Carlsbad Concrete Group is the North County coast's leading specialist in small-lot coastal concrete, specializing in side-yard slabs, front walkways, and narrow driveway replacements. We offer pool deck repours and drainage channels.
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Our team provides thickened RV pads, delivering firm, well-drained ground for homes and tidy flatwork for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by 11 years in business and a 1-year written workmanship warranty, our crews have finished over 1,460 projects, from a 4 x 48 ft walk to a full driveway and side-yard package.
From the slope that sends water to the street to the tooled border on a new walk, our team handles every detail. Serving Solana Beach and neighboring Del Mar, Encinitas and Carlsbad, we stage trucks and forms so a narrow street and your neighbors are not blocked all day.
Request a free estimate, and we will measure your Solana Beach side yard, walk or drive and show you how the pieces fit.
Sean, Lomas Santa Fe, Solana Beach
A narrow side yard of loose gravel where a boat trailer kept sinking
Paula, near Coast Highway 101, Solana Beach
A cracked front walk with two lifted panels on a bluff-top lot
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
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Sean near Lomas Santa Fe had a narrow side yard of loose gravel where a boat trailer kept sinking. We poured a thickened 520 sq ft slab on compacted base with rebar, sloped toward the street so water leaves the lot, an estimated $4,900 to $6,800 job that took an estimated 2 to 3 days, and the pad now holds the boat trailer and a storage shed on one small footprint.
Paula, a few streets from Coast Highway 101, had a cracked front walk with two lifted panels on a bluff-top lot. We replaced the full 4 x 48 ft front walk with a gentle curve, a light broom finish and a 6 in. troweled border, with control joints every 5 ft, an estimated $2,300 to $3,200 project over an estimated 1 to 2 days.
Lot size is the biggest factor in Solana Beach concrete. Half of the city's homes went up in the 1970s, many as condominiums and compact single-family lots on the sandstone bluffs, so a driveway, a side-yard slab, a pool deck and the front walk often share one small footprint. Pouring one piece without the others in mind leaves a step or a puddle where they meet, which is why our estimator draws the whole lot before quoting a single slab.
Salt spray is the second factor. The bluffs take wind and spray straight off the water, and chloride that reaches rebar rusts it from inside, so we set steel on chairs in the middle of the slab and keep full cover over it. Drainage is the third: with 11.39 in. of rain a year arriving in a few storms, every slab is sloped away from the house and toward a drain or the street.
Solana Beach concrete is typically estimated per project, and access on a tight lot and the tear-out of old concrete move the price most. An RV pad or side-yard slab is estimated at roughly $2,400 to $8,400, and a new walkway typically runs $1,400 to $3,400.
| Solana Beach job | Est. investment | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| RV pad or side-yard slab | Est. $2,400 to $8,400 per project | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Walkway or garden path | Est. $1,400 to $3,400 per project | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Driveway tear-out and repour | Est. $3,200 to $10,400 per project | Est. 2 to 5 days |
| Pool deck replacement | Est. $4,800 to $18,000 per project | Est. 4 to 7 days |
| Driveway approach and curb cut | Est. $1,300 to $7,800 per project | Est. 2 to 4 days |
Most Solana Beach side-yard and walk jobs sit in the lower half of those ranges because the areas are small, while a tear-out with a long wheelbarrow run past the house adds labor. Plain broom-finish concrete typically runs $6 to $13 per sq ft installed.
Treat every number here as an estimate for Solana Beach that may change once we see the lot. The written quote we hand you sets the final price and the date on the schedule, based on access, demolition and finish.
A light broom finish suits front walks and side yards because it grips when the marine layer leaves the surface damp, and a salt finish or exposed aggregate is the usual pick on a pool deck replacement. Owners who want color choose integral color on stamped and decorative concrete patios.
Our coast location manager runs every Solana Beach job from the first site walk to the final walkthrough, and the finishing foreman is on every pour. Tear-out and haul-off of the old concrete is included in replacement quotes, so nothing is left in your side yard. Each job carries our 1-year written workmanship warranty from the day the concrete is placed.
Our crews pour across Solana Beach, from the bluff-top streets off Coast Highway 101 to the Lomas Santa Fe neighborhoods, and work the same week in Del Mar, Encinitas and Fairbanks Ranch. See every community on our concrete service areas page.
Small-lot owners often add an RV pad or side-yard slab when they replace a concrete walkway or garden path, and a tired 1970s drive is a driveway tear-out and repour.
A side-yard RV pad is estimated at roughly $2,400 to $8,400, and Sean's 520 sq ft slab came in at an estimated $4,900 to $6,800; your written quote sets the final number.
Yes, a thickened slab on a compacted base carries a trailer, and we lay it out so a shed fits on the same pad.
Every slab is sloped away from the house and toward a drain or the street, and a trench drain catches what the slope cannot.
Salt air rusts steel that sits too close to the surface, so we keep rebar on chairs in the middle of the slab with full cover.
A front walk typically takes an estimated 1 to 2 days on site, plus the cure before heavy use.
Yes, tear-out and haul-off are included in every replacement quote.
Lead time is typically 1 to 3 weeks from signed quote to pour day.
Send the form or call us today, and we will walk your Solana Beach lot and write up a quote that fits every slab together.
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