Goldenwest Huntington Beach Concrete pours in Newport Beach, down Pacific Coast Highway and over the Santa Ana River from our office. Every estimate is measured and written on site. Free.
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A slab in Newport Beach is specified once for the ground and once for the eye. The ground is sand on the Peninsula and terrace on the bluffs, and the eye is a neighbor, a committee or the city.
The finish is the difference. A broom finish that passes anywhere else in the county looks unfinished beside a sandblasted drive on a flower street in Corona del Mar or a board-formed wall in Dover Shores, and an association in Newport Coast or Big Canyon will say so in writing before the mixer is ordered. That review sets the color, the texture, the joint pattern and sometimes the border, each decided with a sample in hand and not by the crew on the morning of the pour.
So the finish is fixed at the estimate. Scott Ferreira brings sample boards for sandblast, exposed aggregate, integral color and a steel trowel, sets them out in the light the slab will get, and writes the one you choose on the estimate with the joints drawn. Under it the build is the build. Sand is compacted in lifts under 4 inches of crushed rock, the steel is chaired, and every finish is sealed at 28 days, because harbor salt treats a sandblasted slab as it treats a plain one.
In most towns we are asked for a driveway. In Newport Beach we are asked for a sandblasted driveway with a saw-cut grid, because the slab is read from the sidewalk daily and often by a committee before it is poured. The build under it is fixed.
A driveway in Newport Beach is a finish first. On the flower streets and the terrace it is sandblasted or exposed aggregate with a saw-cut grid, on the Peninsula an alley apron. Both go on compacted sand under 4 inches of crushed rock, 4 inches thick, 6 under a boat trailer.
A patio here is picked from a sample board at the estimate, because a committee or a neighbor sees it before you do. We pour 4 inches on a compacted base, work the finish the same day, saw the joints on the grid drawn on the estimate and seal it at 28 days against the salt.
Stamped concrete in Newport Beach goes on the terrace and on the Coast, where a drive faces the street and an association reads it. We cast the pattern into 4 inches with the color in the mix, so a chip shows the same color underneath, and seal the slab at 28 days.
The bayfront walk on Balboa Island and the strip on Seashore Drive are the city's, and the walk to your door is yours. We replace both under one encroachment permit, match the public panel to the city's finish and pin the new panel to the old so nothing lifts into a step.
Garage floors on the Peninsula open to the alley and sit a few feet above the harbor, so the floor is poured over a vapor barrier on a compacted base. We trowel it flat enough to coat and seal it, because an unsealed slab that close to the water sweats under the marine layer.
Exposed aggregate is the Newport Beach finish, on drives, walks and pool surrounds from West Newport to Corona del Mar. We wash the stone proud the afternoon of the pour, band the edge in a smooth trowel where the plan shows it, and seal it at 28 days so salt stays off the stone.
Walls in Newport Beach hold the graded terraces of Newport Coast and the bluff edge above the Back Bay, and most are seen from the street. We footing them 24 inches into firm ground, drain the stem to the street and form the face to the finish the plan calls for, then cap it.
Interior floors go into the rebuilds on the Peninsula and the remodels in Corona del Mar, most of them to be polished or to take stone. We lay a vapor barrier on the compacted base, pour the slab to the flatness the floor needs and set the joints where a wall hides them.
Pacific Coast Highway runs from our office to the Santa Ana River bridge and into West Newport, about 12 miles, and the crew comes that way for the Peninsula and the islands, or takes the 55 and the 73 for Corona del Mar and Newport Coast. Permits come from the Community Development Department at the Civic Center on Civic Center Drive beside Fashion Island, which also issues the coastal development permit in the coastal zone, since the city holds a certified Local Coastal Program.
West Newport and the Peninsula are our own beach continued past the river, sand lots on Seashore Drive and Balboa Boulevard with the garage on an alley and nothing but a walk facing the front. Balboa Island and Lido Isle are the same sand behind a seawall, where the bayfront walk is the city's and the patio behind it is yours. Above Pacific Coast Highway, Newport Heights, Cliff Haven and Westcliff are 1940s and 1950s streets on the terrace with a front drive and a parkway tree.
The newest work is on the hill. Newport Coast was laid out from the 1990s on graded terraces, with long drives, walls at the lot lines and an association that reviews color and finish before the city sees the plan. Dover Shores and the streets above the Back Bay sit on the bluff edge, where a patio at the top of a slope is footed like a wall and drained to the street. A crew from the flat sand of Huntington Beach learns the grade here and the finish everywhere else.
Four steps, with the finish decided at the first and inspected at the last. The estimate is written on the first visit, the sample is chosen there, and the slab is judged against that sample on the walk-through.
Scott Ferreira measures the slab, sets the sample boards out in the light it will get, and writes the finish and the joints on the estimate.
We file at the Civic Center, apply for the coastal permit where the lot needs one and send the sample and the plan to the association.
The old slab comes out, sand or terrace soil is compacted in lifts, 4 inches of crushed rock goes down and the steel is chaired.
The pour is one morning and the finish is worked that day. Joints are sawn by the afternoon, and the sealer goes on at 28 days.
Call or send the form and Scott Ferreira rings back within 1 business day. He comes over the river with the sample boards, measures the slab and writes the estimate on the spot, with the finish named and the joints drawn on it.
Reviews
Reviews from Google, Facebook and the BBB, written by owners of slabs we poured in Newport Beach and the towns around it. One is a slope wall above the Back Bay, and the rest are our own coast.
“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 on the Peninsula, in Corona del Mar and on the Coast, answered as at the house: what moves the estimate, which counter permits it, the sand under the islands and how long the job takes.
The finish, then the access. A sandblasted or exposed aggregate slab takes a second day of finishing and a sealer the plain slab does not, and a patio on Balboa Island reached by walking the concrete through the house takes crew hours a front drive in Newport Heights does not. Thickness moves it after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site, and the finish is a line of its own.
A patio or a drive replaced inside your lot needs no building permit. A wall over 4 feet, a slab under a roof or any work in the right-of-way does, from the Community Development Department at the Civic Center. In the coastal zone the same department issues a coastal development permit, and a slab replaced in kind is usually exempt while a new footprint on the bluff or the bayfront is not. We file what applies.
About 12 miles down Pacific Coast Highway to the Santa Ana River bridge, and West Newport is on the far side of it. Corona del Mar and Newport Coast are about 40 minutes by the 55 and the 73. We reply within 1 business day and come out the same week, and because the Peninsula is the same beach as ours, the sand under it is ground the crew works every week at home.
Only when it is wet or loose. The islands and the Peninsula are sand and fill a few feet above the harbor, and a slab poured on it as the builder left it settles at the edge nearest the water. Compacted in lifts on a dry day and capped with 4 inches of crushed rock, the same sand carries a drive for decades. The seawall keeps the bay out of the lot, and the base keeps the slab off the sand.
Two to four working days on site, plus one for a sandblasted or exposed aggregate finish, then a week before a car goes on it. The committee review comes before any of that and takes as long as the association takes, which is why the sample goes in with the first visit. Foot traffic is fine after 48 hours, and a boat trailer waits 28 days.
Huntington Beach is our own city, so the beach from the river north is home ground, and Fountain Valley and Tustin are on the same list. Costa Mesa and Irvine, which share the city's inland lines, are not on it, and neither is Laguna Beach past Crystal Cove. On a boundary street, call and we will tell you straight away whether we come to you.
Newport Beach touches Huntington Beach at the river, and Fountain Valley and Tustin are a short run up the 55 from it. The crew that crosses the river works all three, so a house nearer one of those towns is described on that town's page.
Open the Huntington Beach Office in Google Maps Send the form or call and we book the visit within 1 business day. The estimate is written at your house with the finish named, costs nothing, and the slab is guaranteed in writing.