Goldenwest Huntington Beach Concrete pours driveways, patios and slabs in Hawaiian Gardens, up the 405 and the 605 from Huntington Beach. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
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On a Hawaiian Gardens lot the concrete is the ground. The drive runs the depth of the lot and the patio fills the yard, so a storm that would soak into a lawn elsewhere lands on a slab here.
That water has to be sent somewhere on purpose. A slab poured level holds a sheet of water against the house and the fence after every rain, and where it stands it works down the edge into the base and softens it, which is how a patio ends up tilted toward the back door 20 years on. The 1950s tract pours here were laid flat on the dirt with no base and no fall, and the ones that have survived happened to slope the right way. The rest hold puddles, and the puddles are why they cracked.
So we grade before we pour. On the visit we shoot levels across the lot and decide where the water goes, to the street down the drive or to a channel drain along the low edge of the patio, and the slab is formed to a fall of a quarter inch in every foot toward it. Under it the ground is compacted in lifts and 4 inches of crushed rock is laid, so water that gets under can drain. The salt we build against at the beach does not reach this far inland, so the sealer here is for stains.
A Hawaiian Gardens lot is small and most of it is paved. The drive, the patio and the walk touch each other and the fences, so every job here is planned as one surface, with a fall built into it and a place for the water to go.
The drive on a Hawaiian Gardens lot runs down the side of the house and doubles as the parking, so it is the slab that wears out first. We pour it 5 inches for the pickup, 4 for cars, on a compacted base, and slope it to the street so the rain leaves by the apron.
A patio in Hawaiian Gardens is the whole back yard, poured to the fence on 3 sides and the house on the fourth. Rain has nowhere to soak, so we grade it to a channel drain along the low edge and pipe that to the street, then pour 4 inches on base with joints on a grid.
Stamped concrete is asked for in Hawaiian Gardens on a patio that is also the outdoor room, because a pattern breaks up a slab that fills the yard. We cast it in a 4 inch slab, color it integrally, and seal it in 2 coats at 28 days, with the drain set flush in the pattern.
The walk in Hawaiian Gardens is 3 feet between the drive and the front door, and the city walk beyond the fence is the city's. We pour the private walk on base and dowel it into the drive, and we pull the encroachment permit before touching the public panel at the curb.
A garage in Hawaiian Gardens is often the workshop or the second living room, so the floor gets more use than a car gives it. We break out a cracked slab, lay a vapor barrier over a compacted base, and pour 4 inches troweled flat enough for a coating or a floor over it.
Exposed aggregate goes on a Hawaiian Gardens front, where the drive and the walk are the whole view from the street, because it grips wet and hides a stain. We seed the stone into a 4 inch slab, wash the paste off before it hardens, and seal the surface so the stone stays bright.
Hawaiian Gardens is flat, so a retaining wall here is a raised bed, a planter along the drive or a low wall at the lot line. We footing it 18 inches into compacted ground, run steel up through the block into a filled core, and drain behind it so it does not push out in winter.
A room built over the patio or a unit in the back yard in Hawaiian Gardens needs a floor slab someone will live on. We pour it over a 10 mil vapor barrier on gravel, thicken the edge where the walls land, and trowel it flat for tile, once the city's inspector has seen the trench.
Our office is on Edinger Avenue in Huntington Beach, and the route is the 405 north to the 605 and off at Carson Street, about 15 miles and half an hour with the mixer following. Hawaiian Gardens is in Los Angeles County, but it is a city and issues its own permits, so plans go to the City of Hawaiian Gardens at City Hall on Pioneer Boulevard, and work in the apron or the public walk takes an encroachment permit from the same counter. Our insurance follows the crew over the line.
The city is a single square mile between the 605 and Coyote Creek, with Carson Street running through the middle and Norwalk Boulevard crossing it, and almost all of it is 1950s and 1960s tract housing on lots narrow enough that the garage sits at the back. That means the drive is also the only way in for a barrow, so every job is sequenced around it. The old drive comes out last and the new one goes in first, and the patio behind it is poured through the side gate on the same morning.
The creek is the east edge of the city and the county line, and the ground beside it is fine, level alluvium that holds water rather than shedding it, which is why the base under every slab here is gravel that drains. Most of the houses are rented, so the person who calls is often not the person who lives there. We measure with whoever is home, write the estimate for the owner the same day, and schedule the pour around the tenant's cars, since there is nowhere else for them.
One crew, one morning of concrete, and the lot back in use inside 10 days. On a Hawaiian Gardens lot the order of the work is set by the drive, since it is the only way in and the only way out.
Scott Ferreira measures the lot, shoots levels to find the low edge, decides where the water will leave, and writes the estimate there.
We file with the City of Hawaiian Gardens for anything in the apron or the walk, or under a room, and book the inspector before the pour.
The patio is broken out and barrowed down the drive first, the drive comes out last, and the ground under both is compacted with base on top.
Drive and patio poured in one morning at a quarter inch per foot to the drain, joints sawn that afternoon, cars back on after 7 days.
Call the office or send the form and we reply within 1 business day. The visit is free, the estimate is written at the lot with demolition, base, drain, concrete and finish as separate lines, and nothing is decided until you have read it.
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Reviews left on Google, Facebook and the BBB by people whose concrete we poured across the towns we cover, Hawaiian Gardens among them. Each one names the job and the year it was done.
“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 we are asked in Hawaiian Gardens, on cost, permits from the city rather than the county, the drive to get here, where the rain goes on a paved lot, and how long a drive is out of use.
Access, then the drain. On a Hawaiian Gardens lot the old patio leaves and the new concrete arrives by barrow down the side drive, so the crew hours are in the carrying rather than the pouring. A channel drain and its pipe to the street is a line of its own. Area and thickness move it after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site, so every line is on paper before you decide.
The City of Hawaiian Gardens, not Los Angeles County, because the city is incorporated and runs its own counter at City Hall on Pioneer Boulevard. Flatwork inside your lot line needs no permit under the California Residential Code. The apron and the public walk need an encroachment permit, and a slab under a room or a wall over 4 feet needs a building permit. We file whichever applies.
About 15 miles, up the 405 to the 605 and off at Carson Street, which is half an hour with the mixer behind us at the hour we travel. We reply within 1 business day and book the visit inside the week, and we group Hawaiian Gardens with our jobs in Cerritos, Lakewood and Los Alamitos so the crew is on that side of the county line more days than not.
Where the slab sends it. We grade the drive to the street and the patio to a channel drain along its low edge, piped under the side yard to the curb, at a fall of a quarter inch per foot. A slab left level holds water against the house and the fence, and that water works into the base and softens it, which is how the old tract patios in Hawaiian Gardens tilted.
It is level and it holds water, which is the pair to plan for. The city sits on the flat beside Coyote Creek on fine alluvium that drains slowly, so a slab poured straight onto it sits on a base that stays damp all winter. We compact the ground in lifts, lay 4 inches of crushed rock that drains, and pour 4 inches of concrete with steel on a grid over that.
About 10 days from the first saw cut, and we tell you the day the cars have to move. The old slab comes out on the first day, the base goes in on the second, the pour is one morning and the joints are sawn that afternoon. Walk on it after 24 hours and park on it after 7 days. Because the drive is the only way in, the patio behind it is poured the same morning.
Hawaiian Gardens has Lakewood on its west side, Cerritos and Artesia to the north, and Los Alamitos, Cypress and La Palma over Coyote Creek in Orange County. We cover them all from Huntington Beach, so if your lot sits on a line the next page is as good.
Open the Huntington Beach Office in Google Maps Send the form or call and we reply within 1 business day to book the visit. The estimate is free and written at the lot, and every slab carries a written workmanship guarantee.