Our yard is 7 miles east on Limonite Avenue, the road that runs through the middle of Eastvale, so a crew is here in under 20 minutes. Plans go to the City of Eastvale building department, and because the city is no older than its houses, nearly every lot has a recorded grading plan. That plan tells us where the fill is before we dig.
The tracts north of Limonite Avenue and the blocks off Hamner Avenue went up in one push, so lots run 6,000 square feet with side yards under 5 feet wide. That decides the method, since concrete is barrowed through a side gate where a truck cannot reach. The streets toward the Santa Ana River sit on larger parcels, where a mixer backs in and saves a day.
The river marks the south edge of the city and takes the drainage, so lots fall that way and back-yard runoff has somewhere to go once a slab is graded to use it. The calendar follows the same water. We pour through the 3 wet months from December to March on a covered pad, and start at 6 in the morning from June to September.