Concrete driveway building in Corona CA - a slab that sheds water and carries your cars

Industry guidance calls for at least 4 inches, and going to 5 adds about 20% to the concrete cost but nearly 50% more load-carrying capacity. Steel won't prevent cracks, but it adds strength and helps hold them together, so ask for it in the quote if you park something heavy.

Around the Riverside area, a new two-car concrete driveway, installed, usually costs about $2,100 to $7,500. That's the going rate for the area, not our price, and where yours lands depends on the size and what your ground needs. I'll put your number in writing after I walk it.

Corona Public Works issues street construction permits for work at the curb, and the application asks for your lot frontage and the opening's length and location. City code keeps the curb opening to half the frontage facing the curb or less, and five feet from hydrants, light and power poles, meter boxes, vaults and manholes. If your job needs a permit, we handle the paperwork before work starts.

Plan on at least a week before anyone drives on it, because new concrete needs that long to cure, or harden. We'll help you work out where to park that week before we pour, so nobody's scrambling on the day.

It can still crack, but control joints, grooves we cut on purpose, help prevent random cracking, and random cracks are generally cosmetic, not structural. Where soil swells and shrinks, crushed rock goes under the slab, and the local conservation district's free soil maps, from a 1971 survey, show how much yours moves.