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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Perris more than doubled its population from 2000 to 2020. Census estimates show more than a third of its homes went up from 2000 to 2009. If your driveway or patio came with one of those homes, it has now seen about 20 Perris summers. Heat and shifting ground wear on concrete over that stretch, and wide cracks or sunken slabs are the usual sign.
BGC Construction is a residential concrete contractor, and Perris is part of our service area. We pour new concrete driveways and concrete patios for Perris homeowners, and we break out and re-pour worn ones. Call or text (951) 483-4138, and we look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the driveway, patio, slab or walkway and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Perris began as a railroad stop, and its station opened in April 1886. The city incorporated in 1911 and farmed grain and potatoes for much of the 1900s. The 2000 Census counted 36,189 people here, and the 2020 Census counted 78,700.
Census estimates count about 20,100 homes in Perris today. About half were built in 2000 or later, and more than a third went up in the 1980s and 1990s. Homes built before 1980 make up about one in eight. About four in five homes are detached houses, and about seven in ten are owner-occupied.
On homes this age, we quote driveway replacement and widening, and we extend or replace patios. When an old patio comes out, stamped concrete is one way to add pattern and color. We take jobs all over Perris, from Downtown Perris to May Ranch, Monument Ranch and Villages of Avalon. I-215 runs through the city, and Lake Perris sits just to the northeast.
Before the 1880s, this valley was called the San Jacinto Plains, after the river that crosses it. USDA soil survey maps show sandy loam under more than half of Perris today. About a quarter of the city is mapped as saline-alkali soil, much of it Domino silt loam. Roughly a tenth is silty clay or clay.
Clay swells when it gets wet and shrinks as it dries, and that movement can crack a slab. On clay, the work calls for a firm, even base and water that drains away from the slab.
The same maps rate nearly a quarter of the city's land as high risk for corroding concrete. On salty ground, the concrete mix matters more. That is part of why we look at the job before we put the quote in writing.
NOAA keeps climate normals for a station at March Air Reserve Base, a few miles north of Perris. It averages about 100 days a year at 90 degrees or hotter. About 21 of those days reach 100 degrees or more.
Hot, dry air pulls water out of fresh concrete fast. Summer pours call for an early start and steady curing to hold moisture in the surface. July and August highs average about 95 degrees at that station.
About four-fifths of the yearly 10.7 inches of rain falls from November through March. December and January lows average about 37 degrees, and cold slows curing. Winter work calls for dry days between storms.
The City of Perris Building and Safety Division handles building permits and inspections. The city's homeowner permit page lists patios, carports, storage sheds and room additions among projects that need a permit. The same page notes that a job with no building permit may still need another kind of city review.
The division also takes applications for accessory dwelling units, or ADUs. An ADU or a room addition needs footings or a slab foundation poured to the approved plans. Your designer or engineer draws those plans, and the city inspects the work under the permit.
California law requires whoever digs to contact DigAlert at least two working days before the dig. That rule covers footing trenches, and the call to 811 costs nothing.
Communities and areas we serve around Perris: Downtown Perris, May Ranch, Villages of Avalon, Green Valley, Monument Ranch, Parkwest, Enchanted Hills, Mead Valley, Romoland, Nuevo.
Perris ZIP codes served: 92570, 92571.
Perris 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 Perris. 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.