Plaza Orange Concrete pours patios, walks and ramps in Laguna Woods, down the 5 from Orange. Inside the Village gates, the Mutual consents first. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
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A manor in Laguna Woods Village is yours to live in and the Mutual's to approve, so a patio extension or a new walk goes to the Mutual through Village Management Services before the city or us.
The Village is three housing mutuals on one hillside. United Laguna Woods Mutual holds the co-op manors of the 1960s, with carports, and the patio slabs outside them are common area with an exclusive use line drawn around each. Third Laguna Hills Mutual holds the condominiums of the 1970s and 80s on the higher ground, with garages and more slope. The Towers stand on their own. Each has its own alteration standards, so the same patio is drawn differently across a street.
So we draw before we dig. The plan goes to the Manor Alterations office with the finish and the color named, and the Mutual's consent is what the City of Laguna Woods asks to see before it issues the permit. On the ground, the work follows the resident. The new slab meets the door with no step, walks are poured wide enough for a scooter to pass a person, a ramp is laid at 1 in 12 with a landing, and the finish is a fine broom that neither a walker nor a wet shoe catches on.
Laguna Woods is the city built around Laguna Woods Village, which opened as Leisure World in 1964, and its residents' median age is past 75. The asks here are a patio without a step, a walk a scooter can use, and a ramp where the stairs were.
A driveway in Laguna Woods is rare inside the Village, where a United manor has a carport and the paving between is the Mutual's, so most drives we pour are on the streets outside the gates or in a Third garage court. Each is 4 inches on base with a fall to the drain.
Patios are the job in Laguna Woods, because a manor's exclusive use patio can be extended to its line with the Mutual's consent. We pour 4 inches on base to meet the door with no step, set the fall away from the manor, and finish it in a fine broom a walker holds on wet.
Stamped concrete in Laguna Woods is drawn to the Mutual's standards for finish and color, and it is cast shallow, because a deep stamp texture catches a walker's foot. We cast a light pattern into a 4 inch slab and seal it in 2 coats that do not polish slick.
A walk in Laguna Woods Village is common area unless it lies inside your patio line, so we check the drawing before we cut. Where it is yours, we pour it 4 feet wide so a scooter passes a person, with no lip at any joint and a cross fall too slight to feel.
Garage floors in Laguna Woods are in the Third condominiums and on the streets outside the gates, poured in the 1970s and 80s and cracked at the door line where the fill under them settled. We break them out, compact 4 inches of base, and pour a new floor pitched to the door.
Decorative work in Laguna Woods leaves out exposed aggregate, because a washed pebble surface is the one a cane slips on, and keeps to a sand finish, a light color and a smooth border band. We match the Mutual's palette and seal it in a finish that stays matt wet.
Retaining walls in Laguna Woods hold the terraces the Village was graded into, and a resident's own wall is a low one, a raised bed at seat height along a patio edge. We footing it into firm ground below the fill, drain behind the stem, and cap it wide and level to sit on.
Interior slabs in Laguna Woods are the floor of a 1960s manor opened up after a slab leak or for a roll in shower, and the new section has to meet the old with no lip. We saw the section out, re-pour it over a vapor barrier, and trowel it level so the tile runs across.
We reach Laguna Woods on the 5 south from the 55, leaving at El Toro Road, about 35 minutes from our yard in Orange, and the gate we use is the one on the pass the Village issues for the day. The building permit comes from the City of Laguna Woods at City Hall on El Toro Road, and inside the gates the Manor Alterations office at Village Management Services is the first counter, because the city looks for the Mutual's consent before it looks at the plan.
The Village runs from El Toro Road to Moulton Parkway with Paseo de Valencia through the middle of it, and the gates are numbered along those roads. The United manors are the lower and older ground toward El Toro Road, with carport courts a mixer can reach and manors it cannot, so concrete is barrowed the last hundred feet. The Third condominiums climb toward Moulton Parkway, with garages and terraced patios, and a job there is planned around the steps between one level and the next.
The ground is the foothill of the San Joaquin Hills, cut into terraces when the Village was graded in the 1960s, so a slab here is poured on base over a subgrade that is compacted rather than assumed. What sets the calendar is the resident. The Village fixes the hours a contractor may work and the days a truck may pass a gate, so a pour is booked inside those hours, and the sawing is done at midday rather than at 7 beside a neighbor's bedroom.
Four stages and one figure, written at the manor before anything is submitted. The order is fixed by the Village, since the Mutual's consent comes before the city's permit and both come before the gate pass.
Curtis Ballard measures the patio or the walk, checks the threshold and the fall, and writes the figure with the Mutual's drawing in mind.
We submit the drawing to the Manor Alterations office, and once the Mutual consents we take the permit at City Hall on El Toro Road.
The crew comes in on the day's pass, the old slab is sawn and carried out, and 4 inches of base is compacted to the fall the drawing shows.
The pour takes a morning inside the Village's hours. Walk on it after 24 hours, and the path to the carport is kept open throughout.
Call or send the form and we call back within 1 business day to set the visit. The measure and the written figure cost nothing, and if you have the Mutual's alteration form already, have it out and we will draw the plan to it on the day.
Reviews
Our reviews are left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across central Orange County and the towns south of it, Laguna Woods among them, about the patios, walks and ramps this page describes.
“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.”
What residents of Laguna Woods ask before booking, on what moves the cost inside the gates, who approves the work, step free patios, the gate, how long a patio is out, and the two Mutuals.
How far the concrete is carried. A mixer stops at the carport court or the street, and most manors in the Village are a barrow run of 50 to 150 feet from there, so the crew hours on the same slab change with the distance. After that it is area, the drain, and whether a step is removed. Every estimate is measured and written on site, with the barrow run as its own line.
Two bodies, in order. The Mutual your manor belongs to consents first, through the Manor Alterations office at Village Management Services, and the City of Laguna Woods issues the building permit second, at City Hall on El Toro Road, once it has seen that consent. We draw the plan, submit it to both and meet the inspector. On the few streets outside the gates the city is the only counter.
Yes, and it is the job we are asked for most in Laguna Woods. The new slab is poured to meet the door threshold with no step, with a fall away from the manor so rain does not follow it in. Where the ground drops to the walk, a ramp is laid at 1 in 12 with a level landing at the door, and the finish is a fine broom that a walker's feet and a scooter's wheels hold on wet. The Mutual's standards allow it.
On a pass the Village issues for the day, which the resident requests and we bring. The mixer comes in on the same pass and stops at the carport court or the street, and the crew barrows from there. We work inside the hours the Village sets for contractors, book the pour for the morning within them, and keep the path from your door to the carport open the whole time the slab is curing.
Two days on site and 24 hours after, and you are never cut off from your door. The old slab is sawn and carried out and the base compacted on the first day, the pour is the second morning, and the new slab takes foot traffic after 24 hours and furniture after 7 days. Because a Village patio is often the way in and out, a walk board is laid across it until the concrete takes weight.
Yes, in the ground and the paperwork. United manors are the 1960s co-ops on the lower ground toward El Toro Road, single story with a patio at grade and a carport court a mixer can reach, so the job is a barrow run and a slab. Third condominiums are the 1970s and 80s units on the hill toward Moulton Parkway, terraced with steps between levels, so a patio there is planned with a wall or a ramp.
Laguna Woods sits against Lake Forest across El Toro Road and the 5, and Lake Forest has its own page here. Laguna Hills, Aliso Viejo and Irvine border the city too but are not towns this site covers, and a manor inside the Village is a Laguna Woods job.
Open the Orange Office in Google Maps Send the form and we call back within 1 business day. The figure is written at your manor, and the work carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.