Cracked, dusty or uneven old floor, or a new room that needs one? We pour a slab that's flat, hard and ready for flooring.
Concrete floor installation in Azusa means we prepare the ground, pour a slab, then finish, joint and cure it, so you end up with a hard floor that wears well and can take tile, carpet or a coating.
Usually you're here because the floor in a back room, an addition or a workshop is cracked, dusty or out of level, or because a new space needs a slab before anything else can happen, and if it's a garage, our garage floor concrete page covers that job. The price moves with the size of the floor, how much old concrete comes out, how much work the ground needs and whether the slab gets steel inside, while the schedule turns on the permit and the cure, because concrete won't be hurried no matter how nicely you ask. A&M Azusa Concrete is based in Azusa and works in the cities around it, from Glendora and Covina to Pasadena and Pomona, and I'll give you your own figure once I've seen the room.
I come out to look at your floor and write the estimate myself, so the person who measured the room is the one answering your questions. Our own crew does the work, and I'm on site running it from the base to the cure.
I learned the trade on new construction crews, pouring footings and slabs on empty lots, then started this business in 2013 to work on homes people already live in. That's 13 years of working around trees, sprinklers, neighbors and the dog who wants to help.
We're fully licensed and insured. In California, someone without a license can only take on work under $1,000 when it needs no permit and they employ no one, so it's fair to ask anyone bidding your floor which side of that line they're on.
We cover what's near the work, keep the mess on our side and haul off the old concrete when we leave, because you still live there. Every job is backed by our satisfaction guarantee. Call (626) 540-1248 or use the form to set up a visit.
We get back to you within one business day, then I come out to measure the room and look at the ground before I write the estimate. It's free and there's no obligation. Have the floor's size in square feet handy, and tell us if tile, carpet or a coating is going on top.
Azusa requires a city building permit when a structure is built, altered or repaired, and its list of exempt work names walks and driveways but not concrete floors, so we check with the city for your address before work starts and, when a permit is needed, we pull it and handle the paperwork. The city asks owners to check with the Planning Division about Design Review approval before a permit application goes in, and it says plan review, a check of the drawings against the building codes, is needed in most cases. Once the permit is issued, the city's required inspections for a house include a steel inspection and a floor slab inspection, so we plan the pour around those visits. For current staff contacts, the Building Division is listed on the city's permit process page.
Around Azusa and nearby cities like Glendora and Covina, a lot of the floors we pour go into older houses getting an addition, a converted garage or a back room finished off, so the work usually happens with the family living a wall away. We keep the dust, the noise and the trucks on our side of things.
A concrete slab in the Los Angeles area usually costs about $8 to $15 per square foot, not counting staining or stamping. A slab with steel inside runs a little more per square foot than a plain pad. Your own price depends on the size, the ground and what has to come out first, and I'll give it to you after I've looked.
You should be able to walk on it within 48 hours, but concrete takes about a month, 28 to 30 days, to fully cure. To be safe, plan on waiting a week before heavy furniture or equipment goes back in, and set your move-back date around that week.
Floor coverings and coatings get the most protection when the vapor barrier, the moisture layer under the slab, sits right against the bottom of the concrete. National guidance for concrete floors says the plain plastic sheeting used in the past doesn't fully meet the standard for that job, so ask which barrier is going under your floor. We settle that choice with you before the pour.
Mostly shrinkage and timing. National guidance for concrete floors says a slab starts shrinking as soon as it's placed and keeps shrinking while it gives off water and heat, and that badly timed finishing, joint cutting or curing can lead to cracks, a dusty top, scaling or high and low spots. That's why we cut joints on time and don't leave the cure to luck.
Clear the room and the path in from the street, and decide what's going on top of the slab before I write the estimate, because that changes what goes under it. Keep kids and pets away from the wet concrete, since contact can irritate skin and cause severe chemical burns or serious eye damage.
