Goldenwest Huntington Beach Concrete pours driveways, walks and patios in Artesia, where lots are too small for a mixer to enter, so the truck waits in the street and the concrete is pumped in.
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Most Artesia lots have no way for a truck to reach the back. The houses stand close to their side lines, and the newer two-story houses closer still, so the mixer stays in the street for every job.
That one fact sets the method. Concrete pumped 80 feet through a line or wheeled in by barrow arrives slower than it does off a chute, and it has to be placed, screeded and jointed before the first of it sets, so an Artesia pour is sized to what the crew can finish in the window and the truck is timed to the crew rather than the crew to the truck. A patio that is one pour on a lot with side access is sometimes two here, with a construction joint drawn where the second day starts.
The street being the yard means the street is part of the permit. A mixer and a pump standing on an Artesia street for a morning take a Public Works sign-off as well as any building permit, and the neighbors get a note the day before, since the truck is at their door too. What the ground asks is less. Artesia is flat silt on the old artesian plain, slow to drain and firm once the garden soil is off, so compacted rock under 4 inches of concrete carries a slab for decades.
Artesia is a square and a half of streets with houses close together on lots the dairy families split, so every job here is planned around the way in before the way it is finished. These are the eight we are asked for, in order.
An Artesia drive is short, from the curb to a garage set close behind the house, and the truck chutes it straight from the street, the one job here needing no pump. We break out the old slab, compact rock under it and pour 5 inches over steel, the approach drawn for Public Works.
Patios in Artesia are pumped over the house or down the passage from a truck in the street, since the yard has no gate a mixer fits. We pour 4 inches on compacted rock falling away from the house, size the pour to what can be finished before it sets, and joint it every 10 feet.
Stamped concrete in Artesia goes on the patio and the entry, in a pattern the lot's own size suits, since a large ashlar on a small slab reads as a few tiles. The stamp goes into a 4 inch slab colored through the mix, sealed at 28 days and resealed every 2 to 3 years.
An Artesia walk is short and shared with the neighbor's fence line, and the city owns the panel at the curb. That panel is replaced under an encroachment permit from Public Works and the walk to the door without one, doweled at each joint so nothing steps where the two meet.
Garage floors in Artesia are the cottage builder's, 3 inches thick and cracked, and the garage is often the room a rebuild turns into living space. We break the floor out, carry it to the street, compact a base, and pour 4 inches over a barrier, troweled flat for tile.
Exposed aggregate is the decorative finish we pour most in Artesia, on entries and side passages where a small slab in shade needs grip when it is damp. The stone is seeded into the surface, the paste washed off once it has set in the shade, and the finish sealed at 28 days.
A retaining wall in Artesia holds a raised bed or the half step between one split lot and the next, since the ground is flat. We footing it below the garden soil, drain the heel with gravel and a pipe, and pour the stem from the pump line, as block is slower to wheel in.
Interior floors in Artesia go into the rooms a rebuild adds and the garages a cottage turns into a unit. The slab is pumped in from the street over a vapor barrier on compacted rock, troweled to the flatness tile needs and doweled to the old foundation so the two settle as one.
From Edinger Avenue the crew takes the 405 north to the 605, the 605 to the 91 and the 91 east to Pioneer Boulevard, 16 miles and about 35 minutes with a mixer, and the whole city is within a few blocks of that exit. Artesia has run its own affairs since 1959 and issues its own permits. Plans go to the City of Artesia Building and Safety at City Hall on Clarkdale Avenue, and the truck at the curb, the approach and the public walk are Public Works matters, filed together.
Pioneer Boulevard is the spine, with the shops and restaurants of Little India along it and the houses in the blocks either side, 1940s and 1950s cottages on narrow lots, apartment courts where two cottages came down together, and two-story houses where one did. Behind the shops the concrete is commercial, parking slabs and loading aprons that the trucks reach from the alley, and we pour those on the same terms, drawn for the load they take and jointed to it.
Cerritos wraps Artesia on three sides and the 91 runs along the south, so a street can change city at the next corner and the counter changes with it. We look the parcel up before anything is drawn, because Artesia and Cerritos ask for different things at the front of a house. The two-story rebuilds shade the yards, and a slab poured in shade stays damp longer and cures slower, so joints are cut later in the day here than in the sun and the crew waits for it.
One crew from the measure to the walk-through, and the estimate written at the house before a date is set. In Artesia the day is planned around the truck at the curb, so the sequence below runs to the minute.
Scott Ferreira measures the slab, paces the route from the curb to the work, chooses pump or barrow, and writes the estimate before he leaves.
Any building permit goes to Artesia Building and Safety, and the truck at the curb and any approach to Public Works. The neighbors get a note.
The old slab is broken and carried out the way the new one will come in, the garden soil comes off the silt and a rock base is compacted.
The truck arrives to the crew's time, the concrete is pumped or wheeled in, placed and finished, and the joints are cut once it has set.
Call or send the form and we answer within 1 business day. The visit is free, the estimate is written on the porch, and how the concrete gets in from the street is its own line on it, so nothing about the day is a surprise.
Reviews
Reviews by the owners of concrete we have poured, from the coast to the towns along the 91, left on Google, Facebook and the BBB. Artesia is one of those towns, and each names its job and year.
“Our pool deck was the original 1972 surface, lifting at the coping. They cut it out, compacted the sand, poured 640 square feet at 4 inches with an isolation joint at the pool, and sealed it at 28 days. Scott Ferreira measured it on a Thursday and we had the written estimate before he left.”
“The old driveway had sunk where the sand washed out under it and the cars scraped at the apron. They pulled the encroachment permit themselves, compacted the base in three lifts, poured 5 inches for my husband's truck and cut the joints that afternoon. Two winters on, not a crack.”
“We wanted a patio that looked like slate without the joints weeds get into. Scott Ferreira laid the pattern out with us on the visit, the crew poured 380 square feet, stamped it in ashlar and sealed it at 28 days. A full year of salt air later it still looks like the day it was finished.”
The questions we are asked on an Artesia visit, answered as we answer them on the porch. Getting the concrete in, the permit and whose it is, the drive from the coast, the ground, and how long the work takes.
The distance from the curb to the work. On an Artesia lot the concrete is pumped or barrowed in from the street, and a patio 90 feet from the truck takes more crew hours than the same patio 20 feet from it, so the way in is the first line on the estimate. After that it is area, what has to come out, thickness and finish. Every estimate is measured and written on site, since two lots on one street can differ.
The parcel decides, and the line is not always where the street name suggests, so we look the address up on the county map first. Inside Artesia, flatwork in your own yard needs no permit under the California Residential Code, the approach, the public walk and a truck at the curb go through Public Works, and a wall over 4 feet or a footing is a building permit from Building and Safety on Clarkdale Avenue.
About 35 minutes, 16 miles by the 405, the 605 and the 91 to the Pioneer Boulevard exit. Artesia is in Los Angeles County, and the license and the insurance the crew works under in Orange County cover it there too, so an Artesia visit is booked on the same day as the other stops north of the 91. Your first call or form is answered within 1 business day.
Yes, and most of the patios we pour here are reached that way. A line pump at the street reaches over the house or down a passage under 3 feet wide, and where a pump cannot be set the crew wheels the concrete in. Either way the pour is sized to what can be placed and finished before it sets, and where that means two pours the construction joint is drawn on the estimate and lands on a line of the pattern.
Two to four working days for a drive or a patio, with the truck at the curb for one morning of it. Tear-out and the base take the first day or two, the pour is the morning the pump is booked, and the joints are cut that afternoon. Walk on it after 24 to 48 hours, park on it after 7 days, and keep anything heavier off until 28. The shaded yards cure slower, so we do not rush the cut.
Yes. Cerritos surrounds Artesia on three sides and is on our list, as are Lakewood, Bellflower and Hawaiian Gardens to the west and south, and La Palma, Buena Park and Cypress over Coyote Creek in Orange County. Each has its own permit counter and its own page here. If your street sits on the Artesia line, the parcel decides which city the permit is from, and we look that up before we draw.
Artesia is wrapped by Cerritos, with Lakewood, Bellflower and Hawaiian Gardens a few minutes beyond, and one crew from Huntington Beach covers all of them. As the Artesia line runs through some blocks, the Cerritos page may be the one your parcel needs.
Open the Huntington Beach Office in Google Maps Call or send the form and we answer within 1 business day to set a date. The estimate is free, written at your house, and the finished work carries a written workmanship guarantee.