Goldenwest Huntington Beach Concrete pours driveways, walks and patios in Cerritos, a city that reviews how the front of a house looks, so each job starts with a drawing, 15 miles up the 605.
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Cerritos holds the front of a house to the look its tract was built with. A wider drive, a new walk or a paved strip by the garage goes to the city as a drawing first, and the drawing sets the job.
That review changes the order of a job. Elsewhere we measure, break out and pour. Here we measure, draw the new drive to the width the city will accept at the curb and the frontage, submit it, and cut only when it comes back. The drive is what is usually asked for, widened for the third car a grown family brought, and the city's limit on how much of a front yard can be paved sets the width before the owner's wish does. We say what that means for the lot on the visit.
The back of the lot is the owner's, and that is where Cerritos concrete is finished rather than matched. The 1970s tract patio is a 10 foot slab at the door on the same silt that runs from Coyote Creek to the San Gabriel River, slow to drain, so the new patio goes on compacted rock with a fall away from the house. The salt we build against at the beach does not reach 10 miles inland, so the sealer here is for oil and water. One license and one insurance carry over the county line.
Cerritos owners stay, and the house they stay in has gained a room, a story or a car since the 1970s, so the concrete around it is redone to suit. What the city allows at the front and what the owner wants at the back are different jobs.
A Cerritos drive is widened more often than replaced, for the third car a grown family brought, and the city fixes how wide. We draw it to that width, saw the old edge clean, dowel into it every 18 inches and pour the added strip at 5 inches on compacted rock so both stay level.
A Cerritos patio is the owner's to size, since the city's review stops at the front, and it replaces the 10 foot tract slab at the back door. We take the old slab out, pour 4 inches on a rock base falling away from the house, and meet the house's footing with an isolation joint.
Stamped concrete in Cerritos goes on the patio and the pool surround more than the drive, since the city keeps the front of a house to its tract. An ashlar or a slate pattern is pressed into a 4 inch slab, the color run through the mix, and it is sealed at 28 days.
Walks in Cerritos are the tract builder's, and the front walk is part of the look the city protects, so a new one is drawn to the same line. We replace the public panel at the curb under an encroachment permit and the private walk to the door without one, doweled at the joints.
Garage floors in Cerritos are repoured when the garage becomes a room, since the 1970s slab was cast without a vapor barrier and sweats through a finish. We break it out, compact a base, lay a 10 mil barrier and pour 4 inches troweled flat for tile, jointed where the walls fall.
Exposed aggregate and a sand finish are the decorative surfaces Cerritos owners pick for a pool deck or a side yard, because they grip when wet and hide the marks of use. The stone goes into the top of a 4 inch slab, the paste is washed off before it sets, then sealed at 28 days.
A retaining wall in Cerritos holds a raised bed or the step between a new patio and the old lawn, since the ground itself is flat. We footing the stem 18 inches into firm silt, drain the heel with rock and a pipe so the silt behind it never holds water, and cap the wall level.
Interior floors in Cerritos are poured for the room added behind the house or over the old garage footprint. The slab sits on a vapor barrier over compacted rock, is troweled to the flatness a tile setter asks for, and is doweled to the old foundation so both settle as one.
The way in is the 405 north to the 605 and the 605 north to South Street, 15 miles and about half an hour with a mixer behind, and the whole city sits within a few minutes of that ramp. Cerritos is in Los Angeles County, and permits go to the City of Cerritos Building Division at City Hall on Bloomfield Avenue. A change to the front of a house, the drive included, goes there as a drawing before it is cut, and the width at the curb is an encroachment permit through Public Works.
The tracts run in straight streets between Bloomfield Avenue, Carmenita Road and Studebaker Road, on the old dairy grid, with Los Cerritos Center and the Auto Square on the 605 side and the Civic Center in the middle. The lots are rectangular with a side yard wide enough for a truck, so a Cerritos job is rarely barrowed. The east edge is Coyote Creek and the Orange County line, the west is the San Gabriel River and the 605, and a yard drains to one or the other.
A drawing for the city has to show where the water goes, and that is a question a Cerritos lot deserves anyway. A room added at the back takes the roof out over what used to be lawn, so a downspout lands on the old patio, and a second story doubles the water off the same footprint. We set every new slab with a quarter inch of fall per foot away from the house and give the water a path to the street, and where an old patio sits below the new threshold we repour it to drain.
One crew from the measure to the walk-through, with the estimate written at the house before anything is agreed. In Cerritos the drawing for the city comes between the two, and its review time is built into the date.
Scott Ferreira measures the slab, notes what the city will accept at the front, probes the silt at the back and writes the estimate on the spot.
The drawing goes to the Cerritos Building Division and any curb work to Public Works. Nothing is cut until it comes back approved.
The old slab comes out to the approved line, the silt is dug to firm ground and a rock base is plate compacted before a form is set.
Poured in a morning to the width and line the city approved, doweled to the old concrete and jointed the same day. Cars go on at 7 days.
Call or send the form and you hear back within 1 business day. The visit costs nothing, the estimate is written at the house, and we tell you on the visit what the city will accept at the front so the drawing goes in once.
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Reviews written on Google, Facebook and the BBB by owners across the two counties we work in, Cerritos among them. Each one names the job that was done and the year it was finished.
“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 Cerritos owners ask on the first call, answered as we answer them at the kitchen table. Cost, the city's review of the front of a house, the drive from the coast, the ground, timing, the towns beside it.
What the city will approve, then the area. A Cerritos drive is widened to the width the city accepts at the frontage, not to the width a third car would like, and that fixes the size of the job before we measure it. After that it is tear-out, thickness and finish, and side yards here are wide enough that access rarely moves the number. Every estimate is measured and written on site, to the city's drawing.
Yes, and it is drawn before it is cut. The City of Cerritos holds the front of a house to the look of its tract, so a wider drive or a new front walk goes to the Building Division at City Hall on Bloomfield Avenue as a drawing first, and the new width at the curb is an encroachment permit through Public Works. A patio at the back inside your lot line needs neither, under the California Residential Code.
About 15 miles, the 405 north to the 605 and the 605 north to South Street, which is half an hour with the mixer. The crew crosses into Los Angeles County at Coyote Creek with the license and insurance it carries in Orange County, and a Cerritos visit is grouped with the day's other jobs north of the office. The first call or form is answered within 1 business day.
Less than most owners hope, and the city says how much for each lot. Cerritos limits the paved share of a front yard and the width of a drive at the frontage so the tract keeps its look, which is why a third parking space is usually found by widening toward the garage rather than across the lawn. We measure the frontage on the visit, say what the city will accept, and draw the drive to that first.
A widened drive or a patio is two to four working days on site once the drawing is approved, then a week before a car goes on it and 28 days before anything heavier. The city's review is the part that varies, so the start date is set when the drawing comes back rather than when the estimate is signed. The pour is one morning and the joints are cut that afternoon, and you can walk on it after 24 to 48 hours.
Artesia, Lakewood, Bellflower, Hawaiian Gardens, La Palma, Buena Park and Cypress all border Cerritos and all are on our list, on both sides of the county line. Artesia sits inside Cerritos on three sides, so a street can change city at the next corner, and the permit counter changes with it. Each town has its own page here, and we check the address on the county map before a drawing is made.
Cerritos touches Artesia, Lakewood, Bellflower and Hawaiian Gardens in Los Angeles County and La Palma, Buena Park and Cypress across Coyote Creek in Orange County, and one crew covers all of them. If your street is on a line, read the next town's page.
Open the Huntington Beach Office in Google Maps Send the form or call and we reply within 1 business day to book a visit. The estimate is free, written at your house, and every slab we pour carries a written workmanship guarantee.