Concrete parking lot building in Redding CA - a slab sized for the vehicles you park

Most of these calls come from property owners and small businesses with a lot that's cracked, sinking or holding water, or with bare ground that needs to become parking. The price moves with the size of the lot, how much digging and base work the ground needs, how thick the slab has to be for what parks on it, and how much steel and forming it takes. The base is the first thing people want to trim and the last place I'd cut, because nobody sees it on day one and a nice finish over a poor base won't last. The schedule turns on any permit the job needs, the weather on pour day and the days the slab has to sit before traffic, and your written estimate spells out what's included for your lot.

Before we size the slab, I ask what vehicles will use the lot, because a slab gets sized to what drives on it. Then we dig out the subgrade, the soil the slab sits on, and pack it firm instead of raking it level, since loose dirt settles and takes the concrete down with it. We set the grade so water runs off the lot and away from buildings, place rebar, the steel that holds a slab together, where the job calls for it, and pour. Our finishers give the surface a broom finish, a light texture that helps tires and shoes grip, then cut control joints, grooves that give the concrete a straight line to crack along instead of a random one, as soon as it can take the saw. While it cures, the wait while it hardens and gains strength, I help you plan where people will park so nobody pulls onto it early.

Some lots come with other work attached. If you're adding a carport, light poles or a small building beside the lot, we can pour the concrete footings for it in the same plan, and if a building next to the lot has settled, foundation raising brings it back up before new pavement goes against it.

The City of Redding issues permits for work in the public right of way, for grading, cuts and fills, and for clearing a parcel of more than an acre, and a new lot can involve some of that. Whether yours needs a permit depends on what the job turns out to be, so we check whether your address falls under the city or the county and work through it with that office as part of the job. We're based in Redding and work across the area, so we're used to dealing with both offices.

Much of the ground around Redding is what soil surveys call the Redding series, which drains well but sits over a duripan, a hard cemented layer, at moderate depth. That's true of some sites and not others, and since the soil under a lot shapes how thick the slab has to be, I look at the ground on each property before we size anything. It changes from one lot to the next on our jobs in Shasta Lake and Anderson too.