Plaza Orange Concrete pours drives, patios and walks on the close-set lots of La Habra, up the 57 from Orange. Every estimate is measured and written on site, at no charge for the visit.
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Almost nothing we pour in La Habra has a free edge. A drive runs a foot from the neighbor's, a patio ends at a block wall two owners share, and half the walks belong to an association.
That is what 3,000 people to the square mile looks like on the ground. The 1950s and 1960s tracts either side of Idaho Street were cut into 6,000 square foot lots with the house set 5 feet off one line, and the condominium tracts along Lambert Road and Imperial Highway have no private ground beyond a patio. So the first thing a slab does here is meet something that is not yours, and the fence, the wall footing and the neighbor's drive were all there first.
So we find the line before we dig. The tract map is pulled, the pins are found or the corners set from the map, and the forms stop where the line is and not an inch over it. Where a new slab meets a shared wall we leave the footing untouched and separate the two with a felt joint, so the slab moves and the wall does not. Against the neighbor's drive we saw a straight edge and pour to it, and where a walk belongs to an association the board's approval goes in the file beside the permit.
La Habra packs more people into a square mile than any other town we cover north of Orange, and its lots show it. The work here is the drive along a fence, the patio to a shared wall, and the walk a board of neighbors owns together.
A La Habra drive runs along the property line to the garage, a foot from the neighbor's slab on the tracts off Idaho Street. We saw a straight edge against theirs, pour ours 4 inches on compacted base with a joint between the two, and pitch it to the gutter, not to the fence.
A patio here ends at a shared block wall, so it is poured to the wall and not under it. We break out the builder's slab, leave the wall footing alone, set a felt joint against the block, and pour 4 inches on base falling away from the wall so next door's runoff has a way past.
Stamped concrete in La Habra is chosen for the front, the courtyard and the walk to the door, because on a small lot that is the concrete the street sees. We cast a flagstone or ashlar into a 4 inch slab, run a plain border along the line, and seal it once it has cured.
Half the walks in La Habra belong to a board rather than a household, on the condominium tracts along Lambert Road and Imperial Highway. We take the board's approval before the permit, replace the lifted panels 4 inches thick on base, and match the joints to the run that stays.
A 1950s garage floor in La Habra is thin and cracked along the door, and where the garage is being made a room the floor is the job. We break it out, pour 4 inches over a vapor barrier and base, level with the house slab, and trowel it flat enough for tile or plank.
Exposed aggregate in La Habra goes on the drive and the front walk, because the stone finish takes the wear of a shared drive without showing tire marks, and it grips on the streets that climb north of Whittier Boulevard. We wash it proud that afternoon and seal it once cured.
Retaining walls in La Habra are on the streets north of Whittier Boulevard, where a lot steps up from the road, and a wall on the line is built by one owner and leaned on by two. We foot it into firm ground, drain behind the stem, and permit it where it stands over 4 feet.
Interior slabs in La Habra are the ADU squeezed onto the back of a small lot and the converted garage. We pour over a vapor barrier on compacted base, hold the floor level with the house slab so the door has no step, and joint it where the walls will hide the cut.
The drive from our yard on North Tustin Street is the 57 north to Imperial Highway and west through Brea into La Habra, about 15 miles, and a crew is on a La Habra street by 7. Permits go to the City of La Habra Building Division at City Hall on East La Habra Boulevard, and a cut in the approach or the public walk takes an encroachment permit from Public Works as well. On a condominium lot the association's approval comes first, and the board sees the drawing before the city does.
The city grew out from the old center on La Habra Boulevard and Euclid Street, and the flat south of Whittier Boulevard toward Lambert Road is the postwar tract work, single story houses on small lots shoulder to shoulder from Beach Boulevard across to Harbor. North of Whittier the ground begins to rise toward the Puente Hills, the lots along the upper streets get bigger and the drives get steeper, and up Hacienda Road the city ends where La Habra Heights begins.
The ground is the wash off the Puente Hills, coarse and quick to drain at the north end and finer down on the flat, and on a lot this size the bigger risk is not the soil but the neighbor's downspout, which lands on your side of the wall and softens the ground under the patio edge. So we look at where the water from next door arrives and pitch the slab away from it. We pour year round, with the first load at 6 from July to September and a rain day in winter taken as it comes.
Four stages, one crew, and the neighbor told before the saw starts. On a lot this close the job is half courtesy, so the dates go on a note through the next door before the first cut is made.
Curtis Ballard measures the slab, finds the line from the tract map and the pins, checks the shared wall, and writes the figure on site.
The old slab is sawn clear of the neighbor's and the wall footing, broken out and hauled, and 4 inches of base compacted in its place.
We file with the City of La Habra Building Division, with Public Works for the approach, and with the association where one owns the ground.
The pour is barrowed or pumped in, a felt joint parts it from the wall, joints are cut that day, and cars stay off for 7 days.
Call or send the form and we call back within 1 business day to fix the visit. The measure and the written figure cost nothing, and we are in La Habra most weeks, from the flat by Beach Boulevard to the streets under the hills.
Reviews
Reviews left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover, from Fountain Valley up to the hills. La Habra is among them, and the concrete behind each one is the work described here.
“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.”
The questions a La Habra owner asks before booking, on what moves the figure on a small lot, whose permission a shared wall needs, how far Orange is, what the ground does and how long the work takes.
Access and the edges. A lot with a 4 foot side gate means the old slab leaves and the new concrete arrives by barrow, and every shared edge, the neighbor's drive, the block wall, the association's walk, is a line to saw and a joint to set rather than a form to pull. Then the area and the thickness. Every estimate is measured and written on site, and the far side of the wall is looked at before the figure is set.
Yes, on your side, as long as the wall's footing is left alone. The wall belongs to both owners and its footing sits under both lots, so we do not dig it out or bear on it, and a felt isolation joint separates the new slab from the block so the two never move each other. The city needs no permit for flatwork at grade, and a slab on your own ground needs no consent from next door, though we tell them the dates.
About 15 miles, most of it on the 57. We come up the Orange Freeway to Imperial Highway, cross Brea, and come into La Habra at the Beach Boulevard end or down Harbor from the north, which puts a crew on your street before 7 in any weather. Concrete is ordered from the plant nearest the job, so the truck's clock does not include our drive.
Less than the water from next door is. The soil is fan wash off the Puente Hills, gravelly at the north end and finer on the flat, and it holds a slab on 4 inches of compacted base without trouble. What softens the ground on a close-set lot is a neighbor's downspout or a leaking hose bib on the other side of the wall, so we look for wet ground along the shared edge and pitch the slab away from it.
Two days on site and a week before a car. Day one is the saw, the break-out and the base, and day two is the pour, with the joints cut that afternoon. On a shared or a flag-lot drive we pour in halves so the neighbor keeps a way out, which adds a day. Walk on it after 24 hours and park on it after 7 days.
Yes, and La Mirada and Buena Park on the other side. Brea is on the way in along Imperial Highway, La Habra Heights is up Hacienda Road from the north end of town, and all of them are booked from the same yard in Orange. Fullerton, in between, is not on our list, so a lot on that line is worth a call before the visit is booked.
La Habra touches Brea on the east, La Habra Heights up the hill to the north, and La Mirada and Buena Park on its west and south, and we cover all four from the same yard. If your street is on one of those lines, the page next door is the one to read.
Open the Orange Office in Google Maps Send the form or call and we ring back within 1 business day to book the measure. The figure is written on site and free, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee.