SkyVale Jurupa Valley Concrete pours private drives, house slabs and walls on the acreage off Cajalco Road and El Sobrante Road, 9 miles from our yard. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
El Sobrante is unincorporated, so there is no city hall here. Permits, inspections and setback questions all go to the county instead, and that shapes the calendar more than the concrete does.
The parcels are the other half of it. Lots run to an acre and beyond on ground that rises and falls, most are on septic, and some are still on a well, so there are 2 buried systems to find before anything is dug. A slab set over a leach field is a failure that shows up years later, and a mixer that cannot make the last 150 feet turns a 1 day pour into 2.
So the survey comes before the quote. We locate the tank, the field and the well line, plan the concrete clear of all 3, and settle on the visit whether the job is chuted, barrowed or pumped. A drive that a delivery truck shares goes 6 inches over 4 inches of compacted base, and we bring a pump rather than ask a driver to reverse 200 feet blind.
El Sobrante is not a city, so approvals come from the county rather than a city hall, and nearly every job starts with the question of how a mixer gets down 200 feet of private drive.
Half the drives here are still dirt or decomposed granite, and 200 feet of that ruts out every winter. Putting concrete down means 5 or 6 loads and a pump on the long runs, poured 6 inches where a propane or water truck uses the same drive as the family car.
Houses in El Sobrante went up one at a time from the 1970s rather than in a tract, so no 2 back yards match and there is often no slab to extend. We set out to the fall of the lot and joint at 10 feet, because a hillside yard drops further across a patio than a level one.
Stamped work in El Sobrante does the job of an entry on a house standing 100 feet back from the road. We cast the pattern into 4 inches over compacted base and give it 2 coats of a matte sealer, which earns its keep here because the slope above sheds silt over it all winter.
There are no public sidewalks on most of El Sobrante, so the walks we pour are private and run from a parking area to a door across ground that moves. We lay 4 inches on compacted base with steel through it, and step the run where the grade beats 1 foot in 12.
Detached garages and shops are ordinary on an acre in El Sobrante, and plenty sit on a 3 inch slab poured on native ground with no barrier. Damp pushes up through that, so a replacement goes over a 10 mil barrier and 4 inches of base, at 5 inches under a hoist.
Color is asked for here to live with dust rather than to show off, because a property on a graded road in El Sobrante carries a film of it 8 months of the year. An integral mid tone under a light broom holds its look between washes far better than a dark slab or a bare gray one.
The lots run up and across the hills, so a level pad for a shop, a corral or a turnaround usually means holding back 4 to 6 feet of slope. We foot into firm material below the loose surface, drain the back of the stem, and draw and permit any wall standing over 4 feet.
Barns, shops and detached rooms in El Sobrante get framed before anyone thinks about a floor, and a slab laid straight on native soil telegraphs damp for years afterward. We pour over a 10 mil barrier and 4 inches of base, and trowel it flat enough to take a coating later on.
Our yard on Limonite Avenue is 9 miles north, which makes El Sobrante the closest place we cover and puts a crew on site inside 20 minutes. Because this is an unincorporated community and not a city, plans and inspections go to the Riverside County building department, and a job on a septic parcel is looked at for the field as well as the slab.
The older places along El Sobrante Road sit on flatter ground toward the bottom, with drives short enough that a truck chutes straight into the forms. Up toward Cajalco Road the parcels steepen and the houses stand 150 to 300 feet off the road behind a gate, so concrete is pumped and the crew walks the line first.
Lake Mathews lies southeast and the land tips that way, which is why the cut bank beside a drive loses material every wet season. So we build the shoulder up in the dry half of the year, thicken the outside edge to 8 inches and cut a swale alongside, rather than pour a long private drive in the weeks when the runoff is already working under it.
Four stages, one crew and one written figure. The truck route and the pump position are settled on the first visit, because on a parcel this size access decides most of the schedule.
Daniel Reyes measures the run, walks the private drive for truck clearance, locates the septic field and photographs the gate.
Loose surface and old gravel are stripped back to firm native ground, then 4 inches of Class 2 base goes down and is compacted.
We file with the county building department and book the inspection, and add a septic clearance where the plan needs one.
Most jobs here run 2 to 3 days on site. Walk on it after 24 hours and drive on it after 7, delivery trucks on the drive included.
Fill in the form or call and we will call you back within 1 business day to arrange the visit. Neither the measure nor the written figure costs anything, and El Sobrante is 9 miles from the yard.
Reviews
Reviews left by homeowners across the towns we cover from one yard, El Sobrante among them, on the platforms they were written on.
“They measured our driveway on a Tuesday and handed me the written estimate before they left. The crew was on site four days, poured 540 square feet at 5 inches in one morning, cut the joints that afternoon, and after its first summer over 100 degrees there is not a crack in it.”
“A tree root had lifted the same sidewalk slab three winters running. They cut the root back, set a root barrier, poured the new section 4 inches on compacted base and pulled the right-of-way permit themselves. Ten months on it is still flat.”
“Our patio was original to the house, 1980s and crumbling. Daniel walked the base prep with me before they started: they dug out the clay, packed gravel in layers, poured 300 square feet in ashlar slate and sealed it at 28 days. It looks like cut stone.”
What homeowners in El Sobrante ask before booking, covering the estimate, county permits, septic clearance, how long a drive is out of use, and what changes uphill.
Access before anything else. A pour 200 feet down a private drive needs a pump or extra loads, which adds hours to the same slab, while a house near El Sobrante Road takes concrete off the chute. Thickness and steel follow. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
The county does, because El Sobrante is unincorporated and has no building department of its own. Flatwork at grade on your own land usually needs nothing. A wall over 4 feet, a footing under a cover and any work in the road right-of-way do, and we file and meet the inspector.
Edge support and drainage. A drive on a slope loses the ground beside it first, so the slab breaks along its outside within 3 or 4 wet seasons. We thicken that edge to 8 inches, run number 4 steel on an 18 inch grid, and cut a swale so the 10 inches of winter rain leaves the surface.
It went up one house at a time, mostly from the 1970s on, so nothing repeats and every quote is measured from scratch. A lot of an acre or more means no neighbor to work around, which helps, but the distance from the road is what makes a job here longer than the same slab in a tract.
2 to 3 days on site for most jobs, and 4 or 5 for a full private drive poured in sections so you are never shut in. Concrete wants 24 hours before you walk on it and 7 days before a vehicle uses it, which is the part to plan around when the drive is your only way out.
Yes, and it is grade and access that separate them. On the ridges a house can stand 150 feet above the road behind a gate, so concrete is pumped and every pad is cut and held with a wall. On the flatter ground near El Sobrante Road a truck reaches the forms and the same slab goes in one day.
El Sobrante runs up against Norco, Lake Mathews and Temescal Valley, and one crew covers all 3 from a yard 9 miles off. If your parcel sits on a boundary, use the page for the town your address is in.
Open the Jurupa Valley Office in Google Maps Use the form or the phone and we will call you back within 1 business day. There is no charge for the visit or the figure, and every slab carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.