Plaza Orange Concrete pours the long drives, road aprons and patios of Villa Park from the city that wraps it on every side. The figure is written on the lot, and a crew is 15 minutes away.
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Villa Park was built without sidewalks on purpose, and many streets have no raised curb. That leaves the drive apron as the one slab between house and asphalt, and it takes whatever the road sends it.
A flat apron on a street with no gutter becomes the gutter. Rain that a curb would carry away in Orange runs across the front of a Villa Park lot instead, and the 1960s aprons were poured 3 inches thick with no steel in them. Decades of water at one low corner is why so many have dropped at the road edge and cracked where the car turns in. A patch does not fix it. The apron is rebuilt with a fall back to the road, a thickened edge under the tires, and a joint set back from the asphalt.
Behind the apron the ground is easy. Villa Park sits on the wash of Santiago Creek, sand and rounded gravel that drains as fast as it is wetted, and the half acre lot leaves room for a mixer to back up to the pour. So the specification is the ordinary one done in full. The topsoil is dug to clean sand, 4 inches of angular base is compacted, steel runs on an 18 inch grid, the joints are cut the same afternoon, and the slab is pitched toward the road rather than toward the house.
Villa Park has no sidewalks and half acre lots, so nothing here is poured at tract scale. The drive is long, the apron is wide because it meets the road with no curb between, and the yard has room for a patio, a pool deck and a wall at once.
A Villa Park driveway is a set of panels, the apron at the road, the run to the house and the turnaround, poured on more than one day. Each is 4 inches on compacted base with steel through it, jointed to the turning circle, and the apron falls back toward the road.
Half an acre leaves room for a patio the size of a tract lot's whole yard, so we pour it in bays jointed every 10 feet and pitch the whole slab a quarter inch to the foot away from the house. A mixer backs to the pour here, which no tract side yard allows.
Stamped work in Villa Park usually runs the length of an entry walk or a pool surround rather than a patio, because the lot has the room to make a path of it. We stamp a 4 inch slab, run a plain band along its edges, and seal it in 2 coats against the sun.
Villa Park has no public sidewalks, so a walk here is your own, from the drive to the front door across a deep setback. We pour it in square panels with the joints scored, set a root barrier where it passes a tree, and pitch it off toward the drive.
Villa Park garages are large, and many were poured in the 1960s and carry a crack where the ground settled under one corner. We grind the floor flat, test it for moisture, rout and fill the crack and only then seal it, so a coating does not lift where the water rises.
Exposed aggregate reads well on the long Villa Park drives, where a broom finish would look like a runway. We pour with the stone in the mix, wash the paste off at the right hour to show it, and seal it, so the drive reads as a path to a house and not a road.
Villa Park lots on the south side of town, toward Santiago Creek, step down, and a wall there holds a level lawn above a sloped one. It is footed into firm sand below the topsoil, drained behind the stem to daylight, and drawn for the City of Villa Park when it passes 4 feet.
An interior floor in Villa Park is most often a pool house or a converted outbuilding, since the lots have the room for one. We pour it over a vapor barrier on compacted base, trowel it flat to a tile tolerance, and cut the joints on a grid that follows the walls.
Villa Park is surrounded by Orange on every side, so it is the one town we cover without leaving our own. A crew goes out Katella Avenue, which becomes Villa Park Road at the line, or up Santiago Boulevard, and is on the lot inside 15 minutes. The city incorporated in 1962 to keep its lots at half an acre and its streets without sidewalks, and it has kept both. Permits come from the City of Villa Park at City Hall on Santiago Boulevard, and a drive or a patio at grade needs none.
The houses date from the 1960s and 1970s, single story ranches set well back from the road on lots of half an acre or more, and that setback is the job. A Villa Park driveway runs several times the length of a tract drive, often into a turnaround, so it is poured in panels on more than one day and the joints are laid out to the turning circle rather than to a tape. A mixer parks on the lot and chutes straight to the forms, which is a day saved against any tract job.
Because the lot is large, the work comes in sets. A Villa Park estimate often covers the apron, the drive, a walk to the door and a pool deck at the back, written as separate figures on one page so the owner can take them in any order. The one commercial pour in town is the Villa Park Towne Center on Santiago Boulevard, and everything else is a house. The trees along the drives are old, and a drive that has heaved in the middle rather than dropped at the edge is a root first.
Four stages, one crew and one written figure. A Villa Park lot is measured in person because the apron, the drive and the turnaround are three different pours that share one number.
Curtis Ballard measures the apron, the drive and the yard, checks the fall toward the road, and finds the roots and the low corner first.
A drive or patio at grade needs no permit in Villa Park. A wall over 4 feet or a footing goes to the City of Villa Park, and we take it there.
The old apron and drive come out in a day and are hauled, the ground under is dug to clean sand, and 4 inches of base is compacted on it.
The apron and the drive are poured on separate days with the joints cut the same afternoon. Walk on it at 24 hours, drive on it at 7 days.
Call or send the form and we will reply within 1 business day. A Villa Park estimate is walked, because an apron and a drive on half an acre cannot be priced from the road. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
Reviews
Reviews left on Google and Facebook by homeowners across the towns we cover. Villa Park is the nearest of them, and the drives and aprons described above are the jobs they describe.
“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 that come up on Villa Park lots before a date is held, on the apron at the road, the permit counter, the trees along the drive and what the towns on the far side of Orange have to do with it.
Because there is more of it. A Villa Park drive is measured in panels rather than in one pour, and a turnaround adds area a tract lot never has. The apron is wider too, since it meets a road with no curb. Set against that, a mixer parks on the lot and nothing is barrowed, which gives back a day. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so the figure is this lot's and not a typical one.
Not for either at grade on your own land. The City of Villa Park issues a permit for a retaining wall over 4 feet and for a footing that carries a patio cover, and we file those and meet the inspector. The apron still meets a public road, so we check with the city before the road edge is cut. There is no public sidewalk to encroach on, which is one counter fewer than a job in Orange needs.
Inside 15 minutes, because Orange wraps Villa Park on all four sides and our crews pass its streets on the way to other jobs. It is the shortest run we make. We call back within 1 business day to fix the visit, and a Villa Park job is usually placed in the week it is agreed rather than the week after, since no travel has to be planned around it.
Because the road drains across it. With no curb or gutter, the street sends its water over the apron and it finds the low corner every winter, washing the sand out from under a slab poured 3 inches thick in the 1960s. We rebuild the apron with a fall back to the road, a thickened edge under the tires and steel through the slab, on base that has been compacted rather than on the sand it sat on before.
Two weeks at the outside, and the car is on the road for most of that. Tear-out takes a day, the base a second, and the apron and the drive are poured on separate days so one is always walkable. Each pour takes foot traffic after 24 hours and a car after 7 days. On a lot with a turnaround we sequence the panels so a car can always reach the road.
Yes. Orange is our own city and wraps the town, and past it we cover Yorba Linda and Placentia to the north and Tustin to the south from the same yard. A Villa Park job is often booked beside one in Orange Park Acres, which shares its lot sizes and its lack of sidewalks, so a crew is on that side of the city most weeks of the year.
Orange lies on every side of Villa Park, and beyond it the same crew covers Yorba Linda and Placentia over the hill to the north and Tustin down the 55 to the south. The town pages sit beside this one, each written for its own ground and its own counter.
Open the Orange Office in Google Maps Send the form and we will call back within 1 business day to walk the lot. The estimate is free and written there, and every pour carries a written guarantee.