Concrete Driveways · Los Angeles, CA
Professional concrete driveways in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA at a glance
Los Angeles concrete lives on top of the basin's expansive clay soils, which swell through the winter rains and shrink across the long dry summer - the yearly movement that cracks driveways and lifts slabs poured on a thin base. From the flats of the Westside to the hillside lots of Silver Lake, Echo Park, and the Hollywood Hills, the right pour here starts with the ground: proper base compaction, the correct steel, control joints on a real grid, and a cure that respects the LA sun. New foundations, driveway aprons in the public right-of-way, and taller retaining walls all run through City permitting, which we handle.
Foundations, structural slabs, and retaining walls inside the city are permitted and inspected through the LA Department of Building and Safety.
A new driveway apron sits in the public right-of-way and needs a curb-and-driveway permit from the LA Bureau of Engineering.
The expansive-clay and seismic-hazard reality that drives our foundation details across the basin is mapped by the California Geological Survey.
How we get concrete driveways right
A driveway in Los Angeles has to take full afternoon sun, a car's weight every day, and ground that swells and shrinks with the wet-and-dry seasons. We start with the base - excavate, compact, and set the right thickness of aggregate for your soil - then form, place rebar or mesh, and pour a four-inch slab (thicker where an RV or delivery truck parks). Control joints go in on a real grid so the slab cracks where we tell it to, not across the middle. Where your drive meets the street, the apron sits in the public right-of-way and needs its own City permit, which we pull. You get a firm bid before we form.
Every Los Angeles job starts with an upfront, flat quote and finishes with workmanship you can count on.
