Goldenwest Huntington Beach Concrete pours driveways, patios and slabs in Tustin, where Edinger Avenue ends after running east from our door through Santa Ana. The estimate is written on site.
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Tustin is the one town on our list with no sea in it. The salt that shapes a slab at the beach never reaches this far, the marine layer is gone by breakfast, and the ground is orchard loam.
Edinger Avenue is the whole story, because our office is on it and Tustin is where it ends. At our end the ground is dune sand and marsh silt, and the work is about drainage and salt. By Santa Ana it is river silt. By Tustin it is the loam the citrus groves grew in, with enough clay to hold water through a wet winter and shrink in a dry summer, and that is what breaks a slab here. A patio poured level on it with no base rises at one corner in February, drops in August, and cracks.
So a Tustin job is specified for the ground under it rather than the air above it. The clay is dug to firm material and crushed rock goes in deeper than at the beach, compacted in lifts, so the slab sits on rock that drains rather than clay that swells. The steel is held on chairs, the pour is 4 inches under people and 5 under a pickup, and the joints are cut the same day. We keep the wet cure, because a Tustin afternoon dries a slab faster than sea air does.
Tustin is an Old Town of pre-war lots, a belt of 1960s tracts between the 5 and the 55, and two newer districts, Tustin Ranch on the hill and the Legacy on the old air station. The same eight jobs are asked for on all three, done differently.
A Tustin driveway sits on loam with clay in it, which holds water after rain and shrinks in a dry August, so the slab moves with it unless the base is right. We dig the clay to firm ground, lay crushed rock deeper than at the beach, and pour 5 inches over steel to bridge it.
Patios in Tustin are the biggest we pour, because the lots in Tustin Ranch and the Legacy were graded for a yard and the older ones in Old Town have room behind a deep house. We pour 4 inches on compacted rock, joint every 10 feet, and set the fall to a yard drain.
Stamped concrete in Tustin passes a committee first on the hill and in the Legacy, where an association approves the pattern and the color before the City sees the plan. We draw it for both, pour it at 4 inches, stamp ashlar or slate, and seal it at 28 days against sun, not salt.
Old Town Tustin walks are among the oldest concrete we replace, poured for a citrus town and lifted since by the trees along the parkway. We cut out the broken panels, work around the roots the City wants kept, and pour new panels at 4 inches doweled into the sound ones.
Garage floors in the 1960s tracts between the 5 and the 55 are being converted into rooms, and the slab under them was poured thin on clay with no barrier. We break it out, compact the ground, lay a barrier over crushed rock and pour 4 inches, thickened under the new wall.
Exposed aggregate and integral color are what a Tustin front yard asks for, and in Tustin Ranch the association has a palette the color must sit inside. We submit the sample, color the mix so it never wears through, and seal it once cured, because the sun here is stronger.
Retaining walls in Tustin do real work on the hill, where a lot in Tustin Ranch or above Old Town is cut and filled and the yard steps 3 or 4 feet. A wall over 4 feet or carrying a load is engineered and permitted by the City, footed below the fill, and drained behind.
Interior floors in Tustin are the slab under a second unit in Old Town or a room added behind a tract house, on clay that stays damp all winter. We pour over a 10 mil barrier on compacted base, float it flat for tile or wood, and hide the joints under where the walls will stand.
A Tustin crew can drive Edinger Avenue the whole way, though it takes the 405 and the 55 to get there in 25 minutes and comes off at Edinger to reach the Legacy or at Irvine Boulevard for Old Town. Permits are issued by the City of Tustin's Building Division at City Hall on Centennial Way, and a lot in North Tustin, which is county land above the city line, is permitted by the County of Orange instead. We check which before anything is drawn, and we file with whichever it is.
Old Town, around Main Street and El Camino Real, has the deepest lots and the oldest concrete, walks and drives from the years when Tustin was a citrus town. The tracts either side of Red Hill Avenue went up in the 1960s on slabs, with drives poured for one car. Tustin Ranch, north of the 5 and up Jamboree Road, is 1980s and 1990s houses on graded pads with an association that approves what shows from the street. The Legacy, along Edinger by the hangars, is the newest and flattest.
What Tustin does not have is our water problem. No lot here sits over a water table or a capped oil well, and the drainage a Tustin slab needs is to a yard drain rather than a channel. What it has instead is heat and clay, so a pour here is booked for the early morning from June to September and the base is dug deeper than a beach crew would think to. Rain still comes in the same 3 winter months, and a wet week in January moves a date in Tustin as it does at the coast.
One crew, one written estimate, and a drive that is planned rather than improvised. The measure, the permit and the pour each get their own visit, and the association's sign-off is folded in where the lot has one.
Scott Ferreira measures the slab, probes the ground for clay and fill, checks the fall to a yard drain and writes the estimate before he leaves.
We file with the City of Tustin, or the County for North Tustin, and submit to the association where there is one. The reply time is built in.
The clay is dug to firm ground, crushed rock is laid and compacted in lifts, and the concrete is placed before the heat of the day.
The joints are cut the day of the pour, the slab is kept wet for 7 days, and we walk it against the estimate with you before the job closes.
Phone the office or send the form and you hear back within 1 business day. Tustin is a planned drive from Huntington Beach, so we book the visit for a day we are already east of the 55, and the estimate is written at your property.
Reviews
Our reviews on Google, Facebook and the BBB come from homeowners across the towns we work, Tustin among them. Each one names the job it is about 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 Tustin homeowners ask before they book, on cost, permits and the association, the clay under the yard, how far we travel, how long the slab takes and which parts of the city we reach.
How deep the clay has to be dug. A Tustin slab needs the clay under it removed to firm ground and replaced with rock, and the depth of that dig moves the estimate more than area does. After that it is thickness, steel, finish, and whether an association has to approve a sample. All of it is measured on the visit, which is free, and the estimate is handed to you there.
Inside the city, the City of Tustin's Building Division at City Hall on Centennial Way, and for a lot in North Tustin above the city line, the County of Orange. Flatwork inside your lot is exempt under the California Residential Code, but a slab under a room, a wall over 4 feet or anything at the curb is not. In Tustin Ranch and the Legacy the association reviews the plan as well.
Because clay swells when it is wet and shrinks when it dries, and a slab poured straight on it rides that movement until it breaks. Tustin's ground is orchard loam with enough clay to do this every year. We dig it to firm material, lay crushed rock that drains, compact it in lifts, and run steel through the slab, so the concrete sits on something that does not move.
About 14 miles and 25 minutes, by the 405 and the 55, or the length of Edinger Avenue if you avoid the freeway. It is the far end of our run, so a Tustin visit is booked for a day we are already working east of the 55, and a job here is scheduled in whole days rather than half ones. The spec and the guarantee do not change with the miles.
3 to 4 working days on site, because the clay dig adds a day to what a beach job takes. Walk on the slab after 2 days, park a car on it after 7, and keep anything heavier off for 28. If the lot is in Tustin Ranch or the Legacy, add the association's review time before the start, which we ask about on the visit so the date on the estimate is a real one.
Yes to both. Old Town is where the oldest concrete in the city is, and a good deal of our Tustin work is replacing walks and drives there. North Tustin is unincorporated, so its permits come from the County of Orange rather than the City, and its lots climb, so a job there is more often a wall or a set of steps than a flat slab. The crew and the spec are the same.
The crew that reaches Tustin also covers Villa Park to the north and Newport Beach back down the 55, and the run home passes through Fountain Valley. If your lot is on the North Tustin side of the line the page still applies, only the permit desk changes.
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 measure and the written estimate cost nothing, and the finished work carries a written guarantee.