SkyVale Jurupa Valley Concrete pours drives, barn slabs and wash racks in Norco Hills, along River Road and on the older streets off Sixth Street, 7 miles from our yard.
Norco is Horsetown USA by federal trademark, and the rules match the name. Animal keeping is written into how the city is laid out, so flatwork here is specified for hooves and trailers before looks.
The houses went up between 1960 and 1985 on lots of half an acre and up, and many streets carry a graded horse trail along the frontage where another town has a sidewalk. A contractor who reads that trail as a parkway strip pours onto loose material, and the slab edge breaks inside 2 winters. The same habit gives a barn a troweled finish.
So we thicken and roughen rather than polish. A drive that takes a trailer goes 6 inches over 4 inches of compacted base with number 4 steel on an 18 inch grid, barn aisles and wash racks are broomed hard across the walking line, and nothing an animal stands on is sealed to a gloss.
Half the flatwork here is for animals rather than cars. Lots run to half an acre and up, so a job in Norco is usually a 100 foot drive, a barn slab or a wash rack rather than a small back patio.
A drive in Norco carries a horse trailer, not a sedan. Lots run half an acre and up, so 100 feet of drive is normal and it has to be wide enough for a truck and a 2 horse trailer to turn. We pour 6 inches over 4 inches of compacted base with steel through it.
Most Norco houses went up between 1960 and 1985 with a 12 foot covered slab off the back door and bare ground past it. We dowel the extension into the original footing rather than butting a cold joint, and joint the new work every 10 feet so it cracks where we cut.
Stamped work in Norco stops where the horses walk. We keep pattern to the entry and the back patio, cast it into a 4 inch slab, and finish with a textured release instead of a gloss, because a sealed surface within reach of a barn is slick under a steel shoe.
Norco carries a graded horse trail along the frontage in place of a sidewalk, so the street edge is a city question first. Paving that zone needs an encroachment permit to the City Engineer's standards, so we hold private work off the trail and file the application ourselves.
Garages in Norco hold a truck, a tractor and feed rather than 2 cars, and many were poured 4 inches in the 1970s with no steel in them. We break out the cracked bays, pour 6 inches on compacted base, and fall the front 10 feet to the door so wash water leaves on its own.
Color in Norco is wanted in the ground rather than on top of it, because the city's rural standards push against anything that reads glossy from the street. We use an integral color with a heavy broom or a seeded finish, which keeps its grip wet and stays safe for hooves.
Pads in Norco Hills step 3 or 4 feet at a property line, and a corral or an arena is useless unless it sits level. We foot a wall 18 inches into firm material, drain the back of the stem with gravel and a pipe, and draw and permit anything standing over 4 feet.
Barn aisles, tack rooms and wash racks are floors, and Norco asks for them more often than any town we cover. We pour over a 10 mil barrier, broom the aisle across the line of travel for footing, and fall a wash rack 2 inches to a trapped drain rather than to the yard.
Our yard is 7 miles north on Limonite Avenue, so a crew is in Norco inside 20 minutes. Plans go to the City of Norco building department, and work at the street edge takes a second approval because the frontage is trail rather than sidewalk. The city has held its rural standards since it incorporated in 1964 and locked them into a charter in 2003, so the trail and animal-keeping rules now take a four-fifths vote of the council to change.
Norco Hills is the newer end, built from the 1990s on graded slopes where pads step and access runs down a shared drive. The older streets off Sixth Street and Norco Drive are flat, wide and deep, with a barn at the back of a 20,000 square foot lot and 150 feet between the truck and the forms. Along River Road the parcels sit lowest and hold water longest.
The Santa Ana River runs along the north of the city and the ground falls toward it, so a slab on those streets has somewhere to send water. Everywhere else the horse trail is the drainage path. We pour from first light in summer and keep the trail open the same day, because a yard with animals in it cannot lose its access for a week.
Four stages and one written figure, run by the crew that measured the job. We work around the animals on the property, so the drive stays passable and the gates stay shut while a pour goes off.
Daniel Reyes measures the run, checks the turning room for a trailer, probes the subgrade and photographs the gate and the trail edge.
Loose surface and worked topsoil come out to firm ground, then 4 inches of Class 2 base is laid and plate-compacted in 2 passes.
We apply to the City of Norco building department, and again where the work meets the trail in the right-of-way. You never see a counter.
Most Norco jobs run 2 to 3 days on site. Walk on it after 24 hours, take a trailer over it after 7, and gates go back as found.
Send the form or call and we will call you back within 1 business day. Nothing is charged for the visit or the written figure, and Norco is on our regular run rather than a trip we make as an exception.
Reviews
Our own reviews, written by homeowners across the towns this yard reaches. Norco is one of them, and the work behind them is the work above.
“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 people ask us before booking concrete work in Norco, covering the estimate, permits, what holds up around animals, and how a job on the hill differs from one on the flat.
Size first, then how close a truck gets. A 100 foot drive on a lot in Norco is more concrete than a whole back yard in a tract town, and a barn at the rear of the parcel means barrows or a pump. Thickness, steel and finish move it after that. Every estimate is measured and written on site.
Not for a slab at grade on your own land. Yes for a retaining wall over 4 feet, a footing under a cover, and anything touching the trail or the road, which takes an encroachment approval as well. We file with the City of Norco building department and meet the inspector.
Texture and thickness, not sealer. A troweled or sealed surface is slick under a steel shoe and holds water after a wash-down, so aisles and racks get a heavy broom drawn across the walking line. Anything a loaded trailer crosses goes 6 inches with number 4 steel on an 18 inch grid.
They make it larger and simpler at the same time. Most were built between 1960 and 1985 on half an acre or more, so a mixer backs in and no neighbor stands 5 feet away, which puts a job in Norco among the least awkward we do. What grows is the area, since one drive can run 100 feet.
Most run 2 to 3 days on site, and a full length drive with a turnaround runs 4. Then 24 hours before anyone walks on it and 7 days before a truck or a loaded trailer uses it. The animals stay off for the same 7 days, which is the part people forget to plan for.
Yes, and the ground is what changes. In Norco Hills the pads were cut and filled in the 1990s and step at the fence, so a wall or a stepped slab is usually part of the job. On the flat streets off Sixth Street the fall is under 2 feet across a whole lot, and the work is length rather than level.
We reach Norco from the same yard that covers Eastvale, El Sobrante and Chino, all of them inside 11 miles. Pick the town your address actually sits in if your street runs along a boundary.
Open the Jurupa Valley Office in Google Maps Send the form and we will call you back within 1 business day. The estimate is written on site at no cost, and everything we pour in Norco carries a written workmanship guarantee against defects in how it was built.