Goldenwest Huntington Beach Concrete pours pool decks, patios and driveways in Villa Park, a town of half acre lots where the yard is the job, and writes the estimate on the lot.
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A pool deck is the slab we pour most, because the beach cities are full of 1970s pools. Villa Park has the same pools on lots four times the size, so the deck is bigger and the rules are the same.
A pool deck fails in three places, and none of them is the middle. It lifts at the coping, where the deck and the pool shell move differently and a deck poured hard against the bond beam cracks the first winter. It sinks at the far edge, where the backfill from the pool dig was never compacted. And it spalls at the surface, where pool water has soaked in and the sun has worked on it for 30 years. Villa Park's pools are the age of its houses, and their decks have done all three.
So a Villa Park deck is poured the way we pour one at the beach, less the salt. A half inch isolation joint runs around the coping so the deck and the shell move apart, the backfill around the shell is dug out and compacted before 4 inches of crushed rock goes down, and the slab is poured 4 inches thick with steel on chairs, graded away from the water to a deck drain. The finish is broomed or salted for grip, and the sealer goes on at 28 days, since pool water wears a surface too.
Villa Park kept its half acre lots by ordinance, so a job here is bigger than the same job anywhere else we go. A drive is 100 feet long, a patio wraps two sides of the house, and behind most of them is a pool with a deck at the end of its life.
A Villa Park driveway is long, because the house sits well back from a street with no sidewalk and no raised curb. We pour it 5 inches thick on compacted rock, with joints every 10 feet so it moves as a run of panels, and grade the apron to send road water back to the street.
Patios in Villa Park are big and they are used, because a half acre gives room for a covered patio, an outdoor kitchen and the walk between them. We pour 4 inches on compacted base, 6 under a built-in barbecue, joint the panels to the cover posts, and fall it from the house.
Stamped concrete in Villa Park goes around the pool and across the patio, in one pattern so the yard reads as one piece. We pour it at 4 inches on compacted rock, stamp slate or flagstone in a light color that stays cooler in August, and seal it against sun and pool water.
Walks in Villa Park are private, because the city has no public sidewalks, so a walk runs from the drive to the front door and around the house to the pool. We pour it 4 inches thick and 4 feet wide, jointed into square panels, and broom it so it holds a wet foot from the water.
Garage floors in Villa Park are the original slabs under three-car garages, cracked where a boat trailer or a motorhome has stood on 4 inches for decades. We break out the failed slab, compact the base, and pour 6 inches over steel where the heavy load parks, jointed to the bays.
Exposed aggregate is the finish a Villa Park pool deck takes well, because the washed stone grips a wet foot and the pale matrix stays cool in the sun. We seed the surface with river stone, wash it the same afternoon, and seal it once cured, then again as chlorine wears at it.
Retaining walls in Villa Park hold the terrace a pool sits on, since the lots north of Santiago Boulevard step up toward the hills. A wall over 4 feet or holding a pool deck is engineered, permitted by the City, footed into the gravel below the fill, and drained behind the stem.
Interior floors in Villa Park are the slab under a pool house or a guest unit at the back of the lot, poured on the same gravel the pool sits in. We lay a vapor barrier over compacted base, pour 4 inches, and trowel it flat enough for tile, with the joints hidden under the walls.
Villa Park is about 20 miles from our office on Edinger Avenue, up the 405 to the 55 and east on Katella Avenue, which becomes Villa Park Road at the city line, and a crew leaving before 7 is on the lot in about 40 minutes. It is the farthest east we go, so a visit is booked on a day we are already in Tustin or Orange, and a job runs in whole days. Permits are issued by the City of Villa Park at City Hall on Santiago Boulevard, and we file any the job needs.
The town is one thing all the way through. The lots are half an acre by ordinance, the houses are single-story ranches from the 1960s and 1970s set back behind long drives, there are no sidewalks and, on most streets, no raised curb, and almost every house is owned by the people in it. Villa Park has about 5,900 people, and the median age is over 50, so the person we meet on the visit has usually lived with the pool and its deck for 20 years and knows exactly where it has failed.
The ground is the sand and gravel Santiago Creek carried out of the canyon, which drains as fast as our dune sand does and holds a slab well once it is compacted. What a Villa Park yard has that a beach yard does not is grade, since the lots climb toward the hills north of Santiago Boulevard, and heat, since the marine layer rarely reaches this far. So a pool here is often on a terrace held by a wall, and a summer pour is placed at first light and kept wet for 7 days.
One crew, one written estimate, and a calendar built around the drive from the coast. The visit, the permit and the pour are each planned in whole days, and the pool is out of use only for the days agreed in advance.
Scott Ferreira measures the deck, patio or drive, checks the coping, probes the backfill around the pool and writes the estimate on the lot.
Where the City needs a permit, for a wall or a slab under a structure, we file it at City Hall on Santiago and build its review into the start.
The old deck is cut away from the coping and broken out, the backfill is compacted in lifts, and 4 inches of crushed rock is laid and compacted.
The slab is poured at first light, jointed the same day, kept wet for 7 days and sealed at 28. We walk it with you before the pool refills.
Call or send the form and we answer within 1 business day. The visit is free and the estimate is written on the lot. Villa Park is a planned trip for us, so the visit is booked for a day we are already up the 55.
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Written on Google, Facebook and the BBB by homeowners whose decks, patios and drives we poured. Villa Park is among the towns they write from, and each review names the job and the 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.”
The questions we are asked beside a Villa Park pool, on cost, permits, the deck and the coping, how far we come, how long the yard is out of use and whether the drive can carry a motorhome.
The size of the deck and what is under it. A Villa Park deck is large, and the backfill around the pool shell often has to be dug out and compacted before anything is poured, which is the line that moves the estimate most. Then the finish, since stamped or exposed aggregate costs more to lay than broom. We measure and probe on the free visit and write the estimate on the lot.
Not for the deck itself, which is flatwork and exempt under the California Residential Code, but yes for a wall over 4 feet holding it, a slab under a pool house, or any change to the pool's barrier fence, which the City of Villa Park checks. Permits are issued at City Hall on Santiago Boulevard, and we file whichever the job needs and meet the inspector on the lot.
Because the deck was poured hard against the pool shell. The shell and the deck move differently, and without a joint between them the deck rides up on the bond beam and cracks along it. We cut the old deck away from the coping, run a half inch isolation joint around the pool, and pour the new deck to move on its own, graded away from the water to a deck drain.
About 20 miles and 40 minutes, by the 405, the 55 and Katella Avenue. Villa Park is the farthest east we work, so a visit is booked for a day we are already in Tustin or Orange, and a job here is planned in whole days with the mixer ordered for first light. Nothing about the spec or the guarantee changes with the distance, only the calendar.
About 2 weeks. The old deck comes out and the base goes in over 2 or 3 days, the pour is one morning, and the slab needs 7 days of wet curing before it takes furniture and foot traffic. The sealer goes on at 28 days, and the pool can be used before that as long as the deck is kept clear. We agree the dates before the first cut, since a Villa Park pool is in use most of the year.
Yes, if it is poured for one. A half acre lot has the room, and a good many Villa Park drives already carry a motorhome on 4 inches poured for a sedan, which is why they have cracked. We pour 6 inches over steel on compacted rock where the heavy load parks, and 5 on the rest of the run, with the joints laid out so the wheels never sit on one.
The run to Villa Park passes Tustin, and Placentia is a short drive north of it, so a crew that is up the 55 covers all three on one calendar. If your lot is in Orange, just over the Villa Park line, call and ask, since we cover the towns listed below.
Open the Huntington Beach Office in Google Maps Send the form or call and the visit is booked within 1 business day. The measure and the written estimate are free, and every deck, patio and drive we pour carries a written guarantee.