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Serving Pico Rivera, CA and surrounding areas. (562) 271-1480
Pico Rivera Concrete is a concrete contractor serving La Mirada, CA, replacing aging pool decks, rebuilding cracked driveways, and pouring new patios for the city's 1960s planned community homes. We respond to every estimate request within 1 business day.
La Mirada's single-family ranch homes on 6,000 to 8,000 square foot lots often came with in-ground pools, and decks from the 1960s and 1970s are now 50 to 60 years old. At that age they are commonly cracked, uneven, and too smooth to be safe when wet. With La Mirada's long warm season pushing pool use from May through October, an outdated deck is both a safety risk and a barrier to using your backyard. Our concrete pool deck service includes finish options designed to stay cooler underfoot in La Mirada's summer heat and grip that meets Los Angeles County safety requirements.
La Mirada's California ranch homes came standard with attached garages and concrete driveways, most of which were poured between 1955 and 1975. After 60-plus years of clay soil movement underneath and summer sun above, those surfaces crack, heave, and lose their original slope. La Mirada homeowners who plan to stay long-term - and about 60 percent are owner-occupants - get a better return from a proper replacement than from repeated patching.
With La Mirada sitting near the LA-Orange County border and getting over 280 sunny days per year, outdoor living space matters. Original patio slabs from the 1960s are often cracked and draining toward the house rather than away from it. A new patio with the correct drainage pitch and a finish that does not turn into a heat trap gives La Mirada homeowners an outdoor space they actually want to use in summer.
La Mirada homeowners with median home values well above $600,000 often want outdoor surfaces that look like they belong with the rest of the home. Stamped concrete gives a pool deck, patio, or driveway apron the appearance of stone, brick, or slate as a single poured surface - no individual pieces to shift, settle, or need joint maintenance the way natural stone or pavers do.
La Mirada is a quiet city with residential blocks that see regular foot traffic - to and from schools near the Biola University campus, parks, and the surrounding neighborhoods. Heaved or cracked sidewalk panels are the property owner's responsibility in California, and an uneven panel is a trip hazard. We replace damaged sections to current grade standards and handle the permit coordination.
La Mirada is a city that was built in a single planned wave. The city was incorporated in 1960, and most of its neighborhoods were developed during that same decade as a deliberate master-planned community in southeastern Los Angeles County. That concentration means the housing stock is remarkably uniform in age - mostly single-story California ranch homes on 6,000 to 8,000 square foot lots, built between roughly 1955 and 1975. At 50 to 65 years old, the concrete driveways, patios, pool decks, and walkways from that original build are now showing the effects of half a century of use. The city's roughly 60 percent owner-occupancy rate means many of those homeowners have watched their concrete age slowly - and are now at the point where patching no longer makes sense.
La Mirada sits at the southeastern edge of Los Angeles County, close to the Orange County border, and shares the clay-heavy soil conditions of the broader LA Basin. According to the USGS on expansive soils, clay-heavy soils swell when wet and shrink when dry - and that cycle is the leading cause of concrete cracking in this region. La Mirada gets most of its 13 to 15 inches of annual rain between November and March, which means every winter the soil expands, and every summer it contracts. Santa Ana winds in the fall add a rapid drying cycle on top of that. Pool decks face extra stress because water splashing from the pool keeps the surrounding soil in a near-constant state of moisture fluctuation.
We pull permits for La Mirada projects through the City of La Mirada Community Development department, which handles building and safety for the city directly. We know that office's permit sequence for pool deck and flatwork projects, which keeps our customers from hitting avoidable delays mid-project.
La Mirada is a landlocked city - surrounded by the 5, 91, and 605 freeways but with none running through it - which keeps residential streets quiet and makes job-site staging more manageable than in higher-traffic areas. Homes near the Biola University campus on the north side of the city tend to have more mature landscaping and tree canopy than those on the south side closer to the 91 freeway - and that often means more root interference with older concrete and tighter equipment access in backyards. We account for that in how we quote and schedule pool deck and patio jobs in those neighborhoods.
We serve neighboring Hacienda Heights, CA, just to the northeast, where hillside lots introduce a different set of concrete challenges - retaining walls, graded driveways, and stepped patios that flat La Mirada lots rarely need. We also work throughout Norwalk, CA, directly to the north, where the same postwar housing stock and clay soil conditions create the same demand for foundation and flatwork replacement.
We respond to every La Mirada request within 1 business day. Tell us the scope - pool deck, driveway, patio - and we will schedule a site visit before quoting anything. We never give a number without seeing the job.
We assess the soil conditions, existing concrete, and backyard access before writing anything down. Your written estimate covers demo, base prep, permits, the pour, your finish choice, and cleanup - every item that will appear on the final invoice.
We submit the permit application to the City of La Mirada and coordinate the pre-pour inspection. Permit review typically takes a few days to two weeks. Your start date is confirmed once the permit is in hand - you do not need to manage any part of that process.
Active work on a pool deck typically takes three to five days. A city inspector reviews the finished project before we close it out. Once it passes, we walk through the completed work with you - drainage, edges, finish - and make sure everything matches what was agreed.
We serve all of La Mirada and respond to every estimate request within 1 business day. No pressure, no obligation - just a straight answer and a written estimate that covers everything.
(562) 271-1480La Mirada is a city of about 48,000 people covering roughly 7.8 square miles in the southeastern corner of Los Angeles County, near the border with Orange County. It was incorporated in 1960 as one of the only fully planned communities in the county - developed from the ground up with residential streets, parks, and schools laid out together rather than added piecemeal. Most of its neighborhoods were built between 1955 and 1975, giving the city a more cohesive architectural character than older cities nearby. The result is a nearly all-residential landscape of single-story ranch homes, many with in-ground pools, on well-maintained lots. La Mirada on Wikipedia covers the city's full history for those who want to read more.
The most recognizable landmark in La Mirada is Biola University, a private university with a 95-acre campus on the north side of the city that has been part of the community since 1959. La Mirada Regional Park, with its golf course and water park, anchors the heart of the city and is where most residents spend weekend time. The city's proximity to the 5 and 91 freeways makes it easy to reach from Norwalk, Buena Park, and Whittier - and that connected location has kept La Mirada a desirable place for long-term homeowners. Median home values above $600,000 reflect that demand. We work throughout La Mirada and in the neighboring cities of Hacienda Heights, CA and Norwalk, CA, serving homeowners with the same mix of aging concrete and clay soil conditions across the region.
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Call us or submit a request online - every La Mirada estimate gets a response within 1 business day, and the site visit is always free.