Goldenwest Huntington Beach Concrete pours the drives, courts and patios that two, four or eight households share on a Bellflower lot, built to carry every car on it, jointed so no share sinks.
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A Bellflower slab serves more people than the one who calls us. The long dairy-era lots were built to the back, so the drive is a road for a front house, a rear house and the units between.
A drive that carries six cars a day to the back of a 150 foot lot is a street, and it fails like one, rutting where the wheels run and breaking at the edges where a car swings wide, because the 1950s builder poured it 3 inches thick for a single Ford. We pour a shared drive at 5 inches over steel on compacted rock, wide enough for the turn at the back, and joint it at 10 feet so the panels move singly rather than crack across. A parking court at the end gets the same slab.
The ground under it is Bellflower's share of the same flat silt that runs from the San Gabriel River to Coyote Creek, firm below the garden soil and slow to drain, so the base is standard and the grading is not. On a lot with three households a drive that pools water at one door is a complaint before it is a crack, so the fall is set on the visit and drawn on the estimate. Ten miles from the beach there is no salt to seal against, so the sealer on a Bellflower court is for oil.
Bellflower is the most closely built town we cover, with a second house or a court of units behind the front one on most of its long lots. So the concrete here is shared, and it is poured for everyone who drives on it. These are the eight jobs.
A Bellflower drive is a road serving a front house and the units behind it, 150 feet long and poured 3 inches thick in the 1950s for one car. We replace it half at a time so a lane stays open, at 5 inches over steel on compacted rock, with the approach drawn for the city first.
Patios in Bellflower are small, since the rear unit took the yard, and often serve a rear house whose only outdoor space they are. We pour 4 inches falling to the side drain rather than the neighbor's door, dowel it to the unit's slab at the threshold and joint it to size.
Stamped concrete in Bellflower goes on the front entry and the patio of an owner-occupied front house, where it is seen from the street. We press ashlar or a brick pattern into a 4 inch slab, run the color through the mix so it cannot wear off under feet, and seal at 28 days.
A walk in Bellflower runs down the side of the lot from the street to the rear unit, and the curb panel belongs to the city. That panel is replaced on an encroachment permit and the side walk without one, both doweled at the joints, so a tenant's path never steps.
Garage floors in Bellflower are often the floor of a garage that has become a unit, and the 1950s slab under it sweats and cracks. We break it out, compact rock under it, spread a 10 mil barrier, and pour 4 inches troweled flat enough for the flooring a tenant will live on.
Exposed aggregate is the decorative surface we recommend for a Bellflower parking court, because it hides oil drips from a row of parked cars and grips when wet. The stone is seeded into a 4 inch slab, the paste hosed off that afternoon and the court sealed at 28 days.
Retaining walls in Bellflower hold the step between one lot and the next where a rear unit was built higher than the neighbor's yard, since the ground itself is flat. The footing goes 18 inches into firm silt, gravel and a pipe drain the heel, and the cap is set level.
Interior floors in Bellflower are poured for the rear unit, the converted garage and the room added over the old patio. A 10 mil barrier goes down first on compacted rock, the slab is troweled to the flatness tile needs, and the joints are laid out under the unit's walls.
The route is the 405 north to the 605, the 605 north to the 91 and the 91 west to Bellflower Boulevard, 18 miles and about 40 minutes with a mixer behind, and Bellflower Boulevard then runs through the middle of the city. Bellflower is in Los Angeles County and has issued its own permits since it incorporated in 1957. Plans go to the City of Bellflower Building and Safety at City Hall on Civic Center Drive, and an approach or a section of public walk goes through Public Works.
The 91 cuts Bellflower into a north and a south, with Alondra Boulevard, Artesia Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue crossing it, and Bellflower Boulevard and Lakewood Boulevard running through. The lots off those roads are the long narrow ones the dairy families sold in strips, and on most of them a second building has gone up behind the first since. The east edge is the San Gabriel River channel and the 605, and the south line is shared with Lakewood along the tract streets.
Who owns a shared drive is the first question on a Bellflower visit, before what it is made of. On a lot with a rear house the drive is usually on one title with an easement for the other, on a court of units it is the association's or the landlord's, and the approach at the curb is the city's. We ask for the title, draw the work to the line it sits on, and put every party's share on the estimate, so a drive that serves four doors is paid for and guaranteed as one slab.
One crew from the measure to the walk-through, with the estimate written at the lot before a date is set. On a shared drive the schedule is agreed with every household that parks on it, since all of them lose the drive for a week.
Scott Ferreira measures from the curb to the last parking space, counts the cars, sets the fall and writes the estimate with each party's share.
The approach goes to Public Works and any footing or wall to Building and Safety, both at City Hall. The households agree the week.
Where the drive must stay open for the rear house, it is broken out and based one half at a time, so a lane is always passable.
Each half is poured in a morning and cut that afternoon, the second half after the first can take a car, and the whole drive reopens at 7 days.
Call or send the form and we reply within 1 business day. The visit is free, the estimate is written at the lot with every household's share as its own line, and a shared drive is scheduled around the people who park on it.
Reviews
Reviews on Google, Facebook and the BBB from the owners of drives and patios we poured, coast to county line. Bellflower is among the towns they write from, and each review 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.”
What owners and landlords in Bellflower ask before they book, answered as we answer them on the drive. Who pays for a shared slab, the permit, the trip from the coast, the ground and how long a drive is closed.
Whoever holds the title, and the easement usually says how the cost is split. Where a front house and a rear house share a drive, the deed for one carries the right of way over the other, and most say the two keep it together. We measure the whole drive, write the estimate as one job with each party's share as its own line, and pour it as one slab, since a drive done in two halves at two times steps at the join.
Not for flatwork inside the lot line, which the California Residential Code exempts. The approach at the curb and the public walk are the city's right-of-way and take an encroachment permit from Bellflower Public Works, and an approach wide enough for a shared drive is drawn for the city first. A wall over 4 feet or a footing under a unit is a building permit from Building and Safety on Civic Center Drive.
About 18 miles and 40 minutes, the 405 to the 605 and the 605 to the 91, then west to Bellflower Boulevard. It is the farthest north we go on the Los Angeles County side, so Bellflower jobs are booked as full days rather than fitted between others, and a shared drive is done in one visit with the crew there until it is cut. License and insurance carry across the county line. We answer within 1 business day.
Flat silt, the same plain that runs from the San Gabriel River east to Coyote Creek, with a foot of garden soil over it from a century of yards and dairy corrals. The silt is firm once the topsoil is off and takes a compacted rock base well, but it holds water for weeks after rain, so every slab is set with a fall to a drain or the street. There is no dune sand and no salt air this far inland.
A week for cars, and we keep a lane open through most of it. The drive is broken out and based one half at a time so a car can still reach the rear house, each half is poured in a morning and cut that afternoon, and the second half goes in once the first can take a car. Foot traffic is fine after 24 to 48 hours. Everyone who parks on the drive gets the dates in writing before we start.
Lakewood along the south line and Cerritos across the 605 are both on our list, and beyond them Artesia, Hawaiian Gardens and the Orange County towns the crew passes on the way up. Downey, Paramount and Norwalk are not towns we cover from Huntington Beach, so a lot on the north or west edge of Bellflower is one to check by address. Every town we do cover has its own page and its own permit counter named on it.
Bellflower shares its south line with Lakewood and its east with Cerritos across the 605, and one crew from Huntington Beach covers both, with Artesia and Hawaiian Gardens a few minutes on. If your lot is on a line, the permit counter changes with it.
Open the Huntington Beach Office in Google Maps Send the form or call and we answer within 1 business day to set a visit. The estimate is free, written at the lot, and a shared drive gets a written workmanship guarantee as one slab.