Cracked, dusty or uneven garage floor? We pour a new slab sized for your car, your coating plans and maybe a lift someday.
Garage floor concrete in East Los Angeles means pouring a new slab on prepared ground so you have a solid, flat floor to park on. How well it holds up depends on the mix and on how carefully the pour and the joints are done.
Most calls start with something you can see, like a floor that's cracked across the middle, sunk near the door or dusting every time you sweep. Those problems usually trace back to the subgrade, the dirt and base the slab sits on. If that settles, the slab follows it, so a new floor starts underneath and not at the surface.
The price moves with the size of the garage, the shape of the ground and what the floor has to carry. Poor ground can mean more concrete, and a coating or a future car lift changes what goes under the slab. The schedule turns on the permit check for your address and the weather on pour day. I measure on site, and the written quote spells out what's included.
These are worth settling before the pour, because once the concrete sets, none of them is easy to change. Here's what each one means for your garage.
One garage guide treats a standard slab as right for cars on well-prepared ground and calls for a thicker one where the ground is poor. That's why two quotes for the same garage can include different amounts of concrete. Ask any contractor how they judged the ground under yours, and I'll tell you what I found.
The same guide says a minimum-thickness garage slab isn't ready for a car lift. A planned lift calls for a thicker pour and joints laid out around where the posts will go. If a lift is even a maybe, say so before the pour, while it's still simple to build in.
A garage floor should shed water out the door, not pool in the middle or run back toward the house. We check how the driveway and the door opening sit before we set forms, because a slab that drains the wrong way keeps doing it for as long as it's down.
From the first call to the final walk-through, here's who does what, so you know who you'll be talking to at each step of your new garage floor.
Call (213) 338-1030 or fill out the form with your garage size and address. We get back to you to set a time for me to come out and look at the job.
I come out, measure the garage, ask how you'll use it and find out which office handles your address. Then you get a written quote that spells out what's included.
Our crew lead runs the job with our own crew, from digging out and packing the base to setting forms, pouring, finishing and cutting joints. When a permit is needed, it's in place before we start.
After cleanup, I walk the finished floor with you before we pack up. I show you where the joints are and tell you what to keep off the slab while it cures.
Before we dig anything, I ask how you'll use the garage. A floor that's getting a coating, or might hold a car lift someday, needs different work under the slab and a different build than a plain parking floor. Tell us before the pour, not after, because once the concrete's down, changing what's under it means starting over.
The part I won't cut corners on is the base. Nobody sees it on day one, so it's the first thing a tight budget goes after, and it's the reason slabs sink and crack later. We dig out and pack the base instead of raking dirt level. If money's tight, I'd rather keep the finish simple than skimp on the prep.
On pour day we watch the weather, because high heat, low humidity and wind change how concrete behaves from the truck to the trowel. On those days we usually pour early, since a top that dries too fast turns weak and dusty later. We cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a planned place to crack, on time so cracks land where we chose. Then it cures, the setting period that gives it strength, before anyone parks on it.
Garage work often runs into the rest of the property. If you'd like the floor or the apron by the door to look like more than plain gray, ask about decorative concrete. Where a garage is cut into a slope and the dirt beside it needs holding back, we also build concrete retaining walls, so both can be planned as one job.
A broom finish is a light swept texture that gives tires and shoes some grip. For a garage you park in and sweep out, it's the simple, practical choice and the plainest floor to build.
If you plan an epoxy or polyaspartic coating, say so at the estimate. It changes what goes under the slab and how we plan the build, so the floor is ready for the coating when you put it down.
We get back to you within one business day to set up a visit. The estimate is free, it happens at your property and it's obligation-free. I come out, measure the garage, ask how you'll use it and give you a written quote that spells out what's included.
(213) 338-1030East Los Angeles goes through the county, so permits for your address usually come from LA County Public Works. The county's guidance says building something new, repairs or replacements, and grading work all need a permit. If your property sits outside the county's jurisdiction, another office may handle it, so we confirm which one covers your address before we set a date.
When your job needs a permit, we take care of it and the inspections that go with it. An inspector checks that the work matches the permit, and inspections are requested through the county's EPIC-LA system, so you're not left chasing them yourself.
We're based in East Los Angeles and work in the cities around it, like Montebello and Monterey Park, plus plenty of others nearby. Most of those cities run their own permit counters, so the office check happens on every job. A lot of the garages we see sit behind the house at the end of a long driveway, which changes how we get concrete to the back.
I worked concrete every summer through school, hauling forms and finishing next to guys who'd been at it for decades. I started this business in 2013. I still come out to look at the job and write the quote myself, so the person who prices your garage floor is the one who walked it.
Our crew lead runs your job on site with our own crew. In California, the state contractor board, CSLB, licenses concrete contractors for forming, pouring, placing and finishing flat concrete, the flatwork like garage floors, driveways and walks. We're fully licensed and insured. Our work is backed by our satisfaction guarantee.
If you've got a garage floor to plan, call (213) 338-1030 or send us the details. Tell me how you use the garage now and what you might want from it later, and I'll come out and measure.
If the floor or the apron by the garage door should look like more than plain gray, decorative concrete adds color or pattern that still takes tire traffic.
When your garage sits against a slope or the yard beside it is higher, a retaining wall holds the dirt back so it doesn't crowd the new slab.
These cities around East Los Angeles have their own page with local notes. They're not the only places we pour garage floors, so if yours isn't listed, give us a call and ask.
A 400 to 600 sq ft garage floor slab in the Los Angeles area usually costs about $4,000 to $9,000 per job. Where yours lands depends on the size, the ground and whether the slab needs to be thicker for a lift or built for a coating. I'll give you a written quote after I measure.
Usually only if you plan to coat the floor or may heat and finish the garage later, according to one garage guide. A vapor retarder is a layer under the slab that holds back moisture rising from the soil. The same guide says a bare broom-finished floor in an unheated garage doesn't need one, so tell me your plans at the estimate.
For most East Los Angeles addresses, permits come from LA County Public Works, because the area goes through the county. If your property falls outside the county's jurisdiction, another office may handle it. That's why I check which office covers your address before we set a date, and we handle the permit and inspections when the job needs them.
Yes, in California a license is required even for a job under $1,000 if the work needs a permit of any kind or the person hires workers to help. A garage floor usually costs well past that amount anyway, so ask any contractor you're talking to for their license.
Clear the garage out completely, including shelves and anything stored along the walls, so the crew has room to dig out and set forms. Keep kids and pets away on pour day, because wet concrete and the water used to wash it out can irritate skin and damage eyes. It's also fair to ask any crew where their washout water goes, since dumped on the ground it can run to storm drains.
You're without it through the prep, the pour and the cure, and I'll lay out the schedule for your floor at the estimate instead of guessing here. What moves it is the permit check for your address, the weather on pour day and how much base work the ground needs. We don't rush the finishing, joints or cure, because concrete floor guidance calls their timing critical to how the surface turns out.
Call (213) 338-1030 or use the form with the garage size, the finish you want, any lift plans and your address, so I can check the right permit office before I come out.
