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Concrete Contractor in Camarillo, CA - Driveways and Patios on Solid Ground

Precision Calabasas Concrete is a concrete contractor building driveways, patios, steps, walls and slabs in Camarillo, CA. We're based nearby in Calabasas, and we put our effort into the base under the concrete, the part you can't see once it's poured.

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Decorative concrete driveway with broad gray panels and dark stamped bands leading to a small blue house beneath leafy trees.
Low concrete retaining wall edging a landscaped garden bed beside a sidewalk and lawn.

Camarillo as we see it from the driveway

Camarillo spreads across the flat valley floor past Thousand Oaks and climbs into the hills at its edges, so one week here can mean a driveway on level ground and then a wall on a slope. The older blocks around Old Town have smaller lots and driveways poured a long time ago. The newer neighborhoods have wider drives and bigger back yards, and we get a lot of patio and pool deck calls there. There are business parks too, and their owners call us about parking areas and slabs.

Most of the old concrete we pull out here cracked or sank because the dirt under it was never packed. The ground sits dry for months and then soaks up a few winter storms, so we start every Camarillo job with the base and the water.

Concrete work we do in Camarillo

What working in Camarillo involves, from permits to price

In Camarillo, the city issues grading permits, and it now takes permit plans only through its online system, not on paper, so any review it asks for lands on the schedule before we set forms. Whether your job needs a permit is the city's call, not ours, so I check with them before we start and work through what they ask for with you. You can check two things on any contractor you're looking at, a current California contractor license and the city's yearly business tax, which every business working in Camarillo has to pay even when it already holds a license from another city. The price moves with the slab's size and thickness, how much old concrete and dirt comes out, how close the truck can get and the finish you pick. The schedule turns on the city, the weather and curing, the days new concrete needs to harden before you use it. When I come out, the estimate I write gives you the figure for your job.

We come up the 101 from Calabasas, the same drive that takes us to jobs in Westlake Village, so getting a crew here early in the day is easy. On the older streets around Old Town, driveways are often narrower and the back yard may be out of a truck's reach, so we plan for a pump or wheelbarrows, and that shows up in the price.

  • The airport's weather station records about 12 inches of rain a year, nearly all of it in winter and usually none in August, so winter pours wait on the forecast and summer pours start early, before midday heat sets the top too fast and leaves it weak and dusty.
  • Before we set forms, we look at where water runs off your lot, because a slab that falls even slightly toward the house sends those winter storms against your foundation.
  • When the budget gets tight, we'd rather drop the stamped pattern than thin the base, because a plain broom finish over dug-out, packed gravel holds up far longer than a fancy surface on raked dirt.
  • We cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a place to crack, as soon as the concrete can take the saw, since joints cut late or skipped leave cracks wherever the slab decides.
  • Under the city's grading rules, the City Engineer may require a soil study for liquefaction, ground that loses its strength in an earthquake, where groundwater sits 50 feet down or less, the soil is loose sandy alluvium and the site's seismic design category is D or E, and that adds time before slab or foundation work.

Get a free on-site estimate for your Camarillo concrete job

Tell us about the driveway, patio, steps or slab you have in mind, and we'll reply within one business day. After that I come out to your Camarillo property myself, look at the ground and write your estimate for free. There's no obligation to book.

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Questions Camarillo homeowners ask about concrete work

Do I need a permit to grade my yard for a patio or driveway in Camarillo?

Camarillo issues a grading permit for any grading, one permit for each site, and a single permit can cover both digging out and filling, with the application listing how much dirt is involved. Grading over 1,000 cubic yards needs an approved plan from a civil engineer and a bond of $3.00 for each cubic yard, while smaller jobs need no grading bond, and home driveways and patios usually come in well under that size. You can start on the city's plan check and permits page, and we'll measure the dig and fill so the numbers on your application are right.

Does my concrete contractor in Camarillo need a California license?

In most cases yes, because the Contractors State License Board requires a license when a project needs a building permit, uses employee labor, or costs $1,000 or more in labor and materials. Home improvement contractors have to be licensed before they even bid, and the board's page lists some exemptions. We're fully licensed and insured.

Will my new concrete driveway in Camarillo crack like the old one?

Most concrete cracks a little at some point, but a slab built on a packed base with joints cut on time usually cracks along those joints instead of across the middle of your driveway. The old driveways we tear out here mostly failed from the ground up, so the work that keeps a new one looking right is underneath it. Staying off it matters too, and new concrete usually needs a few days before you walk on it and longer before you drive on it.

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.

Ask about your Camarillo concrete project

Call (747) 269-3817 any day of the week from 8 AM to 9 PM, or use the form if it's easier to describe your project in writing.

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If you've got a question about a cracked slab, a sinking driveway or a patio you're planning in Camarillo, send it our way and we'll talk it through.

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