Precision Calabasas Concrete is a concrete contractor based in Calabasas that builds driveways, patios, steps, walls and foundations for Santa Monica homes and properties, starting with the ground under the slab and working up from there.
Santa Monica is a close-built city, with houses, duplexes and small apartment buildings set near each other, and a lot of the driveways I look at here run down a narrow side yard or come in off an alley. Plenty of the houses are older, and so is the concrete around them, so a new driveway or patio often starts with breaking out a slab that's been patched more than once. It's a different job from the open hillside lots we work on in Topanga and Malibu, because here the hard part is usually getting the equipment and the concrete in.
Tight space doesn't change what the slab needs underneath. The subgrade, the soil the concrete sits on, still gets dug out and packed solid, even when some of that has to be done by hand, because a slab is only as steady as the ground under it.
We break out the old driveway, pack a new base and pour a slab that drains toward the street instead of your garage.
Explore serviceWant a patio on a small backyard? We plan the size around how you'll use it and set the slope so rain runs away from the house.
Explore serviceStamped concrete gets its pattern pressed in while the slab is still soft, so we lay out the pattern and the joints together before the pour.
Explore serviceWe build side-yard walks and front paths with a broom finish, a brushed texture that gives your shoes some grip when the concrete's wet.
Explore serviceA garage floor has to carry a parked car for years, so we set the thickness and the base for that weight, not just for walking.
Explore serviceDecorative concrete covers color, exposed aggregate and other finishes, and we'll show you samples first because the finish is the part you'll look at every day.
Explore serviceOn a lot with a grade change, a retaining wall holds the soil back, and we plan its footing, steel and drainage before we set a single form.
Explore serviceFor interior floors in additions, workshops or commercial spaces, we pour and finish the slab flat enough for whatever floor covering goes on top.
Explore serviceAround a pool you want a surface that isn't slick under bare feet, so we pick a textured finish and slope the deck away from the water.
Explore serviceOlder front steps often crack or pull away from the house, so we rebuild them on a solid base with every step the same height.
Explore serviceA slab foundation is usually the floor and footings of a new building in one pour, so the soil prep and the steel have to be right first.
Explore serviceFor additions and new structures, we dig and pour the foundation the plans call for, setting the forms and steel where the engineer drew them.
Explore serviceProperty owners call us for parking areas behind small buildings, where the slab has to carry daily traffic and move water off the lot to the right spot.
Explore serviceFootings carry a wall, a post or an addition, and we tie in rebar, steel bars that keep the concrete from pulling apart, before the pour.
Explore serviceIf part of a slab or foundation has sunk, we find out why before we raise it, because lifting it without fixing the cause rarely lasts.
Explore serviceNeed a doorway, a trench or a section of old slab out? We saw-cut clean edges so the new concrete has a straight line to meet.
Explore serviceIn Santa Monica, building permits come from the city's Permit Services Center, and whether your driveway, wall or slab needs one is the city's call, not ours. I check with them before we start and work through whatever they ask for with you. Plan review has to be finished and every city approval in place before a permit is issued, and permitted work gets inspected in stages through a final sign-off, so on a permitted job the city's timing sets the start date more than our calendar does. When you're checking out a contractor here, ask whether they hold a Santa Monica business license, because the city requires one of contractors doing business in the city, and its application asks for a California contractor's license number.
We're based in Calabasas, so Santa Monica is a drive for us, and I plan deliveries and pour days around that drive and the city's crowded streets. The price moves with the size of the slab, how much old concrete has to be broken out and hauled away, how hard it is to get concrete from the truck to the forms, how much base work the ground needs and the finish you pick. The schedule turns on the permit, if there is one, and on curing, the days new concrete needs to gain strength, since you can walk on it well before you can drive on it. When I come out, I look at all of that and write the estimate for your job.
Tell us about the driveway, patio, steps or slab you have in mind, or call (747) 269-3817. We reply within one business day to set a time, then I come out myself to look at the ground, measure and write the estimate. It's free, and there's no obligation to book.
(747) 269-3817If you submit plans or a permit application now, the city reviews it under the 2025 California building standards, which took effect January 1, 2026. Anything submitted before then stays on the earlier code unless major revisions or an expired permit send it back for a new review. You can check where your project stands on the city's plan review page, and we build to whichever code your permit falls under.
Not as your first step, because the city's building permit process is fully paperless. Every application and document goes into the city's online plan review system before any counter visit, and the Permit Services Center is open Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., by appointment.
Yes, because every building permit in the city carries a business license condition that the contractor has to clear. The contractor does that by emailing a form to the city's business license office, so it's their job, not yours, but it's one more reason to hire someone who already holds the license.
Concrete cracks, so the honest goal is to keep cracks small and put them where we choose. We do that with the base work I talked about above, so the slab doesn't settle, and by cutting control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a straight line to crack along, early instead of late. Then we give it time to cure before you use it, because a slab put to work too soon doesn't reach its full strength.
These are the other cities with their own page on our site, and they aren't the only places we work. If your city isn't listed, call (747) 269-3817 and ask.
A short call at (747) 269-3817 or a note through the form lets me ask a few questions first, so I show up to the estimate knowing whether we're looking at a new pour, a tear-out or a repair.
If you're still deciding what you need, send us a note and I'll talk it through with you.
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