Concrete Contractor in North Tustin - Driveways and Patios Built on Solid Ground

The County of Orange does, through OC Development Services, because North Tustin is unincorporated and the County handles permits, inspections and building and zoning rules there. Its permit list doesn't settle every kind of concrete job, so if we're unsure whether yours needs one, we ask that office before work begins. New permit submittals go under the 2025 California building codes.

You can get it yourself as the owner, or an authorized agent can get it for you, and the County counts a licensed contractor or anyone holding your notarized letter as an agent. When a job needs one, we help with the application and work with the office. Once it's issued, work has to start within a year or the permit expires, and it can be extended only once, for up to 180 days.

Within a required front setback, the open stretch between the street and the house that zoning keeps clear, the County caps a wall at three and a half feet. Whether a wall needs a permit depends on its height and where it sits, and the County asks owners to know their zoning and setbacks because they can change the design a good deal. You can read its answers on the County's permit questions page, and if we're unsure what applies to your wall, we ask the office before we start.

On a home improvement job, the down payment is capped at $1,000 or 10 percent of the contract price, whichever is less. The Contractors State License Board, which licenses contractors in California, also requires every other payment to be listed in the contract and tied to finished work or delivered materials. We're fully licensed and insured, and the written estimate spells out what's included before you decide.

Your cost comes from the driveway's size, how much old concrete and loose dirt has to come out, the slope of the lot and the finish you choose, so I give you a figure only after measuring on site. Long drives and steep lots cost more because there's more to dig, pack and form, while a broom finish, the lightly brushed texture that gives tires and shoes grip, costs less than stamping or color. If something has to give in the budget, I'd rather you trim the finish than the base, because a fancy surface over poorly packed ground cracks and sinks just the same.

New concrete can still show hairline cracks because it shrinks as it hardens, but the bad cracking we replace here usually starts below, from a base that was raked instead of packed, water running under the slab, or joints cut late or skipped. We cut control joints, shallow grooves that give cracking a straight line to follow, and where the slab calls for it we set rebar, steel bars that hold it together if it does crack. We also ask you to keep off it while it cures, the wait while it gains strength, because a slab used too soon ends up weaker.