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Serving Pico Rivera, CA and surrounding areas. (562) 271-1480
Pico Rivera Concrete is a concrete contractor serving Hacienda Heights, CA, building retaining walls, replacing cracked driveways, and pouring patios on the hillside lots throughout the Puente Hills community. We handle the LA County permit process and respond to every estimate request within 1 business day.
Hacienda Heights is built across the Puente Hills, and a large share of its homes sit on graded slopes where retaining walls hold back yards, driveways, and planting areas. Clay soils that swell in the winter rain and shrink in the summer heat put steady pressure on walls that were built decades ago without proper drainage behind them. If your wall is leaning, cracking, or showing soil movement behind it, our concrete retaining wall service includes engineered drainage systems designed for the soil conditions in this part of the San Gabriel Valley.
Many Hacienda Heights driveways run uphill from the street to an attached garage, which means slope, drainage, and surface grip all matter more than they do on a flat lot. Driveways poured in the 1950s through 1970s on these hillside properties are now cracked and heaved from decades of clay soil movement underneath. A replacement done with the right base preparation and slope holds up far longer than patching a surface that has already shifted.
Hillside additions, detached garages, and pergola structures on Hacienda Heights properties need footings that account for sloped ground and the expansive clay soils in this area. Footings poured without the right depth or reinforcement on these lots can shift when the soil moves, which undermines whatever structure sits on top. We size and place footings to LA County standards and handle the permit submission through the county.
Long-term homeowners throughout Hacienda Heights - many of whom have owned their homes for 20 years or more - are updating outdoor living spaces that have not been touched since the home was built. With median home values between $700,000 and $900,000, a properly poured patio with the right drainage pitch and a finished surface that holds up to the summer heat is a sensible investment in a home most owners plan to keep.
Stepped entries and yard stairways are a common feature on the sloped lots throughout Hacienda Heights, where the ground drops from the street to the front door or from one terrace level to another. Original concrete steps built during the postwar development era have had 50-plus years of freeze-thaw cycles (even mild ones), soil movement, and root intrusion working on them. Cracked or uneven steps are a trip hazard and a liability on any hillside property.
Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated community of about 54,000 people built across the rolling terrain of the Puente Hills in the eastern San Gabriel Valley. The bulk of the housing stock went up during the postwar suburban boom - the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s - leaving most homes now 50 to 70 years old. Single-family ranch homes on hillside lots are the defining property type here. Many of those lots were graded during development to create level building pads, which means retaining walls, stepped yards, and sloped driveways are standard features on properties throughout the community. At this age, the original concrete on those properties is well past its typical lifespan and showing the effects of decades of soil movement and sun exposure.
The soil conditions in this part of the Puente Hills are a major factor in how concrete behaves here. Clay-heavy soils swell when they absorb the winter rains that arrive between November and March, then shrink back during the long dry summer. On hillside lots, that movement is amplified because gravity pulls water downslope and concentrates it behind retaining walls and beneath slabs. Hacienda Heights also gets wildfire smoke and ash during the fall fire season, which can clog drainage systems and deposit corrosive residue on concrete surfaces. Concrete that was built without drainage behind walls and below slabs simply does not hold up to these conditions over the long term.
Because Hacienda Heights is unincorporated, every permit we pull for a project here goes through the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works - not a local city hall. Our crew has navigated that process many times, and we know what the county plan reviewers look for on retaining wall and concrete flatwork submittals, which means fewer back-and-forth revisions and a more predictable schedule for homeowners.
Hacienda Heights sits along the Pomona Freeway (SR-60) corridor, with Puente Hills Mall on the northern edge and Hsi Lai Temple - one of the largest Buddhist temples in the Western Hemisphere - as one of its most recognizable landmarks. The residential streets spread out from there across rolling hills toward the south, where hillside lots get steeper and retaining walls get taller. We have worked on properties near all of these parts of the community and understand what each type of lot demands from a concrete installation.
Hacienda Heights borders Whittier to the west, and we serve both communities regularly. We also work frequently in nearby La Mirada, giving us a strong working knowledge of the soil conditions and building requirements throughout this corridor of southeastern Los Angeles County.
We respond to every inquiry within 1 business day. Tell us the location, the type of concrete work you need, and whether there is an existing structure that needs to be removed - that information helps us prepare for the site visit.
We visit your property, assess the slope, soil, drainage, and access conditions, and give you a written estimate that covers demolition, base prep, the installation itself, drainage components, permit fees, and cleanup. On hillside lots in Hacienda Heights, an in-person look is the only reliable way to price the job accurately.
We submit the permit application to LA County Public Works and give you a realistic start date that accounts for the county review period. For most residential retaining wall and flatwork projects, that review takes two to four weeks. You do not need to contact the county yourself - we handle it.
The crew works through excavation, base preparation, forming, pouring, and drainage installation in sequence. After curing, we backfill, grade the area, and remove all debris. We walk the finished project with you before we leave and give you maintenance guidance specific to this climate.
We serve hillside properties throughout Hacienda Heights and handle the LA County permit process on every job. Free estimate, no obligation, 1 business day response.
(562) 271-1480Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated community in the eastern San Gabriel Valley, governed by Los Angeles County. It was developed primarily during the postwar suburban boom of the 1950s through 1970s and has remained a largely residential community since. The area is known for its rolling terrain, with neighborhoods climbing the Puente Hills above the SR-60 corridor. Hacienda Heights is home to about 54,000 residents and is well known regionally for Hsi Lai Temple, one of the largest Buddhist temples in the Western Hemisphere, and for Puente Hills Mall on its northern edge. Most homes are single-story or two-story ranch-style tract homes on hillside lots, many with attached garages, sloped driveways, and terraced yards.
The community has a high rate of long-term homeownership - many families have lived in the same home for 20 or more years - and median home values between $700,000 and $900,000 reflect the desirability of the area. Hacienda Heights sits between La Mirada to the south and Whittier to the west, two communities we also serve. Property owners here tend to invest seriously in home maintenance and improvement, and the hillside conditions that define the area mean retaining walls and sloped concrete work are a consistent need throughout the community.
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Hillside lots need a contractor who understands the terrain. Call us or submit a request now and we will get back to you within 1 business day.