houses are rented, and a slab for a landlord is specified for tenants who park on the lawn edge and drag bins over it.
So a Buena Park job is planned backwards from the gate. The back yard is done first through the side, the drive is broken out after the barrows are finished with it, and it goes back at 4 inches on 4 inches of compacted base with a 5 inch apron, widened for 2 cars where the setback allows. A rented house gets a plain broom finish and steel through every slab, because a stamp or a color needs sealing that a tenant will not do, and a slab with steel in it is not replaced between tenants.
Buena Park is 1950s and 1960s tract housing on lots close together, and nearly half of it is rented. The eight jobs below are written for that, drives that are the only way onto the lot, side yards a barrow fits down, and slabs left alone.
A Buena Park drive is the haul road for the whole job, so it is the last slab poured. The 1950s ribbon or 3 inch slab comes out, 4 inches of base goes in compacted, and the new drive goes back 4 inches thick with a 5 inch apron, widened where a second car has been parking.
A Buena Park patio is barrowed in through a side yard a person fits down and a truck does not, which sets the crew hours more than the size does. It goes on 4 inches of compacted base, 4 inches thick with steel, jointed at 10 feet and doweled to the house slab at the door.
Stamped concrete in Buena Park is for the owner-occupied streets, and we say so. On a rented house it is money in a finish nobody will keep sealed. Where it fits, we cast an ashlar pattern into a 4 inch slab, color it through the mix, and seal it twice.
The public walk in front of a Buena Park house was poured with the tract, and the parkway tree beside it is the same age, so the panels are lifted. We pull the encroachment permit, saw the lifted panels out at their joints, cut the root, and pour new panels doweled to the old.
A Buena Park garage floor is often lower than the drive after decades of resurfacing, and water runs in under the door. We break it out, lay base and a 10 mil barrier, pour 5 inches with steel, bring it up level with a new apron, and trowel it flat enough for a coating once dry.
Exposed aggregate suits a Buena Park front yard where the drive doubles as the parking court and takes the wear. The washed stone hides tire marks and oil that a plain broom shows, and it grips wet. We seed river stone into a 4 inch slab and wash it at the right hour.
Retaining walls in Buena Park are low, because the ground is level, and most hold a raised bed or a step between a drive and a lawn. We pour a footing 18 inches into firm ground, tie the bar into a stem, and drain the back with rock. Under 4 feet, it needs no permit.
Garage conversions and ADUs are the growth in rented Buena Park, and both need an interior slab for someone to live on. We pour over a lapped 10 mil barrier on 4 inches of base, dowel it into the house slab so there is no step at the door, and trowel it flat for flooring.
We reach Buena Park from Orange along the 91, 15 miles west to the Beach Boulevard exit, or along La Palma Avenue when the freeway is stopped, which through Anaheim it often is. The 5 and the 91 cross inside the city and the railway cuts it again, so the address tells us which quarter we are heading for. Permits go to the City of Buena Park Building Division at City Hall on Beach Boulevard, and a drive approach or a walk at the curb is an encroachment permit from Public Works.
North of the 91, up toward Los Coyotes Country Club and the La Mirada line, the lots are wider and the houses a little newer, and a mixer can back onto most of them. West of Beach Boulevard toward Knott Avenue and the Cypress line the tracts are the tightest, and the side yards there are a barrow's width. Along Beach Boulevard itself the housing is mixed with apartments and duplexes, where one drive serves 2 or 4 households and the work is scheduled so nobody is parked out for a week.
The ground here is not the problem. Buena Park is level coastal plain, sandy loam laid down by the creeks, and it compacts well once the top foot of old lawn and fill is off it. What fails a slab here is thinness, because the tract builders poured 3 inches with nothing under it, and roots, because every parkway has a tree the same age as the house. So the specification is plain, 4 inches on 4 inches of base with steel, and the time goes into getting it through the gate.
Four stages, one crew, and the figure written at your house. In Buena Park the first stage is about access as much as area, because whether a mixer reaches the back yard changes the day count more than the size of the slab does.
Curtis Ballard measures the slab, the side yard and the drive, checks where a truck can stand, and writes the figure at your table.
Anything behind the house is broken out, barrowed through the side and poured before the drive is touched, so the drive stays whole for hauling.
We file with the Building Division on Beach Boulevard where the job needs it and pull the encroachment permit for the approach.
The drive is poured last with a 5 inch apron, joints cut the same day, feet after 24 hours and cars back on it after 7 days.
Call or send the form and we will ring back within 1 business day to set a time. We measure the slab and the way in, say which order the work runs in, and write the figure at your house, and the visit costs nothing.
Reviews
Reviews from Google and Facebook, left by homeowners and landlords across the towns we cover, Buena Park among them. The slabs behind them went through a side gate on a barrow, as described above.
“Our drive goes right down the lot to a garage on the alley, and it had broken into about nine pieces. They took out 540 square feet, put five inches back and got the joints in before they left that evening. Curtis was here at seven for the pour.”
“Three of the pepper trees out front had lifted the walk into a trip hazard and the city had already been round. Seventy feet of panel came out, a barrier went in against each root plate, and the new walk has stayed flat through two winters.”
“The back of our lot falls away hard and the old patio had cracked right across the middle. They stepped the new one down in two levels, 380 square feet of it, and formed a drain along the low edge. Nothing has stood on it since, even in February.”
Six things people in Buena Park ask before booking, from what a narrow side yard does to the figure, to which office takes the permit, how a shared drive is kept open, and how the work runs on a rented house.
Because concrete that cannot be chuted from a truck is moved by barrow, and a back patio in Buena Park nearly always goes in that way, down a side yard between the house and the fence. The same slab takes more crew hours through a 3 foot gate than off the back of a mixer, and the tear-out leaves the same way. Size and thickness move the figure after that, and it is written at your house with the gate measured.
The Building Division at Buena Park City Hall on Beach Boulevard. A drive, patio or walk at grade on your own lot needs no building permit, but a wall over 4 feet, a footing under a cover, an interior slab for a conversion and a garage floor that changes the floor level do. Anything at the curb, the approach and the public walk, is an encroachment permit through Public Works, and we pull it before the saw starts.
Yes, by pouring it in halves. A duplex or a flag lot in Buena Park often has one drive serving 2 or more households, so we break out and pour one side while the other stays open, cure it for 7 days, then swap. It adds a week to the job and no concrete, and the seam between the halves is a doweled construction joint rather than a crack waiting to open. We agree the order with every household before the first cut.
About 25 minutes along the 91 to Beach Boulevard when the freeway is moving, and we take La Palma Avenue through Anaheim when it is not. Buena Park is the west end of the patch we cover, 15 miles from the yard, so we run jobs there and in Cypress and La Palma in the same week. When you call we ring back within 1 business day to book the visit, and the crew arrives with the barrows on the truck.
The finish is plainer and the slab is no thinner. Nearly half the houses in Buena Park are rented, and a landlord asks for a drive that will take a bin dragged over it and a car parked half on the lawn edge, so the answer is 4 inches with steel and a broom finish, with no color or stamp to keep sealed. We can work through a property manager, and the estimate is written at the house whoever signs it.
Yes, and La Mirada, all from the yard in Orange, and a Buena Park week usually has a job in one of them. Each town has its own page because the ground, the lot widths and the permit office change at the line, and the line runs down the middle of some streets on the Cypress side. If your address sits on a boundary, read both pages, and the crew and the base are the same on either.
Buena Park touches La Palma, Cypress, Stanton and La Mirada, and we cover all four from the same yard in Orange. Each has a page of its own, because the lot widths, the ground and the permit office change at the line, even where the street keeps its name.
Open the Orange Office in Google Maps Send the form, we ring back within 1 business day, and the figure is written at your house. The finished work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.