Planning a patio cover, block wall or room addition? We dig, set the steel and pour footings that carry the weight into firm ground.
Concrete footings in Azusa are the buried pads and strips of concrete that carry the weight of a post, a wall or an addition down into the soil, and A&M Azusa Concrete digs, reinforces and pours them as the first step of the bigger project.
Most footing calls have something else behind them, a patio cover, a block wall or a room addition, and the footing is the part nobody will see again once it's done. The price moves with how long and how deep the footing runs, what the soil is like and how much of the digging has to be done by hand around trees and sprinkler lines. The schedule mostly turns on the permit, the city's inspections before we pour and the weather. If the plan is a whole new floor for a house or garage, that's closer to slab foundation building, and I'll tell you which one fits when I come out. You get your own number after I've looked at the ground, because that's where the price really comes from.
I come out to look at your yard and write the estimate myself, so the person pricing the trench is the one who'll be standing next to it. Our own crew does the digging, steel and pour, and I'm on site running it, not handing it off to strangers.
I learned concrete on new construction crews, pouring footings and slabs on empty lots. In 2013 I started this business to work on homes people already live in, which means working around trees, sprinklers, neighbors and the occasional dog that wants to help.
We're fully licensed and insured, which matters when the job is an open trench next to your house and your neighbor's fence. Before we dig, we cover plants, flag sprinkler lines and lay boards where the wheelbarrows run, and we leave the yard clean when we go.
Our work is backed by our satisfaction guarantee, and I'd rather walk you through the trench and the steel before the pour than explain it afterward. When you're ready, call (626) 540-1248 or send the form on this page, and I'll come take a look.
Call (626) 540-1248, email service@concreteazusa.com or send the form with what the footing will hold up, its rough length in feet and the site address, and we'll get back to you within one business day. I'll come out, look at the ground and write your estimate on site, free. No pressure, no obligation.
Azusa requires a building permit to build or alter any structure, and the exemption it lists that touches footings is a retaining wall no more than 4 feet from the bottom of its footing that holds back no extra load, like a slope or a driveway above it. That leaves the call on most footing jobs with the city, not with us. The city says to start with its Planning Division to learn whether your project needs Design Review, which comes before the permit application, and the Building Division can tell you whether it needs plan review, a check of your drawings against the codes. Before work starts, we check with the city or county office that covers your address, and when a permit is needed, we pull it and handle the paperwork.
The ground matters here too. Azusa has earthquake fault zones and areas mapped as prone to landslides or liquefaction, where shaken soil acts like a liquid, and the city's building design requirements call for foundation and soils reports under the building code. In those mapped zones, geologic and engineering investigations can find and reduce ground hazards before construction begins, so if your lot sits in one, that work comes before ours. We're based in Azusa and work in the cities around it, from Glendora and Covina to Pasadena and Pomona, and the footing jobs look a lot alike, older homes with mature trees and sprinkler lines right where the trench wants to go.
Installed concrete footings across the US usually cost about $4 to $20 per linear foot, and that covers the concrete, the labor and the digging. Where yours lands depends mostly on size and soil, since a wider, deeper footing on weak soil can cost several times what a shallow one does. Before you hold one per-foot number up against another, ask what it includes.
Ask each contractor what their per-foot number includes, because a labor-only rate for laying out, forming and pouring will look low next to an installed price that also covers concrete, digging, rebar and margin. Line the quotes up item by item before you decide. Our estimates are free and done on site, so one more to compare costs you nothing.
For a single-family home, Azusa's required inspections include a footings and setbacks inspection, setbacks being the distance from your property lines, and a steel inspection of the rebar. Both come ahead of the plumbing and slab inspections, so if you're building a new house, plan for these city checks before the concrete goes in. We have the trench dug and the steel set before we order concrete.
The state licensing board defines a C-8 concrete contractor as one who forms, pours, places, finishes and installs mass, flat and other concrete work. The class leaves out contractors whose only business is placing steel bars to reinforce concrete, which is treated as a separate line of work.
Plan around the heat, because hot weather problems with concrete can show up any time of year but usually hit in summer, and wind makes high heat and low humidity worse. Ask any crew you're considering how they handle a hot, dry, windy day. Ours usually starts early so the pour is done before the worst of the afternoon, since concrete that dries too fast doesn't come out as strong.
