Concrete contractor in Calabasas, CA - slabs that drain and hold on sloped lots

Precision Calabasas Concrete is a concrete contractor based in Calabasas, pouring driveways, patios, steps, retaining walls and slab foundations for homes and property owners across the city, from hillside driveways to backyard patios.

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A wide exposed-aggregate concrete driveway leads to a large house and garage.

A large gray concrete patio beside a house has a black kettle grill, picnic table, and Adirondack chairs.

How Calabasas lots shape the concrete work

Calabasas is mostly homes, and most of the concrete we pour here goes around them. Some neighborhoods have older tract houses where the driveway and front walk are the originals, cracked and lifted in places. Others have newer houses built on pads cut and filled into the hillsides, with long driveways and backyards that drop away. The shopping and office areas call for parking and walks, and the canyon lots call for walls and steps. We're based here, so these are streets we know.

The same mix of older houses and hillside lots carries west into Agoura Hills. On almost every job here, the slope and the fill under the yard decide how much digging and packing the base needs before we ever talk about a finish.

Concrete work we do in Calabasas

Concrete driveway building
We tear out cracked driveways and pour new ones, and on the steep approaches here the plan starts with slope, drainage and how the truck reaches your garage.
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Concrete patio construction
Want a backyard you can actually use? We build patios sized to your yard, sloped away from the house and given a texture that keeps wet feet steady.
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Stamped concrete services
Stamped concrete gets pressed with patterns that look like stone, brick or wood, and we talk through color, sealing and how warm it gets underfoot in summer.
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Concrete sidewalk building
We pour front walks and side paths that follow the grade of your lot, wide enough for a stroller and pitched so rain runs off instead of pooling.
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Garage floor concrete
A garage floor takes car weight and hot tires, so we plan the thickness, base and steel around what you park and how you use the space.
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Decorative concrete
Decorative concrete covers color, exposed stone and custom edges on patios and walks, and we pick the finish with you so it suits the house.
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Concrete retaining walls
Hillside yards here often need a wall to hold back soil, and its height and what sits above it decide the footing, steel and drainage behind it.
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Concrete floor installation
We pour interior concrete floors for workshops, studios and additions, flat and level enough for the flooring you plan to lay over it.
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Concrete pool decks
Pool decks around here take bare feet, splashing and full sun, so we plan a finish with grip and slope it away from the pool and house.
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Concrete steps construction
If your front steps have sunk, cracked or pulled away from the house, we form new ones with even rises and solid footing underneath.
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Slab foundation building
For a new home, addition or ADU, we build slab foundations to the engineer's plans, with the ground prepared, steel placed and forms checked before the pour.
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Foundation installation
Building on a slope usually means stepped or deeper foundations, and we dig, form and pour them to the plans so the structure above sits on solid ground.
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Concrete parking lot building
Property owners call us for parking areas and drive aisles built thicker than a home driveway, graded to drain and laid out for striping.
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Concrete footings
Footings are the concrete under walls, posts and columns, and their size and depth depend on the load above and the ground under them.
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Foundation raising
When part of a house or slab has settled, we look at why first, then plan the lift around the ground that moved instead of just the crack.
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Concrete cutting
We saw-cut openings, trenches and clean edges in existing concrete, so a plumber can reach a line or new work can tie into the old.
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Permits, licenses and what moves the price in Calabasas

In Calabasas, construction permits come from the city's Building and Safety Division, and whether your job needs one is the city's call, not ours. Larger projects need complete plans and a formal review before a permit is issued, and the city collects its fees and checks the contractor's state license paperwork first, so that time goes on the schedule before we set a single form. If your address is in unincorporated county land instead of inside city limits, LA County Public Works issues the permit. We check with whichever office covers your address and work through what it asks for with you. When you're comparing contractors, the state license is the one to ask about, because the city doesn't require a business license, and we're fully licensed and insured.

Getting the truck to the pour matters here. Steep driveways, tight cul-de-sacs and canyon streets off Las Virgenes Road sometimes mean a pump or a wheelbarrow line instead of pouring straight from the chute, and that access, along with the slab's size and thickness, how much old concrete comes out, how much base we dig and pack, and the finish you pick, is what moves the price. The schedule turns on the permit, the weather and how long the new slab needs before it takes weight, and the estimate I write at your place puts your own number on it. If your property is in a high or very high zone on the state's latest fire hazard map, it may fall under added fire-resistant building and defensible space rules, so we look at that before planning a wall or patio near the house. We work the same kind of hills up the 101 in Thousand Oaks.

A lot of yards here sit on graded pads with fill, so we dig out the soft material and pack the subgrade, the ground the slab rests on, instead of raking it smooth.
Water moves fast on a sloped lot, so we set each slab to fall away from your house and check where the runoff goes before the forms go in.
Summer afternoons run hot and dry, so we pour early in the day, because concrete that dries out too fast ends up with a weak, dusty top.
Driveways on a grade get a broom finish, a light texture dragged across the wet surface, so tires and shoes grip when it's wet.
Driveways that take heavy cars or sit near a slope usually get rebar, steel bars set inside the slab to hold it together, and we decide that with you at the estimate.

Get a free on-site concrete estimate in Calabasas

Tell us about the driveway, patio, wall or slab you have in mind using the form or by calling (747) 269-3817. We reply within one business day, and then I come out myself to look at the ground and write your estimate, which is free and comes with no pressure to book.

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Questions Calabasas homeowners ask about concrete

Do I need a permit for a concrete retaining wall or driveway in Calabasas?

A retaining wall under 3 feet tall needs no construction permit in Calabasas unless it's holding back extra weight, like a sloped yard or a driveway above it, and retaining walls that do need one are among the larger projects that need full plans. Driveways and patios aren't on the city's no-permit list, and the city's planning guidance says almost any exterior change, including garden walls over 42 inches, will require permits, with exterior work likely needing a zoning sign-off first. We check your job with the city before we put it on the calendar.

Does a concrete contractor need a state license in California?

California requires a license from the Contractors State License Board when a project needs a building permit, when it uses employee labor, or when the labor and materials on its contracts add up to $1,000 or more. Ask any contractor for their license number and look it up with the board before you sign anything.

Will a new concrete driveway in Calabasas crack like my old one?

Concrete can still crack, but a slab on a dug-out, packed base with control joints, shallow grooves cut to tell the slab where to crack, usually cracks along those lines instead of across the middle. When a budget gets tight, people want to trim the base because nobody sees it on day one, and that's the cut I talk people out of, because a nice finish on soft ground settles and breaks right along with the dirt under it.

How long before I can drive on a new concrete driveway?

You can walk on new concrete well before you can park on it, because curing, the slow hardening after the pour, keeps building strength for days and a car weighs far more than foot traffic. We'll tell you when it's ready for each based on the mix and the weather that week, and we plan the tear-out so you're without the driveway no longer than the concrete needs.

Service areas

We're based in Calabasas and work across the cities around it, including the ones listed here. If your city isn't on the list, call and ask.

We answer seven days a week from 8 AM to 9 PM at (747) 269-3817, so you can call after work or on a weekend while you're standing in the yard looking at it.