Concrete Driveways
We pour new concrete driveways and break out and re-pour old ones. We also widen drives and add turnarounds and RV pads.
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Corona's citrus groves gave way to houses in the 1980s, and the population more than doubled that decade. The Census puts the median build year for a Corona home at 1991. A driveway poured with a house that age has now seen more than 30 summers. Concrete that old often shows wide cracks, or a slab that has sunk at the garage door.
BGC Construction is a residential concrete contractor, and Corona is part of our service area in western Riverside County. Here we break out and re-pour worn concrete driveways and pour new concrete patios and slabs. We look at the job and put the quote in writing. Call or text (951) 483-4138 to set up a visit.
Tell us about the driveway, patio, slab or walkway and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Corona began in 1886 as South Riverside, with Grand Boulevard laid out as a circle around the townsite. That circle runs about 2.75 miles around. One census tract sits wholly inside it, and its median home was built in 1953. More than a third of the homes in that tract went up before 1940.
Most of the city came much later. About half of Corona's 50,799 homes date from 1980 to 1999, and about a quarter from 2000 on. Building goes on: Census permit data shows 232 new single-family homes authorized in 2024 and 227 in 2025.
Tree roots and water under an edge are two common reasons old concrete cracks and settles. We look at what broke the old slab before we quote the new one. That goes for a cracked garage slab as much as a driveway.
The most common soil in Corona is Garretson, on about a quarter of the city's land in NRCS data. The federal soil survey's model profile for Garretson was described from a site in Corona itself. The survey lists citrus groves and homesites among its uses, which sums up the city's history.
Garretson is well drained, with gravelly loam that holds more rock the deeper you dig. On the hillsides, NRCS maps hard or soft bedrock within 20 inches of the surface in places. About a quarter of the city's land is mapped on slopes of 15 percent or more. Ground like that shapes how footings for an addition or a patio cover get dug and formed.
About three quarters of Corona's soils rate low for shrink-swell, where clay swells when wet and shrinks when dry. Pockets of Placentia soil rate high, with a clay subsoil that water moves through very slowly. NRCS also rates most of the city's soils low for corroding concrete. We look at the ground on your lot before we quote.
In Corona, building permit applications go to the city's Building Division, part of the Planning and Development Department. The city asks homeowners to call the division before a project starts to learn whether it needs a permit. Applications and inspection requests go through the city's online building portal.
For a patio cover on a single-family home, the division posts a Patio Cover Standard. Its table sets post footings at 18 or 24 inches square and 12 inches deep, by header size. A patio cover in one of the city's fire hazard severity zones needs an alternate design. The footings are concrete work we do, and the cover itself is another trade's job.
Work past your property line, in the public right-of-way, goes through the Development Services counter for an encroachment permit. Public sidewalk and curb and gutter work belongs to a public-works contractor. Our concrete work stays on your side of the property line. California law requires whoever digs to contact DigAlert at least two working days before the dig.
NOAA normals for two rain gauges in Norco, just north of the city, show about 11 inches a year. Almost two thirds of it falls from December through February, and summers are close to dry.
At nearby NOAA airport stations in Riverside and Chino, about 100 days a year reach 90 degrees. Heat makes fresh concrete set faster and lose water faster. The ready-mix industry's hot-weather advice: avoid the hottest part of the day, and start curing once finishing is done.
Communities and areas we serve around Corona: Downtown Corona, Grand Boulevard, South Corona, Sierra del Oro, Sierra Bella, Green River Ranch, Corona Ranch, Mountain Gate, Eagle Glen, Dos Lagos, Arantine Hills, Temescal Valley.
Corona ZIP codes served: 92879, 92880, 92881, 92882, 92883.
Corona is part of our service area. Call or text, and we look at the job and put the quote in writing.
(951) 483-4138 We pour new concrete driveways and break out and re-pour old ones. We also widen drives and add turnarounds and RV pads.
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We pour new concrete patios and replace old ones that have cracked or sunk. We also extend patios and pour pads for a spa or an outdoor kitchen.
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Stamped and colored concrete gives a patio or a walkway the look of stone or brick. You pick the pattern and the color, and we put the quote in writing.
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Garage slabs, shed slabs, ADU slabs and RV pads for homes around Homeland. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
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We pour concrete walkways and steps for homes in Homeland and across western Riverside County. The work runs from the driveway to the front door, all on your own lot.
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Footings and stem walls for room additions, garages, workshops and sheds, plus slab foundations for ADUs and casitas. We pour to the plans that come with your permit.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Corona. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Send the form with the job you have in mind and the town it is in. You can also call or text (951) 483-4138.
Tell us about the driveway, patio, slab or walkway and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.